​​Jan 29 World Cafe 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 the main pad for the January 29 World Cafe. You must call in to participate, which requires registering here  (unless you already registered personally for DandDTrans with MaestroConference) . This hackpad is a supplement to the call, where we can take notes together.
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​​The call is in two consecutive parts of 90 and 60 minutes respectively:
  • ​​Part One: two rounds of small group conversation
  • ​​2-3:30pm ET / 11am-1:30pm PT
  • ​​Part Two: third small group round and full group harvest
  • ​​3:30-4:30pm ET / 1:30-12:30pm PT
  • ​​Come for just the first part, or for both (but not for the second part only!)

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​​Note: this entire page is editable! Please be careful to only make new entries and not delete what is here. To edit, you must sign into hackpad, using either Facebook, Google, or an email and password you set up. ​+More on how to use hackpad here.​

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  • ​​Image taken from The World Cafe by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
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​Agenda

​​Pre-call tech support: come onto the call fifteen minutes early for help with hackpad and social webinar.
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​​Part One: 2-3:30pm ET / 11am-1:30pm PT
  • ​​Participant greetings and intentions
  • ​​Host welcome, overview of call agenda and DandDTrans purpose
  • ​​"Coming Together" ritual
  • ​​Setting the Context
  • ​​Small group Round One
  • ​​Small group Round Two
  • ​​Brief harvest
  • ​​Closing of Part One/Next Steps
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​​Part Two: 3:30-4:30pm ET / 1:30-12:30pm PT
  • ​​Small group Round Three
  • ​​Full group harvest
  • ​​Closing/Next Steps
  • ​​Celebration!
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​Tech Notes

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​Purpose and Intended Results

​​Purpose statement: To explore the calling question: 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? 
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  • ​​The following are among the intended results for this inquiry:
  1. ​​Engage in deep dialogue around our calling question.
  1. ​​Connect to build community and share resources, information, and strategies.
  1. ​​Elicit inspiring, actionable possibilities and support the emergence of collaborative teams to work together on bringing them forth in the coming year.
  1. ​​To have this inquiry process itself be a prototype that can be iterated upon in service to systemic transformation.
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  • ​​What we're doing today
  • ​​Harvesting: Thinking together about what we have learned, and would still like to learn.
  • ​​Note: if you're participating for the first time, you can both offer your own initial thoughts on the calling question get curious about what others have learned, and be a thinking partner with them.
  • ​​(Beginning the process of) Closing DandDTrans
  • ​​Celebrating!
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​"Coming Together"

​​A we sit in silence, you are invited to offer an intention, blessing, or wish for the group gathered on this call, for the community of inquiry, and for Mother Earth and all her children, who are crying out in need. Thanks to Bruce Schuman for the image below.
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​Setting the Context (Ben Roberts)

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​​Link to Ben's notes on ​+Fungi as a metaphor for DandDTrans​
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​Round One Pad Index

​​Each link below is for a pad on which a small group can take collaborative notes. If no one in your group is on social webinar to see what your room number is, press five and a tech host will come and tell you what pad to use. 
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​​Question: As you consider the original calling question, how has your sense of what we have to be and do shifted or developed?
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​Round Two Pad Index

​​Each link below is for a pad on which a small group can take collaborative notes. If no one in your group is on social webinar to see what your room number is, press five and a tech host will come and tell you what pad to use.
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​​Question: What else have you learned--and what else have we learned-- that you feel adds real value to our work?
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​Part One Harvest

