What exactly is The Art of LIVING in practical terms?...

The Social Architecture to Orchestrate a Global Paradigm Shift!

Our equivalent of lifting the great stones, The Art of LIVING Social Architecture is designed to
usher in a Creative Relational Worldview with the consistency necessary to supersede the
prevailing paradigm - thereby creating a steady-state awareness for our higher human nature
and enhancing our capacity to live our lives, sourced in this awareness.

"Where the architect designs physical space, the social architect

designs social space...The social architect's task is to create the space
for people to act on what matters to them." - Peter Block

ⓒ Frankie Lee Slater, founder, The Art of LIVING Coalition

310-266-2202 • liveart@artofliving.com www.artofliving.com • www.frankieleeslater.com

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 The Art of LIVING ~ Social Architecture
Overview
“True Freedom comes from
understanding How we Create.”
– Frankie Lee

Social Architecture – Defined

TAOLiving Social Architecture

Take Consciousness Mainstream ~ through Media, Events and Lifelong Learning

Our Experiential Style ~

Creating a Living Model in and as our lives - seeded, nurtured

and organically grown over 30 years; synthesized, refined
and systemized according to Natural Living Systems

Weaving The Art of LIVING Story

Orchestrating a Global Paradigm Shift to

a Creative......................Relational......................Worldview
(The Art of LIVING) (Circles Uniting)

Documenting and Narrating the Process as we go - to bring exponential value

Macro-Micro ~ Grid-Principles

Macro ~ Creating Environments

* includes Power of Context

Micro ~ Dynamics of Human Perception & How We Create

* includes Artist of LIFE Identity

Evolving the Models

Paradigm ~ Social Activist Concert ~ Methodology ~ True Participation

TV Newsmagazine ~ Conferences ~ Blueprints ~ Diplomacy ~ Activism

Feminine Principles brought into Balance with the Masculine

The Art of LIVING Nomenclature ~ Universal Language

Expanding on the Language of “creativity” and “art” to include all of Life

artist of life, apprentice, curator, patron, salons, Renaissance, orchestrate,
choreograph, Circles Uniting as cultural exchange and diplomacy...

Sacred Geometry of Creation ~ the Blueprints

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 EVOLVING THE MODELS
For This New Era & Who We Are Together...

“It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the

The Art of LIVING environment than by trying to make people think more creatively.”
- Mihali Csikscentmihaly, author of Flow
The Art of LIVING models draw on over 30 years in-depth exploration in the following fields:
experiential learning, early childhood development, and adventure play; neuroscience, the
workings of the subconscious mind, quantum physics, natural living systems, and free energy as
it applies to human relationship; global media and communications; human excellence, neuro-
linguistic programming, language sculpting and the power of influence; cultural diplomacy, non-
violent communication and soft power; esoteric and indigenous practices and the structure of
ritual; the beauty way, feminine principles and leadership; the mystery teachings of the ages
including cosmic cycles, earth grids, sacred geometry and other symbolic language, the power of
storytelling, sound and music; radiant health, and vibratory healing methodologies. Here’s one
model that hints at the subtleties brought to bear...
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THEN NOW
TELEVISION NEWSMAGAZINES THE ART OF LIVING STORY
& REALITY TV A MYSTERY SCHOOL FOR OUR TIME

Hierarchical, “us and them” orientation. Exalting
authority figures, power over, and the supposedly
rare individual who is creative. Celebrity driven to
rats-in-a-maze, placing people on pedestals &
knocking them off.
Conducting interviews “about,” with an emphasis
on human doingness.
Focus on problems that need to be fixed.
Reportage and cattle-prod journalism that pokes
and prods, largely focused on our baser human
nature, for shock value. Stating opinions about
“the way things are” as if truths, thereby breeding
resignation, resentment and even more opinions.
Audience members as passive observers, at best
inspired while still sitting on the couch, and pseudo
participating by voting for the next big winner on
their iPhone.
Traditional television and cross-platform bound.
Relational orientation, that affirms connection,
authenticity and power with. Recognizing and
affirming that it’s in everyone to be an artist of
life, while providing the skills and awareness to
consciously co-create our lives and a world that
works for everyone.
Modeling what is possible, while associating
people into the experience right along with us,
with an emphasis on human beingness.
Focus on creativity as our essential human
nature, and upping our skill level at living and
working together as the pathway to our higher
human destiny..
Asking different questions, specific to how we
are moved to create; making accessible the
universal principles to unlock people’s greater
human capacities and empower them to create
what they care to create.
Active participants, applying the principles in
their lives with noticeable results, becoming
aware of their essential gifts, stepping in and up
together, contributing beyond themselves.
Transmedia -- providing the story experience
across platforms and formats, current and
emergent technologies, and in the press.

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and several more of The Art of LIVING models, in brief...

THEN NOW
SOCIAL ACTIVIST CONCERTS CIRCLES UNITING
GLOBAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE

Mostly Yang, Top 100 driven, high participation on Large-scale ritual-based, world music driven,
the part of the organizers, mostly low stake, “as if ” experiential events simulcast so people the
engagement (in the stated cause) on the part of world over can gather their circles and
everyone else - attending, signing checks, voting on participate from wherever they are.
smart phones.
One-off event, that came and went, inadvertently Ongoing - season-to-season, region-to-region -
feeding into the cynical mind, “yeah, but where is it allowing humanity to once again be in sync with
now? the natural rhythms of the cosmos; creating a
consistency of awareness for our essential
connection and creativity (not a concept about,
but the experience of).
Asking the deeper question, ”What if there’s
something right about our being here together?” since
we are! The greater promise of our time lies in
our making the perceptual shift to “we’re only,
ever and always connected” and creating our lives
and world, sourced in this awareness.

