Council

We acknowledge the Mystery at the center of life, honoring each other's journeys on the path. At times we each walk our path alone, while at other times insights arise through collective exploration. We take this time in Council to share insights from our journeys, using the power of live conversation to nourish discernment and awakening.

While the theme of Creative Transformation will be addressed by a forum of Artists, Teachers, and Community Organizers on the stage of Beloved on Saturday afternoon, our intention is this will support an enlightening dialogue that can begin with you reading this right now and spread throughout our group mind, culminating in the MetaPhorum. May we open the way for people from all paths to work with, play with, pray with and evolve with groups composed of many individuals, traditions and faiths. In this time of crisis and opportunity facing humanity, we sit and listen and wonder together.

2012 MetaPhorum

Our inter-mystic MetaPhorum is a conversation among experienced practitioners of creative transformation. We aim to explore the essence and process of imagination and insight, both individually and collectively. What does it mean to live life as art? How do we fully access our creative gifts? And how do we apply this deep wisdom to our conversational process itself, co-creating a Synergenius Gaialogue?

The Beloved MetaForum is a Synergenius Gaialogue. Though the questions listed below will be addressed to a forum of Artists, Musicians and Teachers on the stage at Beloved Festival on Saturday afternoon, our intention is that they will support an enlightening dialogue that can begin with you reading this right now and spread throughout our group mind, culminating in the MetaForum.

2012 Discussion Topics

Questions we may address include:


  1. What does creativity mean to you? How do you create in your life?
  2. Sometimes a creative spark emerges, but then doesn't have a place to go. What can we do in that moment, what does the creative spark need to be born into fullness?
  3. What is unique about your personal creativity, and what do you think is an aspect of it that is common with others' experience?
  4. How can creativity be applied to living life as fully as possible?
  5. What is Life asking from us now? What can we do to support the creative transformation that we know is needed?

2012 Panelists & Panel Facilitator

Betsy Chasse - Co-creator of the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?!"

Amit Goswami - "Quantum activist," acclaimed physics professor.

Michael Meade - Mythologist, storyteller & depth psychologist.

Nicki Scully - Alchemical healer, shamanic journey guide

Elliot Rasenick- Founder & producer of Beloved.


Tree Bressen-Tree Bressen feels blessed to pursue group facilitation as her calling, serving a wide variety of organizations in learning consensus and other skills. Her gifts include elegant process design, balancing structure with flexibility, holding space for tough conversations, and using good process to achieve excellent product. She founded the Group Pattern Language Project, nonprofit collective producer of the Group Works cards. Tree’s website www.treegroup.info offers free articles and resources; her practice is currently conducted on a gift economy basis.