Sunday, November 15, 2015

What are the most important questions?

DO WE REALLY WANT TO LEARN GROW AND EVOLVE, BE CHANGMAKERS, or just talk about it?
What are the most important questions?
It's all about getting grateful since this is an experience we all share learn and know . . . lol . . . Oh and now these GREAT guest lectures too! Starting with Michelle Long trying to get where people have equal footing.  Cool "And I said, what if we had a business organization where we all were contributing with our highest purpose and meaning toward the things that we all care about?" Figures!  And next is Nipun Mehta talk and he's talking about his development too: Ghandi 2.0 many to many network!  Teaching people to be in the FLOW with their Kindness Muscles: "We were just holding space for them to practice an act of kindness every day. And even they thought they were just doing the small thing, but this small thing coupled with the inner transformation that accompanies it, coupled with a circle that holds all of those reflections, starts to really create an incredible capacity" Neato how he's talking about the Time Bank we are doing here in Tampa Bay. . . The Gift Economy where people are trading time and experience. . . Not sure how many years it's worked, but they used the STARS account so I could get the exact details easily ;-)

Next is Peter Senge with the System Dynamics group he started with. . . principles of systems thinking--"the importance of the feedback loop, the importance of delays, the importance of non-linearity, as I was talking before. This, you might say, the conceptual underpinnings, but it only really leaps into full impact on reality when it's combined with the ability to activate and develop our sensory understanding, because then it becomes a feeling as well as a thought" Oh wow, and my favorite quote at the very end of this from Peter: "We have this immense capacity, which we can barely even imagine. And it's that capacity that now is essential for our survival."

Cool, some more: Week 6h-Peter Senge(Part3) Wow, great piece again where Peter talks about the experience with Rusty the Astronaut looking at the Earth from space for hours. . . Then Otto brings it back to reality saying when we talk about shifting the interface on that we operate, it really is a shift from me to we. From just kind of my own small part to a larger whole that to some degree is accessible, and to some other degree is not."
What are the most important questions?