# Welcome to ÆCCC2025‘s online ŸEScanvas space ![[Aether-cards-bifold-booklet-front.jpg]] [[Venn diagram to YEScannvas|ŸEScannvas]]es will return to ÆCCC for the second year running. > [!info] > They are simple visual tools and will be dotted around Ætherland, ready to help any groups of 2-4 Ætharians who desire to engage their creativity, ‘experimentivity’ and community-building and to generally elevate their Yeses. %% https://dandelion.events/e/theartofconsenntaether2025 https://dandelion.events/e/reinvenntaug1st https://dandelion.events/e/chocolateorangeaug2nd HEL🇫🇮ŸES: https://t.me/+dytM3vpJWkUwZTFk %% > [!Tip] Receive one pre-filled card and one blank card from the bowls in Elven Landing when you first arrive at ÆCCC2025. > Write more activities on cards and propose them to each other, and you may also use a ŸEScanvas to manifest some magical moments. > ![[Aether card back.jpg|200]] > Your card is a souvenir that you may keep if you wish. ### 160 Ætherians, 160 example activity prompts The Æther Values & Principles (ÆV&P) are reflected in the activity prompts^[see the part in parentheses at the end of each prompt]. At Ætherland you’ll find many blank cards and pens ready for you to write your own ideas of activities of ways you might manifest the ÆV&P or just anything that would meet your heart’s longing 💗 1. We tune into ourselves and notice something we feel resistance to, and then do something to gently push against the resistance. (Experimentation’s “approach with curiosity” and “try it out” with Community’s shared vulnerability) 2. We ask each other what do you want to do, but are afraid to? Do it wrong. To do anything, you have to first be an imposter at it. (Experimentation’s “try it out, the threshold is low” with Community’s supportive truth-speaking) 3. We remember how ancestral soil feels like between our fingers and how the land is the commons we all care for. (Earth-care’s “Honor the More-than-Human World” treating nature as participant) 4. We each share a low moment we had this week and how we could have been supported in that moment to make it better. (Community’s safety/inclusion and truth-speaking with Co-creation’s listening) 5. We go on a synchronicity walk together, i.e., at every decision, use either intuition or roles of a die to decide the way. (Co-creation’s collective decision-making with Earth-care and Experimentation) 6. We say “I love it when you…” because boundaries advertise good ways to connect and guide to what we are available for. (Community’s truth-speaking and capacity-honoring with connection-building) 7. We immerse ourselves in wilderness. (Earth-care’s nature participation with Community’s presence) 8. We make a simple shrine to Æther and perform some simple devotional communion at the shrine. (Co-creation’s active participation in meaningful space-making) 9. We each tell each other how we like to be greeted and welcomed into a space, and then do the greeting and welcoming. (Community’s safety/inclusion and truth-speaking) 10. We reveal What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate. (Community’s voice-honoring with Co-creation’s authentic expression) 11. We discuss what might happen if we started letting our actual thoughts be known to the people around us. (Community’s “speak your truth” with Experimentation’s curiosity about new ways of being) 12. We each reveal something that we secretly want. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s authentic sharing) 13. We let each other hear how we appreciate and approve of them, what we desire and what would please us. (Community’s safety/inclusion with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 14. We dance; we make an intention for it; we offer our sweat. (Community’s presence with Earth-care’s honoring the body) 15. We make grand gestures at the altar - of life. Praise each talisman, deity, and lucky charm alive. (Co-creation’s active participation with Community’s celebration) 16. We gaze at the sky and witness what mood Mystery is in today. (Earth-care’s nature participation with Community’s presence) 17. We go for an awe walk, re-discovering the ever-present wonder in of existence. (Earth-care’s nature connection with Experimentation’s curiosity) 18. We lounge around without electronics and root into the physical world. (Community’s presence gift with Earth-care’s grounding) 19. We take it in turns to list things that we’re finding it easy to be grateful, continuing until we run out of ideas. (Community’s voice-sharing with Co-creation’s gift-giving attitude) 20. We get on our knees and pray, either together for/to the same thing, or for/to different things in parallel. (Community’s presence with Co-creation’s collective spiritual practice) 21. We savour the discomfort, breath by breath, feeling its shape and hidden pockets of aliveness. Let the suppressed living intelligence come back home. (Experimentation’s curiosity about shadow with Community’s truth-speaking) 22. We wander to the forest and whisper some of our wildest dreams to the trees and listen for their response. (Earth-care’s nature as participant with Experimentation’s curiosity) 23. One of us becomes an enthusiastic nature guide, presenting a leaf, rock, bug or whatever to the group as totally amazing. (Earth-care’s nature honoring with Co-creation’s teaching/sharing) 24. We lay down and tone with sound and harmonize together. (Community’s presence with Co-creation’s collective creation) 25. One-by-one, we lay on our backs and share a worry that is causing us to hold tension, and the others support our heads in their hands. (Community’s safety/inclusion with Co-creation’s mutual support) 26. We each say how we like to be welcomed into a space and request it from the other people. (Community’s safety/inclusion with truth-speaking) 27. We use the decks of feelings cards and needs cards to witness present truths about each other. (Community’s voice-honoring with Co-creation’s listening) 28. We lay down side-by-side and take turns spotting shapes in the clouds, comparing and sharing what we see and stories they inspire. (Earth-care’s nature participation with Community’s presence) 29. We each say when our last “Hell YES!” moment was and describe the situation and what we found inspiring about it. (Community’s truth-sharing with Experimentation’s celebrating enthusiasm) 30. We share a long hug in which way pay attention to how our mood and the tension in our bodies changes over time. