Weave - Letting Life Lead

Author

Aaron Gabriel Neyer
June 20, 2024

Welcome to the Weekly Weave!

Woven Web is a community rooted in Boulder Colorado and reaching beyond, with a deeply held vision for a more connected world. We seek to find greater harmony between technology, society, and nature through facilitating communication and understanding and developing systems for connection.

In this Weave

  • Letting Life Lead

  • Coming Up in Community

Letting Life Lead

Earlier this week, much of our core team along with a wider council of community leaders met up to synchronize around the vision of woven web and what our plan is for enacting meaningful cultural change. One of the things that kept coming back up is starting small and simple; living into this culture around us, and uplifting it where we see it. This is one thing we’re attempting to do with this newsletter, as we reveal other community events that are a meaningful place to get connected, and as this newsletter progresses, we hope to do even more to lift up other organizations and places, to help you have the information you need to weave more meaningfully into this web.

At our council convergence, we spoke a lot about systems to support connection, including two major projects we’re working on, a boulder network map and a tool for connecting communities. As we explored these, we continued to touch back on what a balanced integration of technology can look like; and in particular wanting to bring forth systems that are focused more on supporting than on shaping. Rather than building an app that projects our idea of how people should connect, we want to understand the wholesome ways that people are already connecting, and bring forth systems that help support that. This puts technology in a supportive role, listening to and learning from life as compared to what we commonly see in the dominant paradigm, of technology in a dominating role, trying to shape and control life.

The truth that continues to reveal itself is that this woven web is already ever-present. The web of life & existence is intimately woven together and we are woven deeply within it. Our job is not to weave the web together, but to remember and recognize the way it is already woven. As we build systems to support connection, this is essential for us to understand. From this perspective, tools become more about supporting the unfolding of humans and communities through facilitating communication and understanding. This not only makes us more effective at enacting change, but supports our own embodiment, connection and well-being as we work. Anytime we’re trying to force our ideas onto the world is a good time to reflect, inquire into our motivations, and see if we might be participating in the very paradigm that we are trying to shift out of. From here the possibility emerges to navigate in a new way, perhaps through listening in deeper, looking to understand, and letting life lead.

Coming Up in Community

Next week (6/23-6/29), I will be at a zen retreat The Art of Aliveness with Dragon Lake Zen. There are still a few spots open, so if “Letting Life Lead” has spoken to you, I encourage you to check this out.

Next week, as I’ll be away, we’ll have a guest weave from the previous director of Consciousness Hacking Colorado (which became Woven Web), Adam Harvey; discussing his time leading CoHack, the transition of leadership, and a bit of what he’s up to now, including his family constellations work.

Events coming up:

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See you in the web,

~ aaron gabriel & woven web