(notes from my Oct 22, 2016 sitting about the ‘Guru Syndrome’ and projection) Teacher’s responsibilities help students see their own wisdom – be careful to no over-identify with being “the source of wisdom”affirm the student’s own authority, and suppor …
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Guru Dynamics – Good vs Bad
As soon as you create a role or set up a hierarchy, projection begins. It begins immediately when we become mentors, and amplifies when we become interning teachers, swells when we become full teachers, and crescendos when we become senior teache …
Where Are We Now with Mutuality?
Edited Transcription of a presentation by Fax Gilbert followed by a Discussion of Trillium Teachers at our Teacher Retreat, June 14, 2017 Fax: In light of the events leading up to and surrounding the grievance process a few years ago, I began to w …
Poem: Now
There will never be any other time than now. Now is more than enough. Now contains the universe and beyond. Now what? Now what matters is loving now. Nowness is the miraculous fabric of life unspooling into infinity. From nothing, into everything, into …
Awakening Capacities in Holacracy
Check out my article, Awakening Capacities in Holacracy, recently published in the online Enlivening Edge Magazine, an international group dedicated to nourishing the growing ecosystem of Next-Stage (including Teal) organizations. My article is a story …
Fax Gilbert’s Interview with Subhaga for the January 2019 Newsletter
Fax: I want to offer my congratulations on your transition to becoming a Full Teacher and putting together these panel discussions on spiritual transmission. In a car, the transmission is responsible for shifting the gears. How does spiritual transmiss …
Intro to Steve
Life as a Prayer
We are living through challenging times when problems that seem both monumental and intractable beset us on all sides. The center of our common life seems to not be holding because our traditional cultural, political, spiritual, educational and commer …
Deep Prayer – Notes and Video Link
The awakened, naked intimacy with life can be experienced as a blessing – such vivid aliveness, heightened smells, colors, sounds, and wonderful immediacy of contact and connection. It’s also common to feel non-separation as a kind of curse as we becom …
Why Fixing Strategies Don’t Serve Your Awakening Process
In our Trillium Awakening path, we describe one of the early stages of the awakening processes as the rot, coming to the end of fixing strategies that we have followed in the hopes that we would somehow be better than we are. We tend to dismiss the eff …