I feel so grateful for the experience of the EC today. I think I could spend a week recording insights while doing the reflective listening in the hammock weaving exercise. It was truly illuminating. I was struck by how we addressed many layers of our connection at the same time (or more accurately not at the same time, but as threads weaving in and out of each other- the weaving metaphor was very apt).
There was space to express feelings and to respond to those, as well as to explore the topic and follow some very interesting thought lines. Reflecting on it I feel that we were 'hearing the 'unsaid' as well as what we said in words. It seemed that we were able to hear beyond the actual words we expressed and take the discourse ahead in leaps. Interesting because it seems that the repetitive reflections could be time wasting, whereas my experience was that we 'fitted' more in to the time than we could have by conventional conversational methods.
Maybe it is the deep listening that enables resonance and when resonance is occurring we communicate at etheric levels or something! I heard something very interesting recently about when strings are in tune, or any sound/music making instruments are in tune, that that is when the rich harmonics are created that express feeling and that touch our hearts. I feel there is something very important happening here. Imagine if we could learn to come into attunement as groups of people exploring a topic and to hear the language of our collective thought in some way beyond our usual use of words. I get goose bumps about that.
I'm looking forward to our second go at hammock weaving next week with Erika with us as well. love to you all.,
Alice Aird