We gathered with a visitor from Auckland. We listened to Mavis Staples sing Eyes on the Prize. We checked in with our inspirations and nasty surprises. We watched Charles Leadbetter on innovation.
We thought together about innovation as incremental and collaborative; open source vs traditional closed systems. Schopenhauer was quoted re innovation and the way that new ideas are firstly ridiculed, then attacked and finally become self-evident. Changemakers have to tolerate this process and what it brings up for them. Leadbetter talked about creating a platform for innovation, giving tools, a little instruction, nurturing innovation, noticing it. I thought about neither abandoning or interfering with innovation. We wondered about fear as an obstacle to innovation. We asked ourselves the question - What if a Changemakers group produced the next round of social innovations?
We wondered about the loss of innovation in the Public Sector, how it had once been the platform for wonderful innovators such as Beebie. Perhaps there was a need for a fellowship for Public Service innovators.We talked about the difference between reformation and innovation and there was a quote from someone re "Reformation needs to be equitable. And innovation is not reformation."
Our learning friendship wondered what it would take to make Changemakers self replicating? What aspects would we want to have replicate? How do we enroll other change makers into learning groups? Do we use our own or do we start new ones? What's the difference between the worst kind of proslytizing/conversion seeking and giving other people the opportunity to use the tools we have discovered in their own way? How do we make Changemakers open-source?
The soundtrack Bobby with Aretha Franklin & Mary J. Blige & The Harlem Boys Choir "Never Gonna Break My Faith" is available from Amazon.Also available from Amazon is We'll Never Turn Back feat. Mavis Staples and Ry Cooder "Eyes on the Prize"
