{"id":71,"date":"2019-03-29T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2021-02-11T19:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:27:28","slug":"sitting-at-the-threshold-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianharris.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/sitting-at-the-threshold-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting at the threshold brook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve realised that what Barry Patterson calls \u201clistening to the threshold brook\u201d is the Sit Spot by another name. I\u2019ve already outlined the principles of the Sit Spot: Find a place outdoors and sit there everyday for at least 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sit Spot practice is both simple and profound. It lay at the heart of the mentoring Jon Young received from Tom Brown Jr. and is the primary Core Routine of the Art of Mentoring<\/em> (Young, Hass and McGown, 2010). It\u2019s no surprise, then, that many Eco-Pagans have the same practice, but that realisation took me a while!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Ph.D. research identified listening to the threshold brook as one of a number of ways that Eco-Pagans connect to the animate world of nature. I concluded that it works \u2013 in part at least- by shifting awareness down the cognitive iceberg and thus enhancing our sense of connection. If I\u2019m right, then the Sit Spot works the same way. The next question is, can the cognitive iceberg model help us understand how other Core Routines work their magic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n