The Weaving Togetherness Lab
with
Yaren Köse, Emma Quayle, Alper Süzer
Carimar Barrientos, Isa Ortega Caro, Eddy Quinn
with
Yaren Köse, Emma Quayle, Alper Süzer
Carimar Barrientos, Isa Ortega Caro, Eddy Quinn
Series #1
6 Sundays
May 17th - June 21st 2026
7pm pm - 9:30 pm CET
The purpose of this iteration the Weaving Togetherness Lab is: To continuously nurture the capacities needed for weaving togetherness everywhere we are as we take our next bold steps to apply what we learn within and beyond the lab
The primary form that we intend learning to take is live, emergent, and dialogical by role playing situations and facilitation from a small group of practitioners within the WTL core group who will be coached.
In unpacking each step of each process, we anticipate this being a live action, slow motion, deep dive into the consciousness, tools, and moves of togetherness weaving.
The bright flame of the Weaving Togetherness Lab is being carried forward, in Miki Kashtan’s footsteps, by Emma, Eddy, Alper, Yaren, Carimar and Isa. This is the group of people who will be co-holding the third iteration of the lab, people to whom Miki has successfully passed the skills, entrusted the holding, and blessed their continued upskilling of more people eager to take on the commitment to weaving togetherness. They will be orienting to coaching as a peer-learning group among themselves, holding the sessions together as a continuing modeling of how we function in NGL.
This program is focused on a small core group while inviting the larger group to witness, practice, and ask questions. We anticipate that everyone who comes will have rich learning that they can apply in their lives. At the same time, we want the learning to happen within a field committed to the accelerated learning of the small group. We trust the paradox: as all commit to focusing on gifting our presence and attention and creating a field of support for the core group to grow their skills and integrate the NGL framework into the actual fabric of their lives, all of us learn and are enriched.
The WTL Core group is formed by people who are oriented to increase capacity in weaving togetherness by being coached during the lab with the intention of gifting their skills to NGL and in life. For those that are not part of NGL, being on the Core Group is a step towards getting closer to NGL, by learning and gifting of their love and skill – doing impact digestion, conflict facilitation. For those who are part of NGL, being part of the core group is an essential step towards taking more responsibility for co-holding the relational field that sustains NGL.
We offer 24 sessions over the course of the year, organized into 4 series of six sessions each offered at alternating times (to accommodate people from different time zones), with 2-3 weeks break in between. We offer the option of signing up for one series at a time or for a full year, and to join the program later in the year.
For people outside Europe, Africa, and Western Asia, only every other series may work in terms of time zone and they would need to listen to recordings of the other three.
Each session runs for 2.5 hours.
The raw material for each week is based on situations and scenarios from NGL or core group members contexts. Miki is the primary facilitator for the course and either coaches people who facilitate simulated set ups of such scenarios or coaches people who coach people who facilitate (that is a mouthful, isn’t it?). Both facilitation and coaching are editorialized and unpacked for maximum learning of the different skills involved.
The group as a whole is invited to reflect on learnings, to ask questions, and to practice in small groups with some coaching support from the core group.
An embodied understanding of what it means to live and work from within togetherness
A deeper understanding of the systemic lens and its application in facilitation and many other contexts in which togetherness is at stake
An exposure to and immersion in skills rarely taught by anyone else, including the following:
Needs choreography: the moves that support weaving togetherness when the capacity to stay in togetherness isn’t present and we need to compensate for it
Challenging narratives: ways of responding to people when their narratives interfere with togetherness that support them to see each other’s humanity without losing their own dignity and clarity
Tracking: being able to consciously track and make shifts based on purpose, needs, time, people, power, and open loops
Finding the noncontroversial essence: often enough, universal needs do not contain sufficient information for establishing robust enough togetherness to solve problems together, and the noncontroversial essence (a skill from Convergent Facilitation) is more relevant
Identifying thresholds for requests: this is a key skill that supports navigating transitions with care for all in difficult moments
Offering acknowledgments and appreciations: these are specific forms of expression that support togetherness by building bridges and attending to core relational needs
Leaning on transparency to increase trust and capacity: as we make ourselves more human, we ourselves become an entryway into togetherness within the field
What we want to invite you into is an attitude of support and orientation to what we are doing, and to the purpose of the lab.
The dream is to have a strong and connected body of people who are learning, integrating, applying, and sharing the work that encompasses the vision, principles, practices, and capacities of what it takes to weave togetherness, not just a random collection of individuals in different places who are doing what they can as individuals. In this way, the purpose is in contrast to what we mean by “knowledge consumption”: we are inviting all of us to integrate the learnings in relation to how we live our lives and to offer ourselves in service to the whole.
Within this, whether you choose to contribute money or not, you are contributing to the greater potential of this dream in a sustainable way and to the possibility that, at some point, you may reach sufficient capacity and purpose alignment to join the core group.
You are being invited, now, to support the unfolding of this magic being anchored in a larger group, with your support, and with confidence that you are likely to grow capacity over time even as you orient to us. Your accurate choice at this time is a vital element of what can support this lab to thrive.
The Lab is intended to be completely emergent. We anticipate learning arising from what is happening in the moment at the time. There is no need to attend every week unless this is what you want. The content of each six week series is completely unknown in advance and there is no intention to have any sequence of themes or skills within or between series. We imagine, though, that over time as capacity grows, deeper and subtler nuances may arise.
One of NGL’s guiding principles is “We embrace a gift-economy approach to resource generation and distribution as a fast track to liberation from scarcity, the deepest root of patriarchy, by stretching both our willingness to give unilaterally and our willingness to receive unilaterally.”
This offering is brought to you from NGL as a gift! It has nothing to do with it being “free”. We invite you to step into the experiment of the gift economy and to become a part of what makes our giving and your receiving of this work sustainable for us all.
There are no sliding scales or other suggestions of amounts to give. We invite you to go through the following steps:
Trust your intuition and/or gut sense about what arises in you.
Sense fully into what is possible for you to give without stretching beyond what is sustainable for you. Check within yourself: would there be any resentment if you gave this amount? If yes, reduce it, if not, increase the number in your mind and see how your body responds.
Know that giving zero is welcomed if this is what is aligned with were you are.