Presence Collective
beauty in the mess
Your unique presence is needed.
Being present together is a gift to a healing and emerging world.
Presence Collective is a space to make beauty with the mess, to face the ruins with reverence, revolutionary joy and active devotion.
Presence allows us to honestly integrate the multiplicity of truths of our current world. It nurtures resilience and tunes our ability to hold complexity, and draw ever deeper together instead of spiralling into individualism and siphons. Together we will tone and tune our physical, emotional, energetic and practical abilities to show up in reverence at a time of dissolving and decomposing.
Presence is the energetic glue that will hold us together through the falling apart so we may personally and collectively crack open, break down, and emerge from the ruins with courage, creativity and purpose.
Presence is what moves us to dance and make art because of and in celebration with, not in spite of, our falling apart. It is seeing beauty within the beast, and saying we shall keep singing together when our individual voices are strained from shouting.
Presence tunes our ability to hold greater complexity in a time when complicated systems find us fatigued. Presence is about coming home to the simplicity that we are all here together, and moving from this place of creative mystery.
LIVING PRESENCE.
COLLECTIVE SHIFTS.
At this moment of personal and collective chaos, in which we are all churning through a great turning with a unique story, this is our sacred work. To gather in integral containers where we can practice and hold our intuitive and presence practices to account so we may show up in courageous devotion to crafting a beautiful world here and now.
The Call
Do you hear that? Presence is calling you.
This emergent world needs you to awaken to your unique presence and feel the radiant effect of it being practiced in community.
Presence Collective is calling in the artists, the creatives, the change-makers, the facilitators, the divine fools, the gardeners, the nurturers, the dreamers, the schemers, and the imaginers. It is calling to all hearts, hands and minds that beat and move to make beauty out of the mess, to build something transformative from the ruins.
Whilst the Presence Collective is rich with practices and tools, shared to deepen your own, its essence is about being a held space for us to practice and deepen together.
Have you ever felt the power of sitting in sacred space with two or more people?
Like pebbles dropped into a deep well, the profound depths we can go to when we practice together is Mystery and magic in motion.
This is a container for the artistry of order in a moment when it feels we may lose ourselves amidst the untangling. Presence Collective is a container where we may hold ourselves and each other to account. You will be held, challenged and nurtured to the account of you showing up in full presence in a world that needs your unique medicine, because it will take us all to emerge from this alive.
This is a call into a collective devotional space to tune our intuition and to practice together, because when we gather we create a ripple of impact that is greater than the sum of its parts. When we sit in our diverse practices together we shift the collective energy field in exponential ways.
Offerings
As a member of Presence Collective you will be held and activated by the following abundant offerings.
o 2 x Live Monthly Events (1 x Activation Workshop and Soul Space Ritual, 1 x Community Creative Open Mic)
o 2 x Weekly Presence Sessions ~ 30 mins ~ integrating breathwork, pranayama, meditation
o Weekly Newsletters ~ with gentle reminders and contemplations to ignite your own rituals and deepening into the months theme, drawing from the deep well of All That We Are podcasts and gifts
o 1 x Monthly Tree Whispers
o Access to over ...... worth ....
Structure
Integrating our heads, hearts and hands, the container of Presence Collective will explore different threads of presence each month, activated and in relationship with lunar cycles.
o Week One: Planting of the theme seed in cycle with the new moon. Activating and Embodying through Workshop and Ritual
o Week Three: Exploring through creative expression and sharing in a Community Open Mic
o Nurturing through twice weekly Presence Sessions
Each month will follow the cycle, with every sixth month being a time to embody and integrate.
Activation Workshop & Soul Space Communal Ritual
Activate, agitate and embody
This space shall weave together and draw from the incredible guests from the rich All That We Are community to share, inspire, and activate us with their experiences, tools and embodiment of each months theme.
Each workshop will be followed by a lovingly crafted, unique Soul Space Collective Ritual intended to integrate our heads and our hearts, weaving our thinking and feeling bodies together.
Within the activating and illuminating energy of the full moon, we shall gather for 2 hr sessions | Tuesdays (Week One) 7:30pm - 9:30pm | London (GMT) | 1pm Los Angeles PDT | Wednesdays 5:30am Sydney EAT
Presence Sessions
Nurture and deepen
As part of the Presence Collective you will have access to 2 x weekly presence sessions. Weaving together breathwork, meditation and embodiment practices, these will be opportunities for us to feel the sacred effect of gathering in regular containers to practice together.
30 min sessions | Mondays 8pm London (GMT) (1pm Los Angeles PDT | Tues 6am Sydney EAT) and Thursdays 11am London (GMT) (4am Los Angeles PDT | Thur 9pm Sydney EAT)
Community Open Mic
Create, explore and express
To move and transmute what has been shaken awake within us we must create. Life is art, and it demands you take part. You are a co-creator, not merely a consumer. Creativity transforms and integrates new ways of being deep into our bodies, psyches and spirits.
