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How people have learned to start courageous conversations.

:- Doug.

Work on stirring up conversation across 300 years about how we get better at being human. Are you game to converse with me about this subject?

:- Doug.

When plans go horribly awry.

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How much are humans ever predictable?

:- Doug.

The course could be to point out possible trail heads to open, rather than a single track to follow.

:- Doug.

How did they choose their oceans and continents, those Magellans and Smiths, Lewises and Clarks, the great explorers? More likely the explorations chose the adventurers. Now, just across these centuries, a new borderland calls.

:- Doug.

It is the task of the course to open us to new bi-ways of thinking, new paths to lay down in the woodlands. Not to persuade of the destination nor the journey.

:- Doug.

How do you gather up the courage to converse about what cuts to your quick? Maybe as the question guesses, you pick up small pieces as you go and when you almost have enough, you leap.

:- Doug.

But a Moment

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We are trees putting up leaves to collect the breeze of generations.

:- Doug.

What’s important and less important to learn from the other generation? What are keys to being human?

:- Doug.

Instead of asking What makes a conversation fruitful, ask What fruits have conversations borne for you?

:- Doug.

What makes for a fruitful conversation?

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We seek a conversation long and fruitful.

:- Doug.

Invite people to a centuries-long conversation about getting better at being human.

:- Doug.

In a centuries-long conversation is it more fruitful to talk of similarities or differences?

:- Doug.

Whenever 2 people gather, we are of 3 minds.

:- Doug.

What common humanity might we find across 300 years?

:- Doug.

We explore, using curiosity and observation, stories and questions and laughter, how people get better at being human. We engage with people of 300 years from now.

:- Doug.

How stirring up a new sauce has given coherence to our knowledge for one another.

:- Doug.

How telling others our dreams can shorten distances between peoples.

:- Doug.

We initiate each other into ways of cooking, that is, of thinking. And both may be better people.

:- Doug.

We reach across generations. They reach back. We gather in the kitchen. To cook up a tasty, juicy, meaty humanity. The fun is, each generation pronounces humanity distinctly. This is our course.

:- Doug.