Invitation into Intro and Intention
Hi all,
This year finds me back at the Summer Institute for the fifth time in six years. (I missed last year.) I started coming to the Institute in 2005 - a year, as it turns out, that was the beginning of a 5 year transition process that I have seen the conclusion of this year. I am attending with a sense of celebration around this ending and a sense of anticipation around what I have been fully stepping into over the course of this last year - personally and with my new venture: Shape Shift Strategies.
I am looking forward to reconnecting with dear friends, connecting with new ones and laying down some foundational pieces for this next 5 year period in my life. My strongest intention is around relationships and renewal and then it is around what I will learn in the module I've signed on for and in the rest of the program too.
I look forward to seeing a few posts here - inviting you to introduce yourself and put out whatever initial intentions you will be bringing with you to this amazing portal into human experience and stepping on the edge....
And I look forward to greeting the friends I've already met and the ones I'm about to. See you in a couple of weeks, Kathy
This year finds me back at the Summer Institute for the fifth time in six years. (I missed last year.) I started coming to the Institute in 2005 - a year, as it turns out, that was the beginning of a 5 year transition process that I have seen the conclusion of this year. I am attending with a sense of celebration around this ending and a sense of anticipation around what I have been fully stepping into over the course of this last year - personally and with my new venture: Shape Shift Strategies.
I am looking forward to reconnecting with dear friends, connecting with new ones and laying down some foundational pieces for this next 5 year period in my life. My strongest intention is around relationships and renewal and then it is around what I will learn in the module I've signed on for and in the rest of the program too.
I look forward to seeing a few posts here - inviting you to introduce yourself and put out whatever initial intentions you will be bringing with you to this amazing portal into human experience and stepping on the edge....
And I look forward to greeting the friends I've already met and the ones I'm about to. See you in a couple of weeks, Kathy
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Permalink Reply by Heather Plett on
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Hi Kathy! Thanks for the invitation and introduction!
This will be my first time at the Summer Institute and I am very much looking forward to it! I work in non-profit and have had a significant shift in my leadership duties this past year (with the addition of new staff & consultants, shifting priorities, etc.), so I have really been looking for some place that I can go for retreat, inspiration, and rejuvenation. Some of the stresses I've come through this past year have really caused me to step into a place of greater courage and assertiveness, which has been difficult but very rewarding. I see Shambala as a place to decompress from some of that, but also be inspired to step forward in a re-energized way.
I am also very close to launching a business as a leadership/creativity consultant and freelance writer, so I see this week as an opportunity to further formulate these ideas, make connections with other people in similar roles, and inspire me in this journey.
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Permalink Reply by Dana Masuda on -
Kathy,
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. As a destination-oriented person, I always love to hear how people arrived at particular intersections and continued their journey to the next destination.
This is my first time to attend and look forward to the opportunity to learn and develop, explore and share with everyone. My journey was stuck in quicksand for a couple of years and I am finally reimerging with the help and support of great friends, coaches and family.
My intent is to remain open to new ideas, experiences and engagements that will help me become the best version of me and I am willing to be that person with others.
See you in just 11 days.
Dana -
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Permalink Reply by Katharine Weinmann on -
Hello Kathy and others,
I, too, look forward to this 10th anniversary gathering (my 6th), to reconnect with friends, make new ones, and experience the ever rich breadth and depth of perspective from each encounter. The entire week, from morning to night, is my source of inspiration and renewal...particularly so, as I begin a 14 month sabbatical during which I'll be exploring what I next "plan to do with my one wild and precious life." (Mary Oliver)
Soon, and with metta,
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Permalink Reply by Ann Walle on -
Hello, everyone. This will be my first time attending the Summer Institute, and I do so in a new position at my NGO - bringing innovation. So I look forward to soaking up ideas; learning what to watch out for, what to anticipate (in the happy sense of the word); how to use tensions creatively; how to "start where I am."
Thanks for the invitation to introduce ourselves and to focus on intention. I look forward to our time together!
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Permalink Reply by Pamela Barit Nolan on -
This is my first time to the Summer Institute and I am looking forward to it. I find myself at a number of crossroads and am excited to use the institute as a way to move my journey forward. I look forward to meeting you all!
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Watson on -
This is my fifth Summer Institute experience with ALIA, and my first in the role of program director. In addition to working with the faculty and staff team to keep all the moving parts aligned, I am eager to continue exploring my questions around how innovation and resiliency can be woven into our culture and our institutions from the deepest roots to the highest branches.
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Permalink Reply by Brad Johnston on -
This is my first time to the Summer Institute and I am WAY looking forward to it. I am both filling myself with information in preparation for the conference (reading Theory U and Presence) and trying to empty my mind so it can be filled again in new ways. I'm looking forward to meeting great, dedicated, curious people from all points of the compass in the world.