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s curiosity about embodied experience) 31. We stand in a circle holding hands and a squeeze is passed around the circle. (Community’s connection with Co-creation’s collective participation) 32. We each write a short love letter to ourself and then read it out to the others. (Community’s safety/inclusion with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 33. We each describe a small, everyday, mundane-seeming moment that rarely fails to make us happy. (Community’s truth-sharing with Co-creation’s gift of perspective) 34. We each share about a way in our lives in which we are pretending and imagine what it might be like to stop pretending in that way. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s curiosity about authenticity) 35. We talk our inner dialogues out loud, even weird or neurotic or banal or zany thoughts that pop into our minds. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s trying new ways of being) 36. We jump around and shake our bodies in different ways, seeing what feels good and what boosts our energy and mood. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s presence) 37. We sit on the floor, each massaging the shoulder of the whoever is to our right. (Community’s mutual support with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 38. We put on some joyful, energetic music and bounce up and down. (Experimentation’s playful joy with Community’s presence) 39. We devise a secret handshake that we will use when we greet and when we part in future. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Community’s connection-building) 40. We each describe a new public holiday that we’d create if we could. Name? Date? How to celebrate it? (Co-creation’s creative initiative with Experimentation’s imagination) 41. We create a “royal treatment” moment where each person gets a turn being fanned by the other. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 42. We master the art of the three-way high-five, inventing increasingly elaborate celebration moves when we succeed. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Co-creation’s collective creation) 43. We use each other as makeshift gym equipment and do a mini workout and see how our moods change. (Experimentation’s creative reuse with Community’s mutual support) 44. We play the game in which the palms of our hands become ‘magnetic’ and other peoples bodies are drawn to them. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s presence) 45. We dance slowly and sensually together while keeping our hips connected. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s embodied exploration) 46. We take it in turns to whisper totally unsexy things in a seductive manner into each other’s ears. (Experimentation’s playful subversion with Community’s truth-speaking) 47. We crank the small talk all the way up to “11”! and see how absurd smalltalk is. (Experimentation’s playful exploration with Community’s authentic connection) 48. We each state what we think would we would say next if we were to follow the most conventional social script possible. (Experimentation’s curiosity about social patterns with Community’s truth-speaking) 49. We stand several metres apart from each other and then very slowly and deliberately walked towards each other in a public space. (Experimentation’s trying new ways with Community’s presence) 50. We pick a point some distance away from us, and then we have to get there together doing the commando crawl. (Co-creation’s collective action with Experimentation’s playful challenge) 51. We play a game in which one person is the ‘predator’ and they must stalk and chase and catch the other people, the ‘prey’, winning if they manage to give the prey a hug. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s safe physical connection) 52. We take it in turns to frogmarch each other around in a silly way. (Experimentation’s playful movement with Community’s mutual participation) 53. We sit down opposite each other on the floor and fight each other’s feet with each other’s feet in a playful and silly way. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s safe physical play) 54. We do a breath holding contest while holding hands. (Experimentation’s playful challenge with Community’s connection) 55. We take in it turns to request a phrase that the other two people will repeat back to us 3 times each. (Community’s voice-honoring with Co-creation’s collective response) 56. We see whether we can soften… and then soften even more into the moment and each other’s company. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s curiosity about depth) 57. We sing a round together. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Community’s presence) 58. We lay down and tone and harmonise with sound together. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Community’s presence) 59. One of us lies in the middle of the other two, who hum or sing calmly. