Dear Marta, you say: ” Rosella talked about the importance of caring and being supportive, especially when a participant feels like a failure“.

The sentence sounds like the participant was judging himself a failure.

That was never the case with my companions, so I would really appreciate if in this post you could erase the words “especially…

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Hi there, I’m posting here about Bea’s asking about the whole idea of carrying forward as in the whatsApp chat on 2025 September 1st.

. C.F as an order of steps that can give rise to a progression, progression not according a slotted sense of logic yet logic according to an intimate sense of logic, logic in itself and changing as…

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Dear Bea and All,

I thought it was useful to use this space to answer the prompt Bea gave us on WhatsApp group last Monday September 1st.

My companion A and me we are in class 3. I had 8 meetings with each companion meeting once a week. I’m noticing that my own process in the companioning happens to be slower than in Beta-testing group, as if…

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Great work Marta, you were able to epitomize beautifully our last tertulia. The Practice Pointers to Carry Forward seem to be like “pattern”” of the whole happening and make a lot of sense.

I’ll start with sharing an aspect where I’d like to be more skilled: how to use a paradox in practical terms (some hint on how using paradox v. Kye Nelson, “Thinking fundamentally”, par 2.

Me and my partners are in class 1 still. After meeting with my two partners all along class 1 x 3 times, my project slowly revealed itself and I got now a…

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Dear Bea, I went googling Naropa University, then Vanessa Machado de Oliveira and then Bill Plotkin: a vast space of topics that I don’t know at all or I’m not aware either emerged and I also encountered names and persons I didn’t heard before. In googling Vanessa Machado I found a very very interesting conversation between herself and AI…

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Two weeks ago I had my first class 0 with a partner and last week with another partner. As I have both them concentrating on Friday, when there were also the practicum and the Tertulia , the day became quite tiring. I didn’t expect the LFL course as a partner would require so much energies. Of course, I’m telling myself that when you are…

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Any other class 0 fashion from my fellow apprentices?

really helpful, thank you Nicola.

I’m happy to use this place to share and learn, Nicola.

You say “We took about 25 minutes each for focusing after I introduced the TAE course & sequence”. Can you say more about this part?In a few words, can you make a list of the topic you had been dealing with in class 0 and its preparation? For instance, did you and your companion look at…

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