Month: February 2015

Ellen, David, Jim, Roger, Gordon, Leah, Jo, Helen, Randy and Ellen had a lively interaction around Chapter 5  Emergence:  Surprised by Newness.  Go to Chapter 5 to see Randy’s outline.  Randy’s provocative question:

From a practical perspective, what does it mean to be a change agent in a world where change emerges from multiple complex interactions rather than from well-planned, highly impacting interventions?

Next week:  Chapter 6  IDENTITY THE LOGIC OF CHANGE

We have scheduled the next 8 Tuesdays at 5 pm Seattle time for further Chapter by Chapter explorations.  Put them on your calendar.  Browse the chapters if you can . . 

These are the details you will need to access our session.  See below for additional links.

 

1A.  Please join my meeting.
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OTHER LINKS. 

Browse the website if you can

https://wedgeblade.net/wordpress/studies/chapter-by-chapter/

And our DropBox folder

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d9owg7q9wy7ctzp/AABmNzQZa2qZLP9XpJvBszOSa?dl=0

and in our GoogleDocs folder.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JtBY6aUG9b_cb6NRPqNIlNm-Her5t4BRwnD5p1tuF3A/edit?usp=docslist_api

Join us this Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 5 pm Seattle time for a further exploration of Margaret Wheatley’s SO FAR FROM HOME. This week we are diving into Chapter 1 Seeing What Is with Jo Nelson and Chapter 4 Everything Comes From Somewhere. with David Rebstock (as the 21st century permits . . .) We have scheduled the next 8 Tuesdays at 5 pm Seattle time for further Chapter by Chapter explorations. Put them on your calendar. Browse the chapters and our study group when you can . . .

Helen will be sending the details for how to connect in a separate email.

Last Tuesday, February 10, was a good time exploring SO FAR FROM HOME. 9 of us: Leah Early, Gordon Harper, Steve Harrington, Ellen Howie, David Rebstock, Ellen Rebstock, James Wiegel, Randy Williams, and Helen Wyeth
were able to participate. We spent time on Chapter 2: Do You Want to Save the World? Click for details

and Chapter 3: New Maps for Lost People.  Click for details

Access our website here

Please also browse our trail in our DropBox folder

and in our GoogleDocs folder.

Please browse and comment or ask questions

CONTEXT AND INTENTS  We want to dive into SO FAR FROM HOME to create a common framework for us that will spur a deeper shared reflection among us on what is really going on in our work, our world and ourselves.  We are interested in GROUNDING our exploration in real life.  We see this as a spiraling journey – seeing the whole book (all of our chapters) in each part, and gradually moving down into our own grounded reflections

RECOMMENDATIONS
Each participant (can be pairs) select and  “Do” a chapter.   “Do” = study it on behalf of all of us, and create a Visual overview of the chapter (chart?) with key points/quotes, that caught you and a visual image, Grounding examples, and One to two provocative questions to focus our attention.

Post it where we can all see, comment, and add our reflections (either on this website or Gdocs and Represent the perspective of that chapter as needed and be ready to guide a 20 minute plunge into your chapter

WE RECOMMEND to Schedule 8 weekly Sessions 70 minutes each — dive into 2 chapters per session (20 minutes each), plus 10 to start, 10 for a break in the middle and 10 to wind up.  We are suggesting to continue on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm Seattle time, but will finalize this on our call.  We need ways to continue the exploration off line, face to face, in other configurations and other modalities

TECHNOLOGY AND GUIDELINES

We can use GoToMeeting (Helen has offered) or some other on line conferencing package –stick with one to ease the “learning technology” part
Important to get head phones,
Mute microphones when not speaking
Need capacity to see the screen, have book in front of you either r on screen or on paper
Ability to share screens so we can all see the same thing

Conversation between Jo Nelson and Jim Wiegel 2/6/15

Welcome to the 21 of you who have, so far, shown interest in this study and exploration of Margaret Wheatley’s book, SO FAR FROM HOME.  Tonight, Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 5:00 pm Seattle time is our first gathering.  Helen Wythe will be sending out invitations and how to connect later today.

If you have not gotten your invitation, send an email to

helenwythe@hjwythe.com

We know that some of you don’t have the book as yet and that others of you cannot easily join us on line tonight.  We intend to keep a lively and expanding community conversation going with your active participation, initiative and creativity – via email, website, online sessions, face to face encounters, social media and whatever else we all come up with.

We have scheduled 2 online “getting started” sessions so far:   tonight (February 3) and next Tuesday (February 10).  By the end of these “getting started” sessions, we will have a common overview of SO FAR FROM HOME, and a grasp of the questions and interests we share that can drive our exploration.  We will also have a framework for HOW to proceed that fits all of us in terms of times and places, methods and technologies and, most important energizing personal connections that can sustain us for the length of this journey (4 weeks?  5 weeks? . . .)

Here is our  draft of the flow of the session.  All times are Seattle (Pacific time zone, you will need to adjust to your location)

4:30 Final Prep  “Before’s”  (30 minutes in advance) Log on / call in when you can to check your equipment, get a drink, find your book, paper, pencil, favorite app, etc.  WARNING:  GoToMeeting has some capacity for video, so take care of what you wear, where you sit, etc.)

5:00  START  PRELUDE:  Welcome to GoToMeeting.  Helen would do this, get people connected, explain the screens and how to navigate, etc.  the icons and all.  10 minutes

5:10  MVT 1  Introductory go round:  name, location, 1 thing attracted you, where you are in the book.  10 minutes

5:20  MVT II  An overview look at SO FAR FROM HOME.  Either using Jim’s chart of the book, or a section from the introduction, just to get a taste.  Participants, singly or in small groups will each choose a chapter of interest to go into for the next session (might use some of the formats from the book charting sessions at recent ToP Network gatherings)  15 minutes

5:35  MVT III  Conversation on the mechanics of this, how we might operate, subgroups, how to make this an active and productive participatory study and conversation — perhaps a couple of people could offer to come back with some recommendations for next week  15 minutes

5:50  POSTLUDE  A brief review.  We thought to save the last 5-10 minutes for a collective summary and reflection and next steps.  10 minutes

6:00  AFTERS  Coordination team (Gordon, Helen, Jim, others) will stay on a bit to debrief and wrap up. 10 minutes

Next week we will probably dip into a couple of the parts to get a sense of the address and impact of the book and outline steps and a time line to proceed, with special attention to how we enable a broad range of folks to dig into SO FAR FROM HOME and the questions it raises.

For example, I am going to offer to do a “book charting” session with our local Arizona Community of Practice in March . . .

We will put a report and notes up either on this website or in drop box or googledoc folder

Questions?  Reply here or email me

jfwiegel@yahoo.com