​​January 25 Open Space Call Main Pad for DandDTrans
​​A "community of inquiry and action" regarding the role that dialogue and deliberation can play in addressing the mega-crises of our time
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​​Welcome to main pad for the January 25th live Open Space call. Note: you must register and dial into this call to participate. This pad is a supplement only!
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​​You are encouraged to try out MaestroConference's Social Webinar feature for this call in addition to dialing in and being on this hackpad. Look for the custom registration link in your confirmation emails, or click here and enter your email and Maestro PIN #. (http://social.maestroconference.com)
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​Call Agenda

​​This call is in two parts. Come for just the first part, or for both:
  • ​​Pre-call Tech support
  • ​​Please consider dialing in fifteen minutes early for some help getting settle with the technology
  • ​​Part One: two rounds of open space sessions
  • ​​3-4:45pm ET / 12-1:45pm PT
  • ​​Orientation
  • ​​Opening 
  • ​​Part Two: closing circle
  • ​​4:45-5:30pm ET / 1:45-2:30pm PT
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​​+Orientation​

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​Opening the Space

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​​Mark has devoted his life to systemic transformation. 
​​How do I be and do... appreciate you mentioned "be" before the "do". On walkabout for last 3 1/2 years. Becoming more and more clear to me... started Int'l Rivers Network, and experienced profound deep hunger around the world to actively collaborate and play together. People hunger to answer that question of how to be and do, in this time of evolution. It's an inside job; effecting change outwardly is only as good as the change I do inwardly. When I do anything out of fear, scarcity and separation, then I'm actually contributing to the old paradigm. Challenge to learn how to act completely from love, faith and trust continues to be a profound journey. "Being" before "doing" is right on track. The River has been a major tutor in my life. Metaphor: 1-to-6 scale of river running... 1 is flatwater; 6 is where people who run them die. To run a Class 5 river, one has to be extremely skilled... to look and see out of the tumult of the water, discern drops, holes, shredder rock just under the surface, and all the small rocks that might kick you into bigger ones. A Class  5 has a through line somewhere. Most of humanity is in denial that we're in a Class 5. We think it's safer being in denial and not paying attention. It's easy to be in fear with all the obstacles... if you put your attention on obstacles, they become magnets. Challenge is to put our attention on the through-line, while also paying attention to the obstacles. There's only one boat... there's no "thems". If I make a mistake, I need somebody on the other side of the boat to help compensate for my mistake. If somebody does something that looks wrong to me, rather than judge them, I need their eyes to see, and fully embrace everyone in the boat, where when we make mistakes, live in this sacred moment do to the best together to compensate. I'm profoundly convinced that we're in the mdist of the greatest transformation humanity has ever lived through. Don't know when the major touchstones will take place... we're 
​​each co-creating this huge shift into moving from fear, towards love... this one sacred family I share this planet with. I get to learn... how to step up, how to love, how to contribute gifts of my unique skills and talents, co-creating a world that works for all.
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​Conversation "Marketplace"

​​If you wish to initiate a topic, post it below (or paste in a link to a pre-existing pad if that's what you want to use today). 
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​Initiators are requested to:
  • ​​Show up for their session and stay at least through the beginning
  • ​​Insure that notes are being taken to capture highlights and next steps, if any.
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​​Once you have posted your topic, press "1" on your phone and you will be invited to read the title and then be placed into your breakout room (stay there please!).
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​​Each topic title will be converted into a link to a new hackpad where you can post a more detailed framing and do some collaborative note-taking. Or, if desired, your topic can be linked to ​+an existing OS Topic hackpad​. 
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​Round One Topics [Keep your title brief please!]
  • ​​Post your topic title and your name below, then press 1 on your phone. 
  • ​​Each title will become a link to a new hackpad for collaborative note-taking. If you want participants to use an existing hackpad, please share that link instead.
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​Round Two Topics [Keep your title brief please!]
  • ​​Post your topic title and your name below, then press 1 on your phone. 
  • ​​Each title will become a link to a new hackpad for collaborative note-taking. If you want participants to use an existing hackpad, please share that link instead.
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​​​+A Supersaturated Theory of Change​ — Ben Roberts — Room #15
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​​Brainstorming collaborative Projects — Linda Ellinor — Room # 16
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​​I was thrown off the call: I'm in the green room.  Help!  Ben... Sorry about that! Glad we rescued you eventually!
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​Closing Circle

