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Four good life practices

December 14, 2007 By Chris Corrigan CoHo, Flow, Practice One Comment

From last year’s gathering at Rivendell here on Bowen Island, Finn Voldtofte on four good life practices:

  1. Stay in inquiry, or stay in the ambition to stay in inquiry
  2. Stretch beyond what you know
  3. Do what you do for the sake of the whole
  4. Speak what you see and feel and allow yourself to be corrected by the field

As I reflect on the results of that gathering, including the committment I made to be in inquiry around conscious evolution, I realize that Finn’s words have deeply informed my approach to hosting, to leading from within the field. I was on a conference call with some people in Saskatchewan today about some work I might do there, and I had a strong sense that the decision I had to make was “do I join this field, and become a community member for three days in January or not?” Once I said yes to that, we flowed into some design and inquiry about possibility. From that place, and only from that place, can I offer what I authentically sense and feel, willing to be corrected so that together the field might shift and sway towards its next level.

It was about a year ago that Finn died. We were so lucky to have recorded these pearls from him and to have these ideas live in practice. Thanks to Thomas and Ashley for such sensitive harvesting.

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  1. ashley says:
    December 16, 2007 at 9:03 am

    For #4, I recently read in a different context (in Daniel Siegel’s book, Mindful Brain)
    that you speak your SIFT – senses, images, feelings, thoughts.

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