​​Please help take notes!
​​(Linda) The main thing I have learned is to trust that by engaging in meaning conversations and being as present as I can be is one of the most important ways that I can move forward in my life given the seemingly intractible challenges facing our world today.  Moving from "ego-awareness" to "eco-awareness (or awareness of how my actions affect the whole of which I'm apart)" seems to be the main movement that needs to be made within the human community.  
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​​Learning that deep listening changes every conversation...and opens space for possibilities to emerge through co-creation energies...there is dancing that can happen...that deep listening is a form of dancing with someone.
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​​(Savannah)  finding people to work with in unity to approach people in the world who don't know about these solutions...huge potential.  
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​​(Mark Spain)  I'm enjoying the magic in the middle.  When we value all of the voices...creating the future in the present moment.  Indigenous wisdom
​​and if we can put some bring these things together and invite others to join us, I look forward to this.  
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​​(Bruce Schuman)  Everything that Mark said is in me...it is a group magic that happens when we engage like this.  The outreach energy, some sort of invitational approach for others.  Simple, easy to understand...if you can enter into the spirit of this thing...there is room for everyone.  You could do it on internet, or virutally.   It is exciting and and it seems to work.  It doesn't have to be complicated.  Simple guidelines about treating people right.  Very excited.  
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​​(Heather)  I have personal gratitude to everyone who has been on these calls.  In a meeting last night at a public hearing on land use/ag land de-designation...this idea/intention for how to be and do to have the most transformational impact...waited after the meeting was over and was talking with county commissioner and farmers...tried to model deep listening in ways that we were invited to show up here...I saw people who I had originally disagreed with, I saw him in a new light.  I realized I could talk to him in a more effective light, now that I could see him as a more whole/complex person.  I want to thank people for the deep listening training I have been receiving from you all in these calls, for the difference it has already created in my life as an activist.  I just got it just now, that I owe you all a lot of gratitude.  I am already different...excited to see how the impacts of this difference will emerge.  
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​​(Mark)  Gratitude for the work we are doing together.  
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​​(Robert)  There is in the reality of what is going on around us, a lot of heart and confusion and messiness in the world.  It conveys a sense of disconnection from what is fully true for us.  On that level, we are all in the same space.  Self compassion is important...all the things that are happening in our lives such as climate change and social justice...how do we sit in that space and harvesting how we are changing in the world as we actually do so...referenced Heather's remarks.  
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​​Noise in the World: Mental, physical, psychological, spiritual. 
​​Much gratitude for this amazing group and dialogue between all the individuals. Looking forward to next time already.
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​​(Laura)  A good question to ask of ourselves..what has our experience been in terms of climate change and what experiences have gotten through our own denial?  I received an email from someone's journey which had a great effect on me.  Would like to share this..what can get through the denial.  Enjoyed today.  
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​Part One Closing

  • ​​Post-call reflections below
  • ​​Personal harvest stories via hackpad here: ​+Harvest​
  • ​​Harvesting team(s) forming to work in Feb on organizing, meaning making, and reporting 
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​Part Two...

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​Round Three Pad Index

​​Each link below is for a pad on which a small group can take collaborative notes. If no one in your group is on social webinar to see what your room number is, press five and a tech host will come and tell you what pad to use.
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​Part Two Harvest

