porous mind and our whole humanity
WORKSHOP: Saturday, April 19 with groundbreaking author, therapist and spiritual care facilitator, Robert Falconer
When we explore our inner world, we find it is at least as vast as the cosmos.
—Robert Falconer
In The Doodle Revolution, I wrote briefly on what some call the extended mind.1 Broadly speaking, the extended mind is an assertion that our minds exist beyond our heads. In an infodoodling context, this points to the use of mark-making tools, physical space, and group collaboration to amplify thought. What I didn’t discuss in that book is how far the mind extends in dimensions both inner and outer,2 how astonishingly receptive and interconnected it is.
In truth, no one knows how far our minds reach but, more importantly, few people in Western society understand why that matters. Our next guest facilitator knows it intimately.
In this third workshop with Robert Falconer—a courageous psychotherapist who pragmatically follows the data—he shakes Westerners awake, walking us toward a truth that essentially every other culture accepts: that our human mind is porous, permeable, and profoundly relational. Bob refers to this feature as porosity of mind and in this training, he explains what that is, how it applies to all of us, how it’s a GOOD thing, and he teaches that if we embrace this reality, we gain access to deep wells of imagination, meaning, insight, and well-being. We become more whole. Learn more about the experience here, or watch the video below.
Date, Time, Outcomes:
Date and Time: Saturday, April 19 / 9a - 1p U.S. Pacific / Online via Zoom
Workshop Cost: $108 (four hours of experiential learning)
After this workshop, you will have:
insight into the origins of the "Citadel Mind"3 and its harmful effect on individuals and society
an overview of pioneering research on your extended and porous mind
a strong sense of how interconnected your mind is to the web of life—and why that matters intellectually, emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually
strategies on how to leverage porosity of mind for enhanced creativity, insight, and problem-solving
practical tools to tap into a vast, imaginative potential that goes well beyond the personal mind
For those of you who already know and love Bob, there’s a 15% discount on his trilogy of workshops, both live and recorded.
Last, Bob’s latest book is a treasure unto itself so if you can’t attend this final workshop, by all means, shake yourself awake by reading it!
To the inner cosmos,
Sun and Liya
This concept was first formally proposed by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers in their 1998 paper "The Extended Mind."
Which, in themselves, are and are not separate.
The ‘citadel mind’ is anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann’s way of describing our (wholly inaccurate) Western conception of mind as isolated, solitary, impermeable, and in control of itself.