Hold the Field - by Jody Sloane (Paperback)

About the Book

Stand-up comedian, Coast Guard veteran and author Jody Sloane introduces the A P A R T Framework(TM), a field-tested practice for staying present in charged rooms without disappearing into them.

Book Synopsis

Most people think staying present means holding on tighter. It doesn't. It means knowing the difference between what you're carrying and what you're actually responsible for and having the skills to act on that difference in real time.

Some people walk into a room and read it before they even take their coat off. They absorb tension so others don't have to. They smooth the edges, manage the temperature, and disappear a little in the process. They've been doing it so long they think it's just who they are.

It isn't. It's a pattern. And it has a name.

Hold the Field introduces the A P A R T Framework(TM), a field-tested methodology built for room readers: the people who keep everyone else steady while quietly losing the thread back to themselves. Awareness. Permission. Attunement. Restraint. Trust. Five principles. One practice. A completely different way to stay in the room without vanishing from it.

Drawing on twenty years of stand-up comedy, Coast Guard Search and Rescue service, and two decades studying human behavior in charged rooms, Jody Sloane offers an approach to presence that doesn't ask you to perform calm or fake detachment. It asks you to stay.

Holding the field is what it looks like when awareness and agency exist at the same time.

Review Quotes

"That moment when you read something and it describes you in a way that you didn't understand until it was right there in print" -Erik Wilson

"I read it out loud to my partner and bawled my eyes out. Your writing is so spot on for what I am excavating. What you are putting out is so important for the people out there digging." Pebbles Sillars