Hold the Field: A Practice for Staying Present Without Disappearing - Paperback
Hold the Field: A Practice for Staying Present Without Disappearing - Paperback
Description
by Jody Sloane (Author)
Most people think staying present means holding on tighter. It doesn't. It means knowing the difference between what you're carrying and what you're actually responsible for and having the skills to act on that difference in real time.
Some people walk into a room and read it before they even take their coat off. They absorb tension so others don't have to. They smooth the edges, manage the temperature, and disappear a little in the process. They've been doing it so long they think it's just who they are.
It isn't. It's a pattern. And it has a name.
Hold the Field introduces the A P A R T Framework(TM), a field-tested methodology built for room readers: the people who keep everyone else steady while quietly losing the thread back to themselves. Awareness. Permission. Attunement. Restraint. Trust. Five principles. One practice. A completely different way to stay in the room without vanishing from it.
Drawing on twenty years of stand-up comedy, Coast Guard Search and Rescue service, and two decades studying human behavior in charged rooms, Jody Sloane offers an approach to presence that doesn't ask you to perform calm or fake detachment. It asks you to stay.
Holding the field is what it looks like when awareness and agency exist at the same time.
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