Following a discussion in Second Life, I am posting my facilitator notes here to make you aware of the potential for you to guide a sharing circle with me or instead of me, at the time and place we circle virtually.
I am aware that we are surrounded by individuals who are highly intelligent, emotionally well-connected, spiritually savvy, and otherwise grounded in passions and a desire to learn and expand in consciousness.
I am so glad we meet here to converse about our hopes for our lives, our memories of having been on other journeys, and our reasons for remaining open to new abilities and building upon what we've got established here and now. Together, we are a unique bunch, and I want to help you do what I have done here, with the guidance and support that I had behind me... paying it forward.
I have invited you often to lead or facilitate, and mostly I have had ideas from you about topics, for me to lead or to suggest to the others for open sharing circles that go anywhich way. I am so stoked that you have answered that call over the past few years. Some of you have even met without me, I believe, when I have not been able to organize.
It is time for me to put out a stronger call. I want each of us to name our top three things we love in life - one thing you have a deep desire to create, one thing you have a powerful urge to show the world is possible, and one thing you can't imagine living an entire life without accomplishing at least once.
1 - What are you physically creating or manifesting, starting now?
1b. What can push you to decide or move forward?
2 - What are you demonstrating to others, consistently from now on?
2b. What, or who&how can you be assisted in accountability to your goals?
3 - What are you dedicated to achieving before you die?
3b. Is there any additional baby-step you will do today, toward that?
Please comment below, so we can engage with each other, and then click through to continue.
There, you have now self-promoted.
Great! Can we talk about establishing some of you as leaders?
Can we engage each other in discussions about what that involves?
What is missing from your skillset or toolbox of spiritual and social abilities, that we can set in and solidify today?
Can we include each other in the process of facilitating a transition from participant-observers who answer questions from each other, to those who ask very informed ones of each other?
Moving toward and into those who inform the circle without prompts or guided notes;
becoming those who bring something to the table that is from the heart, digging deep into the reality that each of us is building for ourselves on our own time?
Because we all do this, already - in small ways - and we can get better at it if we observe. I see us trying, without paying attention to it, or rewarding ourselves.
I see the hats we put on, the masks we wear, metaphorically, and I know that each of you is a shiny crystal of potential.
I would like to address each of you in circle, with a rather seemingly- embarassing - if you take it that way or are shy - process...
of sharing all the compliments and strengths we see in each other, one at a time.
Is anyone interested in sitting through that with me? I ask that only kind comments are said - building on strengths is different from resolving areas of growth. Name four things or more, if you are able, about someone we have circled with, either anonymously or without breaching the confidentiality of anonymity built into the virtual platform (IE strengths not specific things overcome or established).
If you need guidance in that - Name:
- One thing as a first impression or earliest memory of that avatar.
- One thing that you have always wondered about and found intriguing or mysterious about the person,
- One thing you know they excel at and for that reason you go to them first about it,
- One thing you think they don't value in themselves that others do, but folks could be taking for granted because the person is humble about it or blind to it.
These are strengths we can discover, and there are many others.
Let's go deeper.
I can lead in by saying some points on spiritual strengths and spiritual facilitation styles, and we can acknowledge them in one another as we go around.
1. The skeptical believer - One who wants to feel or think a certain way of have experiences of something, but cannot find a way to describe the numinous or the yearned-for quality of that experience. This kind of person has a strength of faith but also a keen intellect for discernment. It is great to have facilitators like this because they show us how to question more deeply our desires and their manifestations, if any evidence is ever present.
2. The passionate inaction-path walker. - This one is great because it shows the world is ripe with many possibilities and we are exposed to creative new ideas and perspectives through their work observing all that they see potential in. Whether they follow through with that passion, or sit still in honour and awe of all the inspiration.
3. The cunning one promoting a return to focus - This kind of facilitator often stitches our tangents in to a wider tapestry of themes and makes the silver lining apparent in each discussion, even if it is an abrasive one that reminds us to check out the clouds we sit on.
4. The mirror of the upheld - The facilitation style here is the one who sees in others what they do see in themselves, and promote already, and echoes it back in a banter or dialectic fashion, so that it is amplified by the connection - this kind of style makes it easy for others to do the same, and join in, unless they are unwilling to regard themselves in the way they project themselves, which in turn creates self-evaluation.
There are others - there are new archetypes to be created from our observations of each other. Which would you make up about one another? Please no harsh remarks you can't resolve with praise.
Thanks for attending to this work.
♥ Moss