This is a magnetic field that attracts people together . Some stronger links are created between smaller groups around an idea, a feeling, a vision. I'm so passionate about observing that natural movement of the people within the group, like this cloud of little birds that we can see at the end of the day. Extending the cloud, contracting the cloud, again and again, in a way that scientists can't model...

And like the 5Rythme wave, our group has lived the archetypical steps that lead to fulness. I'm grateful for the people with whom I've shared this wave, and especailly the people who have danced (physically) this deeply emotionally wave on sunday. I thanks also, all the persons without whom everything would have not happen: the organizers and facilitators.

I'm looking forward to, once again, sharing in a simple way what matters for all of us for the good of the others.

Florence

Every time people who shared an experience in NLPU in Santa Cruz come together again, something very unique takes form. It's unique and new in terms of ideas, projects, skills and because everybody brings a true warmth and openness towards others and about oneself. This is what human beings can do when they connect with the light, the space of kindness and clarity which is the subtle core of our mind. The field we can experience every time, and London beautifully marks a further step in it, is the product of many, many different and multi-faceted, multicoloured minds, but all tuned to the same source.

And it is so touching when you can dance this certainty in your life - we danced it through the drumming circle with Nihat Tsolak showing us the rythm, and in the 5Rythms trance where this fine vibration expressed itself and connected us to each other even more deeply. I believe we can bring this dance everywhere in our lives, make it available to everybody: the fire is there for all and for ever, we are just the candle by which another candle is lit and then another... limitless. Thank you Mahnaz and Armando for being such bright flames, and to each one and all of the beautiful friends who facilitated the meeting together with you.

Many metaphors have been shared among us to define the image of our website, at the same time they were also powerful images for our group - and one of us spoke about water and a feeling of freedom and movement. I thank him here for this inspiration, since it is also said: "Water keeps on flowing and fills all places as soon as it touches them, it doesn't shun any dangerous point, it doesn't shun any fall, and it doesn't lose in any way its essential nature. It is true to itself in all conditions. Water flows uninterruptedly and it reaches its goal.'' Doesn't it also say something about our identity as Starfish Community? For me our London meeting is a drop of water that we pour in a wider ocean, this is why we can make it last beyond ourselves.

Love

Anna

What a fantastic weekend we spent in London at the Starfish Community. After several months of planning and weeks of running around making sure venue, program, activities, and everything else was in place, it finally arrived. Mahnaz and I spent many hours meeting, on the phone, exploring venues, attempting to put a program together that would make all the attendees enjoy a positive experience and would bring continuity to the work already started in Belfast, Brescia and Brussels. We had great input, sponsoring and unconditional support from Fern, Eva, and Dott as the dates draw closer to the meeting. Many Gratitude goes to everybody who directly or indirectly helped to make the London meeting a success as creating a place for allowing exchange of ideas, knowledge, sponsoring, and more importantly to allow magic to happen. Thank You All!. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to meet so many exceptional people with whom new friendships have been forged, and I look forward to nurturing and enriching them.
Having taken some time to reflect back on the weekend, I have realised how important these meetings are, for they not only enrich our knowledge and spirit but also allow us to look around and benefit from the energy and goodwill created by our getting together. We all know The Field is created by us and for us, so it refreshing to bathe in the nurturing waves of this field.
It also became clear to me how we can keep this Community alive and growing. There is the initial spirit that brought us together, that experience we lived in Belfast and touched the ones who were there, the realisation that there is so much that we can do, our skills are so useful and needed in so many parts of this planet. The smile, the look we get back from someone who we just acknowledge and hear, is a great reward and a validation that we are here to create world we all want to live in. It depends on us, we make that world. The words of Gandhi always come to me … ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. So if we want to see more compassion, mutual respect and acceptance of other, then we should embrace it, and be that ourselves. That to me has been very clear, and very reassuring of the path my journey has taken me. In addition to that, I rejoiced in the presence of all the friends I met. It is a blessing and a unique opportunity to learn from each other, to be sponsored and to sponsor each other. It is the fuel that keeps the Community alive and moving forward. What a treat to be in that environment that we create ourselves. It is my believe that we need to move forward with a space for the community based projects to flourish and grow, as well as with a space for all of us to grow together and sponsor each other so we can become a Starfish Throwers in our own environments. Compassion does not depend on a specific environment (specially one big with many people and big impact), so we all can and should be Starfish Throwers in our own environments (being it at home, at work, in the local communities). Imagine a world in which we are all Fresh, Healthy and Happy Starfishes swimming in an Ocean of love… Oh that’s the feeling I carry with me from this weekend!