Practice - Edition 11 of Exploring, Inviting, Pondering.

Welcome to the continued unfolding of this monthly letter series. My intention is to share with you something I've been exploring, inviting you to explore this space for yourself, and offering a prompt to ponder as you do.

In this letter my focus is becoming through practice.

Practice to me is the iterative re-examination of a pattern or process. An example would be a framework for organising, which you explore over a series of cycles observing variances of how you are showing up, the affect of the process on you and those involved and impacted by it, and what changed during or as a result of the exploration.

In my exploration of practice, I find myself framing practice as a process not of repetition, rather of responding consciously to the needs of the moment in the moment. That is both the aim and the process I am practicing.

This process of becoming in practice - as a developmental resource, as a father, husband, colleague, leader - all these modes of becoming which are me benefit from a consistent frame of iterative, intentional exploration.

I've come to practice as flow, which I chose to step into, or to not. I sense that the flow is continuing around my conscious practice, and that I gain the most when I am most intentionally in practice.

I'm seeing practice as continuing unfolding, rather than a relentless pursuit of mastery, an ongoing journey rather than a motion towards a specific destination.

I try to see practice as gift to myself and others, over a burden of something I am obliged, compelled or enticed to do.

I invite you to explore several developmental practices, contained within Carol Sanford's two latest books - Indirect Work and No More Gold Stars. Both works contain a self-generated practice of exploration, observation and both deepening and expanding as a self-determining human, being intentional and conscious in life and work on our planet. You can find both here or via your preferred source of books, and you can listen to the podcast conversations on both frameworks on Better World Leaders wherever you listen to podcasts.

Another wonderful set of practices for bringing self-determination, empowerment and potential to our working together can be found in Samantha Slade 's Going Horizontal - and I'm delighted to see Samantha and her colleagues from Percolab returning to Australia to host experiences of these practices with Percolab Au . You can find info about these events here.

Here's a prompt to ponder on practice which I invite you to carry with you, and share your responses here or more directly if you are called to do so...

What does this moment call me to practice?

Here I rest this month's letter. Until the next letter, I wish you well in all of the endeavours to which you bring your process of practice.

Be well, lead well, and keep on practicing to our shared better futures,

Tim