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 60. We each select a body part on ourselves and get consent to receive a massage there. (Community’s boundary-honoring with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 61. We explore how many comfy positions we can find and which is the comfiest for each of us. (Experimentation’s curiosity with Community’s capacity-honoring) 62. We all do some deep but easy physical training together. (Community’s collective presence with Co-creation’s mutual support) 63. We do some easy mobility exercises to expand and to release tension. (Community’s presence with Co-creation’s mutual care) 64. We laugh. Just start doing it and see what happens in 3 minutes. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s presence) 65. We make nonsense. (Experimentation’s playful creativity with Community’s presence) 66. We growl, pouring ourselves into the space around us as if we were marking our territory. (Experimentation’s embodied expression with Community’s presence) 67. The slower you go, the deeper you get faster. Weel deeply and intensely each grain of time. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s curiosity about depth) 68. We stand and interlock our hands in the centre and rotate faster and faster. (Co-creation’s collective action with Experimentation’s playful movement) 69. We link our bodies together and begin travelling in a straight line, and every time we reach a barrier, we bounce off it like a pinball bounce off wall and we travel and see where the adventure takes us. (Co-creation’s collective movement with Experimentation’s spontaneous play) 70. We have a free-for-all- playfight, pretending to be puppy dogs. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s safe physical connection) 71. We explore platonic impact play. Does it positively impact our mood? (Experimentation’s curiosity about embodied experience with Community’s consent) 72. We take cushions and soft things and throw them on the ground. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Earth-care’s reuse of materials) 73. We watch people who are in a conversation from a distance and do a voiceover narration of what we imagine that they’re saying. (Experimentation’s playful creativity with Co-creation’s collective storytelling) 74. We introduce ourselves by sharing what we secretly hope will happen this weekend and what gift we bring to make it real. (Co-creation’s gift-giving with Community’s truth-speaking) 75. We each share one thing we’re genuinely curious about trying but feel nervous to attempt, then encourage each other to take one small step. (Experimentation’s threshold-lowering with Community’s supportive encouragement) 76. We practice saying “yes, and…” to each other’s wildest ideas for 5 minutes, building on them without judgment. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Experimentation’s openness) 77. We take turns being witnessed while sharing something we appreciate about ourselves, with the others offering only presence. (Community’s voice-honoring with Co-creation’s gift of listening) 78. We practice asking for exactly what we need right now and offering what we genuinely want to give. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 79. We create a brief celebration for something small that deserves more recognition, complete with silly ceremonies and appreciation. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Community’s appreciation) 80. We take it in turns to receive celebratory appreciations from the other 2 people. (Community’s mutual support with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 81. We each share something that if we were to do it together today it would make our day. (Community’s truth-sharing with Co-creation’s collective initiative) 82. We each state a question that we would love to be asked, but no one has asked us lately. (Community’s voice-honoring with Co-creation’s listening) 83. We go for a walk while we hold hands, gaze at nature, and talk about deep stuff that is meaningful to us. (Earth-care’s nature connection with Community’s presence and truth-sharing) 84. We link hands around a tree and hug it, and then we climb it together. (Earth-care’s nature honoring with Co-creation’s collective action) 85. We each share about how long it has been since our last Heck yeah! moment and describe what we found so great about it. (Community’s truth-sharing with Experimentation’s celebrating enthusiasm) 86. We each name something that helps us to feel grounded and safe, and then we do the things. (Community’s safety/inclusion with Co-creation’s mutual support) 87. We take it in turns to be welcomed by the other 2 people in as enthusiastic, emphatic and joyous way that they can. (Community’s inclusion with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 88. We each reveal our way in which we are trustworthy, and then reveal a way in which we are not. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s authentic sharing) 89. We each share about a negative or challenging emotion or feeling we are experiencing and normally feel the need to mask. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s authentic vulnerability) 90. We each declare something that in this moment we are feeling insecure about. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s authentic sharing) 91. We each declare something that in this moment we are feeling that we definitely do not want. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s boundary-honoring) 92. We talk candidly on the topic of death and what our points of view are and what preparations we have made for ourselves and our loved ones. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s curiosity about shadow topics) 93. We each talk about something that scares us, and muse on a couple of ways we may overcome it. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s mutual support) 94. We spend a while being sad together and leaning into the emotion. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s curiosity about shadow emotions) 95. We meditate together and appreciate the presence of one another without making any external acknowledgement of one another. (Community’s presence with Co-creation’s collective spiritual practice) 96. We do some group singing or chanting, e.g. with sea shanties or mantras. