{"id":992,"date":"2006-07-29T08:31:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=992"},"modified":"2006-11-15T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T22:37:38","slug":"stepping-into-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/stepping-into-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping into flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preparing to teach at an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oftheshire.org\/the%20Shire\/Split%20Rock%20Learning%20Centre.html\">Art of Hosting gathering in Nova Scotia<\/a> in a few weeks and as part of the conversations on design, we have been talking a little about what is required in order to confidently step into chaotic and unknown spaces.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, my friend and other co-host <a href=\"http:\/\/interchange.dk\/\">Toke Paludan Moeller<\/a> sent a short poem from an Aikido master that sums it up nicely:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you step up,<br \/>\nclaim the mat as your own.<br \/>\nEverybody you encounter<br \/>\nand everything that happens<br \/>\nis there by your invitation<br \/>\nand your invitation alone,<br \/>\neven the unexpected ones.<\/p>\n<p>Your job is to respond with<br \/>\ngrace and compassion.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t hide and you can&#8217;t fake it;<br \/>\nwe will all see.<\/p>\n<p>Let the skills you have learned<br \/>\nand the wisdom of this art<br \/>\nflow through you<br \/>\nand all will be well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[tags] aikido, art of hosting[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preparing to teach at an Art of Hosting gathering in Nova Scotia in a few weeks and as part of the conversations on design, we have been talking a little about what is required in order to confidently step into chaotic and unknown spaces. This morning, my friend and other co-host Toke Paludan Moeller sent a short poem from an Aikido master that sums it up nicely: When you step up, claim the mat as your own. Everybody you encounter and everything that happens is there by your invitation and your invitation alone, even the unexpected ones. Your job &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[29,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-hosting","category-facilitation","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-g0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}