I am Noticing

Attuning to the Season

On our first co-sensing call, on March 24th, we opened by listening to the season. In pairs, we asked: What are you noticing? What’s flirting with you, trying to catch your attention? When we came back to the whole group, each of us wrote a single line into the chat.

When forty people on a Zoom call each drop a single line into the chat about what they are noticing, something happens that none of us could have created on our own. A particular quality of presence can perceive things that are not available at the individual level.

The collective becomes a sensing organ and the field begins to speak through us.

Attuning to and listening with the seasons is a very, very old practice, one that might be wearing a new language these days. The botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Gathering Moss, and The Serviceberry, writes beautifully about how attentiveness is a form of reciprocity with the living world. She writes that “the world has a way of guiding . . . our steps,” and that when we look in a certain way, adding depth and intimacy, a whole new world can be revealed.

This kind of noticing has deep roots in many different kinds of traditions. Otto Scharmer calls it presencing—sensing from the source of what is wanting to emerge. adrienne maree brown reminds us that “what we pay attention to grows,” and that small patterns set the shape of the whole.

In Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta describes five ways of seeing from an Aboriginal perspective, and among them are pattern mind and dreaming mind. These are ways of reading the world through relationship and place and the liminal world. What all these practitioners share is a trust that the world is speaking, and that the collective can perceive what an individual alone cannot.

Whether we attune to the thaw or thunder of spring, or the darkening of days and the turn of wind into hail, we are inhabiting a metaphor-mind and communing with and receiving information from the wider, more mysterious world. Attuning to the season offers signals that not only enliven our attention, but bring different kinds of meaning to our days, our spirits, our psyches. This is good medicine in tumultuous times. It’s a kind of wayfinding with a larger world.

Here is what emerged.                

 We Are Noticing

 A Collective Poem from the Coralus Signal Spotting Call

 March 24, 2026

I’m here, it’s real, I can do this.

A deep thawing.

Transition from science to many ways of knowing.

What are the parts of me in flow, moving with ease like the water ~

and what else still needs to melt?

The power of synchronicity.

Big waters connecting and pulling us.

Emergence. Prosperity. Flow.

Being held in generous, generative community.

Nature is inviting us to simplicity and realness.

Grounded fatigue.

A good transition that brings both nervousness and alignment.

When you are in the work in isolation it can feel hard,

yet when you are together with others doing their own work,

it all makes sense and feels easier.

The shakiness of emergence ~

that space where things are ready to become

but others need more time to sprout.

We are in this world so connected.

The changes in stages of parenting

and what life looks like in each phase.

The eastern sun shining through the leaves

in a town across the world.

Answering with light,

questions that felt once entitled to words ~

now they surrender.

I am connected to greatness

and support from others who need to rest

while I need to step into action.

Thixotropy ~ life mirroring the biological.

Perfect weather. Different access.

The winged ones welcoming me back,

trees calling for me to go to them

for healing and welcomes.

Nature’s gifts ~ to feel alive by the ocean

and the simplicity that exists

when viewing nature amongst the complexity of the world.

The desire for leadership.

The beautiful flow of water that connects us across continents.

Heaviness ~ but all of us holding this boulder together.

The people are here.

Nervous system regulation.

The speed in which things are flowing with ease

when we are rested.

We are noticing the universe is supporting us

to create a more spacious life.

And that the collective landscape is so alive.