WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT
Are you perhaps looking for something a little bit different?
A little more connection? Greater ease? Perhaps more heartfulness, or a place where you don’t have to fit in, have the answer, or even know quite what you’re looking for.
You might simply be curious about what happens when we slow down, listen differently, and make a little more room for ourselves – and for each other.
What's so different
We’re a community based on differences. Not the sort of difference we need to smooth away, overcome or politely ignore. Our big range of life experiences has us learning from each other – but only through a deep, body-inclusive listening, and the willingness to be known just as you are.
Is this for you?
We’ve discovered that when we interrupt the habit of sharing what we think, and give more room to sharing what we’re actually feeling, something changes.
There is a relaxation, a gentling in the air. For some of us lacking confidence in the value of what we might say, this encourages us to speak. Sometimes it’s the other way around: feeling truly heard, with others giving us their attention in a way that feels neither challenging nor discomforting, there’s a deeper sense of self-worth. In this moment, my voice counts.
We’ve found that anyone sharing honestly and openly becomes loveable. Even someone whose personality, or way of presenting themselves, has previously made you feel distanced. There’s space for kindness, care and compassion to expand. So too something that many of us are missing: a
sense of belonging.
Magical
There’s also something that many describe as ‘magical’. That’s the pleasure in rediscovering joy in just being alive, an appreciation of the beauty in human beings, and of the numerous tiny things in life for which to be grateful.
Partly this occurs through what Judith brings. Her role is often that of a catalyst. People speak of experiencing a ‘sparking’, an enlivening of what’s been present but half asleep.
Just words
We’re aware that until you experience this, and something of our sharing, these are just words which you might struggle to place or to understand.
We invite you to join us. There are numerous ways of giving this a try. TRY THIS At the very least, we reckon you’ll feel just a little more connected, quietened and possibly nourished.
And when communities, teams and partnerships are made from individuals living this way, we can see how much more rewarding, collaborative and consequential they might be.
Nature as teacher
Here’s the reality: we are nothing without the next breath, we have no room to inhale (take in, or receive) unless we have exhaled (given back, or emptied), we can never know how it is to be another human being, our experiences affect our physical bodies… and acknowledging these truths settles something in us.
Judith teaches greater body awareness as part of developing better listening without effort.
This is a natural consequence of relaxing deep into every part of you. (See Body Kindness in EVENTS and TRY THIS.)
None of us are in exactly the same stage of life, both in consciousness and physical reality. This diversity is enriching. So long as we quieten any assertions that our way is the only way.
You’ve only to examine the ancient, species-rich UK hedgerow to see the value of diversity and seasonal change. The sheer variety of plants, trees, shrubs and fungi in all their individual lifecycles creates nourishment and renewal for residents and visitors.
Inside, we humans are on the move. Cells die, decay, are renewed or repaired. Physically, we’re never the same. Equally, we can always review, refresh or fundamentally alter how we see ourselves, the world, our place, our values and our potential.
Including our relationship to love.
Our experience
We’ve been experimenting for over a decade. We know that when wildly different individuals really listen to, and learn from each other, this heals the isolation and exhaustion endemic in our cultural loss of community.
In our Foundation Community we span three generations. Our backgrounds, cultures, histories and life experiences are diverse. (ABOUT US) Sometimes we’re wonderful company for each other. At other times, a complete pain. And that’s rather the point. How to allow for that annoyance without fueling it?
Judith's part
Judith’s guidance and participation has been fundamental to moving beyond the familiar, and beyond habit. What makes her wisdom so ‘deep’?
A life long-lived, continuously meeting head on and unmoving, challenge or difficulty, a relentless capacity to laugh, love and delight in people, places, Nature, all built on
am I going mad or dying? consciousness-altering experiences, some whilst washing up, others on mountaintops or in the emptiness of deserts. (ABOUT JUDITH)
