The Container: A Circling and Authentic Relating Podcast

The Container Collective

Conversations at the crossroads of Consciousness, Human Connection, and Circling. Adventure with us to far out realms of reality and how we get there together.

  1. What is Stemless? w/ Harmony, James, and Sahil

    MAR 5

    What is Stemless? w/ Harmony, James, and Sahil

    Stemless is a radical new entry to the world of the relational arts, mindfulness, and social meditation. It takes us out into uncharted waters, where we use skillful projection to wake us up and make vital contact with how we create our reality. We brought the entire founding team on to talk about what Stemless is, how it came from and builds off of Circling, and what you can expect when you jam with this new practice. (BTW, welcome back James to the pod. We recently had him one for Episode 79 with Month of Potential.) Check them out here: Their website (https://stemless.org/)Their MUST READ Substack (https://stemless.substack.com/)Their WhatsApp for updates on online and in-person events (https://chat.whatsapp.com/CMrtH2sjSNB2DPH1Q4crFY?mode=ac_t)Here is a blurb from the Stemless team to learn more: ‘Stemless’ is a relational presence practice where we connect via direct transmission of our rich inner experience without explanation. We aim to glimpse and own not just our arising feelings but our overall perceptions.  As a group or in pairs, we share what’s happening between us in the here and now, free of violence (meaning: deeply owned). To start off, we practice using overt sentence stems, being careful to use language that doesn’t crowd anyone else’s experience (eg. “This is just my story, but I think you might be angry?”).  Then comes ‘stemless’, where we open toward the more mysterious space where all projections can be recognized as inherently toothless. Without overt management, even an expression like “You’re the devil!” can be, paradoxically, conflict-free. It becomes just another beautiful opportunity to meet in connection.  Past participants have said the practice is psychedelic, pointless, deeply connecting and alive, endlessly frustrating, what do I do with all this freedom!? and “the most important relating practice that I know of, in the world.” We find intimacy in truth by foregrounding the often-unsayable stories we’re constantly inventing about ourselves and each other. Our notion of connection is not in achieving a shared understanding of who or what we are. Rather, we attempt to lucid dream in our waking lives: to catch ourselves in the act of inventing the characters we see (and imagine ourselves to be).  Feelings of connection might come, but they are not the goal, and this might feel awkward or weird at times. Participants will likely feel dropped or unacknowledged, at times or often. You will hopefully also experience a kaleidoscopic tilting of your world’s dream logic; laughter; insight; and a taste of our passion for this practice. A meditative practice of surrendering to reality expressing itself through each of us in every moment. Support Our Work 📈 Like, subscribe, rate, and review 🙌 Become a patron on Patreon 💌 Subscribe for free to our newsletter Connect and Learn More About the Relational Arts 🖥️ Our website (www.thecontainerpod.com) 📺 Our YouTube (www.youtube.com/@TheContainerPod) 👥 Our Facebook group Keep it namaste 🙏

    1h 7m
  2. Starting a Conscious Community w/ MoP

    JAN 21

    Starting a Conscious Community w/ MoP

    The Month of Potential (MoP) experiments with living in radical connection. Using the practice of circling as the foundation, they recently spent a month living and working together fully engaged in relational practice.  They share their experiences, challenges, insights, and plans for the future. They even give tips and insights (and invites) to people who want to go on similar journeys. You can find documentation of their work here: https://publish.obsidian.md/potential/If you would like to learn more about their work as individuals, reach out to them using the links below: Emma van den Boogert  Emma van den Boogert works with individuals and groups to cultivate collective fields of connection, where people feel deeply seen, attune to the deeper intelligence moving them, and step into their highest potential. She's passionate about integrating the personal, interpersonal, and systemic, and holding the space where breakdown and breakthrough unfold. Drawing on Political Science, Nonviolent Communication, and practices like Parts Work and Transformational Connection, she facilitates The Singing Field, coaches life and career professionally, and contributes to networks and communities of conscious global changemakers - including Living Cities Earth, Love Organized and the Syntropy Network - supporting those willing to truly listen and act from emerging possibility. Website:  https://www.emmavandenboogert.com/ Noor Al-Hashemi I am drawn to the mysterious caves and deep-sea lagoons buried deep in the fabric of our beings. Devoted to cultivating the precision and humility needed to listen for the very subtle parts of our experience, to give life to them and allow them to move us.  Based in London, I lead Transformational Connection and work 1-1 online with those who want to dive into the depths together. You can read more and book in a session at circlingwithnoor.com or send me an email at circlingwithnoor@gmail.comJames Brown Relational coach, lay therapist, group facilitator and leader. Supporting you to connect, accept and stand, with love and honesty. Relational coaching at - https://jameswonders.uk/Group facilitator and non-duality practice at - https://stemless.org/Luz Quiñonero Luz works with people who feel disconnected - from themselves, their relationships, or their sense of purpose - to develop relational awareness and create the meaningful, conscious connections they desire. https://luzquinonero.com/Nick Hayes Nick helps relational and presence-based practitioners move beyond insight and self discovery, into sovereign creator-ship of their whole world. You can learn more about him here: https://nickhayes.me/Support Our Work 📈 Like, subscribe, rate, and review 🙌 Become a patron on Patreon 💌 Subscribe for free to our newsletter Connect and Learn More About the Relational Arts 🖥️ Our website (www.thecontainerpod.com) 📺 Our YouTube (www.youtube.com/@TheContainerPod) 👥 Our Facebook group Keep it namaste 🙏

    1h 14m

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Conversations at the crossroads of Consciousness, Human Connection, and Circling. Adventure with us to far out realms of reality and how we get there together.