[AoH] Collective Leadership

Tue Dec 8 11:23:05 PST 2009

Hi Ashley

thanks for sending along Beatriz e-mail - I didn't see this one on  
the OS List - did I miss it, or did you find it in another venue.

I find it very inspiring.

Denise
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:03 PM, ashley cooper wrote:

> THANK YOU so much everyone for all of these responses.
>
> I am drinking them all in and will share my reflections as they  
> integrate and dance together.
>
> with much gratitude,
> Ashley
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Beatriz Vera Pozzi Redko  
> <bvredko at attglobal.net> wrote:
> Dear Toke and all
>
> Somehow I feel that in this word of communication and computers and  
> this current thinking of 'I' nobody accepts the word 'leadership'  
> well . Everyone develops 'hers' or 'his' thoughts by herself or  
> himself. People are very informed those days, in all places around  
> the globe.
>
> As a Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire said: "Nobody teaches no one.  
> We learn from each other, mediated by the word" (Ninguem ensina  
> ninguem. Aprendemos uns com os outros, mediados pelo mundo).
>
> 'Leadership' takes out part of the inniciative of the others. All  
> the participants are equaly important on the process. We only can  
> contribute with some ideas every now and then. And in listening  
> their ideas, most of the time more adequate to solve their problems  
> than ours.
>
> In rural areas the poor people really wants to know how to feed  
> their children, to pay their debts and to educate  well their  
> children.
> Follows a exemple of a cooperative action in a poor agricultural  
> site in Brazil.
> Around 15 families meet on Sundays on Spring and on Summer to  
> enrich with trees the slopes near the rivers in their small  
> properties (less than 10 ha) to warrant that the rivers do not get  
> dry. Each Sunday everybody goes to one site.
> It is a family operation. Men do the hard work, women do the  
> plantation, children mostly talk.
> It is a wonderful endeavour, but if the local Major do not provide  
> them with the transportation and with the seeds, it would not be  
> possible.
>
> A important thing is that all men and women are equally important  
> on the decisions, and every Sunday the family that hosts the  
> gathering takes most of the responsabilities.
>
> That is going on for two years now, and people are seeing their  
> progress and very motivated. Every soul is responsable for it.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fflLWwLo-SE
>
> Warm greetings
>
>
> Beatriz
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Toke Paludan Møller
> To: AoH List
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 11:49 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [OSLIST] [AoH] Collective Leadership
>
>
>
> Sendt fra min iPhone
>
> Start på videresendt besked:
>
>> Fra: Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com>
>> Dato: 6. dec 2009 13.36.13 EET
>> Til: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Emne: Vedr.: [OSLIST] [AoH] Collective Leadership
>> Svar til: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>>
>> Hello Ashley:
>>
>> Some reflections from three days spent exploring this question  
>> with 25 young Estonian leaders:
>> Day One
>> Day Two
>> Day Three
>> One of the ways we structured this learning journey was by  
>> exploring "the Art of Participatory Leadership" which is kind of  
>> an inquiry from how participatory methods work, and noticing what  
>> moves into larger fields and contexts.  Our basic frame from the  
>> three days was: Basics - Tools -     Application" and the mode we  
>> used was "noticing."  We spent the first day just noticing what  
>> the basic patterns of participatory leadership are, what we have  
>> learned from Open Space and World Cafe and other forms and methods  
>> and then thinking about how to apply those basics to other areas  
>> of work, including invitation, organization, management,  
>> leadership and so on.   I love what Michael has written about  
>> noticing on the OSLIST around this discussion. I was coming into  
>> this teachings space after having spent some time playing and  
>> learning about applied improvisational theatre and one of the  
>> basics there is "notice more, change less."
>>
>> I think we are addicting to a perceived need for change, and that  
>> what is required is somehow to cultivate a stillness in ourselves  
>> to be able to deeply notice resources, and opportunities and  
>> connections and emergence that is flowing by in the ever changing  
>> stream of the world.  So I'm playing a lot with that practice  
>> these days.
>>
>> Collective leadership is always present, and with space,  
>> invitation, relationship and practice we can very quickly and  
>> simply evoke the energy for it to emerge.  And the quickest way to  
>> that evocation is resting and noticing that we already have those  
>> basic materials in hand, it is simply a matter of inviting a  
>> collective noticing and then asking: what can we now do together?
>>
>> Chris (waiting in the Helsinki airport on my way back home).
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:55 PM, ashley cooper  
>> <mail.easilyamazed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm curious... What is important when inviting a group into  
>> collective leadership? What first comes to your mind as being of  
>> essence when creating such a field of practice and structure for  
>> action? Maybe a principle comes to mind, specific practices,  
>> resources that have good ideas, your cherished opinions... I'm  
>> interested in what pops up first!
>>
>> With much gratitude,
>> Ashley
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> "This is a year that needs you to be you."
>> ~ Rabbi Ted Falcon
>>
>> www.wovenessence.net
>> www.easilyamazed.com/blog
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> CHRIS CORRIGAN
>> Facilitation - Training - Process Design
>> Open Space Technology
>>
>> Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot
>> Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com
>>
>>
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