Friends,Last year, I reached out to Tim and the Coalition of the Willing because of what I saw in the platform-triad described in the film. The Catalyst Network was especially close to my heart - an aspiration for many years, and a deep reflection of my own life's work.The other two facets of the platform triad are important too, but the real power (for me) is in connecting people together and to ongoing efforts (and by implication connecting together ongoing efforts), in new ways that allow us to realize higher potential. This insight is not unique to the film, nor to the group assembled here. Project (Mapping and) Matching, and ongoing support of those projects, people, groups, organizations to establish new arrangements and alignments obviously falls under the Catalyst Network rubric, or at least it feels obvious to me. I've been working on these questions for years, and will continue to do so. I know others are addressing these same issues, or significant parts thereof, and working on these problems and opportunities in an open manner will allow more of us to find each other, as we have found each other.
Over the last two weeks I have become more determined to work in an agile and joyful and respectful environment, and to avoid spaces and structures and behaviors that do not support that. These are the keys to our long term effectiveness and the source of sustainability and organic growth.I intend to continue the ProM work in an iterative, open manner that challenges us to be as creative as we can in generating work-play activities that serve as attractors to the cause and allow for others to get involved with modest orientation. I invite anyone willing to work in this spirit to step forward and we can plan further how next to proceed.
Together we will find the right pace and "right placement" ... and thereby establish ourselves as natural attractors to the work.Regards,MM
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Michael,
What you've written here makes sense AND feels good!!!
Thanks for welcoming me/us to step forward in these ways = I feel naturally attracted to invest my consent, attention, energy, passion, patience, care, etc. in "to work in an agile and joyful and respectful environment, and to avoid spaces and structures and behaviors that do not support that."
YESSS, let's please explore "work-play activities that serve as attractors" & "plan further how next to proceed" ...
Appreciatively,
paul
P. S. = ooops, forgot to mention this yesterday =
Michael, just as "in the platform-triad described in the film. The Catalyst Network was especially close to" your heart, the Green Knowledge Trust is especially close to mine. This "aspiration for many years, and a deep reflection" of my own learning passion remains so despite the fact that my contribution to enriching such a dimension of our public trust has been lagging way behind for most of these past several months as we've all been learning to collaborate better & I've been struggling to keep up with learning to use new tools.
Let's continue nurturing robust relationships among all of us naturally attracted to participate via Catalyst Network, Green Knowledge Trust AND Open Innovation Space because we're quite likely to help cultivate some seriously FUN activities for effectively evolving through our current climate crises AND preventing these crises from getting much worse.
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 07:50 -0700, paul horan wrote:
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> Let's continue nurturing robust relationships among all of us
> naturally attracted to participate via Catalyst Network, Green
> Knowledge Trust AND Open Innovation Space because we're quite likely
> to help cultivate some seriously FUN activities for effectively
> evolving through our current climate crises AND preventing these
> crises from getting much worse.
>
It seems almost too obvious to state that these three legs depend on one
another both now as they are created, and in the future as they operate
and evolve.
Gerry
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Thanks Gerry,
Recalling how we began gathering a couple of weeks ago when you facilitated, I'm now even further appreciating your mention of "let a new center to the conversation emerge." Healthy moments of silence are worth nurturing for the sustenance & guidance they provide us.
Anyhow, there's a lot more meaning coming through your message here than I've the time to respond to now ... so let's simply consider keeping this conversational space alive and well as an ongoing resource for our refreshment and rejuvenation.
Also, let's find out who introduced us to this link http://www.open-organizations.org/ so we can share our thanks directly. I'm confident much of this content is familiar to most/all of us and yet the manner in which it's presented = like laying out sensible stepping stones, harmonizing theory & practice wrt to self organizing open human activity systems AND focusing on functional implementation. I followed the guidelines re: "INTRODUCTION (read this first)" and agree. I also enjoyed reading the "SystemsViewOrganizations" (tho' I may disagree w/ the author's interpretation of negative & positive feedback dynamics & on a couple of other minor points, I totally love the homage paid to Capra's insights : ), "PlaceboEffect" & perusing a few other pages. YESSS, good stuff that seems to naturally integrate well w/ contributions from Vickers, Banathy, Ackoff, Churchman, Fuller, Shirky, Kelly, et al.
Let me savor for a while longer this delicious juice you're offering us via "... the healing that we enable in
ourselves first that empowers ..."
paul
P. S. = Pam, thanks for sharing Barlow's piece here as well = 15 year old statement that still packs a good wallop wrt boosting the performance of our guidance systems and helping liberate us from that highly entropic state of cognitive calcification that we're all prey to; a state that can be reversed through such simple human interactions as good conversation and mutually rewarding relations.
P. P. S. = Tim, I'm liking your approach to appreciating more about closure's relationship with openness.