As I continue to reflect upon and integrate our time together in Moving the Edge, more questions are arising. I realized this morning that I, you, we, have this collective who can access and share in this ongoing inquiry. So I pose the question:
What is the role of the personal in our learning and training in building this container for collective intelligence?
During our time together there were several times when very personal feelings of sadness, of inner pain, of struggle, of fear,were shared. If these feelings are present in the "field", so to speak, is this process a necessary one to bring us more to a place of wholeness, of trust, of oneness? I ask this because I noticed that we did not access the Middle, when these feelings were being expressed. It was when we moved beyond, beyond any personal feelings, into something greater than ourselves, that the Middle spoke. Is there a ways to get there, to that perspective of something beyond self, without going through the doorway of pain and sadness and fear held in the group?
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