Appreciation v. Launching an Endeavor

For the Global Gathering, Elisa and Kabir introduced the insight that we are here committing to a long-term process, not just planning an event. What we are about is cultivating an environment of appreciation for the quality of life we have experienced with the people convening in the global gathering. We are not launching something, not planning an event. Dana observed that we are engaging in practices and ways of being. How, he asked, does something come into being? Our usual experiences, he said, are in pulling together things not well formulated; and, then, learning from that. In the global gathering, we are invited to allow the wisdom that resides within to emerge, to practice wisdom. To let the dream dream us.

Top, Kabir Kadre, l. and Elisa Sabatini, r.
Above, a session at the February 2007 intensive of the Generating Transformation Change in Human Systems course. Dana Carman is at right. Geoff Fitch is at left.