[Dialogue] The Legacy of our Community

[Gordon Harper]

Colleagues --

We seem currently to be engaged in a number of conversations about 
passing on the legacy of our community. Some of us participated in one 
of these this past July, with faculty members and students at Oklahoma 
City University. We met to explore working together on developing a 
curriculum for future social change agents, the OIKOS Project.

It raised again the question of just what we mean when we talk about 
sharing our legacy.  We know that it includes but is far more than the 
treasures in those file cabinets.  How do we helpthe OIKOS folks to get 
a handle on it? We also know that others down the road who study and 
research the social, political and spiritual movements of the second 
half of the 20th century will come to their own conclusions about what 
our legacy was or might be at a particular moment in future time. The 
question for us is whether we'd like a shot at helping to shape those 
conclusions.

This is an opportunity for those of us who are still more or less alive 
and kicking to point to some aspects of who we are, who we've been or 
what we've done that we think should not be overlooked in any discussion 
of our legacy. We're launching this conversation on the Dialogue and OE 
listservs, since that's where most of us most regularly connect to one 
another. Len Hockley and I then intend to transfer materials generated 
here to the Repository website, so we can continue to have access to 
them over time.

This past week, Roxana and I hosted a small dinner gathering here in 
Seattle that consisted of Dorothea Jewell, Carol Crow, Nancy Lanphear, 
Lee and Leah Early and ourselves. In the course of it, I cajoled them 
into being the guinea pigs for this endeavor.  We took a couple minutes 
to write down our individual brainstorms, then shared them.  What 
follows is what we came up with in those two minutes. We didn't try to 
evaluate or refine our ideas; it was a brainstorm!  What we wanted was 
whatever popped up in our consciousness at the moment, as the things we 
felt to be important or valuable in our legacy. (The final item was 
contributed by Mark Phillips at Saturday's gathering to celebrate the 
Wiltsee's 50th wedding anniversary.)

What you'll see at this point is our raw brainstorm.  It's all over the 
place--unorganized, ungestalted, overlapping, apples and oranges and 
hopelessly incomplete. (Clearly, something you need to be part 
of--please jump in!)  You can easily reply right here and send your 
ideas out to the rest of us.  Or you can do it on the Repository web page.

  As our list of things expands, we'll likely get into some great 
conversations about what these all too brief (and to other people, I 
fear, largely still incomprehensible) words and phrases actually point 
to. This is only a starting point.


                Welcome to the Legacy Conversation --

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        /So--what for you are some elements or components of our legacy
        that you hope we can in some way share or pass on to future
        generations?/

_/[And now, the sneaky part.  I'm hoping that you will take a 
minute--right now--to put your mind to this, pick up your pen and write 
down your own personal list of five or ten critical things in that 
legacy that come to your mind.  Then continue to scroll down the page to 
see the ones a few of us thought of last Friday and Saturday.  Finally, 
share your list with the rest of us.  You can skip this step, but it 
would be great if you'd do it and see what you come up with before 
getting distracted by other people's ideas.  Up to you, /__/of course 
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    * Imaginal Education
    * Contradictional analysis / addressing the root causes
    * Grassroots local community development
    * Consensus formation process
    * Rituals, stories, songs and symbols
    * Grounding in The Way Life Is
    * Comprehensiveness: history long and world wide
    * Depth dialogue
    * RS-I / existential, life questions
    * Intentional community
    * The rational and the intuitive
    * Mapping the spirit interior
    * Stance that life is good
    * Social Process dynamics
    * Life as mission, work as vocation
    * The secular religious order
    * Starting from a shared vision
    * 5th City Principles
    * ToP <http://wiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view/Main/ToP>facilitation methods
    * The Global Servant Force
    * Curriculum building process
    * Art-Form Method
    * Solitary and corporate practices (rood screen, canonical hours,
      the Odyssey)
    * Contentless methods
    * Story is key
    * Team accountability and absolution
    * Transrational thinking
    * Singing that rehearses the life understanding
    * Use of decor
    * The 4 x 4 lecture building method



To see the page we've set up on the Repository, which is essentially the 
same as what's in this note, click on:


http://wiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view/Main/BrainStorm

Looking forward to hearing from you.  Let's see where this goes --

Gordon


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