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​​from the last conversations I've been in there seems to be a desire to further co-create from these general principles that we can hold spaces to engage with others trying to understand the systems they are in and how to bring change.  There are learnings about how to do these things that exist around the world...we want to know these because they give us hope.  They provide guidance.  The effort to distill those principles is ongoing.  How can we find the stories that exemplify them as they work and what goes wrong when they don't work and what pushes back against them working.  Related to this are the personal changes that we go through...work locally, think globally, change personally.  
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​​To have some strategies or set of them how do you position these conversations and through them change your relationships and change your actions.  How to find the leverage points.  And work through existing formal networks such as government, NGOs, etc and our personal networks. 
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​​Hearing incredible tension about moving forward in terms of next steps, between top-down traditional approach to making meaning, vs. more grass-roots, mycelium, soil, networking, branching, spores spreading unharnessed randomly. How to hold that tension long enough to allow something new to emerge that nobody's thought of... a breakthrough moment.  Personal insight has deepened my conviction that it's 1 on 1, personal conversations, that makes all the difference. With this month's ability for me to deeply listen more than ever before, it's my most important take-away.
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​​Many things have impacted me, like a "missing piece" for getting a whole idea. Paula Dunn Allen, native american writer, wrote that in their view, we're based on patriarchal assumptions. This is a crack in the foundation of creating this country; based on conflict. More and more countries around the world are basing their philosophies on conflict, which most people do not want in their lives. Gov't from top-down have view that they're parent, and we're the recalcitrant children, so they're wiser than we are, which I find disrespectful. How to, in our conversations, go to the next step, take action and work together, to comprehensively create the foundational framework... Native American 16 guiding pricniplces, Earth Charter, lots of others. How to get enought people talking about this and about alternative choices? We haven't learned how to do that. I've met many people in these conversations willing to step forward to do this work. We've been able to get to know and trust each other, speak from our hearts, so it can bear fruit... like a tree. How do we get the fruit off the tree, now that we're branching out?
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​​Re: tree metaphor... tension between top-down and bottom-up, can understand it as network vs. tree. Network is teeming point-to-point networks, connecting adjacently to something you have in common; no central integration. Whereas Sacred tree (Phil Lane) is a wholistic postulate; a wholeness that arises in himan spirit that says, this is a design that can hold us all... trunk (oneness) and branches (diversity). Notion of invitation... how can we convene activism? I'm inclined to write down what we can do together as a group... what would you agree to do? Be in a conversation of a few points... what's unique to you that needs to branch to you particularly. What would be a central tree for this mycelium of this conversation? I'm up for the experiment. Want to be able to connect with others around that. 
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​​Theological systems (inclusive); and the kind of safe secular, scientific, deductively based, vs. intuitively-spiritually based. Teleology: has to do with the belief that natural systems, all open systems, have intrinsic meaning and purpose. If you look at a tree with that frame in mind, that root system articulates the meaning of the original acorn; it's what's inhertied, the received view, that comes to the surface of earth, and the roots and branches meet  (branches are our shared future). The teological meaning derived from our past experiences inherited through our DNA, unfolds during our lifetime and branches out to future generations, above ground, in incarnated form. Dynamics are seasonal, going from power and energy coming up in the more consumer, functional Spring of new life; maturing in the Summer, harvest in the Fall of the next generation of acorns, the spores of the next season. You can then see the postive, and less-positive values informing each other. What appears to be suffering into hope and faith.
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​​Tree analogy, relating to a super-ordinate goal. truck =the goal, that we feel in our guts and should, with deep roots--I'm proposing Living Human Living Earth--and the branches are each one of us. Even though we're on our own and far away, we're connected to the trunk, and the fruit is harvested and eaten, and all comes back to and becomes Earth, A wonderful cycle.As we move toward this vision together, connect through its trunk.
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​​Hi Michael! Sorry your phone died earlier!
​​I'm sorry about that too, but I've been following the conversations.  I read the notes in all three rooms in part 2.
​​And you're still "here!" How cool is that?!
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​Closing/Next Steps

  • ​​Post-call reflections below
  • ​​Personal harvest stories via hackpad here: ​+Harvest​
  • ​​Harvesting team(s) forming to work in Feb on organizing, meaning making, and reporting 
  • ​​A word from Linda Ellinor
  • ​​Contact Ben or Linda with questions, or post them here: 
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​Celebration Space!

​​Post anything you want here, as a celebratory offering!
​​Note: you can cut and paste images, and also embed certain videos. To do the latter, past in a Vimeo url, or the "share" link to a YouTube video.
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​​If we were on Zoom, we could see one another dancing. Except I'm typing. I need a standing desk, like Levi's got!
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​​How did they coordinate people all over the world on one song?  Creative editing? I think it's now fairly "easy" (if you really know what you're doing) to synch up live over the internet and play together in real time.
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​ANYTHING ELSE, PEOPLE???
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​​Savannah thanks Tom, again!
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​Post-Call Reflections

​​Bruce Schuman wrote an extensive post-call email reflection, which he sent to those of us who were on the call. He also agreed to let me share it on hackpad as well. ​+Here it is.​ This might be the sort of thing that, in some form, people post to their individual ​+Harvest​ pads as well.
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​​The videos at the end were also inspiring.
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