A Spiral of Stories
The all too familiar spiral
that guides and inspires
our desire to move upward.
A series of turning points
that are challenged through critique and reflection
modelling inquiry.
A shifted posture
and framework for learning.
Is it not through the space of telling and listening
of sharing experience
that we find ourselves traversing this path?
This journey where language becomes the map
and proficiency the goal.
When greater orality is constructed
through practice,
and pathways are opened
as we talk our way up to understanding.
Meaningful conversation found in this ever-changing zone.
Embryonic in form, until
once again,
familiar.
Emotions evoked by the body’s senses.
Mysterious games in which we
create and destroy,
conceal and reveal,
until Transformation
emerges as the hero.
All this
grounded in story
forwarded towards reframe.
There is no end on this praxis.
Just a middle,
where we pause
and contemplate
to make sense of the plot.
Shifting
and twisting our way along.
Adjusting
and challenging our steps
as we negotiate the story line.
Here,
formation and pathway become one.
Stories climb
together
and
separate.
We pay attention, are astonished by connection.
We value strength in an inherent passion of community.
We honour authentic places, sacred openings and invitations taken.
We place care as the centrepiece.
As in a mirror
we see
a healthy tension of mediation.
Self and other,
change and renewal.
The power of paradox that punctuates
this story.
Our stories
actively embraced, expanding our hearts.
In the unknown
and in-between.
A place of liminality.
Where the quiet meets the storm.
We are called to thrive and grow here
in the spacious place
from where cries a story.
A lesson.
Propelling us forward
toward
growth and
newness.