Growing up the rest of the way
Growing up the rest of the way
Becoming fully human
Becoming ever more aware of
Each participating in the
Whole unfolding
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Peaceful in conflict
Peaceful in conflict
Life pregnant with death
Stars in the firmament whole
In our meeting
Mutually completing
:- Doug.
My task in poetry
My task in poetry, in group work, in family work, is to expand consciousness.
:- Doug.
Alternative futures proceed from
Alternative futures proceed from bringing these spirits, ideas, wills, minds, and loves into close proximity.
:- Doug.
Emerge
Inventing and creating are words that do not quite say emerge. Emerge suggests the group causes or provides a nurturing environment, as well as finding and creating. Surface, crop up, develop, emanate, issue, spring, proceed, flow out.
:- Doug.
They know things I don’t
They know things I don’t; I know things they don’t. It’s how much we care and do that begins a new future.
:- Doug.
Gathering those who care, know and are willing
Open Space Technology is a format for gathering those who care, know, and are willing, with the object of emerging something new.
:- Doug.
I sing the human holographic
I sing the human holographic
you contain all
worlds universes
stars beings
when the light shines on you
when we look deeply into you
we can see
:- Doug.
When someone asks you to sell, you cannot
When some one asks you to sell, start by asking them questions. You cannot sell what they are not buying, so find out why they would have any interest at all.
:- Doug.
You want to hear about Open Space?
You want to hear about Open Space? How deep do you want to go? What purpose do you want to serve with your meetings?
:- Doug.
What did you hear?
What did you hear? In you and in your group? What wants to unfold, what wants to enfold?
:- Doug.
it may take several of us
Life one whole cloth
this cloth a sea
its waves unfolding
living things here and there
in groups and singles
then being enfolded home again
If I have caught a wave
of truth in this
it may also be
that we can hear the whitecaps
unfolding and enfolding
around us
in the sea, on the shores
and this a pattern
it may take several of us
to hear
:- Doug.
We are about to engage in problem solving or
We are about to engage in problem solving, or seen a bit larger, developing the ability to see how beauty, truth, goodness and all the people are woven together.
:- Doug.
Listen to the folding and unfolding
There is this one fabric called life and all living things are part of it unfolded for a time then folded back in. If what I have just said has an element of truth in it, then we should be able, individually or maybe only together, to listen to the folding and unfolding patterns of living that want to come through us.
:- Doug.
The heart has ways of learning
The heart has ways of learning
the head and the hand know not
and they as well
:- Doug.
