I-Q Intros for the DandDTrans Inquiry

I-Q Intros for the DandDTrans Inquiry

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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@Andrea Houchard

andrea.houchard@nau.edu

928-523-7153

Philosophy in the Public Interest creates opportunities for people to think about themselves, each other and the world in more creative and careful ways. We think it is important to continually assess the reasoning behind our beliefs and positions. We believe that, in many cases, consensus is an unreasonable standard. The free exercise of human reason and the ideals of free speech result in sustained disagreement. This is as it should be. The trick is to figure out how to live cooperatively and share basic principles of justice in a diverse society under such conditions.

Philosophy in the Public Interest takes philosophy out of the classroom and into the community. You will find us in movie theatres, art museums, historic hotels, private homes, libraries, and in the beautiful outdoors of Sedona, Flagstaff and other northern Arizona sites of natural beauty.

What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?

It appears to be solution driven.

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Ben Levi

ben@dialogue.org

303-546-0679

Skype: benleviboulder

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In terms of "hardware" and "software," I'm an engineer by training, worked in the solar field for a few years, eventually in 2000 constructing my solar home in Boulder CO. I've been a Macintosh computer consultant for almost 30 years, still supporting many people world-wide with their Mac hardware and software issues, as well as being a Filemaker Pro database designer. I'm also a technical facilitator of online conversation spaces, such as Maestro (I'll be assisting Ben R. on the Maestro calls) and others.

On the "wetware" side of things, I've been a student and teacher of Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi), created by Dr. Don Beck, for about 14 years, and find that the SDi lens gives me a lot of insight, compassion, and strategies for facilitating the evolution of human consciousness, both on the individual as well as the collective scale, as well as an understanding of the complexities of Change that apply at any level of human systems.

What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?

I've been a practitioner of Bohmian Dialogue since the 90s in various forms, and find the experience to be one of the leading edge of collective consciousness (Turquoise in SDi terms).

In terms of content, I have been hit by the "evolutionary impulse" as Craig Hamilton puts it. After listening to David Korten and Otto Sharmer on a call in Dec. 2014, the meme "Living Human Living Earth" came to me as a super-ordinate goal that everyone interested in systemic transformation could align their work around. If the meme continues to propagate into the Common Knowledge of the U.S. and elsewhere, it has the potential to be a catalyst for the common goal everyone is reaching for. I hope to offer this to this collective for its inquiry, feedback and further propagation.

Fedor Ovchinnikov

f.ovchinnikov@evolead.com

What would you like to share about your work?

Fedor Ovchinnikov is a co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership (IEL) – an emerging community of practice that develops and supports leaders in all sectors of society to catalyze conscious social evolution towards a just, sustainable, and flourishing world. As participatory process designer, consultant, and facilitator Fedor has worked with local and international clients including UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, California Institute for Integral Studies, Institute of Noetic Sciences, National Dialogue Network, Conversation Collaborative, Transition US, Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity, the City of San Jose, Citymart, Uptima Business Bootcamp, BayBucks, and Empowerment Works. Prior experience also includes curriculum design and teaching at Lomonosov Moscow State University, as well as founding and running the Center for Intercultural Communication through which he educated 200+ executives, entrepreneurs, and business professionals in cultural intelligence.

Fedor has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Asian and African Studies, both with honors, from Lomonosov Moscow State University where he studied resilience of complex socioeconomic systems of Asian and African countries. He has also studied team dynamics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Business Strategy at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and social innovation through courses and workshops offered by the Presencing Institute, the Society for Organizational Learning, the Art of Hosting Fellowship and other communities of practice. Fedor is a member of the Stanford Executive Circle, the In2In:Thinking Network, and the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. He also serves as Director of Practitioner Empowerment with the Academy of Management Practice Theme Committee.

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@June Parham

june.parham@norquest.ca

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What would you like to share about your work?

I work at a small college, working with nursing students who are having challenges in a clinical course. I also arrange the clinical placements for students in our health programs.

What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?

an interest in the process. To join a fabulous discussion. To make a difference for the future.

Michael Jones

Michael.Jones@Colorado.edu

What would you like to share about your work?

I am a physicist doing research on quantum gravity.

Hi @Michael Jones! What did you think of Interstellar? I was intrigued by the connection of gravity with love, and both with the transcendence of time. Steph 1/5 (@Stephanie Jo Kent)

What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?

It seems like the world is falling apart, and I am looking for a way to avoid that happening. I found out about this discussion group from Tom Atlee.

