[Oe List ...] OE Digest, Vol 90, Issue 52

Sun Nov 6 10:05:55 EST 2011

Randy, Do you have the name of a book by Matthew Fox where he deals with  
the tension between interior life and external mission?  If so, please put  
it on this oe list.

Karen Bueno

In a message dated 11/6/2011 7:22:49 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
tlongacre at gmail.com writes:

Yep. I studied with Matt (Creation Spirituality), though he's a lot more  
academic than me (it's the Dominican in him).

Tracy Longacre  
sent from my iPhone

On 31 Oct 2011, at 17:32, R Williams <_rcwmbw at yahoo.com_ 
(mailto:rcwmbw at yahoo.com) > wrote:

When thinking of holding  the interior life and the exterior mission in 
creative tension the names of  two who appear to have done and have written 
about it are Matthew Fox and  Parker Palmer.  Randy

From: Tracy E. Longacre <_tel at telphoto.com_ (mailto:tel at telphoto.com) >
To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' <_oe at wedgeblade.net_ 
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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 10:00  AM
Subject: Re: [Oe List  ...] OE Digest, Vol 90, Issue 52

Yes,  methods and spirit. I was just thinking as I was riding my bike to 
work this  morning that the thing that breaks my heart about so many places I’
ve been  in Africa is the suppression of the human spirit. Oh to unleash  
that!

Personally,  I’ve been very drawn to “being a monk in the world” stuff. I’
m reading Wayne  Teasdale’s book at the moment. Also been reading a lot of 
Buddhism. And in  Creation Spirituality there was always this idea that 
mysticism and activism  were two sides of the same coin. From what I can see in 
the world, it  certainly is not automatic that one leads to the other, but I’
ve seen a lot  of folks who’ve gone very far or “all the way” in one 
domain, realize the  other is missing. But so often, the space to explore the 
interior and the  space to explore the exterior are totally divorced from one 
another, and so  I think people feel like they are faced with the choice of 
leaving the place  that has given them so much in order to explore the other 
realm. Or else  they are simply at a loss as to how to go about delving into 
the other  area.

Of  course, one has to explore the interior and the exterior each on their 
own  merits and then see what they have to contribute to the other. Going 
into  the interior just to make the exterior more effective, or vice versa, is 
 just a game, not authentic.

All of  which is to say I love the sound of what you guys are doing and 
would love  to see what “Spirit of Facilitation” looks like. 

 Tracy E. Longacre
    from Katima Mulilo, Namibia
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"This courage  doesn't deny or rush past feelings of fear but lets them 
dissolve into  trust: a deep, abiding trust that your human experience is 
exactly the  experience you are meant to have; that you needn't feel shame or 
guilt for  your imperfections; that you needn't grasp for something that isn't 
coming  your way, or reject what is.” 
        “Fearlessness,”  Yoga Journal, June 2011

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[mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Lawrence  Philbrook
Sent: 31 October 2011 14:59
To: _oe at wedgeblade.net_ (mailto:oe at wedgeblade.net) 
Subject: Re:  [Oe List ...] OE Digest, Vol 90, Issue 52

Dear Tracy

You  said "I would love to see something that combined the PJD work, ToP 
and the  community development work from the HDPs"  This ties to the work I  
think we need to do with ourselves as ICA and our global community,  
reflecting on what we have been learning and how we intend to integrate the  new 
with the old.  I have been exploring Theory U (Otto Scharmer)  which proposes 
that to do transformative work we need to start with  deepening our 
reflection into ourselves and the reality we are working with,  and then open 
ourselves to insight.  Last January at the US ToP  gathering we were talking about 
this in the context of facailitation, Jean  Watt's said something like"We 
have always done the interior work before we  could exemplify it in the 
exterior."  I think we need to figure out how  to do it again

In Septmber Evelyn  and I were in Kenya and Zimbabwe, in both places we 
were talking about  methods and about spirit as being a key element of ICA's  
uniqueness.

In October we introduced a new version of the Spirit of  facilitation 
course which is our attempt to broach the same question in the  context of 
facilitation.  

What else is  happening?  How can we as a global community and we as ICA  
learn?

I am preparing for a  meeting next week on community development in China 
with exactly this  question, how do we introduce community development,  
leadership  development and spirit reflection at the same time.

With respect,  Larry

Lawrence Philbrook
Director, Institute of Cultural Affairs Taiwan 
_www.icatw.com_ (http://www.icatw.com/)  Tel: 8862-2871-3150 Fax: 
8862-2871-2870
Skype: icalarry

President ICA International/ Member Global Leadership Team
ICAI Office c/o ICA Canada, 655 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON.  M4M 1G4 Canada
_www.ica-international.org_ (http://www.ica-international.org/) 

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