Connect with your Cohort (June 2018)

[Wendy Barnett]

HI folks
I’m Wendy. I live in the bay area in CA and am very excited to come to Boulder in a couple of weeks. I’m going to be staying with friends in Denver and was wondering if anyone else is going to be in Denver and interested in carpooling or sharing travel costs.
Looking forward to meeting everyone soon.
W

[Lauren Lucek]

Hi Wendy and Everyone!
Looking forward to meeting you all on Friday!!
I’m Lauren and I’m from San Diego. I will be staying with some friends in Boulder and renting a car for the duration. If anyone is staying in Boulder and needs a ride to the Star House daily, let me know.
I’m super excited to start the program and be in Colorado for the next week.

Ryan, do we need to bring any of the textbooks for this intensive?

See you all soon.
-Lauren

[Wendy Barnett]

HI
Wondering if lunch is provided every day or if we need to bring our own. Also, are there bugs / mosquitoes so that we need to bring bug spray?
(would someone mind replying somehow, just to confirm that these posts are working? Surprised to see no activity from others starting the course next week so maybe my posts aren’t working…)
Thanks
W

[Michael]

Also, bring bug spray just in case but you probably will not need it at the Starhouse. If you are lodging near the river or creek than possibly more needed.

[Michael]

Hi Wendy!

Here are some notes from the welcome letter! Let me know if you need anything else. I am looking forward to meeting you in person!

Foundation’s Intensive Address (June 22-30)

The Starhouse

3476 Sunshine Canyon Dr, Boulder, CO 80302

303.245.8452

ascpr@thestarhouse.org

You are responsible for your own lodging and food during the Face-to-Face intensive.
The best option will be to pack a lunch each for each day of training.
We will not be doing any backpacking so feel free to pack in regular suitcases or duffle bags if you’d like.

[Ivy Walker]

Hi Cohort 16,

I am looking forward to seeing you at the Foundations Intensive. I am excited to meet you! Thank you for following that inner pull to connect with the NCC training at Earth Based Institute. I find that EBI is a very supportive community that stretches well beyond your cohort.

I will be arriving to the Starhouse midway through the Intensive, on the 26th. To begin, you will be supported by Daniel Brisbon, our other Mentor/TA. At each F2F, Daniel and I will split the time supporting you, Michael and all of our guest teachers.

Very best wishes for transformative 9 days!

Ivy

[Wendy Barnett]

Tribe: as mentioned in my text, here’s my elevator speech. Read/use/ignore/bootleg and if you have any feedback, I’d love it!
“The place was incredible. I was about 3 miles out of Boulder up in the mountains, surrounded by trees and grass. The smells, the quiet and the wildlife were all incredible and very rejunvenating. It was also incredibly hot but because it was so dry, it was actually really nice.

The course is very intense and you learn by practicing on each other; there was very little theory which involved sitting around and working thru’ documents – it was intensely practical learning. Every day we worked outside in the grass learning how to listen deeply to what someone was saying and asking very specific questions at specific times to create space for that person to reflect on and question what they were saying and go a bit deeper. Someone might start by talking about wanting to create a plan for how to have a difficult conversation when, actually, the challenge was about them not having the confidence to trust in the decision they were making which is actually what made it a difficult conversation.

It was not just a really intense learning experience from a coaching perspective but also an intense exploration of personal understanding, because we were working as both guides and clients. We always paired up and always had at least 1 supervisor who would observe and interrupt to provide real time guidance. By working this way, it gave us incredible insight into what it feels like to be the client which taught us how to show up as the guide, in our own personal style.

I’m really excited for how much I learned from the 1st day to the 9th day and can’t wait to deepen my learning again in September.”

[Ivy Walker]

Fantastic, Wendy! It would be fun to hear back on how this ‘speech’ is received by various parties you encounter. Best wishes!

[Wendy Barnett]

This has worked really well! I created something which I feel was true to the experience, would make sense to others but preserved the sacred that was just ours and the Starhouse’s! I’ve talked with about 5 people now and they all have been very interested, have understood what I’ve talked about and it felt good for me to say out loud.
I’m really glad that I had the opportunity to think about this and then to craft it because I have felt very prepared for the conversations and feel I’ve honored the course.
Hope everyone is still feeling the full on joy of that beautiful mountain 🙂
W

[Kelsey Hopper]

Wendy, thank you so much for sharing this! It’s helpful to me to read (and draw inspiration from… perhaps even bootlegging!) as I come up with my own little elevator speech to share with my work-world, family-world, etc. about what this thing actually is!

Thanks again. Truly appreciate you sharing with us. LOVE!

[Ivy Walker]

Hi Tribe,
I’ve just returned from a visit to the Starhouse. You all are definitely on my mind. A happy hello to each of you! While at Starhouse, I saw our remaining crystal on the altar pile. I saw the area where we tamped down the grass, near the Starhouse, under the pine tree. I saw the places where we sat and visited or learned together in the land. And others from EBI were visiting these places, too. It made me think of the layers and the company that is EBI– in education and community. You are part of an expanding community. See if you can sense into this community from your outpost. We are holding one another. xo