Synergy: Co-Sponsoring T’ai Chi Chih Events

Liz Salada, San Leandro, CA

Sharing in the planning and preparation for T’ai Chi Chih community events may be quite a rewarding experience. Often in teaching, we are alone in leading our group of students, and solely making decisions about our classes and schedules, etc.

Collaborating with others allows for yet another dimension of synchronicity in practice. Drawing on a reciprocal guidance expands or amplifies the possibilities of what may be accomplished. During this process, recognition of each person’s natural progression or creative input may foster a flexibility in supportive relationship, as well.

Perhaps it is merely joining for a common aim (which underlies the external play of events) that makes this conceivable. Now, however, it seems to reflect a wonderfully natural interaction known as synergy; where (according to the I Ching*): “the scope of what can be achieved together far surpasses the total of what can be achieved separately.”

(*I Ching or Book of Change, maybe the oldest book on the planet, was a co-operative effort spanning many centuries. From observing the natural cycles and patterns, a fluid guide to the way things change developed–relaying our interconnected system of relations with all things.)