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 — 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).
🗓️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
About the 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.
