Art at work
Conversation is art at work and work at art, not only for the conversants.
:- Doug.
May the fungi be with you!
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Hands into the greenery
The callers of the conversations must get their hands dirty, must get into the soil, the roots, greenery, flowers, and mycorrhizae.
:- Doug.
The important texts
In conversation, these are most important, probably in reverse order: text, subtext, context.
:- Doug.
We are related to our metaphors
We are related not only to people but also to the metaphors we use. It is hard to fathom, at times, which is parent and which is child.
:- Doug.
Discover to leap
When you see the world differently from another, until you discover there is a gap, you will never leap across.
:- Doug.
Little things you do
What are the little things you do over and over that reflect on who you really are? Watch these, if you would know yourself.
:- Doug.
Might ritual add
Might it be important to bring ritual into our conversation? Might it add meaning, or hold? For instance, Open Space Technology has a ritual at the start, our Quaker Meeting has a ritual that does not look like one.
:- Doug.
Delay and de-signify
Conversation is choosing what to say and what to respond to, what to delay and what to de-signify.
:- Doug.
Is metaphor I-It?
Is metaphor necessarily I-It? Is a gestalt an I-Thou meeting? Is I-It left brain and I-Thou right?
:- Doug.
Necklace of metaphors
Some definitions can be a word or two; others require a necklace of metaphors.
:- Doug.
Only defined metaphorically
What is a living conversation? It may be that it can only be defined metaphorically.
:- Doug.
Major task: create life
Imagine a process that allows each conversation to become a living being in that place, every time.
A process to soak us in the expectation that this conversation will evoke and make use of our feelings and passions. We first work to make explicit that each conversation has among its major tasks creating life. Second, we actively call upon links between conversations and especially the life in those conversations. Third as each person nourishes the conversation in which he or she is, each will want to share improvements and innovations. Each person knows in their heart a need to heal the people, heal all conversation.
:- Doug.
They change our actions
Metaphors tell us what matters, what is most real. Metaphors change our actions.
:- Doug.
literally relegated
If metaphors were not so prevalent among us, the word “literally” would be relegated to academics.
:- Doug.
