Part of"DandDTrans," a community of inquiry and action regarding the role that dialogue and deliberation can play in addressing the mega-crises of our time
This is an open harvesting pad for sharing brief thoughts, meaningful quotes, questions that you are now holding, etc. It is open both to participants in the dialogue and others who are coming in after the fact to think with us about what we have learned.
Here are some questions you might consider as harvesting prompts(h/tQuestions for All Seasons, from the World Cafe book and also available in"The Art of Powerful Questions"):
What’s taking shape? What are you hearing underneath the variety of opinions being expressed? What’s in the center of the table?
What’s emerging here for you? What new connections are you making?
What had real meaning for you from what you’ve heard? What surprised you? What challenged you?
What’s missing from this picture so far? What is it we’re not seeing? What do we need more clarity about?
What’s been your/our major learning, insight, or discover so far?
What’s the next level of thinking we need to do?
If there was one thing that hasn’t yet been said in order to reach a deeper level of understanding/ clarity, what would that be?
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Tension around"action" showed up as a theme throughout this engagement. I think it's fair to say that we all want to"do something" that can make a difference. At the same time, there is not broad alignment about a"something"(or set of"somethings") that a large number of us might coalesce around. Various people have advocated things they are passionate about and see as worthy of a large collective effort(Jim Rough's Wisdom Councils, +Ben Levi's "super-ordinate goal", and Laura Chasin's +Reviving Congress District by District come to mind as examples from this group). Yet no idea has gained a great deal of action-oriented traction over the course of our January inquiry...
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