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

Mon Oct 31 11:00:31 EDT 2011

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

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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

From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Lawrence Philbrook
Sent: 31 October 2011 14:59
To: 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 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

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