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Community’s presence) 97. We each say how our wellness practices have evolved over time and which is one of our favorites now. (Community’s truth-sharing with Co-creation’s gift of knowledge) 98. We each state one thing that we love to do to unwind after a hard day. (Community’s truth-sharing with Co-creation’s gift of perspective) 99. We take it in turns to name something that we find makes us more easeful and request it from the other 2 people. (Community’s truth-speaking with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 100. We take it in turns to notice and name the projections that we are making onto each other. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s curiosity about perception) 101. We began talking our inner dialogues out loud, including some of the weird or neurotic or banal or zany thoughts that pop into our minds. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s trying new ways of being) 102. We each reveal away that we like to flirt or be flirted with. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s curiosity about connection) 103. We simultaneously feel the heartbeats of the others and focus on how it affects our own moods and heartbeats. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s embodied curiosity) 104. We tilt our heads forward so that our foreheads are touching, and close our eyes and focus on whatever thoughts and feelings arise. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s curiosity about intimacy) 105. We take it in turns to have the other two people’s hands resting on our chest while we all breathe together. (Community’s presence with Co-creation’s mutual support) 106. We do a weirdness disco, in which we do weird things that we spontaneously feel like doing but would usually not do because we imagine that others might find them too annoying or bizarre. (Experimentation’s trying new ways with Community’s accepting presence) 107. We practise interacting as your most awkward selves. (Experimentation’s curiosity about authenticity with Community’s accepting presence) 108. We have a silly laugh competition to see who can be the most silly and who laughs the most. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s joyful presence) 109. We run into a field or wide open space and yell, yip and yahoo at the same time. (Earth-care’s nature connection with Experimentation’s joyful expression) 110. We find a body of water and all together run and jump into it without hesitation. (Earth-care’s nature connection with Experimentation’s spontaneous action) 111. We do some inversions, e.g. handstands, hanging from bars from by our knees, yoga trapeze, folded leaf pose. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Community’s mutual support) 112. We each choose an animal and act like that animal while trying to guess what the others’ animals are. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Co-creation’s collective guessing game) 113. We engage in frolicky, frisky play well we are wearing animal masks. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Earth-care’s animal honoring) 114. We do a 3-way, standing, vibrating, humming hug and pretend to be a beehive. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Earth-care’s nature mimicry) 115. We explore making a variety of different sounds at each other. (Experimentation’s vocal exploration with Community’s presence) 116. Starting very softly & quietly, we hum, whistle, sigh, sing, harmonize, and then add body percussion as the intensity crescendos. (Co-creation’s collective creation with Experimentation’s building energy) 117. We play with saying challenging tongue twisters fast. (Experimentation’s playful challenge with Community’s shared struggle) 118. We each swap clothes with each other, putting on the clothes of the person to our left. (Experimentation’s trying new ways with Earth-care’s reuse) 119. We see what it is like when we all keep our eyes closed for a while, and then switch it from eyes closed to mouths closed. (Experimentation’s sensory curiosity with Community’s shared experience) 120. We all put on blindfolds or close our eyes and do a contact dance together. (Experimentation’s sensory exploration with Community’s trust) 121. We go in a pitch black room and have a lying-on-the floor disco party. (Experimentation’s sensory play with Community’s presence) 122. We each put on headphones and do a silent ecstatic dance together, each two different music, and we observe each other’s movements and try to select music that causes similar dancing to each other. (Experimentation’s movement exploration with Co-creation’s collective synchronization) 123. We take it in turns to be in the middle of a standing 3-way hug. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 124. We hold hands in a triangle and use our intuition to lock eyes in pairs whilst the other of the trio witnesses. Either of the gazers may at any moment spontaneously turn to look at the witnesser, thus switching up the roles. