Forgot to post this in late June or early July re: the first person I took through:

Just a little update, we each took action related to our projects in the outside world, then had an open focusing session. Again, I noticed that my partner was naturally crossing her instances and didn’t need to be guided to do this in a step-by-step kind of…

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I just re-watched the videos for Class 7. Bea’s intro & demo with Vivian are clear to me, in terms of what we’re doing. Gendlin’s was a bit confusing as at the end he says he has done Step 10, but all he has done is find his terms. He hasn’t equated them yet. Maybe a note about this in your description of that video would be helpful, Bea. I…

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I’m about to book my 2nd person in for their TAE journey as my first partner and I only have a couple of meetings left. Based on my experience in this first case, I’m going to book 13 weekly 2-hour spots, including a preliminary Core Gift Interview.

Also starting to wonder about creating a set of slides I can share for each step that recaps…

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Here’s a little Substack post I have just published about the emergence of ‘be-member’ during TAE ‘Working with Words’, in my current project.

https://nicolajanelebreton.substack.com/p/be-member-remember-and-be

Thanks to Nicky for her beautiful artwork and encouraging me to share the story of this word more widely.

I decided, today, to split Class 7 (Step 10) into 2 parts. For 7(a), we each had a half-hour focusing sessions, with about 10 minutes to focus into each of the 3 aspects of the felt-sense.

Prior to the session we’d both collected our terms, but had not yet settled on a temporary term for each category. It was very helpful to do this in a…

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Thanks, Nicky. These are gorgeous! Are you happy for us to share these drawings with future partners while training with Bea?

Goes well with Michaël’s summary of the overall journey!

I confess that I don’t think we did Class 6 quite the way it is laid out or intended in the course instructions.

We both felt we’d kind of ‘had-it’ with working with words after Classes 4 & 5, and that we’d done a version of Step 9 as part of our Class 5 Prac.

What we both felt like today was an open focusing session… which was honestly…

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Well, I’m glad to say my partner and I made it through this class and have just finished Class 6 (more about that later).

I have felt confused by this class both times through and fell down a worm hole of pulling out words, looking them up in the dictionary, replacing them with other words, looking those words up in the dictionary (incl…

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This is great. Thanks, Michaël – a handy little quick reference guide I’ve already used to foreshadow what’s coming next at the end of a session.

Thanks, Bea, this is very reassuring. My partner & I have agreed that we will both spend another session focusing (with whatever comes up around the work so far) before taking a next TAE step. We both had quite big things come up in our last session… both of which pointed strongly towards an action step in the outside world. For each of us,…

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I had an interesting class 3 practice today where my partner did not feel ready to begin crossing her instances or patterns (she had 2 and a bit of one that didn’t feel quite finished).

When she went into a focusing space her body showed her something that could not be bypassed or overridden.

As she stayed with this, it unfolded into…

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Gorgeous! Wish we had little emojis we could add to each other’s posts as a quick response! Thanks, Nicky!

Hi Nicky, I couldn’t see your visual image for this one. Have you uploaded them yet?

Had a gorgeous practice session for Class 2 today with my buddy… even though, once again, she initially doubted her ability to come up with instances, by supporting her to stay with that feeling, and the realisations and patterns that surfaced through this, it became its own instance. She was then able to confidently move on and open up a…

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Gorgeous, Nicky. Thanks so much! Just about to do Class 2 practice with my partner, so this is a helpful share.

Amazing! Thank you. Will definitely share with my people. 🙌💛

Thanks, Beatrice.

That’s very helpful.

Elyse has postponed our Class 2 meeting, so we meet again this coming Friday. I will explain then.

One small moment of learning: my TAE buddy wasn’t sure if a general memory of being angry at school counted as an “instance.”

I’ve had instances that were symbols (like a painting image) or even methods I’d studied, rather than single moments in time. Curious how others frame what counts as an instance — especially for folks who aren’t…

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Just passing on a bit of feedback from my TAE buddy — she felt the Welcome video jumped into the steps a bit quickly without first grounding in what TAE is or why we’re here. She was looking for a bit more orientation before diving into structure.

I think the “Thinking at the Edge Empowers Us” article covers that beautifully, but maybe not…

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Oh, these are so gorgeous, @Nicky ! And so much more accessible for many people.

@beatrice-blake , I’ve been thinking a wonderful addition to your course might be a little downloadable partnership guide that reminds people what to prepare for each session – could include some notes plus Nicky’s illustrations on facing page!

I remember…

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This one’s for Class 1. My Class 0 Prep email is in the other discussion.

This is my preparatory email for Class 1 Practice. I’m thinking we’ll listen to Bea’s attunement together (I’ll share my screen and sound – or we can watch on own screens) then write alongside each other, and then have a short focusing swap on whatever comes up from the writing, which might hopefully give rise to the beginnings of a…

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Starting this chat for sharing notes, reflections & questions about Class 1 practice.

And these are the notes I loosely referred to during our first meeting. Easier to share them here than try and share a Google Doc with you all.

Purpose of Today’s Session

• Sense into what wants to be explored (your “project” or “edge”)

• Begin to describe what feels important, curious, unresolved, or calling

• No pressure to form a crux sentence yet!…

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PS This is the email I sent before Class 0 meeting:

Hi XXX,

So looking forward to beginning our TAE journey together this coming week!

Before we meet, could you please watch the following two sections from Beatrice’s online course?

1. Welcome

2. Preparing for the Course

These sections help create a foundation for our work: orienting you to the TAE…

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Hello friends, I asked my person to watch the Introduction and Welcome videos before we met for Class 0. I rewatched them myself and made notes about main points to recap on. Then touched on these briefly at the start of our session – incl partnership agreements and what the arc of the journey included, and general principle of letting body…

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I thought it might be helpful to have a discussion thread related to each of Bea’s 8 classes plus the Welcome & Introduction, where we could swap notes on how our sessions went and any questions we might have.

I had my first session with 1st partner yesterday. We basically did a focusing swap to feel into what we might like to explore for…

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