​​Please help take notes below during this plenary phase
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​​Appreciation for Tom's synthesizing of the previous conversation. Allowed new people to join and get up to speed.
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​​Ben's way to create a culture of safety and inclusion. Allows us to feel valued and listened to. 
​​Using tech and human heart connection.
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​​Studies were done through MIT and Carnegie Mellon--collective intelligence is a function of the social sensitivities of the members. And more recently, that it can happen online
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​​​@Bruce Nayowith​: creating a culture of safety, you (Ben R) do it very well, very encouraging, we're weaving together a mysterious network.... a resonance, harmony, common ground, interest in one another, your style helps nurture that. I'm interested in the power of intimacy, of trust, when we really listen to each other, a sacred quality around that, find ways to bond around that.... common ground for a large system transformation.....defining a simply protocol for how that could happen..... teaching indigenous wisdom in circles... foundation for the new civilization, coming in...finding ways to connect....through email, semi-formal, that builds a culture of creativity, safety, bring in their concerns, skills, passion, enter the circle with humility, courage, grace, friendship.... accelerating. exciting. This is maybe a seed for that.  There's more to this than pushing the right buttons on Maestro..... want to invoke all of what everyone brings into this and inject it out there....  (hey, thank you Stephanie Jo, these are great notes, really got down what i was saying) (You're welcome ​@Bruce Schuman​!)
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​​​@Gerald Dillenbeck​: What keeps coming back to me is that we are trying to optimize our ecological system, each of our polycultural systems, through cooperative economies. This work, as it goes online, increasingly able to participate in a cooperative economy that isn't possible prior to the accessibility of the internet. That form becomes increasingly available to those who are most at risk, who, right now in our economy are "under-producers" - the only role we have for them in the existing economy is as consumers. We want everyone to be producers and consumers together. 
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​​Savannah: respond to Bruce, me who mentioned Chief Phil Lane
​​ Deep Social Networks document. Want to work on the protocol with you....
​​ Bruce: Hi ​@Savannah Hawkins​ -- I am excited about this.   I am looking at this web site for the Shift network -- and I love this stuff: http://2014.indigenouswisdomsummit.com/ -- and for me, the quote from Black Elk in the middle of the page is a master-guideline.  That vision in a nutshell is what I would love to do -- that is "my passion" -- my vision, my dream....
  • ​​ Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the Sacred Hoop of my People was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
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​​Ben: similar dynamic of producers/consumers in this group, hosts and participants.... I yearn for a space with more fluidity between those roles, and if/when money is involved..... hosts create the container, participants bring the value..... what's the new economy perspective? The group could have other resources too...... pop up collaborative economy where people who want/need to be paid can, and other possibilities of gifts are going around in all directions.
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​​​@Chris Smerald​ We were talking about... the river analogies, then structural elements of the system like players.... but we ended up talking about ourselves, individually. While all kinds of things are getting more complicated, stressful, it's us who are becoming incoherent, powerless, anxious...... but there are other possibilities. We can instead find coherence and our coherence may be attractive/contagious with others (1/26 don't D+D tools give us ways to find coherence?) beautiful images of currents in the river, rushing downstream, when you come to a trouble spot in the river, you lean towards it, not away from it, you're protected by leaning in, 
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​​Mark - deep gratitude for heartfelt creativity out of this community. global reach, depths of curiosity, creativity coming together and learning how to hold sacred space together with Ben's modeling and each person stepping up, a privilege to participate in this community and the importance of the scope of the conversation.
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​​@Jock need online equivalent of hugs!  Emotion, so many people speaking so feelingly. I'm a little confused how online communities do that!
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​​Ben R: We can be playful..... turn on all the mics, make a sound together.... laughter is contagious. "Enough of that while the world's falling apart!"  ;-)
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​​Savannah: If you don't laugh everyday you'll get humorroids.
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​​Anita:  appreciation..... practical value to the conversations today.
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​​Ben R. hard to measure, "did anything happen here"  "what action will we see catalyzed"  Would like to get better at that.
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​​​@Bruce Schuman​: energy and protocol, Savannah - contact info?
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​​Ben R - will share emails with permission.....  will send email to the 120 people who registered/expressed interest. Don't have to reply if answered here already.
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​​Lucas: quick question, technical: offline convo that you wish you could organize them that isn't structural allowed.... you're doing it intelligently with Hackpad's structure, maybe we can build a superstructure over it?
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​​Ben R - many things I'd like to differently
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​​Linda: in our group we talked about that subject. I'm interested in hearing from people who want to brainstorm about harvesting the Hackpad further.... and/or creating some kind of consultants' learning organization.  We came up with great ideas for harvesting and some next steps with some rigor about what's working and understand the context within which we're doing this D&D work. 
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​​Ben R: poll about the Harvest...ad hoc group to support harvesting.... design in the next few days and launch soon.
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​​Email Linda if you want to follow up on the cooperative learning org. Or find her Open Space topic.
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​​Next up: World Cafe Jan 29th....
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​Next Steps

  • ​​Open Space continues online
  • ​​You can also convene your own live sessions!
  • ​​Online ​+Harvest​ process also coming up soon
  • ​​World Cafe plenary on 1/29: 2-4:30pm Eastern / 11am-1:30pm Pacific / 7-9:30pm UTC
  • ​​Opt-in for email sharing 
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​Post-Call Discussion on Harvesting