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s intuitive connection) 125. We do a reaction-observing triangle in which we each pay attention to the person on our right and narrate in real time what they are doing. (Co-creation’s listening with Experimentation’s observational curiosity) 126. We have a conversation in which we talk much, much slower than normal while trying to take ourselves extremely seriously. (Experimentation’s trying new communication with Community’s presence) 127. We collaboratively narrate a series of escapades we could feasibly do now, imagining doing them and escalating the story. (Co-creation’s collective storytelling with Experimentation’s imagination) 128. We take it in turns to pretend it is our birthday and be showered with celebration and praise and good cheer from the others. (Community’s celebration with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 129. We do a series of cheerful, raucous toasts to various things in celebration of life and love and our successes. (Community’s celebration with Co-creation’s collective appreciation) 130. We find someone and proposition them to join our group and its dynamic. (Community’s inclusion with Co-creation’s invitation) 131. We play 3-way Rock-Paper-Scissors, best out of three, the loser receives a silly forfeit. (Experimentation’s playful competition with Community’s shared fun) 132. We do some trust fall exercises in which we fall backwards into the arms of the others. (Community’s trust with Co-creation’s mutual support) 133. We take it in turns to be the top of a human pyramid made out of the 3 of us. (Co-creation’s collective building with Community’s mutual support) 134. We do a strength training workout together, acting as each other’s spotters. (Co-creation’s mutual support with Community’s collective care) 135. We explore the space searching for teas, herbs, spices and anything else that has a pleasant scent, all the while communicating our olfactory experiences through facial expression and body language. (Earth-care’s nature exploration with Experimentation’s sensory curiosity) 136. We take our time while we explore each others hands and their various visual and tactile textures. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s sensory exploration) 137. We take it in turns to recall various enjoyable sensations we have experienced in our lives and narrate what it felt like out loud while the other 2 people listen. (Community’s truth-sharing with Co-creation’s gift of listening) 138. We take it in turns to talk about something that makes us feel deeply, comfortable. (Community’s truth-sharing with Co-creation’s gift of perspective) 139. We each state something that we believe is expensive yet still totally worth it. (Community’s truth-sharing with Co-creation’s value-sharing) 140. We each state something that we like but know is a little bit naughty. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s shadow exploration) 141. We three experiment with what happens when we are overtly, playfully flirtatious with each other. (Experimentation’s curiosity about connection with Community’s playful exploration) 142. We simultaneously cathartically rant about something or someone as a way to blow off steam, and then we re-centre ourselves. (Community’s truth-speaking with Experimentation’s shadow expression) 143. We discuss whether or not and to what extent we have empathy for The Joker. (Community’s truth-sharing with Experimentation’s shadow exploration) 144. We each take a shot at convincing the others of a silly point of view that is indefensible. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Co-creation’s collective debate) 145. We take it in turns to do little things that we expect the others will disapprove of and try to not be bothered by what they think. (Experimentation’s trying new ways with Community’s accepting presence) 146. We explore rejection sensitivity by requesting things from each other and answering “No” to each other and then taking a pause in order to feel the feelings in the body and the thoughts in the mind. (Experimentation’s curiosity about emotional responses with Community’s truth-speaking) 147. We have a decadence competition, seeing who can display the greatest hedonistic Saturnalia^[“Saturnalia” meaning: celebration marked by unrestrained revelry and often licentiousness; an orgy.]. (Experimentation’s playful excess with Community’s shared indulgence) 148. We take it in turns to receive comforting head rubs and massages. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 149. We lie down and each massage the feet of the person to our right. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s circular gift-giving) 150. We take it in turns to receive relaxing prods in places on our bodies such as sore muscles. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s healing gifts) 151. We take it in turns to receive firm, grounding squeezes on our hands, arms and shoulders. (Community’s mutual support with Co-creation’s grounding gifts) 152. We take it in turns to have the others pull on our arms and legs and stretch our joints and spines. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s healing gifts) 153. We all use our fingernails to stroke each other over various parts of our bodies. (Community’s sensory care with Co-creation’s mutual gift-giving) 154. We do some gentle, calm pulling and tugging of each others hair as a playful, embodied way to deepen intimacy. (Community’s presence with Experimentation’s sensory exploration) 155. We take it in turns to be fanned by the others and luxuriate in the breeze. (Community’s mutual care with Co-creation’s gift-giving) 156. We feed food to each other, taking it in turns to be blindfolded. (Community’s trust with Co-creation’s nourishing gifts) 157. We all throw, splash and douse water or other liquids on each other. (Experimentation’s playful trying with Earth-care’s water connection) 158. We experiment with dialling down the stimulation of the situation and seeing whether less is more in terms of cultivating social intimacy. (Experimentation’s curiosity about presence with Community’s depth) 159. We do a ‘dry run’, in which we name an intense or complex fantasy and do a low-stakes rehearsal of it. (Experimentation’s threshold-lowering with Community’s safe exploration) 160. We sit in the sauna together, apply essential-oil-water to the stones, and hold hands and meditate while breathing slowly and deeply. (Community’s presence with Earth-care’s natural elements and Co-creation’s collective