ACTIVISM LIVING A LIFE

Triage orientation, focused on problems to solve,
wrongs and wrong doers, attempting to get outside
authorities to respond, and going up against when
they don’t.
OF CONTRIBUTION
Going “up river” and teaching people to be good
river rafters - empowering them with subtle
distinctions in co-creativity and the natural
living systems of which we are a part!
ex. Beauty Way approach with OCEANEA:
Message from the Great Mother fine art
photography series - "to know her is to love her"... 

CONFERENCES THE GAME OF COSION

SPEAKERS & PANELS ENERGIZING HUBS

Talking heads, talking about, to a mostly passive Immersive experiences to energize Hubs in
audience in especially cold rooms designed to keep major centers around the world - where
everyone alert. participants come playing themselves, for Real!

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THE SHIFT THAT IS CALLED FOR IS PERCEPTUAL
~ by Frankie Lee Slater
We are standing on a precipice
between worlds that is as profound
as when we thought the world was
flat and discovered it is round.
Humanity is awakening to the
greater truth of our connection.
We can go kicking and screaming,
as we’ve pretty much been doing,
spouting our small world assertions
that life on earth would be so much
better if it weren’t for those “other”
people.
Or we can embrace the greater truth
of our connection and promise of
our time – by affirming relationship,
and upping our capacity to live and
work together.
This is the purpose of my designing
CIRCLES UNITING to serve as a
local to regional to global cultural
exchange, growing it organically
and documenting the story to assist
the peoples of the earth in finding
our way together.
While we can all too easily present
a social self out in the world, our
deeper feelings, beliefs and patterns
reveal themselves, raw and
apparent, in the basic day to day
of living together.
The diagram pictured here is one of
a series I found myself sketching out
quite naturally over the course of
my deep dive living in the most
intimate of spaces with people – the
home. Hosted in more than 130
homes throughout California and
Oregon over the five year span of
my CIRCLES UNITING Gypsy
Road Tour, and hundreds more on
four continents.
By intuitively drawing out what I
was seeing when circumstances
arose, utilizing the circles, spirals
and svastikas, considered to be the
feminine forms of sacred geometry,
I’ve been able to make visible the
actual dynamics and principles of
human perception and how we
create – in a very practical, mystical
way, capable of informing and
enhancing every sector of human
society.
I’m in the process of compiling my
circle diagrams into a book called,
“The Little Book of Circles: A
Handbook for Co-Creativity of a
Higher Order” and am utilizing
them myself, as blueprints for the
design and implementation of
CIRCLES UNITING Global.
This one is called “The
Misperception of Separation
Tornado” and is foundational to all
the rest. The premise, quite simply,
is that all the so-called problems we
good-hearted, well-intentioned
people are working to “solve,” are
actually symptoms of a basic
misperception that has us seeing
separation as a truth, when we are
only, ever and always connected.
Hunger, war, environmental
degradation, the tendency to make
one another wrong and assume ill
intent even in those we love and
care for. All of it is hinged off of
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this conditioned belief,
masquerading as if real.
Until we put consciousness front
and center, become literate at a
dynamic level, inclusive of the
invisible world as well as the
visible, we’re pretty much just
tilting at windmills like Don
Quixote and his little sidekick
Sancho Panza.
But when we make this perceptual
shift, and affirm connection not as a
concept nor a place to get to from
this other place called “separation,”
but as an essential truth, oh my
goodness what a wealth of
possibilities will avail themselves to
us, that are already present when we
are.
I’d like to offer a challenge here –
as a way for you to take what I’ve
distinguished into action and have
an experience for yourself. For 48
hours, make affirming connection
the compass to navigate your life –
for every action you take, every
conversation you participate in, with
yourself as well as others. Be
rigorous in your commitment,
keeping track of the subtle shifts as
well as the more blatant ones, and of
how the course of your life flows as
a result. And let me know how it
goes.
* this article was published on
LinkedIn Pulse in 2015. As of June
2018, the Circles Uniting Gypsy
Road Tour has exceeded seven
years, and over 200 households who
have generously welcomed me to
move in with them and share the
intimacy of Home...
The Art of LIVING Mystery School

Every great civilization on Earth - from the Egyptian Nile to

the Greek Isles, the High Himalayas to the Americas - had
what were called Mystery Schools. It is here that the men
and women who were the lifeblood of these civilizations -
the philosophers and the poets, the astronomers and the
mathematicians, the playwrights and the artists - evolved
and imparted their legacies of wisdom. Here generation
after generation learned about the living of a life, the
mystery and power of creation, the inner world as well as
the outer.

I founded The Art of LIVING Coalition to serve this

purpose today - to share our experiences and reflections on
living the awakened life. We are making ourselves
available as allies...helping navigate the waters of
complexity...reconnecting humanity to the Mystery and
Miracle of Life we all share...and bringing everyone
forward in this new millennium where the exclusivity that
too often served to maintain "power over" is transformed
into a greater accessibility for and "power with" all people.

Ours is an era unlike any other, a time when the wisdom of

the ages, of all of time and creation is available. Here lies
the promise of the mature information age - of a time held
in potentia for eons, spoken of by saints and sages - when
the rainbow people, yellow, black, red and white, come
together and live as One. The solutions to all of our ills are
here right now, as are the essentials for everything we have
ever dreamed to be or do. This can be that time long
prophesied, when we choose - the time of the Awakened
Human. It is up to us to rise to the occasion.

Frankie Lee

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