
Week 1: Tuning into your Spark and the Call of the Wild
Wednesday 22 Jan
2 pm CET / 3 pm SAST / 8 am EDT
Call details:
In preparation for this first call, we’d like you to reflect on this statement
“It’s hard to survive in the jungle when you were trained in a zoo.”
Many of us have been socialised into predictable, safe, and controlled environments—like a zoo—where our creativity, complexity, and wildness have been tamed.
But life is more like a jungle than a zoo: it is complex, unpredictable, and constantly changing. It is messy, wild and alive with possibility.
The question is: how do we navigate and thrive in such an untamed space when we’ve been trained to function in the perceived safety of certainty and structure?
Guiding questions (you don’t have to answer all three):
- Where are you hearing the “call of the wild”?
- What zoo habits or ways of thinking might be holding you back? Where do you feel ready to step into a more “untamed” version of yourself?
- What career or life transitions are you currently navigating? What invitations or possibilities are calling you forward?
In this first call, we’ll:
- Set the container for our 6-week journey: Clarifying our collective intention and the space we’ll hold together.
- Introduce key concepts: Rewilding, untaming, waysfinding, complexity … these might be new concepts to some of you, so we will spend some time introducing how these concepts help us navigate uncertainty and open up new possibilities
- Engage in two Aliveness Practices: These practices will help activate our senses and explore our internal landscape.
- Experience the Circular Inquiry: A unique facilitation tool designed to bring insight into how we relate to tension and complexity, offering profound shifts in perspective.
- Introduce Peer Learning Pods: Setting the focus for the coming week and connecting participants for collaborative exploration.
Our goal is to reconnect with the aliveness within, rewild our inner ecology, and build the skills and practices to respond to the complexity of life. We’re here to step into the wild, together.
Content:
An Introduction to the WaysFinder Framework.
The WaysFinder is a framework to help you navigate an uncertain world that is alive with possibility.
Pre-reading
We recommend pages 1-16 and 37-40 as pre-reading material.
There’s no need to answer the questions or draw your WaysFinder yet.
->Download the WaysFinder Framework PDF here->
Introduction-to-the-WaysFinder-Framework-Jan-25The Trigger Reframe
The Embodied WaysFinding Journey is NOT deep shadow work. It’s a slow & soft holding space a place to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the aliveness within AND all around you.
However, triggers are unavoidable.
We’ve created a short document to give you more insight into how triggers and conflict can be reframed as important information to pay attention to.
While we want to stress that our goal is not to focus on triggers per se, we felt that this information was important and that you can use it here and in your private and work capacities.
->Download the Trigger Reframe PDF here->
Trigger ReframePOD:
After this first call, we’ll divide you into small peer learning groups of 3 to 4 people, also known as a POD.
You’ll receive an email with your POD details. The PODs are self-organising and meet weekly (you can determine a time slot that best suits you).
We’ll provide you with resources, practices, and experiments that you can explore on your own throughout the journey.
This week, the focus in your PODs is:
- Connecting with your POD members for the first time before our 2nd live call on Tuesday 28 January.
- You cannot do WaysFinding on your own. It’s a collective endeavour.
- Thinking about the importance of connection and relating. Your POD will be your “fellowship” over the next few weeks. Please reflect together on these two questions (frame your answers in the context of your intention for joining the journey)
- Who would I like to be able to be when I am with you?
- And who would you like to be able to be when you are with me?