WholeBody Wisdom's
Third-Wave Community
Integral events of love, openness and adventure
Where connection, wholebodied communication, and personal growth
are valued over comfort, conformity, and the illusion of safety.
"Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. As painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness."
--Marianne Williamson
"I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of."
-- Frances Moore Lappe
"In any given moment we have two options:
to step forward into growth or to step back into safety."
-- Abraham Maslow
"What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
All WholeBody Wisdom events are held within the container and context of WholeBody Wisdom Third-Wave Community.
This allows us to dive deeper and transform faster.
It ensures that we're all playing the same "game" with the same ground-rules. Together we create a highly effective Life-Dojo in which to learn and engage in Third-Stage practices that enable us to be more passionate, powerful, open, loving, and effective in the face of real world challenges.
Our Vision
If you come join us in our WholeBody Wisdom Third-Wave Community you'll have the opportunity to experience:
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Being playfully serious and seriously playful.
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Aliveness, Freedom and Power.
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An expansion of your ability to be open, loving and powerful in the face of real world challenges.
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A place to practice powerfully sharing all of your emotions: from fear, sadness and anger — to joy, excitement and bliss.
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A place where touch and sensuality can be evoked.
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A space where you can be both nurtured — and lovingly called on your stuff.
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An invitation to be all of yourself. To share and explore your:
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Greatness — as well as your Challenges and Limitations;
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Intelligence — and your Intuition;
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Body — and your Spirit;
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Sexuality — and your Heart
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Our Mission
To surround ourselves with open, embodied, adventurous friends — that are committed to having fun while evolving and growing themselves and thereby the world around them. We create juicy community events where we practice deeply expressing and integrating all parts of ourselves.
Our Standards
We Own Our "NO"'s
- We take loving, conscious care of:
- Ourselves,
- Others,
- Our Surroundings
We recognize that sometimes the best way to be consciously loving is soft and gentle … and other times the best way is to be fierce and piercing.
The intent, the level of heart-connectedness, the situation, and the skill of the practitioners — all influence whether the expression is effective, opening, and transformative — or ineffective and possibly harmful.
Also, we realize that we're no good to anyone else if we're not taking care of ourselves. And if we're truly taking care of ourselves — then we we naturally desire to take care of others.
Our Norms
When we attend a WholeBody Wisdom event, it is with the understanding that we're entering an "Integral Third-Stage Dojo." A place to practice being more open, loving, powerful and free — in the face of real world challenges. To create the container for the Third-Stage Dojo — we all agree to do our best to embrace these norms while at WholeBody Wisdom events:
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Growth, Openness, and Risk Taking versus
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Powerfully effective Emotional Expression & Integration: There are no "bad" emotions — only ways of expressing, suppressing or denying emotions that can have harmful consequences.
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Third-Stage, Embodied Coaching and Heart-Connected Feedback. "Feedback is the breakfast of champions."- Ken Blanchard
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Effectiveness — not Righteousness
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Practicing an effective mix of:
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Artfulness AND Authenticity
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Empathy AND Honesty
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Self-Responsibility AND Care for Others
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Openness of Mind, Heart, and Body
Some of Our Practices
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Asking for our 100%
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Intentional Clearing and Re-connection
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Leaning Into Our Edges
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Joyfully Risking, Noticing, and Celebrating Failure
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Helping Others from a Place of Choice, Joy, and Fullness
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Intention, Desire and Commitment — Without Attachment
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Recognizing and Celebrating the Wide Range of ways to be Powerful
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Conscious Evaluation not Judging or Labeling
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Constructive Conflict
Some of Our Values
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Diversity In: Relationship Configurations, Politics, Economics, Cultural Backgrounds, Sexual Orientations/Interests, and Spiritual Beliefs
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Transforming the World — One Event at a Time
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Abundance over Scarcity: "Abundance is not somthing we aquire, it is something we tune into." -- Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Self-Trust
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Joyful Accomplishment
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Healthy Living and Physical Exercise
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Courage
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Risk Taking
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Integral / Holistic / Embodied
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The Group Serves the Growth and Happiness of the Individuals
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Love over Fear
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Creativity, Connection, Community
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Intimacy
Also, please see WholeBody Wisdom's Seven C's