Tribes of Awakening Through Relating Explained (in 5 minutes)

markthemysticactiv
Jun 18, 2025
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Updated: Jun 7

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"Hi, my name´s Mark, I´m in my seventies now - and it was me who initiated The Tribes of Awakening Through Relating Movement a few years ago – after many years of exploration and experimentation.

So what´s a Tribe of Awakening Through Relating? It´s a group of 10 to 30 people (though probably less at the beginning) who have made (what I feel is) a deep and beautiful commitment to each other – and become (what I call) “a non-biological extended family”. In other words, they´re bonded as tightly as many large, extended families used to be – but they´re not bonded biologically (by blood) - they´re bonded on a path of learning to live consciously: of learning to live in presentness and emotional-intimacy - with each other and with the world.

They don´t have to buy land together, or all move in together - to become A Tribe of Awakening Through Relating. Nobody needs to move! Everyone can stay where they are! But it does mean meeting regularly, being involved in each other´s lives, and supporting – and (perhaps most importantly) letting themselves be-supported-by each other. So all living in the same local area is ideal – although initially this might not be possible.

The key point is that together, the members of a Tribe of Awakening Through Relating are learning to live in consciousness. They are learning to live in an energy-field of presentness and emotional-intimacy. They are learning to live their daily lives inside a felt-experience of The Great Mystery – together.

When they meet they nourish this experience, this field - and it nourishes them – and it gradually infuses their daily lives - which will therefore tend towards a lessening dependence on the mechanistic, industrial, digital, artificial way of life, and towards greater respect and love for the natural world - and sovereignty.

So The Tribes of Awakening Through Relating Movement offers a vision of a shared life-path - a vision of a transformative life-journey as a Tribe. And it offers philosophical and psychological ideas, as well as various techniques and structures, all designed to support people in forming their own Tribe of Awakening Through Relating – all designed to support unity while honouring each individual´s uniqueness.

And every Tribe is completely autonomous. We don't keep track of where Tribes form. By forming your own Tribe of Awakening Through Relating, you don't become "part of” The Tribes of Awakening Though Relating Movement. We see our role as limited to inspiring, and helping people get started.

Everything´s explained in my book “Love and Revolution” (available as a free e-book, or for purchase as a paperback). But I´d recommend starting with the shorter "Tribes of Awakening Through Relating Manual: Concept & Method" (which is also available as a free e-book). Both books can be requested via the contact page on the website.

You´ll find extra, free resources on the resources page - further support on the support page, if you feel you need it – and related articles, stories and poetry on the blog.

And the Tribes of Awakening Through Relating vision is not only about forming Tribes in order to share the journey of personal transformation – it´s a vision of social transformation. It is about going beyond our current state of social fragmentation by forming new “extended families” - and then linking those families together, and shaping new, deep, beautiful, conscious local cultures. Which, of course, nobody can do alone! So I believe we need each other. And I believe the next step is to form re-invented Extended Families, to commit to each other - and become Tribes of Awakening Through Relating .

If you have any comments or questions or feel there is any way we could support you - please feel free to get in touch.

And again - to get started I´d recommend requesting The Manual.

Thank you very much."

Mark Josephs,

Aragon, Spain,

Spring 2025

Mark initiated The Tribes of Awakening Through Relating Movement.

His articles, stories and poems attempt to capture

something of the mood of "intimacy with existence"

at the heart of a Tribe of Awakening Through Relating .

www.tribusconscientes.com

TRIBES OF AWAKENING THROUGH RELATING