spiritual practice) %% 1. We tune into ourselves and notice something we feel resistance to, and then do something to gently push against the resistance. (Experimentation’s “approach with curiosity” and “try it out” with Community’s shared vulnerability) 2. We ask each other what do you want to do, but are afraid to? Do it wrong. To do anything, you have to first be an imposter at it. (Experimentation’s “try it out, the threshold is low” with Community’s supportive truth-speaking) 3. We remember how ancestral soil feels like between our fingers and how the land is the commons we all care for. (Earth-care’s “Honor the More-than-Human World” treating nature as participant) 4. We each share a low moment we had this week and how we could have been supported in that moment to make it better. (Community’s safety/inclusion and truth-speaking with Co-creation’s listening) 5. We go on a synchronicity walk together, i.e., at every decision, use either intuition or roles of a die to decide the way. (Co-creation’s collective decision-making with Earth-care and Experimentation) 6. We say “I love it when you…” because boundaries advertise good ways to connect and guide to what we are available for. (Community’s truth-speaking and capacity-honoring with connection-building) 7. We immerse ourselves in wilderness. (Earth-care’s nature participation with Community’s presence) 8. We make a simple shrine to Æther and perform some simple devotional communion at the shrine. (Co-creation’s active participation in meaningful space-making) 9. We each tell each other how we like to be greeted and welcomed into a space, and then do the greeting and welcoming. (Community’s safety/inclusion and truth-speaking) 10. We reveal What are you really thinking about just now? Incorporate. (Community’s voice-honoring with Co-creation’s authentic expression) 11. We discuss what might happen if we started letting our actual thoughts be known to the people around us. 12. We each reveal something that we secretly want. 13. We let each other hear how we appreciate and approve of them, what we desire and what would please us. 14. We dance; we make an intention for it; we offer our sweat. 15. We make grand gestures at the altar - of life. Praise each talisman, deity, and lucky charm alive. 16. We gaze at the sky and witness what mood Mystery is in today. 17. We go for an awe walk, re-discovering the ever-present wonder in of existence. 18. We lounge around without electronics and root into the physical world. 19. We take it in turns to list things that we’re finding it easy to be grateful, continuing until we run out of ideas. 20. We get on our knees and pray, either together for/to the same thing, or for/to different things in parallel. 21. We savour the discomfort, breath by breath, feeling its shape and hidden pockets of aliveness. Let the suppressed living intelligence come back home. 22. We wander to the forest and whisper some of our wildest dreams to the trees and listen for their response. 23. One of us becomes an enthusiastic nature guide, presenting a leaf, rock, bug or whatever to the group as totally amazing. 24. We lay down and tone with sound and harmonize together. 25. One-by-one, we lay on our backs and share a worry that is causing us to hold tension, and the others support our heads in their hands. 26. We each say how we like to be welcomed into a space and request it from the other people. 27. We use the decks of feelings cards and needs cards to witness present truths about each other. 28. We lay down side-by-side and take turns spotting shapes in the clouds, comparing and sharing what we see and stories they inspire. 29. We each say when our last “Hell YES!” moment was and describe the situation and what we found inspiring about it. 30. We share a long hug in which way pay attention to how our mood and the tension in our bodies changes over time. 31. We stand in a circle holding hands and a squeeze is passed around the circle. 32. We each write a short love letter to ourself and then read it out to the others. 33. We each describe a small, everyday, mundane-seeming moment that rarely fails to make us happy. 34. We each share about a way in our lives in which we are pretending and imagine what it might be like to stop pretending in that way. 35. We talk our inner dialogues out loud, even weird or neurotic or banal or zany thoughts that pop into our minds. 36. We jump around and shake our bodies in different ways, seeing what feels good and what boosts our energy and mood. 37. We sit on the floor, each massaging the shoulder of the whoever is to our right. 38. We put on some joyful, energetic music and bounce up and down. 39. We devise a secret handshake that we will use when we greet and when we part in future. 40. We each describe a new public holiday that we’d create if we could. Name? Date? How to celebrate it? 41. We create a “royal treatment” moment where each person gets a turn being fanned by the other. 42. We master the art of the three-way high-five, inventing increasingly elaborate celebration moves when we succeed. 43. We use each other as makeshift gym equipment and do a mini workout and see how our moods change. 44. We play the game in which the palms of our hands become ‘magnetic’ and other peoples bodies are drawn to them. 45. We dance slowly and sensually together while keeping our hips connected. 46. We take it in turns to whisper totally unsexy things in a seductive manner into each other’s ears. 47. We crank the small talk all the way up to “11”! and see how absurd smalltalk is. 48. We each state what we think would we would say next if we were to follow the most conventional social script possible. 49. We stand several metres apart from each other and then very slowly and deliberately walked towards each other in a public space. 50. We pick a point some distance away from us, and then we have to get there together doing the commando crawl. 