  • ​​enthusiasm about the richness
  • ​​feeling that it's hard to take what's there somewhere else
  • ​​disorientation
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​​This was an organic evolution. Given the value of the hackpads, how best to realize that value?
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​​an opening paragraph that summarizes what has occurred, then links to other places.
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  1. ​​Willingess of people to develop summaries of what is there:
  1. ​​, look for patterns and themes.
  1. ​​look for project ideas
  1. ​​anecdotes
  1. ​​Next step ideas
  1. ​​broker relationships to support that
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​​Hard to create history and context for what is there. How might we do that? Branching is confusing. Map that?
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​​Who is the harvest for? And what is it for?
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​​This is not just about hackpad--it's the entire process.
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​​Use questions, from the general top the very specific. Do an inventory.
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​​We're working in a medium that is unusual--an archive of not only the discourse but also the dynamics. Why and how the group developed in the way that it did? the dynamics where an opportunity to go deeper were missed? Supplemental questions to the calling question. How to catch up now given the gaps in my (Steph's) ability to track it all. Had seen a suggestion about a personal sharing from the hosting team? Seems like it would bookend the hackpad experience. Our practice and modeling. What new came out of this? The tech? The synch/asynch dance? How to cohere the group?
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​​Tom's framing in #2--strategic use of convos--hackpad hasn't been used strategically. More to consider there.
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​​Hackpad drives me crazy--does unpredictable things. More than one account. Can edit other people's pages-- it's "too flexible". (but -- let me also add -- that once you get dialed in, it is very easy to use, fast, flexible and "free-form", and not having to "save" stuff is very convenient -- so my bottom line is -- hey, it's working, and it's stable -- stuff doesn't get lost (at least not yet!)
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​​What have we agreed on? What have we established? What might we focus on? Exhausted by a million little fragments and no way to put the pieces together.
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​​Lucas: There is an organizing tool called a kanban board where you have three categories for tasks: backlog, doing, and done.  Perhaps there's a good way to harvest this process by gathering all the questions raised by this group which can be categorized that way too: unanswered, answering, and answered.
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​​Can harvest a story about the conversation. How it happened, what we did, what was nice. Richness and value there as social experiment. Also the question about strategic ways for relating to content, connecting, etc. A second kind of harvest. A series of questions could serve that.
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​​There was indeed a careful design to the process, an arc.
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​​How to focus people. Each host writes a pad telling their story, and with the questions we want? Why not others besides the hosts? YES!
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​​Different suggestions are complementary. Can have one doc with main themes we "agreed" upon (or something close to that) as well as more divergent questions and issues. Take what people said and find questions that organize what others said. Link from that doc to more detailed discussions. Also pairings/matings further projects. Look for potential connections.
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​​Ben R. suggests that all of the above is fine, AND maybe more action has happened already than we know, and maybe it's not "fragmented" but just hard for some people to see the patterns and meaning and maybe specific projects aren't ripe yet and that's why we haven't seen more of them.
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​​What would be useful to get a sense of people's trajectory through the experience? What did you do, what topics drew you in, etc.
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​​Some power in seeing ideas as miscellaneous. Self-organizing structure will emerge if we look for questions, versus summaries of a given session, where we might miss a trend of a question reappearing in a small (otherwise unnoticeable) way across multiple sessions.
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​​Software that will do "sense-making." Online deliberation programs that might look at our data.
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​​Bruce: regarding harvesting, what about -- a kind of database/questionnaire, where the objective was to get an accurate inventory of who is showing up, and what the skill-sets and interests are?  Once we have a detailed inventory that is "all in one place" -- we could then begin to compile things together into simpler common categories -- and see whether people are comfortable with those.  Who is here, who wants to do what -- and from there, what natural partnerships and affinities emerge?  How can we most effectively work together based on that information?  
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​​Problems in the world vastly exceed the skill-sets of small groups.  We must work together in teams held together by clear agreements and genuine trust (that's the kind of "democracy" I want to see -- not a "pure democracy" where "all the people have to vote on everything" -- which as somebody pointed out today on the call can really slow things down -- but rather a democracy based on highly skilled people's representatives who can be trusted, who do a good job for the people, who act with real integrity.  "The people" just don't have time to become skilled on every question -- and they don't have the time to deal with the issues.  Get real.  We need talented experts and specialists who will work together in trusted ways and do a beautiful job with real integrity.  I myself am never going to be an expert on pollution or energy issues -- and I want people working for me (for us) who absolutely are experts on those things.
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​​If this seems like a good idea, I might be able to help build an online database that could support this project  (I am a web database programmer) -- maybe with a google map at its core -- something kinda like this:  http://networknation.net/maps/index.cfm
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​​Harvest questions
​​Fyi, the link to the harvesting round 1 discussion does not work for me...
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