bringing our words to life
Conversation: bringing our words to life. We add life to our words; our words add to life.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
unfolding—movement—goodness
unfolding—movement—goodness
participation—meeting—beauty
coherence—oneness—truth
:- Doug.
respiration of the ego
There’s a respiration of the ego too: we shrink to a dot then contain galaxies.
:- Doug.
You cannot digest a person whole
You cannot digest a person whole the first meeting. Neither should you try to compact your whole wisdom into one sentence.
:- Doug.
“Meeting will take too much time.”
“Meeting will take too much time.”
“That depends on what you mean by time. And take. And how you mean too much. And by meeting. And what you would do in the alternative.”
:- Doug.
No, that’s not true
Don’t fit the learning to the model, but vice versa. No, that’s not true: we can derive lessons from a bird’s antics and we can use the bird’s antics to understand what we have already discerned.
:- Doug.
Cassette-tape time and solid state time
Cassette-tape time is kronos time: time felt as sequential. Solid state time is kairos time: hours and moments, past present and future accessed at once, even all at once.
:- Doug.
Opening space for groups to intuit
Open Space Technology opens space for groups to intuit—a flash of intuition can give clearer results than trying to reason out or research.
:- Doug.
Actors ought not portray all nuances in each scene
Actors ought not portray all nuances of their character in each scene: one aspect per scene: let the audience add it up. So to for writers: let the readers do the adding.
:- Doug.
You sit in front of a teacher
If you sit in front of a teacher, you are granting that this person knows something you do not, and you need to know that. That might not be so. On the other hand it is likely that every person in whatever room you enter knows something you do not, and that among them are some you need to know.
:- Doug.
Inviting people who care
Open Space invites people who care to surface meanings and begin taking action.
:- Doug.
Invite to consider deeper aspects of getting things done
Invite those who like Open Space to gather to consider the deeper aspects and see how to use it to get things done.
:- Doug.
Seek not to multi-task
Seek not to multi-task
Don’t pull yourself to pieces, stay together
Move little or much, precisely as
Luxuriantly as you need
Time has many dimensions
Many tributaries fractal
Times parallel and interleave
:- Doug.
We may fulfill the object of humanity
We may fulfill the object of humanity
By attempting a task no one of us can attain
Or asking a question for which there may be no final answer
:- Doug.
The third dimension of conversational space?
What might be the third dimension of conversational space? First is the In-Out continuum, second is the Personal-Whole continuum. Personal-Whole seems clearly of the heart, and In-Out of the head. That leaves hands for the dimension of perhaps Motion-Stillness. With this we can at least draw the spiral of crises and their evoked progressions. Second level crises are primarily concerned with encountering farm people who have not been to Paris. Third level is allying with those who have and so have different ideas how to change the world.
:- Doug.
