convergence (again)

[Julie Smith]

Such good advice, all, thank you, thank you..... I see it now,
mostly.....

Glory, yes, I had already thought, hmmmmmmm...... perhaps I'll cut
strips of five (great minds?)....... and wonder, Chris, what your
experience is with inviting self-defined (and differently-defined)
abundance...... I hadn't considered it before..... curious about what
that means to you and what you've seen happen.....

And still can't quite see what you mean, Glory, with your first
suggestion.  Do you mean to tape the session notes to the flip chart
notes they may have made concurrently during the session?  I assumed
Chris didn't intend anything to be re-recorded..... though I can imagine
some groups might want to pull their ideas into a more coherent form for
purposes of presentation to the larger group....

Peggy, thanks for the reminder to reframe the question into positive
language (why didn't I see that before???).

Lisa, yes, such good clarity about WHAT we're doing, and WHY, and how to
improve the quality of both..... and speaking whatever that becomes
clearly to the group as we begin our time together.

And to return the gift of sharing with all of you, I offer this
quotation that came to me as I sat quietly reading and waiting for my
children to emerge from their school this afternoon.

"What is life but a form of motion and a journey through a foreign
world?  Moreover locomotion -- the privilege of animals -- is perhaps
the key to intelligence.  The roots of vegetables (which Aristotle says
are their mouths) attach them fatally to the ground, and they are
condemned like leeches to suck up whatever sustenance may flow to them
at the particular spot where they happen to be stuck.... In animals the
power of locomotion changes all this pale experience into a life of
passion; and it is on passion, although we anaemic philosophers are apt
to forget it, that intelligence is grafted."

George Santayana
"The Philosophy of Travel"
(As quoted in Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett)

Julie



> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Glory
> Ressler
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:45 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: convergence (again)
>
> Hi Julie,
> I'm involved in the same process down this way - mayors, youth with
> passion, prioritization, etc...! Wow - it feels good to know you're
> doing the same up your way.
>
> I want to echo Chris's sentiments below... this is what we've been
doing
> (next community youth OST on Oct. 29th where we'll do it again!) and
it
> has worked brilliantly!
>
> The only additions are:
> 1) Tape discussion reports onto session topic papers at marketplace
> rather than re-record topics on flipchart paper (instead of #1 and 2
> below), and
> 2)  'point elegantly to pile of sticky dots...' which have been
pre-cut
> into strips of five and explain they can use them as they wish.
>
> My love and thoughts are with you!
> glory
>
> Chris Corrigan wrote:
>
> >Anyway, for basic prioritizing at the end of a short meeting, I have
> >done the following:
> >
> >1.      Ask people to record their sessions on flipchart paper
> >2.      Post a news gallery
> >3.      Reconvene people in a circle
> >4.      Tell them they are amazing, look at all this stuff, can you
> >believe         it?  etc. etc.
> >5.      Point elegantly to a pile of sticky dots in the middle of the
> >circle.
> >6.      Invite people to get up, grab some dots, go read the news
wall
> >and     place a dot on the posters they think represent the most
> >pressing/important/intricate/helpful (your choice) ideas.
> >
> >In my experience, if people know they are going to be doing this up
> >front, and the invitation for the whole day is pitched as one that
helps
> >determine priorities, then this little exercise runs pretty smoothly.
> >
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