Dave Evans

I mean, go to a startup, go have military experience.

That's a profound experience of being a human being.

But there's another kind of gathering, which is we call formative, not just get together to have a good time, get together to get something done, get together to become better together.

So if a person is a becoming, is there a place and a conversation I can enter into where what we're doing here together is

We are assisting one another in our becoming, which isn't getting a transaction done, isn't solving a problem.

It's allowing one another into the conversation that's growing into the next person I want to become.

So that is a gathering of intent, not content.

Most of the time we get together socially around the content of we all like theater, we all like jazz, you know.

So there's this commonality of the content of what we're doing.

We're getting together to go, you know,

work on this food problem or start this company or whatever it might be.

So there's the content of our collaboration.

In a formative community, like, well, you're into climate change and I'm into Beanie Babies and she's into modern art.

Oh, you can't help me because you don't know my thing.

No, no, no.

I don't need you to know my thing.

What I need is for you to be the person who's becoming their better selves.

I want you to get more in alignment with who you're on the way to becoming.

And when that occurs...

Your psyche, your soul, your consciousness resonates in a way that the content of what you're doing doesn't matter to me, but the intent does.