An Introduction to the Foundations of Relational well-being with Michael Porcelli
What are the foundations for relational well-being? What practices support or diminish relational well-being? Here are a few:
Asking for what you want, negotiating clear and mutual agreements by shaping context.
Clearing up confusion, misunderstandings, and conflict by weaving shared reality.
Making things right when agreements are broken, values are violated, or harm is done by restoring relational integrity.
Our relationships all need these 3 protocols. We all naturally do some version of them already. Authentic Relating provides a set of refined principles and practices for each strengthen relationships and allow them to evolve over time, rather than allowing them to remain stuck, or worse, explode.
Join Michael Porcelli for an introduction to these foundational communication protocols, and the opportunity to reflect and share about the health of your own relationships and how a more conscious approach to relational health could support your relationships through their healthy evolution.
Michael is a consultant, coach, educator, writer, speaker, group facilitator and founding member with Bedrock Culture and Leadership. His main areas of professional interest are centered on the dynamics between human beings, technology, and the social world. He’s a leading expert in the practices of Authentic Relating and the Circling Method. He previously served as Director of Training and Faculty Development and Holacracy coach with The Integral Center in Boulder, Colorado.
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In February, 2017 San Diego Integral began the Focused Integral Group Discussion (FIGD) which is a meta-structuring format where we briefly switch into an agreed upon process to optimally utilize the We-Space. The objective of FIGD is to collectively feel deeper into any topic and promote a causal state experience where we briefly switch from a collective I to a collective we. A Focused Integral Group process is “running in the background” until a salient moment rises that we want to explore. This may be derived from a presentation, a poignant comment by a member, a poem…whatever has resonance and can be horizontally expanded by the collective. This moment is identified by the “moderator” who helps maintain focus.
FIGD have three parts. It begins with a formal focus, followed by commentary on the process and then a discussion. Each segment lasts for 3-8 minutes. We have committed to a minimal of three FIGD per meeting. We have found that the intensity of these collective focused moments have increased with experience and skill and seem to delightfully persist throughout the three phases. This is very much an experimental process we have been Improving upon after each meeting.
As previously mentioned FIGD was initially described for the February, 2017. The sequential evolution of FIGD can be seen in the PAGES tab above. New or returning members are encouraged to read these brief papers in preparation for participation. Updates have followed each SDI meeting.
SDI is committed to the creative advance into novelty.
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