Practice Guidelines

If you have done any AR, you will know how important shared context is. Instead of spending valuable practice time establishing the practice guidelines, we have a document for this, which we ask that all practice folk read and digest. It clarifies what you can expect from the sessions, from the facilitator and from other participants. We call them guidelines because, it is understandable that in practice we are occasionally not at our best. It's all about intention. It's the old story, if I have a vision, a destination in mind, I am much more likely to get there.

Practice Principles

In addition to the guidelines, we also sometimes work with some of the practices/principles from the early days of the AR movement. By standing on the shoulders of giants, we have added one of our own to this list.

The first three or four came from the Boulder integral center in the early 2010s and have been kept alive by Digges and Kestano et al. Our contribution, prioritize regulation, comes from modern neuroscience that tells us that we can neither learn, nor change, nor co-regulate when we are off balance. This is the safety first principle. If we have a strong home base of regulation, then we can titrate and make space for difficult conversations. Slowing it down is key to regaining balance. We also are of the view that listening and appreciation do not have enough explicit presence in the historical tenets, and consider them foundational to our work.

Terms and Conditions

Yada yada, there's always the fine print right? We trust this is all pretty much common sense, in other words, we would like to think it's what sensible people would do anyway. However, the imperative to acknowledge and name context, gives you and us these terms and conditions.