Faure's Requiem was played. We talked about what had inspired us.
We looked at a model of how your 5-10-5-10 activity could be mapped. This led to thinking together about joining up the resources of time and money with your intention rather than seeing them as discrete categories. We talked about advocacy groups or social entrepreneur groups finding ways to be self-funding so they were sustainable without external backing. Some of us are still defining our projects. Others are well on the way with many more than 10 things to do on their lists. We identified working with joyfulness as a key.
I have started to get that when you are trying to make systemic change you need to be much more thoughtful about where the places you act on are and to really think through the consequences of interventions you make, to use your imagination to do this. That building relationships is a key part of it.
We talked for about three quarters of an hour on 5-10-5-10 and then we reviewed the new format with Ted's talks. There was a general agreement that the talks were going really well, that there was a high committment to and enjoyment of the evenings and the conversations.
We wondered together if we could deepen the experience of dialogue by listening better, by "suspending our preferences as well as our judgements" and by bringing an alive presence of sensation, feeling and mind to the conversation. We also decided it was important not to try and get rules for ourselves or get it right, that the eruption of frustration or mindless fizzing of first thoughts or someone taking the conversation in a new and unexpected direction was all welcome. Some people fizz, some people pop. It's all good!
We discussed the initiative of two members to create a blog that could be a way that our experience was captured for ourselves and perhaps as an example of what can happen for other Changemaker groups. We remembered the three legs of Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline: personal mastery, systemic thinking, and dialogue? One group member has already written a page for the national website on systemic thinking and others are planned on learning friendships, personal mastery. Changemakers as a learning community was suggested as a topic. One of us suggested that viewing the Ted talk on Monday sometime had helped her take in the content.
We finished with another part of Faure's Requiem.
We looked at a model of how your 5-10-5-10 activity could be mapped. This led to thinking together about joining up the resources of time and money with your intention rather than seeing them as discrete categories. We talked about advocacy groups or social entrepreneur groups finding ways to be self-funding so they were sustainable without external backing. Some of us are still defining our projects. Others are well on the way with many more than 10 things to do on their lists. We identified working with joyfulness as a key.
I have started to get that when you are trying to make systemic change you need to be much more thoughtful about where the places you act on are and to really think through the consequences of interventions you make, to use your imagination to do this. That building relationships is a key part of it.
We talked for about three quarters of an hour on 5-10-5-10 and then we reviewed the new format with Ted's talks. There was a general agreement that the talks were going really well, that there was a high committment to and enjoyment of the evenings and the conversations.
We wondered together if we could deepen the experience of dialogue by listening better, by "suspending our preferences as well as our judgements" and by bringing an alive presence of sensation, feeling and mind to the conversation. We also decided it was important not to try and get rules for ourselves or get it right, that the eruption of frustration or mindless fizzing of first thoughts or someone taking the conversation in a new and unexpected direction was all welcome. Some people fizz, some people pop. It's all good!
We discussed the initiative of two members to create a blog that could be a way that our experience was captured for ourselves and perhaps as an example of what can happen for other Changemaker groups. We remembered the three legs of Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline: personal mastery, systemic thinking, and dialogue? One group member has already written a page for the national website on systemic thinking and others are planned on learning friendships, personal mastery. Changemakers as a learning community was suggested as a topic. One of us suggested that viewing the Ted talk on Monday sometime had helped her take in the content.
We finished with another part of Faure's Requiem.
You can find Favre's Miserere on Amazon and also on his website www.pierrefavre.ch
