THE QUESTION: How can I find other people who are seeking a more creative life so we can support each other and share the experience?
When we engage with other people deliberately in a setting where everyone is aligned with the same purpose – deepening creatively – we are building Conscious Community.
THE PROBLEM:
Feeling isolated from others or not feeling supported. Not knowing where to look for the positive tribe. Your community. Where are they?
THE ACTION PLAN:
First, it’s important to recognize these realities:
We’re all in the same boat. We can choose to believe in our ability tap creative intelligence, and we can encourage each other when we’re in community.
Curiosity is at the heart of creativity. We can encourage curiosity in others and look forward to sharing and communicating our curiousness about the world with them.
We benefit from sharing practices that are working for us, and we embrace the practices others describe. Most importantly, we discover that when we share in this exchange, our own personal practice strengthens. Our sense of clarity contributes to community clarity.
Part 1
Write a personal ad looking for community. This may sound crazy but it will help you discern what you’d like to share with other people and what you hope to gain from the community experience. If you need help getting started, watch the video and see how we wrote ours!
Part 2
How can you translate your personal ad into a real time, meaningful experience?If you want to look close to home, could you invite a few (or even two) people to meet with you? Tell them you’d like to get together with other people who want to talk about how to live creatively. Invite them to write their own personal ad and then share them.
Don’t forget to think about the community that might be “beyond” meeting in person if that isn’t possible. Zoom, phone, online?
WHAT IF YOU’RE AN INTROVERT?
Introverts are frequently just fine being and working alone. But if you recognize a desire to engage with others on this creative path – even if infrequently – choose a method of contact that’s within your comfort zone. Use email to make the initial contact, or a text. It may take courage to extend an invitation if you’re shy, but being vulnerable (carefully so) is always worth it. You may not need a village and you may not need weekly check-ins. But strength and camaraderie resides in tiny communities, too. And just knowing someone is there as a consult when you need each other is fortifying.
Our online Creative Strength Training community encourages introverts and extroverts alike to engage in whatever way feels comfortable. Sometimes people sit on the sidelines and watch or listen a long time before they engage. That’s ok. Many members have fostered friendships and shared life-changing discussions over the year. (or longer)
I think it helps to have guidelines for interacting, so everyone knows what the expectations of interaction are. You can use them, too.
Guidelines for Nurturing Conscious Community:
Members come to the table realizing they are different and have a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and are respectful and nonjudgmental in their interactions. (BTW this is good Life advice.)
What happens or is revealed in the community stays in the community, fostering trust and openness among the members.
Remember:
COMMUNITY IS OPEN-MINDED, NOT JUDGMENTAL, ALWAYS SEEKS UNDERSTANDING AND BRINGS OUT THE PERSONAL BEST IN US AS AN ONGOING PURSUIT.
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