What is Transition? And what happens in the Lounge?
At OpenEdge experience tells us that the more we bring our conscious awareness, the more we can transform. We also know that many of us may be embarked upon change making without understanding what moving from the old to the new story fully means. For OpenEdge, making explicit what is implicit in the old paradigm, is vital in the new paradigm.
OpenEdge Transition Lounge is a place for naming what we are walking towards and for reflecting upon what it means, how it impacts us, and what it asks of us emotionally and skilfully. It is both a space to learn more and a place to stop learning and to rest in. It is a place for being inspired, excited and tuned into our personal and collective capacities to go forward, as well as a place for any despair, anger and overwhelm we may feel.
In the Transition Lounge we can find community in our shared experiences, and community of different experience. It is a place to share yourself in support of others, and to tend to yourself with no expectations.
We offer the Transition Lounge as a place to ready ourselves in these times of transition, a space to come back to throughout our endeavours.
We invite you to rest, recuperate and grow in our Transition Lounge, with OpenEdge's experienced team of scholar-practitioner-explorers!
As we awaken to the interconnectedness of our system we see that we cannot change our energy technologies without changing our financial economic system. We learn that all of our external institutions reflect our basic perceptions of the world, our invisible ideologies and belief systems. In this way, our ecological crisis is also our spiritual crisis. By that I mean, it all goes down to the bottom, encompassing all aspects of humanity. ~Charles Eisenstein
OpenEdge offers different key themes, such as
theories about paradigm change and transition
connecting to and experiencing 'interdependency'
coming out of our comfort zone
suspending what we know
being with our own and others emotional responses
embodying our change
having difficult conversations, engaging with controversial topics and receiving others who hold different values
being connected to and expressing our own truth
moving into acceptance of the complexity of life experiences
mourning our stuckness
celebrating what we can bring
being with 'what is’ and receiving life as feedback
connecting to our deepest longings and visioning forward
ideas for learning, practicing and embodying
applying a transition lens to any work or situation