Hi Everyone,
We were in touch last year about emerging aspects of the Commons – psychotherapeutic, subjective/pre-conceptual, spiritual. I’m sorry it was difficult to connect and speak about
this together but there may be a platform for that in an upcoming conference, which is a conference that will we be running in Brisbane, Australia in September of this year:
https://neweconomy.org.au/
I have proposed a working group for this conference and I was wondering if there was a way that those of you who are interested might be a part of this working group to create something for the conference? The following is what I wrote as an introduction to the working group:
Subjective Experience in the New Economy
"I'm keen to work with a group of people interested in the subjective (pre-conceptual) aspects of our experience – and the ways in which addressing these ‘deeper’ parts of ourselves
can result in positive change, individually and collectively. After researching the effects of contemplative practices, such as meditation, in education, I believe contemplative subjective consciousness is a foundational aspect of learning and change. However,
because of the accelerating pace of life enhanced by constant connectivity through ICT, and the resulting fragmented attention, we are often disconnected from this grounding aspect of who we are. Why is this important for the New Economy? I think deep change,
a central aim of the New Economy, can only happen if we have deep (pre-conceptual) engagement with the fundaments of that change.
It appears that interest in the subjective, somatic, affective, psychological and spiritual aspects of the New Economy is growing with the development of projects such as the
Psych-commons, and attempts to remediate the stress that activists suffer, Arts-practice, such as Earth Arts, Contemplative, Environmental and Slow Art, and Participatory Spirituality. Though it seems that an awareness of, and engagement with reflective or
contemplative subjective consciousness is not yet a significant part of the New Economy. I’d like to develop a working group with others interested in these issues, to discuss how we can contribute to the conference in September and in ongoing work with the
network."
I hope this note finds you well and looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind Regards, Patricia
From: Michel Bauwens [mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.
Sent: Sunday, 13 November 2016 5:58 AM
To: Annelies De Zaeytijd <anneliesdezaeytijd@hotmail.
Cc: annelies ahasverus <annelies.dezaeytijd@
Subject: Re: Wikipedia for psychotherapeutic and awareness-based methods
Dear Annelies,
Thanks for presenting your ideas and plans,
I can't guarantee they will be interested, but I have copied some people who may have an interest; Nadia produced a huge encyclopedia of human potential techniques some years back, Denis works around the psy-commons and Ann around the body and the mind, while Kris Roose has long been a integral psychologist; Patricia Morgan works around mindfullness and learning in Sydney ; and maybe they might offer some extra perspectives;
Michel
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Annelies De Zaeytijd <anneliesdezaeytijd@hotmail.
Hello Michel,
As promised, I send you an email with the idea you gave me and got stuck in my head.
I am looking for fellows who want to co-create in existing or new prototypes of this bigger idea or who want to support in co-creating the bigger picture or who are already working on this bigger picture so I can join in. (See below: how can you join us or how can we join you?)
Who am I?
I am a psychologist, psychotherapist and mindfulness trainer in Belgium. I work in a Center for mental health care in Belgium, subsidized by the governement. I also have my own psychotherapeutic practice at home and online through skype and work as a freelance mindfulness trainer and coach for the Institute of Attention and Mindfulness.
The bigger picture:
The idea or dream is to develop a kind of wikipedia, containing methods with which people can work with their own mud or cultivate their own humanity in a positive way.
Any kind of method from psychology is included as well as awareness-based methods like mindfulness, compassion training, ... rooted in the contemplative traditions.
Since it would be a wikipedia kind of thing, this platform is inclusive to all kinds of streams in psychology like also psycho-analytic as well as cognitive sciences, you name it.
In this bigger idea we would like to create a platform where people can find their own way (for free) and use the available methods we put online. But they can also ask for help through online skype calls (which would then be paying).
We would like to combine this online learning with life group processes like holding spaces for allowing people to get together in an online group globally, or locally in a real get-to-gether group. Or we would also like to add tools like talkabout where people can pair up in learning buddies, for example to do emotion focusing exercises together.
How is this emerging future already trying to be born?
There is a worldwide movement going on in making these methods available online for free through apps (like insight timer), or online courses by very well experienced teachers (like Tara Brach on Udemy) or organisations like Shambhala (doing the online free science meditation summit). Also some Western methods are going global with professor and therapist Mia Leijssens MOOC from Leuven University on the Edx. 28,000 seeking people from over 150 countries have enrolled in this course!
