Something touches you.
Something enters.
A capacity you can develop
Meet what is here now.
Life is already happening. Learn to meet what appears before habit, protection and certainty determine your next move.
Meet the Now develops your capacity to stay available to experience. Not to be calm all the time, but to move without losing yourself.
View the offerDeveloped by Sarah Ketelin samenwerking met Instituut Core
Who this work is for
For those who react before they choose.
For people who notice in contact, conflict, desire, leadership or uncertainty that their body is already in motion before they have chosen.
Your response need not be wrong for more room to move to become possible precisely when something truly touches you.
WorkLoveConflictDesireUncertainty
The ignition point
Where life touches you, movement has already begun.
Meet the Now expands the room to stay present and the capacity to meet what comes, so movement can find its place.
Without embodied presence, a response can unfold like this:
Your body responds.
The impulse is already moving.
Your mind reaches.
You meet your history, too.
The foundationMeet the Now gives you ground.Open
Presence
Feel where you are as the response moves through you.
Attention
Notice what happens within and around you.
Attuning
Sense what the situation asks before you move.
Acting
Give shape to your next move in contact with what is here.
One familiar move.
More than one move.
Another direction seems out of reach.
Room opens to attune and move differently.
This diagram shows how a response can narrow. With the five elements below, you practise staying with experience so more ways of moving become available.
Sitting in the Fire
Turbulence
When an ignition point flares, your nervous system may shift into a higher gear. You may notice tension, acceleration or narrowing. What arises can be experienced as turbulence.
Switch on your curiosity.
Notice: what is here now? How does your body respond? How does your mind respond? To whom do these experiences appear?
During turbulence you practise attention, presence, discernment and capacity. You learn to stay in contact with what is happening, even when difference or uncertainty appears.
01PresenceMeet the Now.
Find ground in your body while something moves. Then you can stay present in contact.
Begin with groundingBecome one with the flameBecome one with musicBecome one with the sun02
CuriosityCuriosity
Leave the outcome open for a moment. Curiosity makes room for another response.
Look as if seeing it for the first timePractise looking with curiosity03ExperienceExperience appears.
I am present with it. Without curiosity, I mostly see what I already expect. What appears has less room.
Meet what actually appears before explaining it. This creates room to notice.
Start this exercise04BodyThe body responds.
I am present with it. Without curiosity, I feel the response but do not explore the sensations. I may miss what my body is telling me.
Feel your body’s response without immediately following it. Room opens between impulse and action.
Start this exercise05MindThe mind makes meaning.
I am present with it. Without curiosity, one familiar explanation can crowd out other possibilities.
Notice the story your mind makes. Explore its meaning before acting on it.
Start this exerciseWhere room to move opens
By the field we mean the space between what touches you and what you do next.
When an automatic dynamic takes over, only one move often seems possible.
Someone withdraws. You want to force contact or leave first. When you do not decide what the silence means yet, room opens: ask what is happening, name what you notice, stay quiet, offer closeness or set a boundary.
The unknown becomes a place where something new can emerge, instead of a void you must immediately fill.
Explore the offersGuidance
Who guides this work?
Sarah Ketel. A trainer, developer and coach in personal leadership for twenty years. More than a thousand people guided, a senior trainer, working with various co-trainers in workshops.
Meet the Now was developed by Sarah Ketel in collaboration with Instituut Core.
Would you like to ask something first? Write to Sarah.
Offer
Sitting in the Fire.
An intensive practice space for what truly touches you. Slow down what happens in body, mind and contact, and practise a different movement while the moment is still alive.
Choose the form that fits your question, relationship, group or organisation.
Meet the Now’s only offer
Sitting in the Fire.
Session · 2.5 hoursPrivate or as a couple.
Intensive dayPrivate, as a couple or with a closed group.
WorkshopFor a team, organisation or assembled group.
Open enrolmentNew date to be announced.
The 2.5-hour session can be booked directly. A day, closed group, workshop or open enrolment is arranged personally.
Don't understand it. Train it.
Practise while it happens.
In conversation. In conflict. Under pressure. In desire. In leadership. In love. In uncertainty. Every encounter you enter opens new possibilities.
Meet the Now is a skill that grows through use. Here you will find articles, exercises, downloads and audio to support that growth.
A philosophical proposition
“The human being emerges where unity encounters itself as separation.”
You can use Meet the Now as a practical skill. The philosophy beneath it is an invitation, not a truth you must adopt.
Meet the Now asks for no new worldview. Only this: can you notice what is actually happening now?
Stay close to the Now
The series is coming.
Sarah is developing observations, questions and exercises to share. You can join now and then use twenty questions to discover where you want to practise.
You will receive a publication when Sarah has approved new material. There is no fixed sending day yet.
Follow Meet the Now