Repatterning #1: Living wholes & openness ( Regen / Regenerative Principle 1)
I don't know everything about regenerative practice, but I know that I want to get better at it, and that requires me to explore new ways of explaining, thinking, and sensing into what regenerative practice looks like and feels like.
Join Me in Exploring
And so, I hope you'll join me in exploring these concepts so that we can all create more aliveness together.
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Tyler having a chat about regenerative practice on Whadjuk Noongar Country
Acknowledgment of Country
I'd also like to acknowledge that this video comes to you from the lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation over in the so-called Perth (Boorloo). I’d like to pay my respects to the elders who have cared for this place since time immemorial and acknowledge that these lands’ sovereignty was never ceded and always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Acknowledgment of Contributions
Also, I just really want to acknowledge that a lot of this thinking comes from the amazing work of Carl Sanford, who recently passed last year. And so, I want to acknowledge her spirit and her energy, the care that she had, this beautiful place in our communities.
Starting with the Whole
In regenerative practice, we always start with a whole—a whole living being, which might be yourself, the community, a business, or even a whole place.
One might ask, how do you even start with a whole?
You actually need to start with: how do you be open to seeing and feeling [sensing] the whole?
Creating the Conditions for Openness
When we start this practice, it’s really about creating the conditions for openness.
Create the conditions for not knowing, letting go of that control, that desire to plan every little detail. Because we will never know every detail, and knowing more things doesn’t actually help us get where we think it might.
It’s usually about knowing some things a bit better, bit tipped off from a lot of different ways and perspectives.
How Do We Create Openness?
So, how do we create the conditions for openness?
My experience starts with acceptance—accepting wherever you may be. Once you’ve accepted, you can let it go, letting whatever it is that needs to come in, come in.
Our Sensory Capabilities
Humans are pretty amazing sensory beings.
The more we allow in, the more we’ll be able to sense the whole of what is taking place.
Within your own being, you can feel the feelings and how they relate to the thoughts and how that affects your outcomes and behaviors.
In a business, you can sense the inputs, the outputs. You can sense the relationships that allow it to be vital and bring life to it. You can sense the relationships that create viability. You can sense the tensions and resolve those tensions to evolve.
Enabling Openness
So in your own practice, in your own life, how do you enable more openness?