5C Meditation

5C MEDITATION OVERVIEW

Welcome to your monthly GoFA 5C Meditation journey, designed to activate primal intelligence and skillful means to build your imagination, narrative and embodiment (INE) capacity during the Shared Future Incubator process.

These deep meditation journeys combine multidimensional storytelling with somatic practice to help teams pursuing Shared Futures orchestrate effective creative processes and cultivate meaningful collective growth. The 5C framework draws inspiration from multiple lineages of ancient and modern wisdom, meditation modalities and methodologies to facilitate individual practice as well as collective creative pursuit.

Guiding questions to consider throughout the incubator:

• How does your Shared Future live in your body?

• What does radical imagination feel like when you experience it in your body?

• What narrative are you aware of (if any) in your body and what words emerge to describe it?

• What does embodiment mean to you?

HOW TO BEGIN

• Get an Overview: Start your exploration by reviewing the 5C Meditation Framework

• Do the Practice: On the 15th of each month, we will release a new 5C meditation recording. Each meditation will focus on one of the four stages of Shared Future development.

  • June’s theme is Discovery

  • July’s theme is Incubation

  • September's theme is Cultivation

  • October’s theme is Fractal

• Provocation: You’ll find a provocation listed under each meditation. Spend time with it. Respond to it.

• Bibliography: Should you choose to dive deeper into the philosophy, a bibliography will be available for every meditation.

We recommend the following for optimal experience:

• At a time when our visual field is being both restricted and overloaded by the mediation of screens during Covid-19, we encourage you to close your eyes while practicing each 5C meditation.

• Use headphones or a bluetooth speaker if possible and find a comfortable place where you can sit and practice uninterrupted.

• Some of the meditations may invite you to stand up and move. Regardless, if you feel like moving at any time, please feel free to do so! Ideally, the intention is to create somatic awakening and drop you into a deep, grounded space of inquiry, exploration and creativity.

• You may explore practicing the 5C meditations alone or together with your Shared Future collaborators. However, you may wish to play the meditations in the background while you are working. An instrumental recording will also be available for every meditation.

MONTHLY MEDITATIONS

Recordings of 5C somatic practice will be released on the following dates:

• June 15th: DISCOVERY

  • Full Meditation

  • Meditation Instrumental Only

  • Provocation: Where is the unimaginable hiding in your body?

  • Bibliography

• July 15th: INCUBATION

  • Full Meditation

  • Meditation Instrumental Only

  • Provocation: What will you say to this magic emerging from the fire in you?

  • Bibliography

• September 15th: CULTIVATION:

  • Full Meditation

  • Meditation Instrumental Only

  • Provocation:

  • Bibliography

• October 15th: FRACTAL:

  • Full Meditation

  • Meditation Instrumental Only

  • Provocation: How can you commit to not just extracting, but also replenishing yourself, your community and your Shared Futures?

  • Bibliography

Facilitators

• Micheline Berry