Prototypes of this bigger idea are emerging:
I am now working on a prototype of this bigger idea or dream. I called my prototype: Hybrid* growing environments for transforming your own personal mud into blooming lotus-flowers
It is just in its beginning shoes. I used the Ulab (leading from the emerging future) course as a way to launch my prototype. It is now also published in the presencing institute so that people can join in my prototype and help me develop. You need to subscribe and make an account to follow the link: https://uschool.presencing.
com/prototype/ulab-2016/ hybrid-growing-environments- transforming-your-own- personal-mud-blooming-lotus This website holds spaces for people who want to co-create or group together in a collective intelligence to dialogue about certain topics. In this way I have already met with Ruth a psychologist from Germany who is also developing the same kind of prototype, focusing on positive psychology. Her prototype is called : Learning Network "Zufrieden Leben: https://uschool.presencing.
com/prototype/ulab-2016/ learning-network-zufrieden- leben
My prototype contains the following guided exercises which I am now recording:
- mindfulness training
- compassion training
- emotion focusing
- inner dialogue
We are still looking for ways we can put this on an online platform. One of our ideas is through teachable or Udemy. But we are not sure yet, because these are online courses. While we want to create a learning environment.
We want to organize in a network of people who co-create
We would like to expand our network and join forces with people who want to do a similar thing.
Ruth (from Germany) and I are going to get together (online through skype for 1,15 hour) once a month in order to talk about the evolution of our prototypes and support each other.
Basically we are looking for ways a global online platform can be realized.
So we are looking for people:
- who can co-create with us
- who can prototype with us
- who have the knowledge or means to start an online learning environment that can go global
- who have the intention of making methods available in a democratic way, accessible to anyone who has acces to the internet.
- who also play with these ideas but are looking for ground (a social field) to stand on
- who want to manage this kind of an emerging network
- who can help co-create in this bigger idea
- ...
How can you join us or how can we join you?
Maybe you already started an initiative I can join in?
You can send me an email.
We can meet up in a skype call to explore each others interests?
We can get together with the people who are prototyping once a month to check in on each others progress and support each other.
We could start a bigger online network of people who want to support this bigger idea (like hosting a HUB on a global scale in the presencing institute, which is holding spaces for global networks).
Questions we want to adress:
How can we co-create this and make it available to people
- in a democratic way
- in a facilitating way in which people feel supported to walk their own paths
- both online or life in real time
- in groups or retreat situations or holidays where people can bathe in a supportive group atmosphere in a calm and natural environment and work with their muds, in order to let their lotus flowers (ie their humanity) bloom and grow.
- like a web of decentralized and interconnected learning environments where people can find their ways by themselves (like wikipedia)
Why/how online?
- in a way people can train, work on this in their homes or wherever they feel safe: by providing online guided meditations (preferably for free!) and journaling exercises as well as self-assessment tools by which they can evaluate their own progress
- giving people acces to existing platforms, moocs, practicing communities, like the kindness challenge, where they can co-train or find learning buddies and inspire each other http://kindspring.
servicespace.org/challenge/? gclid=CJ7ysZPS8M8CFQoTGwod...
What does hybrid* mean?
- giving people acces to adresses of therapists who can assist or coach them in this face to face or through skype
- Holding online spaces for the creation of supporting groups similar like hubs, where people can practice and exchange together
- Holding online spaces for the creation of online circles where people can do the same thing
- Holding online spaces for the creation of buddying-up online (or where people can find other people geographically close to their own homes) where people can find focusing partners and learn shoulder-on-shoulder
Questions about the problems of the idea:
- This is how I see a future possibility to emerge, but I cannot do this alone: I am especially looking for other people who can take this idea and do something with it on a bigger scale :-)
- We need also help from therapists who have experience with valuable methods and they want to democratically share with more people, rather than the rather costly one on one sessions.
- How can we put these exercises in an online environment? Like wikipedia, this online environment must be very userfriendly for therapists (who often suck at IT-knowledge) to put something online.
- How can we create a feedbackloop so that these methods put online can be peer-reviewed by other therapists or experts and users in a trustworthy way.
- Some therapists think the most effective way is to work in one on one situation with another person or therapist.
- Please feel free to help me explore this by giving suggestions
Hoping to hear from you,
Sincerely yours,
Annelies
The only reality we have, is happening here and now -this is it. If we miss it because we are caught up in our daydreams, memories, hopes and fears, then our whole life is lived as though we are asleep. (Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo)
Annelies De Zaeytijd
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