As a living being, you are intelligent. What you percieve, I believe you percieve for a reason.
I like the image of a puzzle, for which we all carry pieces. Maybe sometimes none of us knows why something is on our mind. And then maybe we mention it anyway, and it awakens something in another – and maybe they have another piece?
If you are interested in the evolution of self-organisation, in this podcast episode are fresh stories from just a few weeks ago. To enjoy, you might wanna be familiar with Burning Man on some level.
Background:
Burning Man has been one of the more self-organised happenings. This year because of covid, there was no BM. Now people went out anyway – some 11000 at the most – and you had an even more self-organised happening aligned with the values of the original event.
Many nice nuances in this episode for the nerd.
Every ‘yes’ to make the temple happen we were going to say yes to. And that’s when magic really started to happen.
– Monera Mason, working on the temple at this “Renegade Burn”
If you press play below you’ll hear another quote from Monera.
Being in a culture of equality calls for being able to navigate on my own. In school, in society, at work …
Does this mean I “shouldn’t” ask others for advice? I’d say almost the opposite – when I ask I will still have to decide whom to ask and what I do with what I’ve found.
How did the rose
– Hafez
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light against its being –
Otherwise we all remain
Too frightened
It’s better
if we make as though many a thing
hangs in the balanceAs if
– Stephen Jenkinson
how we are with each other
is how the lords of chance will be with us
Imagine arriving at a job interview and finding yourself beside another candidate — in front of the interviewer.
The interviewer says:
Your job is to get the person sitting next to you to get a second interview …….. Help your partner succeed …….. make your partner look good.
Richard Sheridan from Menlo Innovations explains:
You’re thinking ‘but I need a second interview’ – aha, help the person sitting next to you, that’s [the capacity] we’re gonna watch for. Because we work in pairs.
– from the Being Human podcast with Krista Tippett
I actually think that people are so much more intelligent than many spiritual traditions give credit, and often than we give credit to ourselves.
To me it’s like: we know what we wanna eat, do you know what I mean – it’s that close to us. I know I loved smoked fish, there isn’t anything anybody can say that will change my mind about that.
And I think that when it comes to meaning and what we really need to feed our heart, we know that too.
This quote is Sounds True founder Tami Simon talking to Krista Tippett in the podcast “On Being”. It reminds me of Cynthia Winton-Henry’s Body wisdom tool #3: “Inner Authority — Believing what you notice”.
Do you believe what you notice?
We have to meet the universe halfway,
to move towards what may come to beAll living is meeting
And each meeting matters
– from “Meeting the Universe Halfway” by Karen Barad, 2007
At the end of a yoga class, our teacher was instructing us to set up for shivasana, the final resting pose of the class.
Seeing us rush to get into position, she encouraged us to take our time and set ourselves up properly, “as if you were doing it for a friend.”
– from a group exercise in the Working Out Loud peer program by John Stepper, week 12
Looking at him from this perspective, I saw that when he walked into the street, he really was asking a question.
‘What are the rules? How do I generalize? When is it all right to walk in the street and when isn’t it?’
[First] I told him to stay out of the street. The next day, I carried him when we crossed the street. Occasionally, when there was no traffic, I held his hand while he crossed. On isolated roads, I would even let him go across alone while I walked alongside.
As I became clear, and as he understood, he complied. He enjoyed complying. He derived a great deal of satisfaction out of mastering the road-crossing situation. We both were seeking the same goal.
from “Profound Simplicity” by Will Schutz, 1979
According to this article on American Society of Civil Engineers a roundabout moves “50 percent more cars per hour” compared to a traffic signal-controlled intersection.
It also needs additional agreed-upon principles and levels-of-trust to work smootly and safely:
Principle
When entering: give right-of-way to vehicles already in the circle
When about to exit: signal
Trust level
Social coordination will be sufficient to handle the differenct scenarios
If in an organization you were to let the individual “driver” make more calls, which principles would you base these calls on and how would you describe your levels-of-trust?
This post is build upon How to pick the principles that will actually change your organization by Jurriaan Kamer.
(image with permission)