CONTEXT
CLARITY
Context is like the soil out of which a plant grows. It is like the gameboard upon which a game is played. The Context sets the mood for the quality of your daily-life interactions. Context answers these questions:
- Is Possibility Couchsurfing competitive or collaborative?
- Is Possibility Couchsurfing Low Drama or High Drama?
- Are there winners and losers? Or is this a Winning Happening game?
- What is the currency of exchange in this gameworld?
- What are our shared values?
Most of these questions are answered during Expand The Box training and ongoing Possibility Team meetings. That is why we make them a requirement before you start in Possibility Couchsurfing.
To be clear: Possibility Couchsurfing is a Winning Happening creative-collaboration global Gameworld that is contexted in Adulthood and Radical Responsibility to weave connections between Edgeworkers that expand the field of influence for the emergence of next culture.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
COLLABORATION
Possibility Couchsurfing is open to any graduate of
Expand The Box training
OR
to participants in a weekly Possibility Team.
The reason for this requirement is that in order to understand and play in a gameworld such as Possibility Couchsurfing that has a context of Radical Responsibility, some preparations are necessary. It makes sense, no?
If you meet this prerequisite then you can immediately REGISTER to become a Possibility Couchsurfer.
Welcome!
PREPARE YOURSELF
SIMPLICITY
A Journeyer needs two minds. One mind is clear and crisp, proactive, and committed. This is the mind you activate to handle your logistics and communications. One sloppy or misunderstood communication that causes your Host to wait more than a minute for you to meet them, or makes your Host feel like you did not pay the shared food costs you agreed to, can leave a bad taste in someone's heart even after days of glorious inner and outer adventures. I am sure you know what we mean.
The other mind you need is no-mind. It is the capacity to Be Present, to listen as a Space, to be Unhookable and to transform your own wounds and Reactivity into gateways for new parts of your Being to be born.
With your logistics mind, expand your NOW, go into the future, use your fear to make plans and document your itinerary complete with ticket information. Then as soon as you are done planning, shrink your NOW back to no bigger than three seconds. Why? Because a minimized NOW is the only place you can enjoy the taste of fresh-squeezed orange juice or the warmth of a heart-to-heart hug.
PS: Many items are essential for lightweight Journeying, but remember to bring your Possibility Stone! Without it, you have no toolbelt...
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TRADITIONS OF THE JOURNEYER
ATTENTIVENESS
As a Journeyer, we recognize that you are on a Path of Evolution. For one thing this means there is no net to fall into. You have reached the edge of modern culture thoughtware and you have kept going. What is out there to walk on? Whatever you build!
This means that as you Journey you build out the transformational and initiatory gameworld of next culture - archearchy. This means we need you to document what you are creating so others can more easily follow in your steps. Build your website and be sure to show the Hosts and fellow Journeyers you meet so that others can meet them too and the network grows.
There are three domains of love to inhabit in your daily life and interactions.
The first domain is Ordinary Love. This is the kind of love where you go around hoping to find someone to love you. You glance here and there wondering, "Does he love me?" "Could she love me enough?" There is a scarcity of love. You live your life in love survival.
The second domain of love is Extraordinary Love. It is actually Adult Level Love, but since authentic adulthood initiations were banned from modern culture 6000 years ago, you are not initiated, and experiencing Adult Level Love is definitely Extraordinary. Extraordinary Love is when you source love in the world. You walk down the street radiating love. You are love happening. If there is ever not enough love you make more. Love is abundant.
The third domain of love is Archetypal Love. Archetypal Love is not personal because the Universe is made out of Archetypal Love. Your Archetypal Ego State comes alive and your energetic body hums with Yellow Stuff during exchanges with Your Pearl, with Bright Principles, and with your Archetypal Lineage.
For Journeying, you sometimes need new thoughtmaps. This Thoughtmap of 3 Domains of Love might from time-to-time be quite useful for you. Stay attentive. Learn to Split Your Attention and do Self Observation. This will add incredibly precious dimensions to your Possibility Couchsurfing.
TRADITIONS OF THE HOST
HOSPITALITY
As a Possibility Host we recognize that you are on a Path of Evolution. For one thing, this means that when you provide a couch for a roving Possibility Manager you are not rescuing them! You are establishing a platform for creative collaboration. Your encounter is an exchange of real value. There exists something of mutual importance to share. Your job is to find out what that is for you. What excites you to meet with a fellow Journeyer? What do you want from them? How can you risk asking for what you want? We are not saying that every exchange will be fair. The life of an Edgeworker, Evolutionary, Riftwalker. Bridgebuilder, Trainer, or Seed Planter is not guaranteed to be fair. More likely it is guaranteed to be astonishing, extraordinary, exquisite, dynamic, and transformational. Look for these elements in your exchange with your guest, and highlight them in the stories you tell afterwards.
- Be precise and clear in your house rules. Every house has rules. Figure out what yours are and be sure each Journeyer agrees to abide by them.
- Be precise and clear in your agreements about time and space and cleanliness.
- Be precise and clear about your material objects - which are available for use and which are not.
- Be precise and clear in your agreements about money.
- Be precise and clear in your agreements about intimacy.
