noodle together and act
Open Space invites people who care about something to noodle together and to act.
:- Doug.
Archive for June, 2014
attention at a different level
Open Space serves to get people’s attention at a different level.
:- Doug.
a retreat is not the place
If we want change
a retreat is not the place to end
start here to break the preoccupation then
find ways to interweave this way into our days
have a shorter second meeting in
the usual working place on a weekend
then a week day
then a full day
with everybody
so reflection and pause
become our way of life
:- Doug.
we seek but hope never to reach
Wholeness is the completion
we seek but hope never to reach
given we aren’t aware of the star
whose light has yet to reach us
these are the subterranean waters:
including, growing, rounding, out-flow,
overflow: our world fill and fill and fill
:- Doug.
When I speak in a monotone
When I speak in a monotone
about something important to me
it is a protective move
:- Doug.
Going too far
In pursuit of the major thing
if I have to choose between
not going far enough
and going too far
let me choose going too far
especially if it is the higher risk to me
:- Doug.
In a living, breathing vision I saw
In a living, breathing vision I saw a group of people as in a net and freed by the very strings of the net, even sent forth by it. They had as it were jets on their hands, heads, and hearts. No one controlled another nor tried to; all influenced each other and the whole. Edges—I cannot call them boundaries—stretched outward, downward, and upward, heart-ward, head-ward, and hand-ward every day. People argued, got angry, pulled away from others—but the net held them. Work got done, knowledge advanced, relationships were nurtured. Art and beauty, science and meaning, work and accomplishment complemented one another.
:- Doug.
Who can think?
Gathering those who can think opens fertile space for insights to grow: this is the world-creating work of conversation.
:- Doug.
University as a place to nurture fear
A university seems to be a place where among faculty and administrators we can nurture fear. Leading students out draws teachers in to setting concrete.
:- Doug.
Sandpaper to shape an idea
I just read a paragraph in this chapter and it triggered recall of a prior chapter. Two dissimilar concepts used the same word, bringing to my mind a juxtaposition. An idea, at least sandpaper to shape one, emerged. Juxtaposition is one way ideas are generated. Conversation creates juxtapositions naturally.
:- Doug.
