Challenging thoughts on community below. Curious about your personal experience and thoughts (from an integral perspective?) on community. Do you agree/disagree with the quotes? I feel the tension here - between on one hand wanting a "curated" community of people on the same page, and on the other questioning if only having community like that is "artificial". Has anyone found it "easier" to embrace community as you progress along your growth path? "Building beloved community is not about loving those who are easy to love, it's cultivating love for those who are difficult to love... If you're not struggling to love people, not trying to build understanding with those you disagree with, you're not really doing the work of building beloved community" - Father Richard Rohr (slightly paraphrased) "Anyone who has tried to live in community with others knows how beset with pain and difficulties such a life is! Perhaps that is why the pews in our churches are row on row, and why in less obvious ways we have put distance between ourselves and others. We have not wanted to suffer in any serious way the encountering of one another, all unaware that avoidance deprives us of community." --- Elizabeth O'Connor

Personally, one of the perks of this forum is what I discovered here. It is an amazing app.

Been sitting with Matt's question about being specific and direct with what it is that we do. One of the recurring pieces for me is the following: Changing How The World Makes Love. We do this in a few ways: 1. We believe that healthy, happy, connected couples create the stable foundation for a vibrant, thriving society. 2. We believe that access & harnessing one's own erotic genius is key to well being on all levels, key to sovereignty, key to contribution, & key to innovation. All of this is achieve by very simple, practical invitations for individuals & couples to play with.

What is your soul calling you to realise this lifetime? What is the biggest reach that you feel wants to pour through you? You might never get there to actualise this 'thing', and yet you know you have to try anyway... to not try is to die a little bit every day. Do you have one? Do you know what it is? How do you experience it on a day to day? What does it feel like in your body-heart-mind-spirit?

I've been thinking about doing some live coaching here every now-and-again. It would be a live call where you could show up for some "hot seat" coaching with me. The goal is "learning out loud" and I'd like to help with some issues that would be useful to a wide swath of the community here. I'm not gonna pull any punches, so it's the same level of insight, advice and support I'd give to my 7-9figure clients. If you're interested just share below what you're chewing on and would like help with. Based on interest and response we'll set up a time. I appreciate you all so much, I want to see you all succeed. I'm grateful for all of the first wave of you here and want to pay back your investment of time and attention before I run ads to the group and it starts to get much fuller.