Community Call: How to Handle Anything in Life and Community
The underlying pattern of growing up and becoming wise typically remains unseen. In this call James takes us through his "how to grow" model distilled from developmental and relational practice work.
James Baker, the visionary founder of Intentional Society and an Adult Development theorist, guides individuals in understanding the profound "Subject-Object Shift" and distills intentional growth into a concise three-word model: Awareness, Acceptance, Integrity.
In this Life Itself Community Call, James Baker explores personal growth and development.
He covers:
Handling Problems and Being of Service
Key Words - Awareness, Acceptance, Integrity
Subject-Object Shift Concept
Growing Awareness, Acceptance, and Integrity
Awareness and Perspective Shifts
Acceptance and Letting Go
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The Conversation
There's a special move that we've all made, multiple times in fact: a transformation that Adult Development theorists call the "Subject-Object Shift." It's a powerful perspective expansion that can untangle our thorniest challenges and unlock great freedom and peace — and yet almost no one consciously knows how we do it!
The underlying pattern of growing up and becoming wise typically remains unseen. Within Intentional Society, we set out to bridge that theory-and-practice gap. Now, after multiple years of hands-on developmental and relational practice work, we've distilled our "how to grow" learning into a three-word model: Awareness, Acceptance, Integrity. In this community call, James will explain the mental motions these words point to and some practices that can support us in growing bigger than our problems. Together we'll then explore where we can see these in our experiences already and how this applies to challenges in our inner lives, communities, and workplaces
About James Baker
James is the founder of Intentional Society, a diverse and distributed, online-face-to-face, metamodern, and deliberately developmental community centered around being who we want to be and doing what we value. Prior to 2020, he did a lot of frenetic growing during his software development career wherein he stumbled into complex system tending and post-conventional ways of being. Still growing (deliberately now), James enjoys spreading spaciousness, relevance realization, soulful service, and practical parenting, and co-facilitates the Relational Agility course.
This conversation is part of a series of bi-monthly community calls hosted in the Life Itself online community if you would like to join future calls join us in our Whatsapp Community.
