The Alive Edges Approach

Instead of fighting over which worldview is the right one, we think of the future more like a disco ball with each one of us offering a unique facet. Together we create an Irresistible Future, a future we can all say “fuck yeah!” to.

Each facet is dynamic, created at the alive edges from our deepest desires. To create and live this irresistible future, we believe we need two things:

  • A way to align our facets so we have a coherent vision of the future we can work towards together.
  • Processes, skills, and capacities that allow us to continually grow and evolve at the alive edges.

 The Alive Edges Approach offers both.

The two frameworks in our approach:

The Four Forces

The Foundations of Reality

The skills that align you with life and with others.

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The Four Edges

The PROCESSES OF ALIVENESS

The dynamic capacities that let you evolve and navigate at the alive edges. 

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The Four Forces

The FOUR FORCES FrAMEWORK

When we align with life, we align with each other.

Through decades of direct experience, interdisciplinary research, and working with thousands of people, Founder Trish Blain kept finding the same four desires at the core of our human experience:

  • Connection: the desire to love and be loved, the desire to belong.
  • Expression: the desire to be seen and heard, to be a distinct self, recognized for our uniqueness.
  • Purpose: the desire for meaning, contribution, and being part of something greater.
  • Growth: the desire for tomorrow to be better than today, for progress, aliveness, and novelty.

Each of these desires is a doorway into a deeper architecture of reality — to expanded states of consciousness, and to the foundations of life itself.

Like a soundboard for reality, as we learn the skills of The Four Forces we can impact the world around us with more nuance and control — aligning us with life as a collaborative partner.

The Layers of The Four Forces

Each of the Four Forces operates across five layers connecting our human desires to the underlying foundations.
Skills give us options, nuance ,and control, at all of the layers.

The Four Edges

The Four Edges Framework

At the edges we are most alive.

The edges are where we are becoming and creating in new territory. New territory requires a different way of navigating. Rather than a static set of known linear steps, it involves learning to consciously work with the edges as they are constantly transforming and evolving. 

Each of the edges have a set of capacities and processes that allow you to navigate and create as you go. They require the skills of all four forces working together. 

The Four Edges and Their Capacities

The NonOrdinary Edge

Partnering with the nonphysical.

Nonordinary Intelligence: The capacity to perceive and navigate nonphysical dimensions with discernment, cultivating subtle senses, developing intuition, accessing nonlocal information, and engaging with diverse intelligences.
Consciousness Agility: The capacity to recognize, access, and move fluidly through the full range of states of consciousness.
State Integration: The capacity to embody and apply experiences and insights from nonordinary states into daily life as stable, ongoing expansions of experience.
Mythic Consciousness: The capacity to work with mythic and archetypal realms through interpreting dreams, visions, and symbols to reveal deeper structures of meaning and collective intelligence.

The Transforming Edge

Metabolizing experience.

Nervous System Range: The capacity to feel and process emotions individually and in groups, holding complexity, intensity, and paradox in service of insight and new territory.

Dynamic Self: The capacity to hold identity as fluid and evolving, reframing past experiences, releasing what no longer serves, and integrating new ways of being.

Paradigm Flexibility: The capacity to update your worldview and move fluidly between different perspectives and paradigms, understanding and appreciating differences.

Aligned Power: The capacity to work with power skillfully, harnessing lifeforce and influence to empower others and moving beyond zero-sum dynamics.

The Actualizing Edge

Collaborating in consensus reality.

Relational Fluency: The capacity to stay fully yourself while being impacted by others, communicating and processing skillfully, inviting what emerges between.

Field Crafting: The capacity to sense, shape, and work with the intelligence fields of groups, organizations, and culture, enhancing synergistic action and emergence.

Complexity Navigation: The capacity to discern and act within complex systems as living wholes, thinking nonlinearly, sensing coherence and distortion, recognizing patterns, and responding to what the system reveals.

Conflict Transformation: The capacity to engage conflict generatively, holding friction and tension to harvest creative breakthrough rather than defaulting to status quo resolution.

The Emerging Edge

Living into the Future.

Desire Collaboration: The capacity to hold personal desire while helping each other experience what we deeply desire, unlocking outcomes beyond what we could imagine alone.

Creative Sourcing: The capacity to bring genuinely new forms, ideas, and realities into being in service of long-term flourishing for humanity and all of life.

Erotic Mastery: The capacity to harness eros consciously as fuel for expanding creativity, pleasure, manifestation, and relational vitality.

Uncertainty Ease: The capacity to thrive and act decisively in unknown territory through continuous improvisation, experimentation, and embodied learning.