[Dialogue] The Legacy of our Community

Tue Dec 7 06:51:13 CST 2010

Hi, Gordon, In thinking about our legacy - my answers are not two or three
words -

We excited the spirit out of diverse people who had little idea of the
creativity or passion within.
We discovered a way for thinking and working together that was greater than
combining our individual selves.

We brought the eternal word of possibility to the least.

We celebrated.

Ann Shafer

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Gordon Harper
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 1:50 AM
To: Colleague Dialogue; Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: [Dialogue] The Legacy of our Community

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 help the 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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