51. We play a game in which one person is the ‘predator’ and they must stalk and chase and catch the other people, the ‘prey’, winning if they manage to give the prey a hug. 52. We take it in turns to frogmarch each other around in a silly way. 53. We sit down opposite each other on the floor and fight each other’s feet with each other’s feet in a playful and silly way. 54. We do a breath holding contest while holding hands. 55. We take in it turns to request a phrase that the other two people will repeat back to us 3 times each. 56. We see whether we can soften… and then soften even more into the moment and each other’s company. 57. We sing a round together. 58. We lay down and tone and harmonise with sound together. 59. One of us lies in the middle of the other two, who hum or sing calmly. 60. We each select a body part on ourselves and get consent to receive a massage there. 61. We explore how many comfy positions we can find and which is the comfiest for each of us. 62. We all do some deep but easy physical training together. 63. We do some easy mobility exercises to expand and to release tension. 64. We laugh. Just start doing it and see what happens in 3 minutes. 65. We make nonsense. 66. We growl, pouring ourselves into the space around us as if we were marking our territory. 67. The slower you go, the deeper you get faster. Weel deeply and intensely each grain of time. 68. We stand and interlock our hands in the centre and rotate faster and faster. 69. We link our bodies together and begin travelling in a straight line, and every time we reach a barrier, we bounce off it like a pinball bounce off wall and we travel and see where the adventure takes us. 70. We have a free-for-all- playfight, pretending to be puppy dogs. 71. We explore platonic impact play. Does it positively impact our mood? 72. We take cushions and soft things and throw them on the ground. 73. We watch people who are in a conversation from a distance and do a voiceover narration of what we imagine that they’re saying. 74. We introduce ourselves by sharing what we secretly hope will happen this weekend and what gift we bring to make it real. 75. We each share one thing we’re genuinely curious about trying but feel nervous to attempt, then encourage each other to take one small step. 76. We practice saying “yes, and…” to each other’s wildest ideas for 5 minutes, building on them without judgment. 77. We take turns being witnessed while sharing something we appreciate about ourselves, with the others offering only presence. 78. We practice asking for exactly what we need right now and offering what we genuinely want to give. 79. We create a brief celebration for something small that deserves more recognition, complete with silly ceremonies and appreciation. 80. We take it in turns to receive celebratory appreciations from the other 2 people. 81. We each share something that if we were to do it together today it would make our day. 82. We each state a question that we would love to be asked, but no one has asked us lately. 83. We go for a walk while we hold hands, gaze at nature, and talk about deep stuff that is meaningful to us. 84. We link hands around a tree and hug it, and then we climb it together. 85. We each share about how long it has been since our last Heck yeah! moment and describe what we found so great about it. 86. We each name something that helps us to feel grounded and safe, and then we do the things. 87. We take it in turns to be welcomed by the other 2 people in as enthusiastic, emphatic and joyous way that they can. 88. We each reveal our way in which we are trustworthy, and then reveal a way in which we are not. 89. We each share about a negative or challenging emotion or feeling we are experiencing and normally feel the need to mask. 90. We each declare something that in this moment we are feeling insecure about. 91. We each declare something that in this moment we are feeling that we definitely do not want. 92. We talk candidly on the topic of death and what our points of view are and what preparations we have made for ourselves and our loved ones. 93. We each talk about something that scares us, and muse on a couple of ways we may overcome it. 94. We spend a while being sad together and leaning into the emotion. 95. We meditate together and appreciate the presence of one another without making any external acknowledgement of one another. 96. We do some group singing or chanting, e.g. with sea shanties or mantras. 97. We each say how our wellness practices have evolved over time and which is one of our favorites now. 98. We each state one thing that we love to do to unwind after a hard day. 99. We take it in turns to name something that we find makes us more easeful and request it from the other 2 people. 100. We take it in turns to notice and name the projections that we are making onto each other. 101. We began talking our inner dialogues out loud, including some of the weird or neurotic or banal or zany thoughts that pop into our minds. 102. We each reveal away that we like to flirt or be flirted with. 103. We simultaneously feel the heartbeats of the others and focus on how it affects our own moods and heartbeats. 104. We tilt our heads forward so that our foreheads are touching, and close our eyes and focus on whatever thoughts and feelings arise. 105. We take it in turns to have the other two people’s hands resting on our chest while we all breathe together. 106. We do a weirdness disco, in which we do weird things that we spontaneously feel like doing but would usually not do because we imagine that others might find them too annoying or bizarre. 107. We practise interacting as your most awkward selves. 108. We have a silly laugh competition to see who can be the most silly and who laughs the most. 109. We run into a field or wide open space and yell, yip and yahoo at the same time. 110. We find a body of water and all together run and jump into it without hesitation. 