Stephanie Jo Kent

stephaniejo.kent@gmail.com

www.reflexivity.us

learningresiliency.com

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I've been growing into myself for 51 years and it's starting to feel like arrival! I was introduced to Tom Atlee's work during the build-up to Y2K, which I now think was a collective premonition for climate disruption. I've taught communication and sociology courses at the community college and university level while maintaining a 20+year professional career as an American Sign Language interpreter. My activism began in the lesbian and gay pride movement stemming from the AIDS crisis and quickly grew to include anti-ableism, anti-audism, anti-classism and anti-racism work: my Masters degree is in Social Justice Education with an emphasis on unlearning oppression for those with more privileged identities. Learning ASL and becoming acquainted with the American Deaf Community exposed me to the fascinating dynamics of interpreted interaction. I recently completed my phd in Communication, comparing and contrasting community interpreting for the Deaf in the US with the conference interpreting (among 27 spoken languages) in the European Parliament.

Here's the thing! Interpreters are put in positions where we have significant influence over communication but are constrained in nearly every way from facilitating it! Consequently, one learns a lot about the dynamics of discourse and human interaction, including intransigence to change as well as inspiring examples of intercultural connection.

Re Bohm Dialogue: I read and talked about this with a girlfriend in the early & mid '90s; it resonated deeply with my experiences and observations. I later defined dialogue as the kind of communication when I am open to being changed by my interactions with you, and (hopefully!) vice versa. I've had numerous group experiences (including NTL and Tavistock) which have been humbling. I did several AK Rice group relations conferences in the late 90s: these are Bohmian by design. For the last eight years I've been practicing Tai Chi, which has softened me up and sensitized me a whole lot more.

What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?

The possibility of species-level evolution inspires me; the biological imperative for survival calls me.

Besides, ya'all seem like you might be able to have some fun! Gotta celebrate being alive, even as we're staring down ultimate extinction :-)

Rick Livingston

Livingston.28@osu.edu

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I belong to the Art of Hosting Community of Practice in Columbus, Ohio, where I teach at Ohio State University. I'm involved in several different initiatives that have dialogic/conversational dimensions, including discussions of food system transition and environmental issues.

What would you like to share about your work?

I came to the NCDD community through AoH and the Kettering Foundation's National Issues Forum deliberations, but am very interested in learning and practicing other conversational forms.

What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?

A desire to be part of a larger conversation around pressing issues of social change, to learn more about conversational strategies and to engage with wise and skilled practitioners.

Heinz Peter

heinz@columbiawireles.ca

(250) 226-7051

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German citizen, living in rural Canada (Nelson area, British Columbia)

almost 50 years politically active: Working with the underprivileged, anti-nuclear, supporting liberation movements internationally, e.g. in latin america, successfully helped to prevent nuclear power plants in Alberta, Canada (I am a nuclear physicist)

since late 60s interest in the human potential movement (Esalen institute, Gestalt, Stan Groff, Findhorn etc.), incorporating the spiritual, mystical, interested in the work of Ken Wilber/integral, co-creation, evolutionary spirituality (Evolutionary Collective, http://evolutionarycollective.com/), systemic work (Stephen Busby, http://www.stephenbusby.com/)

interest in creating next culture, work of Clinton Callahan (http://www.nextculture.org/)

interest in international politics (e.g. Ukraine crisis), economics and the financial system

interest in First Nations culture, Martín Prechtel, http://www.floweringmountain.com/

try sustainable living with my wife (in principle we could live from the land), communal engagement

love of animals

What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?

I like the idea that it is not so much about creating critical mass than about creating critical connections (Clinton Callahan, Margaret Wheatley).I like the concept of the three waves: Networks, Communities of Practice, Systems of Influence. At the moment I am mostly interested in the second one.

Skills develop because people find each other and communicate in good relationships. In those relationships, potentials mainfest and new capabilities are born. We need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage, and commitment that lead to broad-based change.

I am interested in creating intentional communities of practice. When the context holder of one community of practice crosses boundaries to connect and authentically share with the context holders of other communities of practice, these critical connections generate a system of influence where completely new phenomena can emerge whole. In a new system of influence an entirely different dimension of action is taking place. From then on, new skills and capacities will be found in the system that emerges, qualities and capacities that were unknown in the individuals. It isn't that the capacities are hidden; they simply do not exist until the system emerges. Emergence is how life creates radical change and takes things to large scale. Emergence is the only way change really happens.Communities of Practice means: People make a commitment to be there for each othert; they participate not only for their own needs, but to serve the needs of others. There is an intentional commitment to advance the field of practice.

(Mostly from Clinton Callahan according to Margaret Wheatley)

I love to create beauty.

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Gretchen M. Krampf MSOD, PCC

Process Experts LLC

Email: gretchen.krampf@processexperts.com Telephone: 360.317.8220

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I am an OD Consultant and Leadership Coach living on an island in the Pacific NW. I have been co-located, in an apartment just across the Potomac River, from DC for the past 5 years. There's are many challenges in the federal and DC governments and a new mayor has just been elected. What might emerge from these explorations that could be transferred into engaging communities interests me.

I am also involved with New Stories , a nonprofit based on Whidbey Island. My work includes community development and we have projects that are engaging leaders of regional and national organizations, focusing on building thriving, resilient communities. Engagement of diverse stakeholders is essential. And we are in urgent need of opportunities to be more interactive and collaboratory.

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