I have two intention themes for the conference. First, personally feeling my way into how to more fully express my Power and Love, using Adam Kahane's terms. Second, work wise, looking for models of how governments have or are developing capacity to do Social Innovation through in house Innovation Labs. -
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Permalink Reply by Rita Wuebbeler on -
Dear All,
Thanks, Kathy, for initiating the on-line welcoming round for the 10th Summer Institute. What a great idea! I can feel the momentum building being in the city :))... I moved to Halifax from Atlanta, GA last September and have had the privilege and joy of hearing about the Summer Institute and meeting the incredible staff at ALIA for the past nine months. Now its finally here - almost! Having been born in Germany, I feel like a child on xmas Eve just before the doors open onto the shiny xmas tree - with lots of gifts underneath it. I am very much looking forward to all the gifts the Summer Institute will bring - and to being in a nurturing, quiet (?), focused, supportive and loving learning space with lots of different energies and opportunities to connect with others.
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Permalink Reply by Marielle Pariseau on -
Hello all and thank you Kathy for the invitation,
I am very much looking forward to spending a week at the Summer Institute. This will be my first time. I am a dentist in private practice for 35 years.
In 2007 I began to experience a personal shift as a result of sharing a story out of context. This led me to explore the possibility of a shift for my profession. In 2009 I started hosting World Cafe Conversations on 'Exploring a Shift in Leadership towards Legacy for Dentistry', for dental professionals only, and 'Leadership Education and Oral Health' for the general public.The purpose of these Cafes is to find ways to extend the reach of meaningful oral knowledge from the circle of dentistry to other circles of influence and to explore the possibility of creating a (tooth)decay free future. The big Shift: recognize the mouth as the gateway to health. An ambitious project that could lead dentistry to have an incredible impact on global health.
I have no experience in doing this type of work but feel compelled to carry on. I am coming to the Institute to learn more about the social technology of presencing.
Looking forward to meeting everyone,
Mariel
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Permalink Reply by Qualla Jo Parman on -
Osiyo Kathy and Everyone :) Thank you so much for the providing the opportunity for us all to share.
This is my very first Shambala Institute and to be honest I'm a little nervous to go along with the excitement. I have to admit that I believe part of my nerves is coming from my age. I am a sophomore at Oklahoma State University and will actually be celebrating my 19th birthday during the conference (June 9th). I have always had many adult friends as I think my parents raised me with a thinking that is not usually found in people my age as of yet at least. I don't believe my age will deter me from interacting with others, but rather more a fear of how I will be perceived by others. Another bit of my nerves becomes from the unknown. Since I was a small child, the fear of the unknown has always been one of the greatest. Coming into this institute not knowing what to expect. But as I have grown, I have learned to not let neither of these fears control me. To rather embrace them and use them to learn more about myself and the world around me. Something I hope to achieve at Shambala.
Beyond that however, I am very grateful to be given this opportunity to explore, grow, and share both as an individual and as a leader. I learned about the institute through the Cherokee Nation to which I am a citizen. As a nation, our leadership skills are not the greatest. As our nation's representative to the institute, I hope to a data sponge in order to bring back as much as I can to my people in hopes of bettering our future. As an individual, I have always had a passion for a collaborative style of thinking and understanding. Each person brings something different to the table with their own personal story, experiences, and emotions. It has always been my hope to learn as much as I can from everyone I meet and to develop healthy and stimulating relationships with people from all different edges of being.
I have said a lot, possibly too much. I guess to sum up my intentions into just a few words. I am young. I am still learning and discovering who I am and how I can make my impact on the world around me. My hope is that this Institute can assist me on my path to this great discovery.
Looking forward to meeting and learning from each one of you :)
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Permalink Reply by sue bookchin on -
Greetings All,
I was moved to share by Qualla's posting... oh my, how courageous and awesome, at 19, to enter this unknown and bring it back as messenger for your people. That struck me as profoundly tender and brave. And no worries! You will be welcomed and cherished with open arms. It is often the younger among us who deeply shift our thinking, expand our vision and challenge our intelligence. So glad you will be here!
I am always excited and deeply moved by this ALIA experience, having participated in all of the 10 years, (how lucky am I to live in Nova Scotia, aye?), and reading the postings here elevates my vibration in anticipation. So looking forward to the immersion with fascinating people, ideas and practices, and of course, reconnecting with so many incredible fellow travelers who have been drawn here over the years.
Feeling Blessed,
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Arthur on -
Neighbors!
A rising sense of aliveness is sparked upon my heart in reading your words here. I feel us tuning the field, opening a space for the transformational magic of our time together. I love how the vulnerability of Qualia's post inspired Sue to jump in. May the goodness of this authentic expression be our guide.
This is my 3rd ALIA event, my 2nd visit to Halifax. I am honored to be working with Bill Torbert and Mary Stacey in the Action Inquiry module. I'll be collaborating with the creative process folks in a work of Social Presencing Theater and will also be awakening some sort of spacetime portal in a short performance on Thursday evening. ~:o)
My intention (and invitation to all) is to boldly step into my unique selves at the front edge of my unfolding soul, to listen closely to the subtle essence permeating the space between us all, to fearlessly express that which is most alive and present in my sense instrument and (most importantly) to be a foolish beginner making as many mistakes as possible. I trust in the wisdom that lives in the vitality of our individual and collective embodiment and will attempt to make that as visible as possible for the sake of the whole.
I feel a profound urgency to discover the stillness at the heart of nature with each of you.
blessings in every direction,
thomas
A delicious flow on the edge of emergence/ branching connections rooted in beauty!
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