OPEN FIELD - PLAYING WITH COMMUNITY
21 June - 31 August 2016
From the 21st of June (Summer Solstice) till the end of August The Dragons' Nest will be Open for the Experience of Community Life
The Intention of Playing with Community on the Open Field is to experience:
- exploring our own borders and our own power of self-determination
- deepening the connection with the Earth by living in direct contact with Her: water from a well, wood from our own forest, compost toilets, growing our own vegetables, electricity from solar panel and a windmill and many forms of working with the Earth
- co-creation in the Flow
- deepening into the experience of freedom, transparance, trusting the Natural Way, intimacy, mindfullness, unconditional love and consciousness of Who We Really Are
We are convinced of that any experience bears in itself the value of a lesson to be learned, an occasion to raise our collective vibrational frequency and open to our full potential.
That is why we invite us for a community play. A community that wants to be put into play. PLAY is the keyword here. How we play it can be read below.
Imagine us being on a meadow, close to a "wild" forest away from everyday hustle and bustle, with all of us. Imagine us, being filled with the feeling of gratitude towards ourselves for making the choice to be HERE. A choice to come in TOUCH with our awakening "higher" selves, our full potential. Imagine training our power of support towards a self-reliant existence. Imagine how our joined presences becomes a value to the land. Imagine how this value in turn nurtures us and the community that we form. Imagine how each one of us adds to our wholeness.
This is what we like to offer as a base of our Together Being here:
- A Sharing Cirlce: the Circle is a base of the Community and of staying in touch. It's also a Sharing Space, so a Place, where you can get heard and received with what you are experiencing at the moment. Depending on a day and a Situation, we will be meeting in the Circle once or twice a day. Participation in the Circle is voluntary though recommendable. When sharing we follow a rule of "The Talking Stone", which means that only the person who has the stone has the voice, together with the rule of "Talking to the Middle of the Circle", which means talking about other people in the circle in the third person, not directly.
- Caring About the Space Around and About Each Other: preparing the wood for the fire, cleaning, washing the dishes, working in the Garden; cooking for one another, giving a massage, doing together different kind of body practices like yoga etc.
- Co-Creating: all kinds of "creations" in the space, such as compost place, walipini etc. as well as co-creating music, organizing events together and other forms of together creativity.
- Hosting Events: from time to time we are going to host different events on the Field, sometimes for a day, sometimes for a weekend, sometimes for a week. You can but don't have to participate in organizing and hosting them. You can also continue living your own rythm at the side or go for a trip. We leave it all up to individual agreements at The Time.
We joyfully desire our event to be a FREEquency raiser for both our soul beings and our collective consciousness.
We are called into embracing that " YOU are another ME" a sacred Mayan greeting ). Together we are dreaming a new Earth in natural oneness.
It's all hapening naturally. When you join us and become a part of the Circle you can start recognizing where your energy is going - what it is you like to practice, learn, participate in and what you want to offer and then, step by step, let it all unfold in connection with the others.
From our Side We like to offer you the following Possibilities:
- A possibility of using tools and equipment present in the Space, such as cooking machine, pans, dishes etc.
- A possibility of charging your electrical equipement such as mobile phone, i-pad, laptop etc. using the solar panel in agreement with us (the charging system is placed in our living space)
- A possibility of offering your own workshops, individual sessions (massage, bodywork etc.), concerts etc. in the workshop tipi, in the healing tipi or in the open space, on donation base or with the specified fee, with possibility of having your activity announced on this website, on our Facebook page and in our newsletter. With the condition that 35% of your income goes to the Dragons' Nest and we can participate for free in the event that you are offering.*
- A possibility of organizing or co-organizing workshops and events which we would like to offer and this way receiving a discount for participating in it or a possibilty to participate in them for free or even receiving an agreed % from the income coming from them - the details to be individually agreed about.*
- A possibility of having your profile on our website, describing who you are and what are you offering during the Open Field Experience.
- A possibility of selling your own products, either made by you or ones that you distribute, during the events that we organize. With a condition that 25% of your income goes to The Dragons' Nest.
- A possibility of co-creating "Budda-Burak" music band with us
* As a person legaly responsible for the activities taking place on the Field and in the same time dedicated to fulfill a Certain Heart Vision here, I leave myself the last voice in deciding what kind of sessions, workshops and events are going to take place here during the Open Field (Nimue).
** Being a participant of the Open Field you can but don't have to participate in the events and workshops that we organize. Some of them with be offered on donation base, others will be charged with a certain fee. With some of these events you will be able to receive a discount or a free participation in exchange for helping with organizing them.
