Gathering Charge
Many conversations this week have revolved around Power. Municipal decision-making, funding issues, the business case for compassion, and preparations for leading a Zapchen day here on Bowen Island tomorrow.
This all has me sensing into Power, Movement, Base, Support. Noticing that pelvis isn’t the actual power, but rather holds a space for the power that radiates from an Open Heart. Pelvis is the seat of Power. So too with government and business executives, their offices are the seats of Power, not the Power itself. Leaders hold a space for that Power which is all of us working together.
Peter Frost, author of Toxic Emotions at Work, reminded me this week that it’s not just Heart, but also liver, kidneys, etc that are needed to pump and process the stuff that moves through us and keeps us going. The healing/cleaning, embracing/radiating and moving/working are not separate. Peter, ChrisCorrigan and I have started working on an invitation for ToxicHandlers to gather in OpenSpaceTech to see what we can create together, for ourselves, our organizations, and our many other worlds. Conference dates will be late May, 2004.
In the meantime, we’ll do the first Zapchen workshop here on Bowen tomorrow… introducing some simple practices that, as Julie Henderson says, help us feel as good as we can in spite of everything. One participant called this week to sign up: “…wanting to get some of those ZappyBits,” she says, quoting the only thing she could remember from our invitation. As the calls come in, and we laugh here about “ZappyBits,” the Zapchen story is gathering charge — power for the practice that will be all of us moving together tomorrow.