Episode 51: All Real Living Is Meeting: Is Community Possible
In this podcast, Carrie and Parker talk about our individual and collective longing for safe and generative community. We’ve always been tugged between our western culture’s drive toward individuality and our desire for a meaningful life together. In this Post-covid time, people are a little rusty at being in community. We are also reassessing what meaningful community looks like and how we choose to participate. Carrie and Parker explore how meeting happens in the space between us, and how critical it is to be mindful about how we hold that space. Gathering in circles is an ancient practice that is being revived in our time. But not all circles are designed to welcome the soul, and so how we intentionally create those safe and generative spaces?
In this podcast we reference The Center for Courage & Renewal and ServiceSpace.org. If you would like to learn more about this wonderful organizations visit them at the links below.
The Center for Courage & Renewal
We also reference Parker’s Circles of Trust Method which is based in part on Quaker Clearness process. To learn more about Circles of Trust and Quaker Clearness in Parker book “A Hidden Wholeness”
To read more about Parker’s Habits of the Heart and creating spaces for democratic values check out “Healing The Heart of Democracy”