George Pór framed an instrumental question as complement to a series of proposed actions and possible opportunities that came from the group: “What are the gifts that this thought leader circle can bring to the circles of practitioners to enhance and encourage their intention for cross fertilizing and exploring synergy in practice, in action across the various social technologies?” The thought leader group gave voice to a number of prospective joint endeavors and potential opportunities:
Proposed Action: Meet in Person to Share Experience From the Evolution of the World Cafe Network and to Learning More of Deep Listening and Emergence
“I’d like to suggest a follow-up conversation in which those of us who have been working to guide the evolution of the World Cafe network over the last few years, Juanita, Anne, myself and others, could really share that experience in more detail for whatever insights it might offer to Otto and others who are thinking about those questions for the Presencing Institute. The spirit of inquiry and listening and emergence that’s at the heart of the Presencing work would be a gift back to us as we continue to delve into those deep questions ourselves.” --Tom Hurley
Proposed Action: Deeper Integration of the U Process and World Cafe Processes
“I think there is a lot we can learn together about how to support the process of opening to the truly new, truly generative and to what is coming from the highest self. Not only what we can learn together about this capacity of opening but also learn how to embrace and give form to that which comes through.” Tom Hurley
“What are the tools, what are the processes, what are the ways of being, relating, learning together, what are the ways of implement and executing on what emerges for us that we can continue to co-evolving at the process level?” -- Tom Hurley
Proposed Action: Interweaving Work, Stewards and Practitioners in the Field
The request for integrating the two social technologies brought Otto Scharmer to call attention to the integration that is already happening among people in the field: “Regarding integrating the two bodies of work, in my view it is not really bringing two things together that are separate because they are already connected. People in the field are already integrating the two bodies of work.” Our question might best be: “How do we interweave that field within communities and with stewards in ways that best serve [the larger] field?”
The attention to practitioners, stewards and networks of practitioners already engaged in the work, lead to a proposed action of consciously connecting stewards and networks with one another: “Consciously connecting the stewards and leadership of the networks [of practitioners] is crucial in taking this global movement to a next level.” --Tom Hurley
Proposed Action: Noticing Opportunities to Invite One Another Into Working Together and to Make Visible One Another’s Work
“I think there are ways as individuals that we can be better at noticing opportunities to invite each other into the spaces in which we work and very consciously to use those opportunities and invitations as a way to deepen the relationships and deepen the field of consciousness that is serving the global awakening. At a collective level this means to be more conscious of the many ways of making our respective bodies of work visible, e.g., through postings on our respective websites.” --Tom Hurley
Proposed Action: Explore Shared Interest in Emerging Leaders & Multigenerational Collaboration
“Otto had mentioned through MIT or the work of ELIAS a conscious network of mentoring, inspiration and mutual support [to young emergent leaders]. We’ve been very engaged in the conceptual work around multigenerational collaboration, hosting multigenerational dialogue, around multigenerational collaboration in large scale systems change. That arena of emerging leaders is clearly one worth exploring in further conversations.” -- Juanita Brown