[Dialogue] The Legacy of our Community

Len Hockley lenh at efn.org
Tue Dec 7 21:16:01 CST 2010 

OK, OK

I guess it means me too!

For starters:

*All is good*. The past is approved, the future is open, the present is 
accepted as a gift to be lived in full.

*Imaginal education* is the key to social change.

The *Underlying Contradiction* is the "trim-tab" of effective strategic 
change.

*Song, Story, and Symbol* are the glue of effective organization (words 
and tunes count).

The *Social Process Triangles* (life is trinitarian).

The deep existential truths of life can only be expressed as *paradoxes*.

Cheers,
Len



On 12/6/2010 11:50 PM, Gordon Harper wrote:
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> Colleagues --
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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>                 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?/
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> _/[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
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> To see the page we've set up on the Repository, which is essentially 
> the same as what's in this note, click on:
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> http://wiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view/Main/BrainStorm
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> Looking forward to hearing from you.  Let's see where this goes --
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> Gordon
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