- We recommend that you and the Journeyer check-in with your 4 feelings and 4 emotions and what you each need in your 5 bodies once each day. Particularly be radically honest and authentic about any reactivity. This will keep your inner house clean.
world map of POSSIBILITY COUCHSURFer hosts
(example)
This is a screenshot of the Possibility Couchsurfing World Map.
After you are REGISTERED and accepted as a Possibility Couchsurfer you will be given access to the online Map
to help you locate Possibility Couchsurfer Hosts.
possibility couchsurfing EXPERIMENTS
MAKE YOUR JOURNEY WEBSITE
Matrix Code POSCOUCH.01
Make a website to tell the story of your Journeys. Entries at Instagram or Facebook vanish in a short time and do not honor the value of a Journey by leaving behind long-lasting clues for others to find. Your clues will be different from anyone's in the world, so what you share can help a unique set of other people use what you learned to move forward on their own Journey. Some people think that they should wait until their journey comes to its end before sharing about it. But they forget how important the beginnings are, the preparations both inner and outer. And besides, once started, the Journey never end...
If you put a live link to possibilitymanagement.org in your website as a source of the context of your Journey, please send your website to Clinton Callahan so we can share with others at possibilitymanagers.org.
SHARE YOUR JOURNEY EXPERIMENTS FOR OTHERS TO ALSO TRY
Matrix Code POSCOUCH.02
While you prepare for your Couchsurfing Journey and during your travels, you will gain so many insights and new impressions from your own edgework experiments. This EXPERIMENT is to recognize yourself with a new identity: "I am an experimenter!" Then give your new identity credibility by documenting how to do experiments. Each time you go to the edge of your comfort zone and stay there trying things, these are experiments. Even going to the marketplace in Brazil and trying some fruit or vegetable you never saw before is an amazing experiment. Write it up. Here is a blank Experiment Form you can use if you want. Share your cool EXPERIMENTS on your Website and also with us so we can share them with others!
BECOME A NEXT CULTURE SEED
Matrix Code POSCOUCH.03
The function of a seed is to make more seeds.
As a Possibility Couchsurfer you can re-define your purpose so as to be a seed for next culture.
Do you have to be an expert in next culture to inspire people to do next culture experiment shifts? No. Not at all. You only need to share your enthusiasm with others and provide connections to next culture resources they can use... such as these:
The Initiations website:
These next culture design books:
The 4 Keys: Social/Ecological/Economic/Worldview from Gaia Education
These seed empowering websites:
rareseeds.com (Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds to share)
Bring seeds along with you to leave behind for other Journeyers to find and treasure such as the books Gefühle by Patrizia Patz, or Conscious Feelings by Clinton Callahan, or even the parent/child read-together book Goodnight Feelings or Gute Nacht Gefühle by Clinton Callahan.
And wherever you go, be sure to tell people about the free-to-play online-and-offline personal-transformation matrix-building thoughtware-upgrade game called StartOver.xyz with its launching platform at Spaceport!
WALK TO YOUR NEXT POSSIBILITY COUCHSURFING DESTINATION
Matrix Code POSCOUCH.04
Find a Possibility Couchsurfing Host who lives less than 1000 Kilometers from your starting point and refuse to use any form of transportation other than your own two feet to get from where you are now to their place!
No bikes.
No inline skates.
No horses or camels.
No hitchhiking.
Simply walk.
This EXPERIMENT is about making a commitment and keeping it no matter what. It is about taking a stand for doing something you want to do, even if what you want to do might be unreasonable when viewed from certain reference frames.
Please also do EXPERIMENT POSCOUCH.01, POSCOUCH.02, and POSCOUCH.03 while you do POSCOUCH.04!!! Especially in those times when you think that nothing is happening!!!
This is so exciting, even I want to do it!
MAKE VIDEO INTERVIEWS OF YOUR POSSIBILITY COUCHSURFING HOSTS
Matrix Code POSCOUCH.05
The most powerful elements contributing to an extraordinary interview are the questions and the space.
Your questions need to be utterly simple, profoundly relevant, and unexpected, so the questions have no right answer. Then a new aliveness can come flowing through the person you are interviewing. They will be as surprised and excited as you are by the results.
The energetic interview space you hold needs to be an irrefutably safe vacuum. What this means is that YOU MAKE NO COMMENTS YOURSELF. You as the interviewer are off the screen. Ask your subject to repeat the questions you ask in their answers. The important lesson here is the same lesson taught in the film Dr. Strange: "It is not about you."
TECHNICAL:
- Have 5 questions already written into your Beep! Book before you start, but do not tell the speaker what they are beforehand, and do not be afraid to ask even better questions if you think of them during the interview.
- Use a tripod for the camera - do not shoot hand-held.
- Use a clip-on lapel microphone that jacks into your camera to record clear voice.
- Find a place with as little background noise as possible.
- Shoot close up to include shoulders and face, but encourage the speaker to use their hands.
- Do not chop off the top of the speaker's head.
- Interview them for 15-30 minutes.
- Cut your finished interview down to 3-10 minutes.
- When you have a great interview, please share it with us at Next Culture Radio.
Lights! Cameras! Action!
