Greetings!
On behalf of the WePracticeNYC Leadership Team, I want to welcome you to the official WePracticeNYC blog, a virtual forum for the WePracticeNYC community to discuss all things related to WePractice! Some examples of what we will be discussing here are:
- the theory, practices, and applications of WePractice
- our experiences during the WePractice group sessions
- reflections on what we've learned through our practice groups, and how it has affected our lives outside the group
- any questions, comments, or suggestions that we have about what WePractice is and how to make it better
- any materials we come across that we think would be helpful or interesting to share with our community
- and more!
The idea for the blog arose from a few things that we observed in the group energy:
- a feeling that the structure of six two-and-a-half-hour sessions was simply not enough time to go through everything that was coming up in our field
- a desire to keep the thread of practice alive in between the group sessions
- a need for a place to share and record our reflections and feedback about what happens in the groups, so we can continue to co-evolve the structure of the practice
- the possibility of including community members in the field even when they are unable to join the committed group.
Therefore, we have decided that this blog will be "semi-private", which means that the blog will be open to anyone who is a member of the current Committed Group or has been in a previous Committed Group. We realize that this poses some potential issues around confidentiality and may limit what people are willing to share in this forum, but we feel that this is the right balance of inclusivity and privacy. We sincerely hope that people will treat this virtual forum with the same respect that we would bring to our practice groups, and hold any vulnerable information with great care.
And of course, we encourage people to be as open and forthcoming about their experience and perspective as they feel comfortable doing. We understand that expressing oneself authentically is frequently a risky endeavor, and sometimes it doesn't work out the way we would hope for. But we also know that it is precisely the taking of those risks that is being asked of us, and that is what nourishes our WE-space.
So off we go together, on another adventure, continuing the experiment of exploring the awakened intersubjective field...may whatever virtue that arises from our activities serve to benefit all beings!
With Love and Gratitude,
Michael Stern
