Please ask yourself the following self-selection questions. The more clear your “yes” is to each of them, the more we believe, based on learning from the 2019 season, that the training will work for us all, achieve its purpose, and have reach beyond itself. This is our attempt to care for each of us and maximise our collective capacity we enter into this intensive training together:

* Have I read the full description of the training and NGL values? Does delving for a whole week into what it means to put that into practice individually and collectively excite me?

* Do I already have clear ideas about how I want to apply what I anticipate learning at this training within a particular context or an existing project?

* Do I have confidence that I can remain self-connected and compassionate towards others when under stress, and to engage with support systems when the level of stress exceeds this capacity?

* Have I read the statement about power and access? Am I open to the assumption that my social location has a large impact on my worldview, actions, and experience? Do I have full willingness to explore what this means when issues of privilege or internalized oppression arise? Am I open to hearing about the impacts of my actions on others? Am I open to sharing with others the impacts of their actions on me without blame? Am I open to investigating my own judgments or assumptions? Am I open to receiving coaching about any of the above?

* Am I excited about participating in the experimental nature of NGL, knowing full well that some things won’t work out to my satisfaction and that what is being attempted here has rarely been done and no one fully knows how to liberate us from 7,000 years of patriarchy, which means that the holding team will not necessarily know how to respond in all occasions? Do I have confidence that I have the capacity to stay focused on a shared purpose even if my personal needs are not met?

* After reading all that is written here, do I sense deeply that there’s a clear fit between what I want and what I am being invited to co-create at this training?