(Mark:"quality of listening and respect"-- I agree that this is essential and very alive)
"Heartwork"-- maybe as the First Nations people say--"all my relations"-- as we honor and respect all the people in our extended circle-- and this process, of maintaining respect and listening in such a broad way-- creates a validating and authenticating influence-- guiding us, I believe, towards"truth" and"wholeness in all things"-- which can be very healing, for individuals and for groups and entire nations. All collective decisions, for example-- as per"democracy"-- can/should be made this way, as we seek the ideal proportional balance in the way our collective resources are allocated("who gets the water in the river?")
Mark asks: How do we converge what we are doing into a specific project?
Mark: name the process, articulate it, invite people into this.... But if we just make it very clear-- that these conversations are about deeper meaning and purpose...
Tom:"the magic in the middle"-- Juanita Brown--"sitting around the council fire"-- Bruce thinks this is very right-on...
Mark: The quality of listening and respect and heart that can come from using this technology. If everything else doesn't work, the voice connection is the essence of our connection. Social webinar and Hackpad technology makes possible poeple finding their own way; it's a reliable platform(but i haven't been in the control panels where several people have to coordinate it; how does it scale?). We can do the quality of this dialogue and heart work without having to travel as long as we're connected to the internet. Also, some content stuff; appreciated Tom's synthesis of 12 ways of transformational dialogue(in the strategic use of conversation OST session). Not sure how to integrate this all in my work; i can see the need to harvest all this stuff, but not sure how we'll do that. Also Jim Rough's ideas of choice-creating(rather than decision-making), Dynamic Facilitation, and Wisdom Councils - a new frame of reference I will use more in my conversation.
Bruce: The circle sacred circle followed by spores. Tension between those two. Random selection and holding everyting thogether in agreement. Top down are seen as oppressive (need to break down false models of that). I'm inspired by Black Elk's"circles" and wholeness of the world. Following all these pieces together under primal indigeous vision, sacred listening and heart. Essence of co-creation at large scale. I want to listent to you and hold you in respect; doing that with milions of people; heals tribe, heals nation, primal laws. In my link above, is where I'm writing stuff up on this. Respect and listening are the magic ingredients.(Bruce: some of this is reviewed in the collaborative notes from session one, breakout group 2)
Laurie
Conglomerates; I don't understand them. So highly dysfunctional and lumbering and impersonal. I prefer small groups. Just being on the calls and everyone who I've heard has contributed value to me. They better at intellectual articlation; I'm more heart and practical pull our sleeves up person. I work in small groups and build relationships. Drawn to these calls; Maestro is a marvel. people like to be in small groups like this without noise of the outside world and partake of each other. Deep bow to Bruce: He described it articulately. I love it. Being together in these groups; I gain a lot from everyon I'm exposed to. I'm not going to go out and change The world, but I'll change My world and whre it intersects. All these beautiful loving voices, these pings of delight, from around the world that come into my life through Maestro. When else would I talk with all these people?
Tom
Invoke by discussions to clarify my thinking 1. Here are a bunch of ways of thinking strategically about conversations(12 startegic ways) 2. In last round I was asked to speak to what was I thinking of with changing our"being and doing". I had been invited to articualte things I was thinking and feeling and then others could add to that. Planetary intergenerational roles What does that mean? If we are co-creators of whatever happens in the future, what does that mean we will do? Not just as a consultant looking for work but as a member of humanity doing Work. It gave me a glimpse of more people talking about this way of being and doing.
Laurie
Why am I here? I don't have the answers, nor need to. Great to be in groups like this because community power /magic emerges. I don't have all the answers but being exposed to groups like this, answers begin to emerge, see more aspects to the puzzle and once in a while I see the whole puzzle. I'm grateful to be exposed to these tribes. The universe is gracious enough to share this openning with me.
Bruce:
Appreciate what you say about magic. "group magic" about resonance. We are all interested in each other , listen to each other, like each other, the group starts forming a common center that everyone shares. Like a water dowser, energetically finding a rich center where everyone is, like a meditative experience.
Tom
The magic in the middle(Juanita Brown). Speaking from the centre and through the centre sitting around the fire(as shared light, organic, unpretentious)