[Oe List ...] FW: A brain flash (from Wayne Nelson)

[Randy Williams]

I wonder if anything like this was proposed at this past weekend's 
Springboard meeting in Denver.  I don't believe that the movement we all 
were/are a part of can be reduced to just facilitation, but I wonder if it 
can be as broad and undefined as Wayne is suggesting.  What he proposes does 
leave room not only for all of "us" but for many others as well who are 
doing overall what we are doing.

Randy Williams

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cock" <jpc2025 at triad.rr.com>
To: "'Order Ecumenical Community'" <oe at wedgeblade.net>; "'Colleague 
Dialogue'" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:31 PM
Subject: [Oe List ...] 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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