Foundation
What we stand on when we work together.
When we take on something bigger, we look at it from four sides.
INTERIOR · INDIVIDUAL
I
What does it do to me?
EXTERIOR · INDIVIDUAL
IT
What needs doing, and what does it take?
INTERIOR · COLLECTIVE
WE
How do we talk about it together?
EXTERIOR · COLLECTIVE
ITS
What does it cost, and will it hold in the long run?
How we decide
Whoever knows how decides how. Whoever can lay a roof lays the roof, and others learn alongside.
What affects many, we decide together. Like what the hall is used for on Saturdays.
Whoever takes hold has the right of way. If you can do the task, get going. If it affects others, bring them in first.
Five energies
- Physicaldoes the room hold the body?
- Mentalcan you think here?
- Emotionalis there room to fall?
- Sexualare the boundaries said out loud?
- Spiritualis it ever quiet?
We ask about them when we furnish a room or plan a day.
A language for understanding each other
Spiral Dynamics, the Enneagram, the archetypes and the lines of development help us know ourselves and each other a little better. Everyone is welcome as they are.
The integral map
Lai’s foundation is Ken Wilber’s integral map: several ways of seeing the same thing, which complement each other. It gives us a shared language for ourselves, each other and the place.
Quadrants
The four perspectives at the top of the page: I, it, we and its. Change that lasts happens in all four.
Levels
We grow in levels that hold the previous ones, like Russian dolls. Each level can do something the one before could not.
Lines
We develop at different speeds in different areas: thought, feeling, body, morality and relationships. It helps to know your blind spots.
States
Flow, presence and deep calm come and go, and everyone has access to them. The performing arts practise shifting state on purpose, and that practice is what the place is built on.
Types
The patterns you take with you everywhere: preferences, tendencies, masculine and feminine energy. Type is what you start with, and level is what you grow into.