What haven't you learned--and what haven't we learned-- that you are really hungry to explore?
Collaborative Notes
Robert: When we are challenged or threatened, cortisol has a capacity to shut down the thinking center and activate our conflict aversion and protection centers - - it stays in our systems for 26 hours. The other hormone, oxytocin, is activated when something very positive happens, capacity to communicate and trust, but disappears much faster. Cortisol has the advantage; makes it harder to see what we're up against. We go after what WE want. Hunger understanding some of the biology of collaboration, accepting the emergence of things over time(fungi carpet) when we can't see that emergence. Neurobiology of our capacity to BE during living into possibilities; is there a capacity to teach resilience in this regard?
Ben: first wife had disease--Cushing's Syndrome-- which pumped out LOTS of cortisol. Very difficult both when it is active and in withdrawal - and longterm damage. Appreciate that there's something new to learn about this.. Naomi Klein: don't have opportunity to grieve collectively - need to do it while generating oxytocin instead of cortisol. The very challenge of what we need to do creates the cortisol conditions. As soon as we work on the outer shift triggers our need to work on the inner shift, and so often we don't notice or deal with that.
Tom:
What we have to BE... the identities we operate with. D&D consultanbt, apretn, citzen--are not designed to help us rise to this occassion. Help us function OK within BaU. The identities of co-creator, ancestor of future gens, someone with gifts that could make all the diff in the world--are not supported by the system and BaU. You can't make a living at them. Or surive with family in those identies, if they were central in our lives. So we gravitate towards the other forms of identity. what came out... in round 1 in part... Laura Chasin had a lot to say.. the tensions that are built by those IDs--how they structure what we do--overlaps with the hormonal stuff. Makes it so hard to do this. And there are kinds of conversation that make it less hard, or even meaningful, joyful, connection building, etc., t deal with those. Not all convos do that, but some do.
Values the OS convos. And we're startng to nudge up against the kinds of initiatieves I was inarticulatey and frustratingly voicing in my ofiginal NCDD communication. It there are ID issues, hormonal issues, and clarifying the kinds of convos are needed, and what WE can do/bring to different circumstances, populations, tribes out in the world, I intuit that there's a larger while and understanding hiding behind the 1/5 of the way we've gotten so far. But not woven together yet. don't know of others carrying those except for me, but I see more than I saw i Oct, and we need to learn about that. I don't see how to do that without a really long runway, and turning my life over to that, but I don't have the energy for it at the moment. More poignant though--closer.
Robert: When we write something we often think"i don't know if this makes sense". The original statement often is reaching for the sense. When I feel myself enervated by long work, ... is a great restorative. Unexpected completions of things I was unclear about and sensing into. I'm hungry for understanding how to be restorative of the shared[Tom typed"scared" and I fixed it!] will, of the most positive aspirations to have wholeness in and among us. Anti-depressants are designed to get you back to being comfortable with the norms that aren't working for anybody. I want to sit in that; how much am I energetically to talk about that? I'm not the expert in the room. What do we nudge up against that will give us collective courage.
Ben: BaU - hard to make a living creating a new paradigm. The quality of the spaces we need to be in to stay in deep alignment and connection that's required. It's clear from what I was able to pull together a container; not[quite]ready for 100 highly engaged people. But I want to get there[NOW!], with a task: I'm hungry for that. How do we make a living bringing forth a new world; pop-up economy that makes that possible. It is effective and nourishing, brings us in direct experience of wholeness. I've gotten very hungry for this; still need to prototype how to do it.
Robert - did a 5-day workshop"engaging wholeness". A lot of opportunity for a whole new level of conversation, maybe dialogue over the next couple of days. These things haven't come up as much as they could.