What is a Catalyst able to do?

As a Catalyst of emergent dialogue, you can open a subtle field of coherence between group participants and work with the intelligence of the field to catalyze emergence. You intuit the synergistic potentials of the field, which enables co-conscious creativity, collective learning, and shared sense-making to arise in a group. You work with these capacities to create spaces for transformation that are psycho-active. This means that there is an X-factor involved, a mystery living within and between us, that opens up new potentials for transformation and emergence. As a Catalyst, you are an instrument of this inexpressible mystery. Aligning with the depth and flow that comes alive in the group, you help the richness and diversity within the group become powerfully synergistic.

How can you develop during the Summer Training Intensive?

The ten days of this Training Intensive will focus most on the development of the trust, sensitivity, and freedom that are foundational for a Catalyst. To have the capacity tap into the intelligence of the field takes a deep knowing—at a cellular, embodied level—that the living field is truly a dimension of perceptible reality. That it is not an idea or an experience that you have now and again. It is real.

During these ten days, we will focus on deepening our capacity to sense the collective presence of the field and the creative impulse arising from it—as Catalysts. When does the field come alive? What causes it to flatten and lose its magic? How do we care for the living space between us? What does that mean?

We will also explore the creative impulse and synergy. How do we distinguish between our own impulses and the impulse coming from the field intelligence? Can we experiment with responding before thought, to catch the wind of emergence?

The content and process of the Intensive will depend on the experience of the participants. The deeper intelligence of our interbeing will guide us.