Gelinas James

08/26/2026

We all have those moments when the mind is quiet and we can simply see a ray of sunlight, hear the call of a red-winged blackbird, smell star jasmine climbing a wall, taste the burst of flavor in a bite of a warm chocolate-chip cookie, or feel the skin of a beloved beneath our fingers...

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07/07/2026

Shaping the Field: How Intention and Attention Work Together
What is your highest and deepest intention—as a leader, as a member of an organization or community, as a family member, as a friend?

And how does that intention shape your attention? To what, and to whom, do you give your heed?

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06/30/2026

Please read my newest blog post

The Conversation You’re Avoiding Might Be the One That Changes Everything Relational Integrity Changes the Field
By Mary V. Gelinas

Jean and I were friends for decades. In graduate school, as I struggled to finish my dissertation, she gave me a gift I’ve never forgotten: “Don’t try to do your best work. Just get it done.” It freed me—and I finished.

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06/25/2026

The Woman Who Mistook Her Body for a Garage
“My body? It’s just a garage for my brain.”

I used to laugh at that.
Because I lived it.

Until pain stopped me—and a single question shifted everything: What if this isn’t just physical?

What I discovered changed how I understand myself completely:
Your body is not a machine. It’s not separate from your mind. And it’s not separate from the world around you.

It’s a field of intelligence—constantly sensing, responding, and shaping your experience.

When we ignore it, we lose access to something essential. When we listen, an entirely different way of being becomes possible.

I wrote about the moment this began to change for me—and the two hidden assumptions that keep most of us disconnected.

What if your body isn’t something you control… but something you learn to listen to?

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06/19/2026

Register Now For Dancing in the Field of Collective Wisdom with Alan Briskin, July 7th

Past guests have included Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Meg Wheatley, and Juanita Brown—individuals whose work has profoundly influenced the fields of leadership, facilitation, and organizational learning.

In "Dancing in the Field of Collective Wisdom," I'll reflect on a lifetime of inquiry into the hidden dimensions of human connection, collective intelligence, and the conditions that allow wisdom to emerge in groups.

Drawing on research and practices that foreshadowed today's growing interest in the spiritual dimensions of group intelligence, the conversation will explore the experiences, questions, and discoveries that led to The Power of Collective Wisdom and, more recently, Space Is Not Empty, co-authored with Mary V. Gelinas.

I hope you'll join us.

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06/16/2026

Enjoy my blog post from

Mary Parker Follett and the Early Discovery of Social Fields
By Mary V. Gelinas

Although Follett did not use the term, her life’s work reflects a deep sensitivity to the relational fields of energy and information that influence how we think, feel, and act together.

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06/09/2026

Preventing Unnecessary Conflicts
By Mary V. Gelinas

Every day, I notice more conflict and polarization than at any other time in my long life. Much of it feels unnecessary—and deeply destructive...

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06/05/2026

Field Awareness: More Than Meets the Eye. By Mary V. Gelinas
It’s easy to say, “field awareness,” as Alan Briskin and I do in Space Is Not Empty. But when we pause to consider that the Irish language holds 32 distinct names for physical fields, those two words begin to open into something far richer.
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05/26/2026

Field Awareness: A Key to Human Evolution?

I caught myself saying something a week or so ago that sounded…big:

“Expanding awareness of our inner space—along with the social and cosmic fields we’re embedded in—is key to human evolution.”

Grand? Maybe.

True? I think so.

And I’m still discovering what I mean.

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05/13/2026

And yet, this so-called Now is elusive—one moment dissolving into the next, like waves washing onto a shore. You might catch a wave while surfing, or capture one in a photograph. But can you catch a Now…right now?