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Intergenerational at Shambhala: story and what is next?

At the Shambhala Summer Institute, June ’08, people were invited to join a conversation around the next steps for the intergenerational work in Shambhala. It started with people trying to put the story together…

Meg Wheatley remembered that at the first Institute people were wondering: Where is the youth? At the last dinner, the kitchen and serving staff said they had enjoyed the conversations. Then they noticed: they were young!

Different pieces made something happen: the work of Berkana, the Pioneers of Change, David Isaac and Juanita Brown wanting to open space for more young people, Toke Møller hosting a module together with Marianne Knuth…
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You are invited to join an Intergenerational gathering happening in Greece, in September 2008. Pioneers of Change (the network) is inviting pioneers of all ages to celebrate with them their 10th anniversary.

Here you can read how it all started…

These are the guiding questions:
What happens when pioneers across generations and networks meet in a space of generative dialogue, co-creation and celebration?

What emerges when those of us who sense the new life bring our stories together?

What would we see when we sit in our diversity and wholeness, connected to the Earth, sensing the emergent future?
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The harvest of the recent Stewards Gathering is more or less finished, at least what I committed myself to post. In the forums you can find a more or less chronological harvest and you can take a look my pictures, with also some harvest flipcharts.

 

This morning (June 15, 2008) we started the Art of Hosting Stewards Gathering in The Shire, Nova Scotia - Canada. We are almost 20 people here and you can get a feel of our opening circle, when you read the poem that Chris Corrigan made as the harvest. Take your time! It is intense!

 

Today is Thursday. I am back home in my ‘normal’ work, giving several individual coaching sessions during the day. The Axladitsa Guardians gathering, which finished last Friday, is still very much present.

First of all I want to give you the link to the pictures I took during that time. I added some descriptions here and there, in that way it became a little story on its own.
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You are invited to join an Intergenerational gathering happening in Greece, in September 2008. Pioneers of Change (the network) is inviting pioneers of all ages to celebrate with them their 10th anniversary.

Here you can read how it all started…

These are the guiding questions:
What happens when pioneers across generations and networks meet in a space of generative dialogue, co-creation and celebration?

What emerges when those of us who sense the new life bring our stories together?

What would we see when we sit in our diversity and wholeness, connected to the Earth, sensing the emergent future?
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My question on Tuesday was: What is the difference between Axladitsa and let’s say Findhorn (as most people know this place).
This question came to me because I had a sense there is a difference, but I wasn’t able to name precisely what it was about. The day before I had mentioned Spiral Dynamics (a developmental model for values, cultures and societies), and Sarah wanted to know more about it, as she sensed there were some answers to find there.
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Axladitsa, Monday May 26, afternoon siesta time

The wind coming from the sea brings me the fragrance of the jasmine flowers. Delicious!  read more »

It is Sunday… but when living on the land it is a day like any other day.

Because Maria is still in Athens, where she is visiting her dad, we agreed to do some more ‘clearing’ this morning. Imagine a steep piece of land, full of brambles and wild trees and schrubs. It goes from the house down to the little streambed that is dry most of the time these days. Because last summer there were so many big fires in Greece, and it looks like it will be as dry this year, this piece of land needs to be cleared. In case of a fire nearby, it will stop at a certain distance of the house, to keep it safe.
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I arrived at Axladitsa Friday, late into the night, but sleeping in the yurt, really in nature, is so much better than whatever hotel room in Athens.

I used my time this morning to get acquainted with the land again, and did some little things here and there. Tomatoes, are growing, onions, mint and lavender… and amazing colorful wild flowers… attracting a load of different butterflies.

Scheduled is now a Guardians gathering. Amazingly enough only two ‘outside’ guests are here in person: Ulrik and myself, welcomed by Maria and Sarah, and Mia the cat. I guess being with the four of us is different than what Maria and Sarah originally envisioned, but the Open Space rule applies: Whoever shows up, are the right people.
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