Spaces held by a living container - to connect, remember and resource.
ExploreA living practice for facilitators, leaders, and organisations ready to work with the aliveness in every room.
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."— Alan Watts
Living Fields are spaces held by a living container - intentional, held for a period of time, and alive to what wants to emerge within them. They can evolve and grow, and what gets created is a product of the field itself rather than any individual within it. All fields are different and the same. In their truest essence, with total presence, they are total peace. In the humanness, they are dynamic, alive, responsive, creative. Relationships form that can run deep, wisdom becomes available, imagination flourishes. What becomes possible depends on the intention, purpose and context - and on the quality of attention brought to it.
Slowing down
Creating space to share what is really happening - in our work, in ourselves, in the systems we are part of.
Learning as nature
Designed for renewal, reconnection and regeneration - returning to what is already alive.
Visioning together
Pathways forward that emerge from both individual and collective imagination and presence.
Being human
Gatherings of humans, bringing whatever living questions are present.
Going beyond sectors
Explorations and dialogue that weave perspectives from across civic, institutional, and grassroots worlds into a larger view.
Growing fields
Each space is part of a larger, ongoing field - in relationships, in work, in what participants carry forward.
Living Fields gathers and tends four qualities - each one a condition for something alive to happen.
Relational field
Care, respect, and connection as the ground - the conditions that make participation feel possible and worth doing. A felt sense of place, and of what is being explored together.
Cross-sector bridging
Connections beyond silos - weaving perspectives from across civic, institutional, and grassroots worlds.
Inner-outer integration
Personal and collective renewal as one movement - the inner life as much a part of the field as the outer systems being worked with.
Life giving
Regenerative by nature - spaces designed to return energy rather than deplete it.
Something happens with collective attention - a kind of alchemy that makes possible what couldn't have been imagined before.
Connecting
Living Questions
What's Working
Imagination
Inspiration
Co-creating Pathways
Integration
Guided gatherings
In-person and online spaces shaped by Living Fields - for organisations, communities, and cross-sector groups.
Living Practice
Deep practice in Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space, and embodied facilitation - for those who want to go further in this way of working.
Strategic advisory
Working with organisations to bring more aliveness into how they gather, decide, and move together.
Living Circles
Intimate circles where people from across sectors come together around a living topic, theme or question. livingcircles.co →
The Guidebook
A living document of the practice - available for practitioners working in this field.
Keynotes
Talks and keynotes on living fields, regenerative leadership, and creating alive spaces — for conferences, organisations, and gatherings.
Inspired by
A living practice developed over 2 decades in over 20 countries with participants from around the world.
Wisdom traditions
Appreciative Inquiry
Contemplative practice
Somatic work
Living systems
Creative arts
Energy work
Integral theory
Transformational leadership
Systems sensing
Living Fields has been developed by Ilana Wetzler, a facilitator with almost two decades of practice - playing with and listening to the living field that exists within and between us.