The Material Base of Participating in the Experience of the Open Field is your Readiness to Take Care of:
- your own "roof over your head" (it can be a tent, a tipi, a caravan etc.)
- your own food (you can bring it with you or buy in the local shop or participate in the costs of together shopping in the town). A part of the food will come from the Garden, but because we don't know how much we can get from it and how many people will be there to share the fruits with, we like that each person comes with the attitude of readiness to take care of his/her own food. In practice we will many times cook together or in small groups and put everything into one pot, all the options are available, but the base is that you are ready to take care of your own food.
- money for together shopping, for instance gas for the cooking machine, toilet papar, woodchips for the compost toilet, washing liquid, candles, matches, petrol for together trips (to the lake, to the nearby town for bigger shopping, for site-seeing etc.) etc.
- the Space Around - we invite you to treat the Space "as your own", that means to take care of it, by for instance working in the garden, mowing the grass, cutting wood, cleaning the communal spaces such as kitchen or toilets, helping with building community projects such as the compost place, walipini (a kind of a glass house Indian Style), new showers, cleaning the pond etc. We leave it up to your own feeling how and to what degree you like to involve in taking care of the Space, in the same time we will be presenting you "possibilities" in this range.
Additionaly We are Opening for Unconditional Receiving of:
- organic seeds and plants
- tools
- building materials such as planks, stones, clay, windows (for building walipini)
- all kinds of "ritual gifts" such as insents, candles, cristals, materials which can be used for decorating the space etc.
- pillows and mats
- money donations
The intention of our coming together on the Open Field is to "BECOME TRANSPARENT TOWARDS OTHERS" and "TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR OWN EXPERIENCE".
Becoming Transparent is a base of Opening the Heart, and this way Giving Space To Who You Really Are, to your Vision, your Truth. What it means in practice is to be ready to consciously observe yourself and share with others about what you experience (expressing both your fears and desires, being ready to admit both things shameful and hidden as well as pride or a superiority feeling). In the same time it's a readiness to consciously embrace in love whatever you share and whatever others share with you. These two components - the readiness to expose and the readiness to receive in love "what became exposed", cocreate the Space of Deep Trust and Intimacy. Experiencing this state in a group is our intention and desire.
We invite you here as a couple who live with a certain attitude, following a set of guidlines which derive from few Sources of Inspiration*. These Sources worked for us, that means they allowed us to experience deeper the Fullness of our Being and find reasonably harmonious, supportive way of "Being in a Relationship". This is what we want to nurture. This is also what we want to share and offer as a base of Community Play on the Open Field.
If you are interested in joining us on the Field, please study the below guidlines. The Intention of them is to create space, in which we can explore our freedom in a safe and respectful environment:
1. Each one of us is free and responsible for their own experience. We all support freedom and self-responsibility of each one of us.
2. When you want anything from another person (a thing, a support, a hug, a moment together etc.) – ask, and be ready to receive both “YES” or “NO”
3. When you want to offer anything to the other person (an advice, a feedback, any form of physical contact) – ask, and be ready to receive both “YES” or “NO”
4. You are always free to say „NO” and you are always free to say „YES” and you are the one taking responsibility for the decision you make.
5. You are always free to say “STOP” if the words or actions of another person feel invasive, painful or disrespectful to you or the environment.
6. The words “STOP” and “NO” matter to us, that means we commit ourselves to respect them.
7. During the Open Field Experience we commit ourselves to restrain from gossiping about other people and we commit ourselves to say "STOP" to these kind of behaviors if they are taking place in the space. Our intention is to "become transparent" to each other, that means whatever refers to a certain person we express to him/her directly or in a sharing circle.
* For introducing the rules of giving and receiving as well as the self-responsibility for one own "YES" and "NO" we give thanks to Andrew Barnes, whose Body De-Armouring workshops were (and still are) a great training of consciousness about one's own borders and one's own self-determination power. For the powerful word "STOP" I give thanks to Marta Zośka, who introduced me to WenDo, a practice of self-defence for women. I also thank Perjana, who was/is a master of using this word of power. With all my heart I also give thanks to Shivam O'Brien, whose Enlightenment Intensive allowed me to experience how clear borders and clear communication rules create space for Flowering of Who We Are. Together we give thanks to Maan Balemaans, who introduced us with "Imago", Relationship Therapy focused on training attitude of mindfullness and respect in relationship with The Other.
If you feel that the Community Play on the Open Field is calling you, fill in and send the below form, describing who you are, what is it that is attracting you to this project and what are your intentions and interests about Participating.
with love and joy
Nimue & Salvador