Presence Playground

Presence Playground is inspired by psychologist David Grove's "Clean Language." Each Playground offers the opportunity to practice specific active listening skills, focused on being in the Here and Now.

Clean Inquiry is a means of growth and discovery - based on the idea that we often ask questions that come with our own frameworks or "maps" of meaning embedded within them.

By contrast, "clean" questions attempt to create an open, non-assuming space of presence. In this space, the person receiving questions can come to a deeper awareness of their own experience - from their own maps of meaning. We also stay committed to the present moment and the hidden mysteries it reveals.

We open and close the process with "What's here now?" and can discover beautiful insights about who we are and how we relate to others.

Come play with us.

Looking for a space to experience a deeper sense of presence while staying in connection with others?

Do you want to discover your unfolding experience of the present moment?

Do you want to practice the Art of Clean Inquiry?

If so, come join the Presence Playground, Authentic Relating Go’s newest community offering!

The Presence Playground is a space to play with our moment-to-moment experience as it emerges while being in connection with others. We will be weaving a powerful practice, often reserved for the meditation cushion, into the interactive relational space.

We will use a clean, presencing Inquiry, inspired from Clean Language, to support each other in discovering more of what is alive, right now, at this moment.

Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki wrote: ‘When you listen to someone, forget what you have in your mind and just listen. If your mind is empty it’s ready for anything and open to everything.’  

As soon as you empty your mind, it starts filling up again. Clean language really helps you become aware of this; in fact by asking Clean questions, you turn the conversations you have into a mindfulness practice all of its own….

You may leave feeling more connected to yourself and others and with new insights.