If doctors
If doctors have no desire for conversation, then we can take on having the conversation for them.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Life converses with life continually
Life is a continual conversation of life with life and all it touches.
:- Doug.
The art of the continuing unfolding possible
In a law suit our lawyer said, “It’s only about the money.” But now as I consider, life is about What’s possible now? Law is the art of the possible. The art of the continually unfolding possible.
:- Doug.
Engage only at the level of choice
Engage only at the level of choice
Engage wholes
& freedoms
Engage tasks that cannot be finished
Open futures
Vulnerability to surprise
New beginnings
Richness increasing
Possibility
Engaging dying & living
for the continuing life of others
Engage horizons
Laughter with the unexpected
Engage others by name
Become a people in passage
:- Doug.
My job as presenter:
My job as presenter is to have an interaction with you such that you want to invite further conversation. Nor do I need to sell you anything: simply invite inviting. Let’s invent a possible complication. How would you change the facts to make it a more difficult question? How might we make it more true to real life? What situations or settings have you seen? Then, Would you like to carry this further privately?
:- Doug.
How can one be human and speak these words?
A border is a place where one says to another “Stay out. I do not want you.” How can one be human and speak these words?
:- Doug.
Heard is always gold
I have often seen a difference between being listened to and being heard. Listened to can be silver, or can be steel. Heard is always gold.
:- Doug.
Begin the betweens!
Art and creativity are dramatic not theatrical, opening something in people not closing it off as something to be viewed not touched consumed not feeding. Art then is between people. Creativity happens only between people because true creativity starts a fire of creativity in the beholder. So its true work is in the betweens.
Begin the betweens!
:- Doug.
Art of the possible
Open space is, conversation is, the art of the possible, that is, life. They are both a tool for that, and its very essence. Open space is doing, conversation is doing, life.
:- Doug.
Open space is executing art
Open space is executing art—the art of the possible. The art of the possible is life.
:- Doug.
Creativity happens here
Creativity happens here. Transformation. Creativity and transformation that engender their like in others.
:- Doug.
Interview task: keep the game alive
My task in each interview is (as I learned early in email and online conversations): evoke a response, create an opening, ask a question: do something to invite the other players to play. Keep the game alive is the name of the game. Of life.
:- Doug.
More than just get you on Medicaid
The work is more than just to get you on Medicaid or some other discreet task; the work is to keep your family in play, your life ongoing.
:- Doug.
God is evolution
God is
creator,
creating,
evolution
Creating is the
work of evolution
God is evolution
the same way we mean
God is love
:- Doug.
Not in business but in life
I’m not in business but in life. Life is an open-ended pursuit and life never ends. I go on.
:- Doug.
Tolerance is a face-ette
Tolerance is a face-ette, a small face, a facet of a larger brilliant stone and this stone is openness—not openness as in keeping an open mind, nor living to let live, but as in vulnerability?
:- Doug.
Summons or invitations?
For a business to provide care for a senior runs the risk of warehousing—providing a place for waiting for the final summons. Yet…what if we were elders…and had a calling…and were looking for invitations?
:- Doug.
