The first thing to say about this question is that there are prerequisites before a sense of things emerging can become a reality. Prerequisites I like to refer to as the art of allowing. Perhaps the first things to list here then is a new understanding of what is required to let things emerge.
In my coaching and training courses I talk a lot about how to build new habits. This is because much of the time we are not aware that much of our behaviour is an unconscious habit. I think one of the big things that has emerged is that each week when we meet we are building “new habits” of working which we use every week and those habits can be transferred to many different settings.
I now feel like our listening processes and how we give space to each person observing them, is a new habit in me. We observer each other as we might observe a beautiful sunset, not wishing to change the other only to experience them as they are.
To listen in this way takes some letting go of ideas we have about them and about ourselves. We must be brave at least for a short while, letting go of our ideas about ourselves can feel like dying, as if there will be nothing left of us if we give up the things we think are true particularly ideas about ourselves. Often, we have spent so much time thinking we are a set of memories and ideas held together by a bundle of cells. If we get rid of our habits of thinking and our memories of how things are what is left? If we can be brave we discover that is not what we are. This is probably ease or at least a big part of it. While I am not very brave in our group there are so many who are effortlessly brave it inspires me to new heights of courage.
Once we have shed these old thoughts and emptied our selves then we are in a place to experience each others beauty, genius and potential. When we view each other with wonder we can imagine a world where anything is possible, where our current ‘crisis” can be handled with nothing more than a move of our hand. Wiping away all the suffering and revealing the laughing joyful faces of everyone. We know it is our game to play, so we play and win. We can not lose now. We know too much. Now we have our hands in the collective clay of creation, anything is possible.