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We have many interests. We work with different types of clients and different organizations. How do we- especially intensives- create the conditions that allow us to get into the right flow, where we can do...
“If you have a community, or a company, or a team, probably you have mostly people who believe in airing it all,o r they believe in not talking about it. I’m here to advocate for...
“this culture, the one that holds the power around us is a culture that asks us to suffer. It invites, it expects, it valorizes suffering. It wants us- It tells us that if we aren’t...
“I can’t say as I’d know how to tell what it was like to take the road more traveled, because I’m not sure I’ve ever done that.” Join Leela on a walk to sit near...
How often do we stray from ourselves in pursuit of survival for ourselves? How often do we do things that put bread on our tables, but don’t truly feed us? Transcript and notes: straying from...
“These shoes mean to me the ability to inhabit my gender. I, and this complex gender of mine, belong everywhere.” Gender, complex gender, representation, bookstores, long distance love and… whole-cut Venetian loafers? Naturally, when Leela...
Making space to find- and create- beauty where we need and want it. Cole Arthur Riley: https://colearthurriley.com/ The type of camera that Leela carried in zir pocket in Chicago: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_MC Transcript and notes: https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/something-beautiful
“We don’t have reentry protocols, because we’re not supposed to need them. We’re supposed to magically stay in touch just the right amount.” They didn’t not text you back because they hate you. More likely,...
“what I’ve noticed about myself is that, I have to realize that I would like it to be different ,that something bugs me. I have to realize that something doesn’t feel okay before I can...
“You have choices. But the first, most important choice, is to celebrate who and how you are as an intensive.” As an intensive, your phasic work cycles- and perhaps your phasic chaos cycles- are part...