April 13, 2012
Friday the 13th was all about Communication and a powerful day of awakening. We cast our morning circle with total silence, I must say I am totally impressed with this class and what they can do in a moment with total silence. The synergy was rocking at the moment. We started our class by making the bio-char and then worked in class with the many forms of communication in groups and what works and does not work. Lots of games and role playing as well as discussion. Then we geared up and went into the garden to build a Key Hole garden… oh my what a mess. Our affinity group completely fell apart. We were given roles to play, most did NOT fit our personalities and we completely fell apart in a big way. One student was crying the others nurturing, one anger then another. The leader (in an assigned role) was totally clueless as to what was going on and I was running around building a key hole bed, in the cold windy rain. Wow!
Then we sat in our affinity group. I suggested the ground rules since most had never processed in affinity groups before, we agreed on the rules. It took us a while but we worked through it until we huddled together for a part of the afternoon class. It was an emotional exercise and really proved we could create total chaos and resolve it with the tools we have been given to communicate. It felt really good when the other affinity groups checked in that they too had an emotional experience trying to build a Key Hole in a small space while we were role playing really difficult roles.
The evening class was all about ancestors. We invoked our blood ancestors by naming our families as far back as we could. Then we broke up into small groups and talked about where our families came from and what they did for a living. Later we talked about groups that define who we are. This work was so very powerful and in communication it gave us more information about who is in our groups. I loved it, but I love ancestor work any way.
Friday the 13th was all about Communication and a powerful day of awakening. We cast our morning circle with total silence, I must say I am totally impressed with this class and what they can do in a moment with total silence. The synergy was rocking at the moment. We started our class by making the bio-char and then worked in class with the many forms of communication in groups and what works and does not work. Lots of games and role playing as well as discussion. Then we geared up and went into the garden to build a Key Hole garden… oh my what a mess. Our affinity group completely fell apart. We were given roles to play, most did NOT fit our personalities and we completely fell apart in a big way. One student was crying the others nurturing, one anger then another. The leader (in an assigned role) was totally clueless as to what was going on and I was running around building a key hole bed, in the cold windy rain. Wow!
Then we sat in our affinity group. I suggested the ground rules since most had never processed in affinity groups before, we agreed on the rules. It took us a while but we worked through it until we huddled together for a part of the afternoon class. It was an emotional exercise and really proved we could create total chaos and resolve it with the tools we have been given to communicate. It felt really good when the other affinity groups checked in that they too had an emotional experience trying to build a Key Hole in a small space while we were role playing really difficult roles.
The evening class was all about ancestors. We invoked our blood ancestors by naming our families as far back as we could. Then we broke up into small groups and talked about where our families came from and what they did for a living. Later we talked about groups that define who we are. This work was so very powerful and in communication it gave us more information about who is in our groups. I loved it, but I love ancestor work any way.
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