Inducing Chaos, Reclaiming Ritualization & Incubating Life Plans
Hello!
The Spring Cleaning Workshop: Chaos & Ritualization video, outline, exercises and transcript have been uploaded! Hopefully it lifts your springtime even further.
What’s in this edition
Groups subscription tier expansion – we’re going well beyond workshops to help you integrate personal development into your real life
Workshop experiences – accounts of what’s happening within workshops currently running
External opportunities – a new section highlighting cool opportunities with collaborators of ours
About this time is when a substantial wave of free 1-2 month free trials of our Groups (workshops) tier are coming to an end.
Just in time for this, below we have news about a planned expansion of the Groups tier!
Announcements
In keeping with our commitment to continuously improve the ways we support our members in their goals and development, Supercycle is evolving our Groups tier subscription to include the following:
Life Plans Incubation – guided and supported time to structure further explicit plans and investigations into one or more areas of your life using takeaways from your workshops
Integration & Application Sessions – sessions to bring the depth of the workshop content to your leading edges or known trailheads in a targeted way, receive guided support, and get inspired by others
Group Study Sessions – workshop and course-specific groups similar to Integration & Application Sessions where you can work with others without Tee or Emily.
Office Hours – unstructured time to cowork, chat with Tee or Emily, ask questions, and connect with others
With the exception of “Integration & Application” sessions, all of these ^^ offerings will be available upon subscribing to the Groups tier regardless of whether you’ve attended a workshop previously.
This gives us more ways to complement the topic-focused sessions in our workshop series with more personalized contexts for integration and support in the unfolding of your concrete life plans and developmental goals.
How would this enhance my workshop experience?
Imagine having taken a workshop and really wanting to bring takeaways from it to different areas of your life. Sometimes that can happen naturally after attending a workshop, but more often than not, bringing what you learned and experienced into your life is greatly enhanced by a mixture of additional passes at processing, explicit planning, revisitation of how the plans are unfolding, peer support, and the power of connecting with the group.
Concrete example: Tee attended “Rejuvenating Creativity” and realized he’d been favoring either a narrowed ‘prospecting’ form of drilling down into things, or leaning on acting hurriedly when ‘thunderbolts’ of inspiration hit. He identified additional ways of inducing inspiration he wants to practice. He would like to make formal plans to make progress on his own project and regularly reflect on his creative process with others while doing it. He might want to ask Emily some questions. He might want to see how others experience blocks within their process, etc.
What’s behind this expansion?
We’ve observed that sustained personal development doesn’t only hinge on your encounters with the content, however impactful they may be. In many instances, the effects of retreats, workshops and coaching evaporate once a program ends.
Often missing is the process of continually working with the content to make it uniquely yours and being intentional about integrating what’s yours into your real life. Forcing something foreign to your daily life, even if it’s meaningful to you, is a fairly unreliable way to sustain growth.
The Groups tier expansion is structured to give you several opportunities in different types of environments to do this personalizing and integrating work. We’re betting that one or more of these environments will enhance the chances of bringing lasting growth into your life.
Having other ways of engaging with the content also helps avoid “workshop saturation” that can happen, which is essentially taking on too many new things at once.
And finally, group work is powerful. We know that follow-through and overall resonance of personal development goes up substantially when people are sharing their experience together.
We want to give plenty of opportunities for Supercycle to be a home for your development groups.
As it relates to our revolving workshop schedule throughout the year, we will have two to three ‘waves’ of 4-8 week workshops, with periods in between to incubate your own life projects, expand on workshops with Application and Integration sessions, run study groups, opt into additional coaching, and more.
Patreon-style support
We’re heartened by those who are already contributing to our community – a massive thank you from Emily & Tee to our subscribers! 🙏
Your paid subscription acts as a contribution for us to keep providing Supercycle as a nonprofit.
We hope for people to be looking at these subscriptions less like Netflix or the Wall Street Journal, and more like supporting someone through Patreon – ongoing bids to support our work because you want the community to exist and be there for you when you’re ready to get more involved.
And we’re committed to making it feel that way! Please reach out if you have any other questions.
You can also support our community for $35/month by subscribing to our “In-community” tier.
Community Pulse
– We’re coming up on the last week of Emily’s workshops, and things have been finding their grooves in various ways. Participants have gotten to know one another, gained insights, and learned new tools for navigating life at different scales and in different domains. Some topics especially alive in recent sessions include: people’s differing relationships to interpersonal conflict and ways this can lead to conflict around how to conduct conflict, conflict, the skill of balancing of metaphor with more (seemingly) mundane aspects of life, and the way that existential forces and factors can impact our motivations.
– In Modeling Other Minds, we recently had a fun time using metaphor as a vehicle for exploring relational dynamics. We did a group metaphor or “storytelling” session exploring everyone’s relationship to the workshop itself, with Emily showing up as a big oak tree, providing shade and dropping acorns, and Tee as a forest ranger, keeping track of comings and goings in the forest and keeping everyone safe. Other participants found ways to express their participation as animals, environmental features, and human visitors to the forest. Now we’re wondering what it would be like to map the whole Supercycle ecosystem through this lens!
– Participants in the “Rejuvenating Creativity” workshop seem to have gotten a lot of mileage out of conceiving of their creative process as having phenomenological properties of elements (water, wind, fire, wood). Here’s a prompt excerpt:
“Phenomenology always has some quality to it, some presencing of itself, and this can be characterized in terms of fundamental elements, energies, motions, or other substrates. We can notice “wateriness” or “stickiness” in our experience just as well as in external phenomena. Our creative processes, which invariably have a phenomenological component, are thus likely to have their own typical elemental phenomenologies.”
Tee, for example, observed that he was neglecting one of the more generative types of creativity for him, a kind of ethereal ‘listening’ to the wind which requires patience and a kind of inviting openness.
External Opportunities
This section will periodically highlight the work of collaborators that might be of interest!
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Thanks for taking the time,
– Tee & Emily
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