Adventuring the Lost:
Orienting Toward Wholeness
in Fractured Times
A Map-Key for Paradigm Shifts & Rapid Change
Six Wednesdays on Zoom, 6:30-8 p.m. Central, Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28 & Feb. 4 & 11, 2026
Adventuring the Lost
When Life feels off-kilter, when we feel lost and disoriented, it helps to have a safe place for meandering, and some guidelines for moving together with intention and hope. It helps to have a Map.
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The Key is to find our Center-point, and to reorient toward the Whole.
Creating and sustaining thriving communities in fractured times requires wisdom from paradigm-shifting alternative models, like the ones Ellen & Laura have been co-creating and guiding for evolving contexts for years: “Go Deeper,” “Who are the WE We’re Becoming,” Circle Conversations, Ignatian Associates, Veronica’s House, Presencing, Ecological Civilization, Emergence Networking, Cosmogenesis, ARK Communities, “Holding Space,” and others. Creating space for trust, transparency, dialogue, imagination, and hard conversations is where we find the Adventure.
"Adventuring the Lost" is reorienting toward the Whole, offering a cocoon of sorts for this crazy posthuman context. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at creating community in the midst of the much-too-fast Chrono-Craziness and Reality Mirage that is 2026, where AI hallucination and deepfake technology blow bubbles of unknowing and misunderstanding. While Truth and Meaning feel elusive and shifting, we find our centering through Real Presence, offering Essential Energy for the wider “We.” For those who feel lost and need a gentle way home, this is a six-session Map Key: Fluidity, Vulnerability, Framing the Question, Imagination, Gifts, and Composting.
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Reality's not meant to be an Escape Room. It's Life's Adventure.
Jan. 7 - Fluidity
Flowing with the Whole - GIS (Geographic Information System) and GPS (Global Positioning System) technologies are analogous ways to reorient us toward the whole for social ecosystems. When we are in the flow of the wider "We," we can embrace a new perspective, a new way of seeing for adaptive change.
Jan. 21 - Framing the Question
Opening the Dialogue & Crafting the Story/Narrative - Orienting ourselves to the Whole requires a Matrix-like election: do we stay in the current paradigm or choose to move outside its boundaries? What Story we tell ourselves about Reality, and which direction we choose at a crossroad matters. Ask a deeper question.
Feb. 4 - Gifts
Indra's Net, the Spider's Web, and the Wood-Wide-Web are all metaphors for fractal imagination and attuning our gifts to the wider "We." Fictional characters like Mirabel from "Encanto" help us understand the challenges and potential of gifts that coalesce for the Good of the Whole.
Jan. 14 - Vulnerability
Interior Awareness of Vulnerability as Prerequisite for Mapping - "Vulnera" (L. 'wounds') - our susceptibility to being hurt - present challenges to individuals and social ecosystems. We will story-map our personal and communal vulnerabilities, and craft our careful response of fighting, fleeing, tending & mending.
Jan. 28 - Imagination
Co-creating the Story - Indigenous models of the Four Directions/Four Winds can help frame the conversation for co-creative social ecosystems. Whether we face North, South, East, or West, the seasons of our imagination shift, our animal selves morph, even our feelings reflect our orientation. Where is our Center/Grounding?
Feb. 11 - Composting
What needs to die, and what needs to thrive in a new way? Decaying (brown) matter, living/organic (green) matter, and aeration are required for the process of composting to bring about new life. Possibilities arise not be eradicating what has been, but seeing it as generative detritus for new life in the context of the wider "We."
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