Imagine collaborating on some thrilling initiative that is making the difference we most need...
What is that project and who is involved?
(If you have time) Explore why you chose this particular vision and how it relates to the visions of others in your group.
Collaborative Notes
Heinz: German living in Canada. Have worked in many fields for 50 years. Was in movement against .... More important is the cons work - connect with each other - the WE space will tell us what to do. that's how i work to make a difference.
Rachel: can you unpack WE space?
Heinz: I was working with Stephen Busby in San Francisco area. connect at deep level, let go of individual, invite higher consciousness to see where the calling is. Intensive in NY with Jeff Carriera and Patricia Albere (EVOLUTIONARY COLLECTIVE) that we are going into what the whole system, the space wants to evolve. excited about it. New way of doing things has to come from that space, not individual space.
Rachel: Evergreen colorado. Feeling called - we need to connect with each other on much deeper level. my work on climate change - moving cons to how we work with it and resilience. would love to take to scale, working within the food system. a metaphor for our connectivity, connected to earth, cultivators, social justice that we are all nourished. relationships in growing and with cultivators. weave a web of dialogue to understand the importance of that connectivity. awakens us to a WE piece, critical next chapter. exciting to see the sparks in our project locally. tangible projects and tools that people can get involved with. longer, conspiracy for development. tremendous potential.
Brian: retired redevelopment project manager. many practices were detrimental to community governance.. Looking for participative community paradigms. We try to create new systems but entrenched system must be addressed at same time. Find systems of disruptive innovation to move from scarcity to abundance. Clayton Christenson at Harvard has theory with commonalities. Systems of control and power that have pretense of democracy. need to come up with new ways to break the stranglehold. not just disruptive but also innovative to give people power they need to make changes.
Heinz: working nonlinearly? unexpected possibility not normally available to us?
Brian: Yes, entenched manipulatve power keeping things from changing can be overcome by means which creativity is opened up ... creation and destruction seem to go together...
Heinz: creating, which i'm excited about. Shiva is creative and destructive at same time. by dancing!
Great metaphor for complexity.
Jeff: Excited about a'hosting' community of practice emerging in the bay area. The Two Loops model by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Freize and friends has great value for people understanding the systems change that they are in, and how to be allies with others who are working in different aspects of the old system dying and a new system emerging.