How has the month moved you? What has it inspired within you? A poem, a song, a one-line contemplation, a painting, a doodle... we welcome it all to be shared into the community so it may continue to liberate you, as well as extend creative permission to your fellow Presence Collective beings to deepen their journey.
Starting with an embody practice to drop in to our bodies and juiciness before we share.
1.5 hr sessions | Tuesdays (Week Three) 7:30pm - 8:30pm | London (BST) | 12:30pm Los Angeles PDT | Wednesday 5:30am Sydney EAT
Themes and Threads
Weaving together and exploring different flavours and fragrances of Presence.
Responsibility to tuning our own wellness
We are all going through a churning, experiencing the great turning through our unique stories. How can we show up to the responsibility of our personal wellness and nervous system resilience so we may emerge?
Being porous and integral
Staying open and centered. Exploring what it looks like to be in relationship with your edges in a way that allows you to move through the world in active aliveness and sensitivity, and hold integral boundaries.
Creating art with the rubble
How art transforms and transmutes personal and collective pains. Art as reciprocity for the gift of life and an offering to the mess so we may alchemise it into something beautiful.
Shared joy as activism
If our compassion only extends to our shared suffering, what kind of world are we creating and necessitating to be unified? Finding unity and action in our shared joy, beauty, reverence, and play.
Presence with Tech
How may our relationship with technology be skilful and present? What changes when we imagine all technological evolutions as invitations into greater love and connection? Are technology and presence mutually exclusive?
Living with the challenges
Systems of oppression show up in our lives in large and overt ways. We are all experiencing a unique story of collective pains. From living with chronic illness, to active genocide zones, to decolonising our own bodies, how can we live with the challenges and show up to aliveness?
Life Changing Invitations (aka Life Hacks)
The things we do everyday matter. They are the foundational fractals of Presence that affect every other action we take. Acknowledging and invigorating the transformative power of the small things.
Complexity and Simplicity
Fatigued by complicated systems, how can we re-tune our capacity to hold complexity? Complexity, at its core, contains simplicity. From this place we can re-empower our changemaking.
Coming home to body
Our bodies are the centre, the home of presence. We exist and relate to all of Life because of them and through them. How do we stay in our bodies within colonial and capitalist structures that profit and pillage off our dissociation?
What is the foundational ingredient in being able to show up in sacred activism for our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the ecosystems interwoven with us?
How can we be in reverence for beauty in a way that deeply acknowledges, transmutes and transforms the poly crisis, pains and powers of our times?
When it all seems to be falling apart, how do we hold ourselves and each other to continue to show up with courage, radiance and openness?
In the face of ever deepening mystery and paradigm shifts how can we activate reverent purpose and devotion to aliveness?
Membership
Join with your presence.
We are committed to showing up for this community with value and integrity. This means we have streamlined our membership options and are calling you to rise to the abundance with us. We also deeply value accessibility and believe that cost should not be an immoveable barrier to our collective healing...
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We have set up Presence to be high value as we know that the "wellness" world can be exclusive, and this wisdom benefits everyone and then in turn the collective. If you are on the front lines of the pandemic such as nurses, hospital staff, supermarket staff and delivery people, you can have a whole year's access for free to support you through this intense time. This is also available to refugees, those seeking asylum, single mothers and anyone else for whom £30 a month is out of the question. Simply fill in this form... And we also offer 20% off for all BIPOC - if you identify as black, brown, indigenous, of colour, please use the code REPRESENTATION.
Essence
Presence is the key to unlocking emergence from emergency.
The call of the creative now.
Be fully here now. For Now is where creativity dwells. Whilst drawing from the deep wisdom of past and ancient practices, as well as learning with unfolding technology, we must feel the creative call of this infinitely unique present moment. It is here that we will find dreams yet unimagined to navigate our collective ship with the storms.
Life has never been here before. There is no map, but we have a compass within us. A compass called presence.
An energetic state of being that guides and orientates us as we collectively forge a path home to a place we have never been.
This mystery journey is not one paved with comfort. It asks us for our fierce courage and devotion, to walk into the dark together knowing little of what exactly we must do, but only that we must. Presence is the light in the dark; it is the how we navigate - collectively, courageously, and creatively. This how is the fertile soil from which the reimagined what’s can grow.
Presence is aliveness to what is around us. It nurtures resilience with the monumental shifts, allowing us to lean into ecosystems that intimately know change to guide us. It is an energetic centring that enables us to be open and porous to the world, to have hearts that listen and respond, without spiralling into overwhelm or shutdown.
Presence allows us to show up in the moment with curiosity, radiance and openness as we embrace the mystery of this life and let our wisdom speak.
The foundational element needed for our collective emergence is energetic – presence. From this we are able to explore practical skills with a deep sense of resourcing. Presence Collective will provide inspiration and spaces to learn and practice a multitude of different skills for the future, now. Sparking you to create and craft syncretic practices that work uniquely for you, your essence, your work, and your communities.