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IS Developmental Practice Series

Skillful relating to inner and outer challenges. Liberation from stuckness and not-okay-ness. Spacious ease and equanimity. These are learnable skills, freely available through interactive, relational, intentional practice in a supportive environment.

The key mechanism of psychological adult development is (roughly) perspective-expansion β€” our ability to move from "being caught up in it" to "seeing, welcoming, and working with it". Leveraging years of action-research experience from Intentional Society, the Developmental Practice Series assembles a powerful sequence of practices supporting post-conventional personal development.

In plain words, we're building a bridge to "being who we want to be" beyond what society typically offers us. This series is being run as a nine-week course on Thursdays starting July 10th, 9:00am to 10:30am Pacific (Noon Eastern, 4pm UTC, 6pm CEST).

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πŸ—“οΈSchedule and Practices

Unit 1 (Awareness) July 10, July 17, July 24:
  • Empathy Circle – receptive listening and reflection
  • Parts Work (IFS) – listening to and being with parts-of-self
  • Interpersonal Gap – perspectival awareness and frame hygiene
Unit 2 (Acceptance) July 31, Aug 7, Aug 14:
  • T-Group – noticing and naming our experiences
  • Circling – welcoming everything in connection
  • Inquiry Spiraling – perspective weaving, collective dreaming
Unit 3 (Integrity) Aug 21, Aug 28, Sept 4:
  • Nine Whys – (re)connecting to desire, motivations, and purpose
  • Pure coaching + Clean language – clean (space-holding, not self-injecting) coaching basics
  • Case Clinic – developmental coaching in action

Optional bonus session Sept 11 - wrap-up and retrospective

After signing up, you'll receive a recurring calendar invite for all sessions. The skills do stack together in later practices, so we ask that participants intend to make at least 6 out of the 9 weeks.


Reflections from 2024 participants

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About the facilitator

James Baker - Facilitator

James Baker has facilitated over 200 Intentional Society practice sessions since 2021. He ran the first edition of this Developmental Practice Series in Q1 2024, and has also hosted a corporate-focused version called Relational Agility.