This conversation has completed its second round. Thank you to everyone who participated! Round 3 will be coming as we get closer to the final World Cafe in the last week of January.
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What questions, if answered during our initial live World Cafe conversation on January 6th, might best serve us as a"community of inquiry and action" that is gathering through the end of the month?
Group 1
Names of participants(4 max please!):
Ben R.
Tom A
Tom C.,
Mark S
Posting suggestions:
Include your name and the date before each post
Be brief, and post one idea per paragraph, separating ideas with a blank line.
Use indenting and italics to indicate responses to what was posted previously in your group, placing your responses under the ideas they refer to.
Posts
[Ben Roberts, 12/29]
Some people have assumed suggested that our overall calling question should be the one we discuss in our initial World Cafe:
What do we, as members of the dialogue and deliberation community of practice, have to be and do to enable our most positive transformational impact in the face of emerging global crises which fundamentally challenge our business-as-usual habits and systems?
I wonder if, in order to work our way into this extremely challenging inquiry, we might do well to begin with something else, at least for the first of the three rounds on the Jan 6 call. Perhaps something like"what is working now that you are connected to or aware of?"
[Ben R, 12/30] I could also imagine a second round question that explores what participants know or/are involved in that is in motion for the near future that they believe might have transformational potential. This might build on the +Whats in Motion?inventory that is being developed as part of the +DandDTrans Open Space.
[Mark Spain 4 Jan] Ben, I think your What's in Motion? could be linked with Tom's first round question to make"What current dialogue projects do you know of that are transforming social systems in your community, including online?"
[Tom Atlee, 12/31]
Round 1: What current or past D&D initiatives do you believe can teach us important lessons about transforming social systems(like political, government, and economic systems)? Round 2: What did we all learn in the first round and how can we imagine reweaving all that into something even more powerful?(Tom Atlee, 12/31)
One of the main factors in my mind as I think about Jan 6 WC questions is what will"stir the pot" creatively to juice people's ideas and energy in preparation for the Open Space activities we'll be sponsoring. What WC inquiries will evoke/provoke/stimulate them to convene juicy OS sessions later?
[Ben R, 12/31 3pm ET]
Yes, Tom, I agree that"juicing the Open Space" would be one of the most valuable outcomes of the Jan 6 WC, and it makes sense, Art of Hosting-style, to design backwards form there. At the same time, there is your strategic call, echoed in Tom C's post below, to make sure that we look for actions that truly have transformational potential(and I would also add, that might have an impact in the relatively short term, given the urgency of these mega-crises). How might we frame things so that the OS topics that get initiated are more likely to reflect that level of thinking?
Round 2: Powerful Questions Conversation (completed)
assumedsuggested that our overall calling question should be the one we discuss in our initial World Cafe: