Bringing one's full self and focus to the here and now supports diving deep. --Sue
It takes tremendous presence to be open to the expression of strong emotions --Sue
It will unfold in many unexpected ways. Just be with it and let it go where it seems to want to go. -- Tom
Presence by both the facilitator and the participants helps everyone tune into how to follow the energy and where is it leading. - wiki ... I agree. - Tom
This pattern deals with the energetic, almost psychic dimension of holding space, the Taoist ideal of action-through-non-action, just pure beingness, aware of all dimensions of what is going on as a field, intervening with delicate effectiveness or not at all. Just HOLDING the SPACE. -- Tom. I had trouble letting go of this one, but decided it was covered by Emptying & Witnessing. --Tree
This, with Holding Space, is the ground from which you improvise. Nothing gets in the way of your simply seeing what's there and what it is calling for. -- Tom
One has to be totally present to be an effective improviser. -- wiki
If you aren't really "there" you can't really listen and usually the speaker can tell that. If you are thoroughly and intently there, your Presence will have a profound impact all by itself, communicating to the speaker that you are with them. -- Tom
Presence is a form of Magic that calls forth other Magic in the space around it. - Tom
Presence and Creating a Container help Magic to arise. -- wiki
Strong Self-Awareness increases ones capacity for presence --Sue
My vote here is probably for the same reasons as others voted for Emptying/Letting Go. --John ... See Tom's note on Holding Space: apply that here.
Individual Presence is often experienced as intensely Spiritual, both by people who have it and people who witness it. In certain groups a profound Presence experienced as actually or virtually Spiritual can emerge or be evoked in the group as a whole, within, among, and beyond its individual members. -- Tom
Facilitator Presence invokes, honors, trusts and utilizes the Wisdom the the Group. -- Tom
To truly Witness, you need to be fully Present with who is there and what is happening. -- Tom
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