111. We do some inversions, e.g. handstands, hanging from bars from by our knees, yoga trapeze, folded leaf pose. 112. We each choose an animal and act like that animal while trying to guess what the others’ animals are. 113. We engage in frolicky, frisky play well we are wearing animal masks. 114. We do a 3-way, standing, vibrating, humming hug and pretend to be a beehive. 115. We explore making a variety of different sounds at each other. 116. Starting very softly & quietly, we hum, whistle, sigh, sing, harmonize, and then add body percussion as the intensity crescendos. 117. We play with saying challenging tongue twisters fast. 118. We each swap clothes with each other, putting on the clothes of the person to our left. 119. We see what it is like when we all keep our eyes closed for a while, and then switch it from eyes closed to mouths closed. 120. We all put on blindfolds or close our eyes and do a contact dance together. 121. We go in a pitch black room and have a lying-on-the floor disco party. 122. We each put on headphones and do a silent ecstatic dance together, each two different music, and we observe each other’s movements and try to select music that causes similar dancing to each other. 123. We take it in turns to be in the middle of a standing 3-way hug. 124. We hold hands in a triangle and use our intuition to lock eyes in pairs whilst the other of the trio witnesses. Either of the gazers may at any moment spontaneously turn to look at the witnesser, thus switching up the roles. 125. We do a reaction-observing triangle in which we each pay attention to the person on our right and narrate in real time what they are doing. 126. We have a conversation in which we talk much, much slower than normal while trying to take ourselves extremely seriously. 127. We collaboratively narrate a series of escapades we could feasibly do now, imagining doing them and escalating the story. 128. We take it in turns to pretend it is our birthday and be showered with celebration and praise and good cheer from the others. 129. We do a series of cheerful, raucous toasts to various things in celebration of life and love and our successes. 130. We find someone and proposition them to join our group and its dynamic. 131. We play 3-way Rock-Paper-Scissors, best out of three, the loser receives a silly forfeit. 132. We do some trust fall exercises in which we fall backwards into the arms of the others. 133. We take it in turns to be the top of a human pyramid made out of the 3 of us. 134. We do a strength training workout together, acting as each other’s spotters. 135. We explore the space searching for teas, herbs, spices and anything else that has a pleasant scent, all the while communicating our olfactory experiences through facial expression and body language. 136. We take our time while we explore each others hands and their various visual and tactile textures. 137. We take it in turns to recall various enjoyable sensations we have experienced in our lives and narrate what it felt like out loud while the other 2 people listen. 138. We take it in turns to talk about something that makes us feel deeply, comfortable. 139. We each state something that we believe is expensive yet still totally worth it. 140. We each state something that we like but know is a little bit naughty. 141. We three experiment with what happens when we are overtly, playfully flirtatious with each other. 142. We simultaneously cathartically rant about something or someone as a way to blow off steam, and then we re-centre ourselves. 143. We discuss whether or not and to what extent we have empathy for The Joker. 144. We each take a shot at convincing the others of a silly point of view that is indefensible. 145. We take it in turns to do little things that we expect the others will disapprove of and try to not be bothered by what they think. 146. We explore rejection sensitivity by requesting things from each other and answering "No" to each other and then taking a pause in order to feel the feelings in the body and the thoughts in the mind. 147. We have a decadence competition, seeing who can display the greatest hedonistic Saturnalia. 148. We take it in turns to receive comforting head rubs and massages. 149. We lie down and each massage the feet of the person to our right. 150. We take it in turns to receive relaxing prods in places on our bodies such as sore muscles. 151. We take it in turns to receive firm, grounding squeezes on our hands, arms and shoulders. 152. We take it in turns to have the others pull on our arms and legs and stretch our joints and spines. 153. We all use our fingernails to stroke each other over various parts of our bodies. 154. We do some gentle, calm pulling and tugging of each others hair as a playful, embodied way to deepen intimacy. 155. We take it in turns to be fanned by the others and luxuriate in the breeze. 156. We feed food to each other, taking it in turns to be blindfolded. 157. We all throw, splash and douse water or other liquids on each other. 158. We experiment with dialling down the stimulation of the situation and seeing whether less is more in terms of cultivating social intimacy. 159. We do a ‘dry run’, in which we name an intense or complex fantasy and do a low-stakes rehearsal of it. 160. We sit in the sauna together, apply essential-oil-water to the stones, and hold hands and meditate while breathing slowly and deeply.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Have instructions printed on the MPC booklet saying “Take me to the snug stage” Maybe link and tag them instead of sorting them into categories. - [[Co-Creation]] - [[All Hands on Deck]] - [[Take Initiative, Give Freely]] - [[Listen, Everyone Has a Voice]] - [[Community]] - - [[Earth-Care]] - - [[Experimentation]] %%