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Tenneson Woolf, one of the Art of Hosting Stewards, has some interesting content in his blog. I am particular fascinated by these simple principles, which will lead us to emergence. They were shared by Debbie Frieze, co-director of Berkana.

· Start anywhere, follow it everywhere. (Courtesy of Myron Kellner-Rogers.)
· The leaders we need are already here. (Meg Wheatley)
· We have what we need.
· We make our path by walking it.
· We walk at the pace of the slowest. (Zapatistas)
· We are learning how to live the future now. (We are creating the worlds we want today.)
· We listen, even to the whispers.

 

Do you have similar or other principles which might guide us?

Submitted by Ria Baeck on April 20, 2008 - 21:58.

Further reflections

Submitted by Mushin J. Schilling on September 6, 2008 - 11:35.

Dear Helen posted this on her blog at zaadz, and I posted a comment there that I think is relevant here too:

 

These are very interesting insights, indeed, allthough I do not think that these things are  “decisions”; in my view a better formulation might sound like this: 1. Acting small because it is more comfortable… is not ethical;; 2. Holding back because you don't want to go against “the group” … is not ethical; etc.
Methinx that most, if not all of these behaviors are habitual, and that wanting to change oneself in such a way as to turn these into behaviors that become a new habit (so I just do it without every time again deciding to do it, overcome the resistance against doing it, and that actually doing it) takes another reformulation - I can donly do 'positive' things. For instance, I “sit down” I don't “not stay standing up”.
In this spirit I wouldn't know how to reformulate #1; reformulating #2 I would say: “I express and act upon my mind'/heart's/gut's feeling/decision even in challenging circumstances.”
Re. #3 I wouldn't know - what is possible or impossible has never been of much concern to me; often we have no idea of what is possible until we start working at something.
#4 is easy: “Whatever I set myself to do I engage myself utterly.”
#5 brings Bob Marley to mind with his: “Get up, stand up…”

And so on.

So thank you for giving me some food for reflection.

Reflections on ethics and the process of making things happen

Submitted by Ria Baeck on September 4, 2008 - 17:25.

Reflections on Ethics

by Oscar Motomura
Reflections on ethics and the process of making things happen: effective implementation of solutions for critical sustainability equations.

If ethics is the choice for the common good (global reach and  including all living beings):
1.    Deciding to act small because it is more comfortable… is not ethical;
2.    Deciding to hold back (your proposals, ideas and actions) because  you don’t want to go against “the group” … is not ethical;
3.    Deciding to doing the possible instead of trying to make the  impossible possible… is not ethical;
4.    Deciding to use just a part of your potential (to “save” it for  self interest purposes) … is not ethical;
5.    Deciding not to act, to stay silent, letting fear stay in the way…  is not ethical;
6.    Deciding to conform to the “letter of the law” instead of  persisting on the path defined by the “spirit of the law” … is not  ethical;
7.    Deciding not to try because nobody tried it before… is not ethical;
8.    Deciding not to pursue the perfection and conform to what seems  “negotiable” … is not ethical;
9.    Deciding to postpone bold actions again and again “waiting for the  right moment” … is not ethical;
10.    Deciding to “play the game” and pretend that you are not seeing  the manipulations underway… is not ethical;
11.    Deciding to live in the realm of ideas, diagnosis and theories  instead of taking the risks and going for actions… is not ethical;
12.    Deciding to act only when all is scientifically proven, even when  the truth is self evident… is not ethical;
13.    Deciding to reject all radically creative ideas (yours including)  when the “traditional-not-so-radical ideas” have not been working… is  not ethical;
14.    Deciding to reject every proposal that looks “idealistic” or  “utopic” … is not ethical;

(Insights of Oscar Motomura during Tallberg concert that followed a session of the Moral Boundaries Workshop, Summer 2008)

motomura@amana-key.com.br

Principles of Open Space Technology

Submitted by Filiz Telek on April 22, 2008 - 23:06.

Principles of Open Space Technology have been always inspiring for me:

 - Whoever comes are the right people

 - Whatever happens is the only thing that could have

 - Whenever it starts it is the right time

 - When it is over, it is over !

and

 - The law of two feet - if you at any point are not able to learn or contribute something where you are - use your feet to go where you will learn and contribute.

 

and one principle that I like very much is,

 don't take yourself so serious!  Wink

Principles of the Center for Human Emergence (the Netherlands)

Submitted by Helen Titchen Beeth on April 22, 2008 - 17:24.

Here are the core principles of the Dutch Center for Human Emergence.

 

- We practice full presence and radical authenticity

- We open our hearts to the voice of the whole

- We pay attention to the evolutionary impulse as it arises as us

- We move ourselves in response to the evolutionary impulse with swiftness, precision, and love

 

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