How might we make nursing homes fun?
How might we make nursing homes fun?
:- Doug.
Our task is making wonderful.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
What big thing is your small group doing?
What big thing is your small group doing? What big thing are we about in this group? If it is merely gathering money so someone else will do something, what good is that? Luke warm is to be spit out.
:- Doug.
…to make the world more human and more supportive of living….
We have the ability, with our tools and technologies, to make the world more human and more supportive of living. Let us do so.
:- Doug.
If we want someone else to solve our problems for us, then we must give up to that person our right to complain.
If we want someone else to solve our problems for us, then we must give up to that person our right to complain.
:- Doug.
Know what the leaf said when it let go of the twig?
Know what the leaf said when it let go of the twig? Whee!
:- Doug.
The most important things are verbs: go, do, meet,….
The most important things are verbs: go, do, meet, go, do, love.
:- Doug.
Gardens first: converse first. Meet: find life; generate living. Once we’ve got the life right, then….
Gardens first: converse first. Meet: find life; generate living. Once we’ve got the life right, then the next step is clear—and good tending to wonderful.
:- Doug.
talented people….why would we want to deliberately choose to turn 75% of them into losers?
What if the talent show got down to the top 4 or 5 contestants and then we worked out a way to fairly share the Million Dollar prize among them? All are clearly winners—why would we want to deliberately choose to turn 75% of them into losers?
:- Doug.
Get as far from a show as possible. That is more profound than it seems….
Get as far from a show as possible.
That is more profound than it seems. Political decisions are presented just that way: a show. Making winners and losers.
We have created so many losers when we have approached public process this way. That’s why people scream and shout and come near violence—guess what’s next?
So what if we really engaged each other and worked on solving the questions, one step at a time, starting from the start? What if we allowed the ideas of the big players only an equal voice with those of the little folk? What if we brought good heads and good hearts together? What if we looked for our common ground and ways for everyone to not just have an opportunity but to actually be substantially better off, and got off our win-lose idea that almost everyone has to lose?
:- Doug.
#OpenSpace: It is as far from a show as possible.
Open Space Technology does one step at a time: We gather. How shall we gather? In a circle? What shall we do? See what people want to do. What next? Choose where our contribution or learning is the most and go there. What next? Get to work.
It is as far from a show as possible.
:- Doug.
Conversation is a garden. If the conversing is luxuriant, so will be the life coming out of it.
Conversation is a garden. If the conversing is luxuriant, so will be the life coming out of it.
:- Doug.
Let’s say there is something going on in your town or in your work that you feel strongly about. What might that be?
Let’s say there is something going on in your town or in your work that you feel strongly about. What might that be?
:- Doug.
much of the argument in the political realm, say health care, is around and around ego-driven concepts, not what really matters at base….
So much of the argument in the political realm these days, say health care, is around and around ego-driven concepts, not what really matters at base. What matters at base is not the cost of health care, for the cost of unhealth is much higher. That is not to say that we will pay any price.
What matters is that we and everybody we touch is healthy.
The questions then about how do we get there are mere details. If we can steer away of ego and of the ego-driven need to fill this pocket or that at the expense of another, we can get there.
:- Doug.
…and I can no longer see the whole way in any direction.
Each piece of reality—person, process, happening—distends the straight lines of the world and I can no longer see the whole way in any direction.
:- Doug.
The response to population compression might be greater density done well.
The response to population compression might be greater density done well.
:- Doug.
