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®...
Intention
Resonate is best read as training — a practice in deepening your relationship with the Zen Toolkit forms and the living energies of the FEBI® patterns. As you move through it, revisit and refine One Breath, Two Sides, Three Centers, and Four Patterns — Driver, Organizer, Collaborator, and Visionary — not as concepts but as living expressions of Ki in motion.
The book illuminates how resonance moves through mind, body, and voice; how fear constricts it; and how integration restores coherence. Use this reading as a way to reconnect with the root principles that anchor all dojo training:
- Relax completely
- Center with intention
- Meet fear with presence
- Stance is Ki
Read slowly. Let the ideas land in your nervous system, not just your intellect. Every insight is an invitation to practice.
Experience
As you engage Resonate - Zen and the Way of Making a Difference, listen for how the material vibrates through you. Where do you tighten? Where do you expand? Notice which pattern leads your response — the Driver that pushes ahead, the Organizer that structures, the Collaborator that harmonizes, the Visionary that imagines. Allow each to be seen without judgment.
Pause often for Stillness Contemplation to let awareness settle. Breathe with One Breath to re-center. Sense the relational field with Two Sides, and align through Three Centers.
Let Resonate become a dojo in text — a living mirror for how energy flows through you.
Implementation
As you work through the book:
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Revisit the Zen Toolkit. After each major section, reflect on how it relates to the Mindset Dojo forms. Ask what becomes clearer about how you move, relate, or lead.
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Practice the Principles. Bring each Mindset Dojo principle into lived experience.
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Stillness Contemplations. Pause frequently to digest what’s been felt or learned before turning the page. Ask yourself Calibrated Questions (What and How questions) about any stuck points that arise through the reading of the text and make room using Dynamic Silence for the answers.
- Completion Reflection. When finished, take time for Three-Question Reflection:
- What became clearer about how I resonate with life and others?
- Which pattern or form calls for deeper integration?
- How will I carry this awareness into my next conversation or practice?
- Integration. Bring your reflections to Authorship Circle and Mat practice as appropriate. Share what’s alive for you; teach through example.
Reading Resonate is a bridge between insight and embodiment — a way to align theory, energy, and presence through disciplined curiosity.
