I awakened relaxed and realizing the beauty and joy of a warm summer morning close to the sea.  I gradually come into the day with recall and reflection on the last couple of so very rich days with Ria. And I arise into the world full of the “possible”, of understanding always at new levels the evolutionary process that arises in consciousness from the Middle.

Our time was rich with conversations on the porch, inquiry into the deepening of our work with Women Moving the Edge, the flip chart always near for Ria’s artful capturing of essence.  We walked and talked and took in the natural beauty of Eastern Point, as she juts out and opens her vistas to the sea.  We encircled the so solid and silent majestic stone retreat center with her hidden labyrinth overlooking Brace Cove. 

It seemed Nature enhanced our meanderings in exploring 2 days of the weaving of our individual lives and work with the collective emergenece and direction appearing in front of us.  We explored  how we conceive the theory of change underlying our work.   And I reveled in all the pregnant possibilities of interconnected work, the web that Ria is holding.  And I continue my own reflection on what that is for me.  Where are the interconnections for the two of us and the points of intersections with other special humans who are commited to the highest evolutionary change we can hold for our planetary system – as change happens at all levels all the time.  Where are We and me in this incredible chaotic and beautiful journey as our sun whirls our planet through space? 

Ria and I have come together for Women Moving the Edge.  And as we, with Eve-Marie and Wendy, build and hold the field for our fourth gathering in November, that edge seems to be ever expanding – higher, wider, deeper,  in some kind of dynamic movement, always to a new edge.  On our call yesterday our collective conversation seemed to move through reflection, exploration and questions, moments of clarity and then paths into greater complexity and mystery.  I notice myself in moments of stretching into new territory, beyond where I or we have been.  It happens almost magically.  I sense an excitement in the moment that lifts me so high and at the same time a yearning to rest in some kind of knowing that is familiar. 

And that is how I experience this collective journey  It is a movement into the vastness and never ending unknown – waiting to be known, to be awakened through each of us.  And I feel how I imagine it must feel as one jumps into  the seemingly infinite - parachuting high above the earth – experiencing the thrill and exhileration of the flight and then the relief of landing on safe ground – and then wanting to go back again and again.

 I yearn for these conscious collective conversations.  This informs my life, my work, my very being – to be in the midst of not knowing, and to want to know, and to explore this in relationship with others.  And we learn and explore into ever more wholeness – an evolving wholeness of knowing – in all the ways we can know.  Through this movement into the Collective We, together we bring the implicit explict.   Through us change happens at all levels all the time.

For more detailed notes on Women Moving the Edge building the field conversations, please visit Evolutionary Nexus.