[Dialogue] FW: A brain flash (from Wayne Nelson)

[Janice Ulangca]

Splendid!  
Janice Ulangca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Cock 
  To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' ; 'Colleague Dialogue' 
  Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:31 PM
  Subject: [Dialogue] FW: A brain flash (from Wayne Nelson)


  I got this from Wayne Nelson today and thought it was well worth passing
  around the horn. I like his title -- a full-nelson, that. Also thought it
  would be good to chew for the Denver meeting to chew on this weekend. BTW,
  do a good job and communicate well (and, David, get that sign-on stuff
  worked out;>).

  Thanks, Wayne, for your "brain flash" from up yonder,

  John


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Wayne Nelson [mailto:wnelson at ica-associates.ca]
  Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 5:11 PM
  To: John Cock
  Subject: A brain flash

  I had a brain flash after reading something in the Globe and Mail the other
  day about changing the orientation of governments.

  The trend watchers are telling us organizational form is taking new shapes
  as hierarchies break down, complexity increases, connectivity is instant,
  e.g., managing shifts to guiding and facilitative leadership. No big
  surprises - we've all been through enough peering into the future, scenario
  building and Jean Houston lectures, etc. , etc., etc., to know all this
  stuff.

  I think ICA in the US may be positioned to lead all of us into a new world.
  There is enough history, momentum and diversity within those related to ICA
  in the US to make a leap from seeing itself as an organization with a lot of
  screwy "satellite problems" to becoming a highly textured network that is
  oriented toward a "big picture" common purpose.

  We left common programming when our youngest son - now 26 - was a toddler.
  We let go of "the Order" in the same timeframe. Remember when Stuart Hampton
  read the Christopher Frye poetry about "the centre cannot hold - affairs
  have become soul size," etc.? That was like in 1984.
  Prophetic. We became too complex and diverse to maintain anything global or
  centralized. 

  Since then we have become something truly amazing. I am in awe when I hear
  what people are doing around the planet.

  In the US, there is a great deal of history, multiple interests, expertise
  in a bazillion things, powerful connections, deep impact, and, perhaps most
  importantly, a wide variety of forms. We have everything from individuals
  doing volunteer work to people working in the historical Christian church to
  individual consultants to non-profits to companies and more. They are all,
  more or less, operating out of a similar vision for the future and out of
  some common understandings. We don't sign our allegiance at the bottom of
  some ideological document, but we know we're deeply related.

  It's what we used to call an "indicative reality." It's the "en soi" - that
  which is. We are a network. The "pour soi" - you can almost see JWM's
  gestures - is the relationship we choose to take to what is.

  Imagine if ICA in the US had an annual "Networking and Sharing Approaches
  That Work" conference. Groups working in similar areas - geography, sectors,
  methods, etc.,  could meet and do their stuff. There could be multiple means
  of cross fertilization. If I wanted to connect with people trying to run
  RS-I in their church basement, I could. If I wanted to get together with
  people in independent business, I could. If I wanted to join a group trying
  to help government be more responsive to specific needs, I could.  If I
  wanted to dance in a circle under the full moon, I could. If I wanted to
  become part of something like an "order" again I could. If I wanted to
  meditate with the Buddhists, I could.

  We don't all have to be any one thing. We can all find our unique way of
  being of genuine service and celebrate the diversity and potential that we
  have become.

  ICA in Australia has been operating that way for some time. Not entirely by
  preference, not always willingly. It's not been a paved road, but they are
  still there and moving forward in a lot of ways. They've come to terms with
  themselves.

  I know all (at least some) of the barriers. I know they are significant and
  substantial and pretty firmly rooted. I know that there is a great deal of
  "healing" required to reach anything close to what I'm talking about.

  But, hey, it was a brain flash - not a sermon by any means.

  < >  < >  < >  < >  < >
  Wayne Nelson - ICA Associates Inc
  416-691-2316 - http://ica-associates.ca





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