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The small major thing is a transformation in what we make out of what we receive from the world. This felt shift in consciousness is a choice: in the direction of humanity and life—living-kindness. The tools are invitation, question, and dissent, and the handles are grief and amazement. The arena is conversation. We begin the alternative future.

:- Doug.

Work at the center
with grief and imagination
convening the centers
on small major issues and opportunities
to transfom into human shape and size
how we perceive-construct

:- Doug.

By inviting the conversation, the transformation has begun. So we are transforming our circle.

:- Doug.

Life organizes
Life emerges
Life coheres
Life organizes itself and
What touches it

:- Doug.

The silence is part of the prayer
The silence before to wait
The silence after to absorb

:- Doug.

You can put roller skates on a caterpillar
But don’t try to pin wings on a chrysalis

:- Doug.

Re-engineering the caterpillar
Hinders the butterfly

:- Doug.

This is the epicenter
Everything happens from here
Our gathering can model our desired future

:- Doug.

Action starts with
A felt shift of consciousness
When No becomes a possible Yes
Shifts emerge from conversing
Pain told
And Heard
Conversation is the action step

:- Doug.

When you gather with us in this circle
When you offer a topic and invite us
You are making a pledge
Sacred on your name
To see we talk not fear but possibility
Possibility, your sacred promise

:- Doug.

If you turn to God and the return is silence, maybe you are being given a taste of the infinitely deep, compassionate, silent language of heaven. God’s native language seems to be silence.

:- Doug.

Conversation invites people to be courageous.

:- Doug.

As long as we are together, we are finding, making.

:- Doug.

We can be anynow, anyhere.

:- Doug.

Don’t say anything at all,
If you can’t say something radical:
If you can’t bring love

:- Doug.

Our clients belong to us
But do we belong to them?

:- Doug.

Now, make good conversation.

:- Doug.

Spirit,
join us,
here,
now,
as we go about our work
for our clients and community
our work of
Inventing alternative futures

:- Doug.

We invent alternative futures.

:- Doug.

Something new
You’ll see
Tilt the floor

:- Doug.

We live in ambiguity
In ambiguity we live
Anxiety and paradox lead us to emerge
Questions are our sacred dimension
Finding our own way is the way

:- Doug.

All transformation is conversational.

:- Doug.

We are at the center of the universe
The really real is constituted by perceiving and making
Our task then is to convene the centers for the real work

:- Doug.