Ria Baeck
Ria Baeck, holding a master degree in Clinical Psychogy (KULeven) and living in Belgium, is a transformational change professional who has a rich background of experience and interests. She founded Vitis whose core purpose is to bring deep transformation in individuals, organisations and society.
Her earlier work was in psychotherapy integrating the body in the process of healing. She is now a coach and mentor, who combines deep compassion, bodily awareness and a lust for life, to facilitate transformation in individuals, groups and larger systems. She trained in and worked with Systemic and Organizational Constellations, revealing the hidden dynamics in human systems and bringing them into flow again.
The synergy of her different trainings and expertise gives her the skills to discern easily the origin of blockages in an organisation: in the realm of the relationships, in the organisational structure or in the individual. Because she draws on the mental, the emotional and the intuitive knowing, it often brings totally new and fresh solutions in a short time.
Ria’s personal interest is in the field of Leadership and Consciousness and how this relates to Communities – in work and daily life. She worked primarily in the area of personal development, coaching and the social profit sector, and she moves into leadership for business and global systems. She is fascinated by ‘What else is possible?’
Collective Presencing: Four Years Later
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Four years have passed since the first article on Collective Presencing was published in Kosmos Journal, with three more following […]
Collective Presencing – Part Four | The Circle of Creation: Building Capacity for Generative Collective Action in Service of Life
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This is Part Four of our Collective Presencing series. The earlier three articles in this series describe the new human capacity we are calling Collective Presencing. This article describes the journey to becoming a Circle of Creation–at least as far as the authors have travelled thus far, knowing that the horizon moves ever ahead as we take the next step.
Collective Presencing: Embracing a New Paradigm
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In the first two articles in this series, we introduced collective presencing as a new human capacity emerging at this time. The first article described a journey of individual and collective deepening and widening through a set of practices that can, over time, allow us first to achieve collective wisdom and later to become generative of more life. The second article took a more detailed look at the first phase in the process: what it takes to become a Circle of Presence. We promised that the next article would treat the next phase, the Circle of Creation. On deeper reflection we came to see that the transition to the Circle of Creation represents such a paradigm shift that some wider context is needed before we broach that subject. This article offers that.
The Circle of Presence: Building the Capacity for Authentic Collective Wisdom
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Our first article (Kosmos, Spring / Summer 2012) gave an overview of the new human capacity we are starting to articulate—that we call Collective Presencing, the purpose of which is to allow us to systematically achieve collective wisdom. We described the two distinct phases that we see unfolding as a collection of individuals learns to become a collective capable of employing this capacity on behalf of the whole: firstly, becoming a circle of presence, then becoming a circle of creation.
Collective Presencing: A New Human Capacity
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This is the first in a series of articles introducing the phenomenon and practice of Collective Presencing, a new capacity evolving in humanity at this time. Great thinkers have foreseen its coming—we recognise it in Aurobindo’s descent of the supramental and Teil-hard de Chardin’s noosphere. But what exactly do those terms mean? Where these gifted individuals intuited and envisioned the birth of this new collective capacity at the dawn of the last century, we are now starting to be able to describe it from experience. While many might recognise the phenomenon from transpersonal group work and other such practices, so far as we are aware, this is the first attempt to articulate it as a path and a set of capacities that can be intentionally developed.