with Paul King

These salons are a co-curated and co-created conversational space for inquiry, exploration, development and application of our individual and collective potential. We take an integrating embodied and systemic approach. Numbers are limited to eight, creating a deep mutual learning experience.

In this series the invitation is to engage and play with the idea and process of emergence. We will practice presencing and sensing into our soma, our living body in its wholeness and into what is arising in us, out of us, from us and with us. As David Whyte says we will ‘start close in’. We will receive and offer as we are moved. There may well be silences. There will be no agenda and no intention to achieve a specific outcome or resolve an issue. It will be an exploration into what emerges from our collective intelligence and mutual learning, a discovery of what can come out of the relational space within and without.

The invitation here is to explore our interoception – the sensory information arising from the body. There is increasing neuroscience research into interoception which is being seen as underpinning our sense of self and a key element for human development, individually and socially. The invitation is also to attend to our awareness of our movement impulses and actions – that is our proprioception.

Western society has caused us to lose touch with the fullness of our sensual awareness, and in that fall short of our full humanity. I would say this exile is the source of much, if not all, of our troubles in this world.

Where this exploration will take us is a mystery.

Postscript: A brief word on the idea of emergence. In essence it is the process of bringing forth, bringing into the light. In philosophy, an emergent property is a feature of a system that is not a property of any of its components. Emergent properties are the result of the interactions between the components of a system, and are not predictable from the properties of the individual components alone. Emergent properties help living organisms better adapt to their environments and increase their chances of survival.

Price:  £200+VAT