This week in your pods, we would like you to practise “frontier conversations” i.e. conversations with the Unknown by facilitating a conversation for each other using the steps below.

How it works:

Step 1: Visualization to Set the Scene

Before you begin, start with a short visualisation together in your whole POD group:

• Imagine yourself sitting beside a fire, somewhere in a beautiful and expansive place outdoors.
• This is the edge of your frontier, where the known gives way to the unknown.
• Across from you sits the “unknown,” imagined as a person or a relatable presence. You are in conversation with this unknown entity.

Hold this image in your mind as you prepare to pair up and have your conversations.

Step 2: Pair Up

• You will work in pairs*. One person will be the Star (interviewer), and the other will be the Wayfinder (interviewee).
• Decide who will be in pairs and who will start in the role of the Star (interviewer).
• If you’re only 3 in your POD this week, pick the 3rd person as a Witness to join you and switch this role for the second conversation.

Step 3: Start your Conversation

• Start your first conversation (5 min). 
• After 5 minutes, switch roles so you both get a chance to be the Star and the Wayfinder.

Step 4: Guiding Questions

During your conversation with the Unknown, choose one or two of the questions below to explore:

• What is asking for your deeper attention right now?
• What wants to be said from within?
• What can you say with absolute certainty?
• What is the question that, all along, you have dared not ask?
• What long-held promise do you need to break in your life right now?
• What if all your intuitions were true?

Step 5: Reflection and Debrief

Once all pairs have completed their conversations, return to the main POD group and take some time to reflect as a group:

• What was it like to be in conversation with the unknown?
• Did anything surprise you?
• What did you sense or become aware of?
• Is there anything you feel called to respond to?