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ARKBUILDER TEAM
An ark is not a thing. An ark is an energetic configuration of human commitment. Thus, an ark does not occur separate from a team. And yet, an ark is not the team. An ark is an idea.
Like when Mr. Creedy, one of the bad guys in the film V for Vendetta shoots V, the main good guy, and V stays standing, Mr. Creedy hollers in panic, Die! Die! Why won't you die? And V responds, Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
An ark is an idea, and for this reason, an ark is bulletproof.
It is reported that when a Viking was captured by the enemy and they chopped his arm off the Viking would say, You can get my arm but you can’t get me!
The kind of commitment that brings people together to build an ark comes from the conviction of self empowerment. The self that is empowered is not the egoic psychological self, and neither is it the physical self; it is the true self.
True self empowerment is inalienable. Arks are the context of responsible sustainability driven by true self empowerment.
Like any living thing, an ark needs certain kinds of foods and nutrition. It needs plenty of exercise and sun-like radiations. It needs to learn and develop, and it needs love and appreciation. Each individual in the ark has a role to play in the functioning of the ark. It is the uniqueness of each that makes them needed by the ark, just like the uniqueness of the organs make them needed by the body.
It is the ark spaceholder’s job to hold the context of the ark, and to train and encourage one, two or three assistant spaceholders to hold the context of the ark. The context lives in the configuration of commitment.
AN ARK IS BUILT BY A TEAM
An ark project begins as an urge, an inspirational fire in the belly. As soon as one person converses with another person about that urge, that is an Arkbuilder Team Meeting.
As mentioned previously in the Ark Projects section, it is important to begin meeting as a Just Stop Team before switching to Arkbuilder Team because each of us has a history of living in the old culture.
The process of changing from one culture to another requires having a vision of the new culture while at the same time having the courage to stop behaving in the old culture.
Of the two, it is Just Stopping the old culture that can prove to be most challenging.
If someone is not disciplined enough to Just Stop behaving in the manner of the unsustainable having culture, there is little chance of them shifting to behaving in a sustainable being culture.
Holding weekly Just Stop Team meetings for a year or two is a crucial phase for building the stamina and faith needed by people to bridge the gap between cultures.
If you try to skip the Just Stop Team phase and jump directly into Arkbuilder Team Meetings it could cost you dearly. Your team will not have been tempered through dealing with personal liquid states. They will not have built a matrix for dealing elegantly with interpersonal frictions. If your team is hookable you are sunk. If team members are not aware of what they do with their attention and energy there is ineffectiveness. If your team has not learned to distinguish between low drama and high drama, then your efforts will default to low drama. And so on. These are each very important capacities to develop. Without them you will more than likely run into rough waters sooner than you expect.
Just Stop Team Meetings are perfect for continuing to study such books such as Radiant Joy Brilliant Love by Clinton Callahan, and also Wild Thinking, when it comes out in English.
In addition, other books and films to study are listed in the Arkbuilder Team Handbook. Consistently studying together, exploring ideas, and practicing exercises as one team creates something magical. It weaves together a matrix of context upon which being together in the new culture can stabilize. A flexible, durable, stabile basis is a crucial landmark to pass before graduating your Just Stop Team into an Arkbuilder Team.