The Connectfulness Practice Lab

March 23, 2019. I sat in the audience of Heidi Scheck’s What The Constitution Means To Me on Broadway. I quickly opened the notepad on my phone to capture a word: penumbra.

The Penumbra. The Space Between.

That’s where this lab lives. We study together inside the space between. Because going it alone IS hard. It is. If it was easy to be with ourselves in the space between… we wouldn’t feel so darn alone. (Hold that thought alongside the US surgeon general’s 2023 report on our loneliness epidemic.)

This is the space of aliveness. A space of presence. A space of being. And trusting you. To be with. To grow in capacity and relationship and skill, what already lives within. To experiment and to not know. To play. To make a mess. To clean it up. Learn from it. And experiment again.

It’s what we were born to live inside of and the brokeness of the world broke our relationship to. It lives in our imaginal cells. It’s soul. It’s wisdom. It’s collective. Adaptive and conscious. It’s becoming. It’s us.

Join me as we discover ways of playing with this liminal space between. The space between what we know and what we don’t. Between what we feel and what we think. Between what we explore and what we recoil from. What we love and what we loathe. What we are pull towards and what we avoid. What we fear and where we flow. The space between what’s okay and what’s not.

We scaffold practice of being with the betweens. We develop capacity and agency to meet the betweens.

Where we experiment. in the between.

The more edges we explore, the more experience we gain in being with the between, the more trust grows in our capacity to meet the between.