Circle
Circles are brave spaces for mutual exploration and reflection bound together by a web of trust and shared principles.
The Forms
Forms support participation for community members who are actively training or engaging in specific practices within the program.
If you’d like more context about any of these forms or how they’re used, feel free to reach out.
Collaborator
Part of the Four Patterns from Institute for Zen Leadership, Collaborator energy creates resonance from relationship through alignment.
Dojo
A Dojo is a Circle of learning that embodies Fearless Leadership through practicing MetaShift Method on a Mat.
Driver
Part of the Four Patterns from Institute for Zen Leadership, Driver energy concentrates your focus and moves you forward.
Four Energy Reflection
Four Energy Reflection is an introductory self-awareness form that reveals your natural energy patterns through the FEBI® lens — Driver, Organizer, Collabora...
Four Energy Sensei
The love child of Elemental FEBI®, Four Patterns, and Simon Says.
Four Patterns
Four Patterns is part of the Zen Toolkit from Institute of Zen Leadership and introduces the archtypical FEBI® energies (Driver, Organizer, Collaborator, Vis...
High Presence Networking
A bridge form for extending dojo training into real communities — where energy, dialogue, and collaboration are alive. High Presence Networking turns social ...
Kohai–Senpai Relationship
A relational tradition where people support each other through experience, example, and care. The Senpai offers guidance; the Kohai receives it. These roles ...
Level Up Transition
A level-up transition marks the shift from one phase of training to the next. It is a moment to sense, connect, integrate, and cross with awareness.
Martial Attitude
Martial Attitude is the continuous integration and deployment of awareness and action, cultivating fluid trust through presence.
Mat
A Mat is a martial attitude one brings with them to do mutual (Jungian) shadow integration through embodied practice.
One Breath
One Breath is part of the Zen Toolkit from Institute of Zen Leadership and is when one takes 3-5 Hara breaths (Belly Breathing) to center one’s self.
Organizer
Part of the Four Patterns from Institute for Zen Leadership, Organizer energy makes complexity legible through distillment, building the foundation for life ...
Resonance
Resonance is the ripple effect of the Self obtaining coherency by integrating the Four Patterns into the collective field through Presence.
Resonate
A companion training form for reading Resonate - Zen and the Way of Making a Difference by Ginny Whitelaw — deepening embodiment of the Zen Toolkit and FEBI®...
Revealed Preference Reflection
Revealed Preference Reflection is a combination of Stillness Contemplation and Martial Attitude as a Stance, analyzing one’s desires through their actions.
Self-Authorship
Through regular writing to integrate the results of practices like Stillness Contemplation and Three Question Reflection, Self-Authors gain the ability to re...
Sensei
A Sensei fearlessly leads through modeling, guidance, and support through MetaShift Method.
Stance
A Stance is the personal expression of one’s FEBI® energy archetypes through breath, tone, timing, and attention in relation to a context (others in the inte...
Stillness Contemplation
Stillness Contemplation is to sit in silence and at rest.
Three Centers
Three Centers is part of the Zen Toolkit from Institute of Zen Leadership and aligns your Head, Heart, and Hara so that they communicate properly.
Three Question Reflection
Reflect about your experiences through answering three What and/or How questions either with a group or on your own through Stillness Contemplation.
Threshold
A threshold is the line between thought and action, Visionary and Driver energy.
Tone
Tone is not merely one’s tone of voice, but rather the subliminal expression of the level of consciousness of a conversation — it quietly decides whether oth...
Two Sides
Two Sides is part of the Zen Toolkit from Institute of Zen Leadership and is where you evaluate both sides of an argument/narrative to see what is valid and ...
Visionary
Part of the Four Patterns from Institute for Zen Leadership, Visionary energy expands one’s awareness beyond their immediate context, attracting the future.