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Check-in question: Personal consequences that we would appreciate?

Submitted by George Por on March 20, 2008 - 12:48.

What would I appreciate as valuable personal consequence(s) of my full engagement with the work of the Nexus hosting team?

 

What does "full engagement" mean? It certainly does not mean "full time." It means recognizing the community's well-being as one's own, and honoring it according to one's talents and capacity. To me it also means that the participation in the hosting community of Nexus should provide valuable support to one's livelihood, as suggested by a comment Toke made in the Open Space session on Connecting Our Conversations.

If you want, hold the "valuable personal consequence" question for a moment, look into it while silencing the inner chatter... with a few deep breaths...

 

My guess is that the more we know about each other's dreams and aspirations, the better we can support them. The stronger we hold each other in our highest potential, the stronger the hosting community and its capacity to support the global community of practitioners will grow... That's why I'd like to invite all members of the hosting team to take that question into our contemplation.

 

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I love it, Vibeke!

Submitted by Helen Titchen Beeth on March 22, 2008 - 20:26.

Thank you for bringing in this research, Vibeke - joining the dots.

 

As coincidence would have it, George, Ria, Simone, Rainer and I (among others) were at a meeting at the Brussels hub yesterday evening. It is still in its infancy, and going through the inevitable teething pains, but what a beautiful project.

 

Your intuition that our space here is based on similar principles seems very rich and appropriate to me. Laughing

Land lording a Hub in outer space -tasting my own words 2nd day

Submitted by Vibeke Batting on March 22, 2008 - 18:42.

Land lording

According to Vikipedia a Landlord is “the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called tenant.” Hmm, that was not what I meant – you cannot own knowledge etc. Can you be the caretaker of online conversations and communities? Yes, that is the essence for me in land lording.

A Hub

Just learned in Brussels what a Hub is, and it is very magnetic to me (http://thehubbrussels.pbwiki.com/). Everything is possible in a Hub bound to earth as it is by physical property and infrastructure as it is (land lording again Smile).

I am very attracted to the principles of a Hub (taken from the Brussels’ Hub site) and I find it very applicable to our path:

  • Everyone a social innovator;  We create a context in which anyone is encouraged to realize the social innovator in themselves: realizing imaginative initiatives full-time, part-time, flexi-time
  • The need for enabling spaces;  We believe in the necessity and the power of working in spaces which nourish the human spirit, allow individuals to bring all of themselves to their work, and enable new questions and difficult answers to be given due attention
  • The mysteries of connections;  We believe that the most meaningful connections and some of the most powerful outcomes happen without being planned. We are interested in what complexity scientists understand as `emergence´ within our inter-disciplinary practice
  • Just in time tools & resources;  We know social innovators need access, over time, to a wide range of  `just in time´ resources to thrive: money, creativity, leading edge IT, management advice - so we attempt to provide channels to such resources and to support the pioneer‘s initial spark and ingenuity
  • The richness in learning by doing;  We have come to understand the importance of continuous learning by doing and the value of codifying and sharing this. Contrary to the usual tendency of a pioneer to move on to the next thing, without fully internalizing or valuing the lessons of the immediate experience.

And all this is key to me (deleting the red text though)! And what I want to manifest is all this but WITHOUT the anchoring in terms of physical property etc. And that is how I perceive our conditions – and potentials.

In outer space

‘In outer space’ is my ‘Toy Story’ picturing of a mission beyond.  We’re in the business of land lording a global community of practitioners and this with no physical anchoring, thus in "outer space".

Land lording a Hub in outer space

Let’s celebrate that we have no anchor, take our path and co-create our manifestation - our home.

Land lording a Hub in outer space?

Submitted by Vibeke Batting on March 21, 2008 - 17:14.

How will my engagement in the Nexus hosting team go hand-in-hand with reaching my highest potential?

All my dreams and aspirations have a common denominator, namely the perception of oneness. And I have for a long time joggled (more or less consciously) with the idea of “land lording” a Hub (now I know what it’s called J) – and since I (for now) regard an online community as a non-physical Hub, it all sort of makes sense...

The value it will give to my path is new capabilities in building sustainable communities with built-in learning expeditions.

What I see as a valuable

Submitted by Erik Mathijs on March 21, 2008 - 09:51.
What I see as a valuable personal consequences of my engagement with the work of the Nexus hosting team is (1) to become a better online host, (2) to find mates in co-hosting online communities, (3) to be able to host and connect conversations and communities already out there and that are waiting to be hosted and connected. The first microcosm I would like to embark upon is the community of NGOs and change agents related to environmentally conscious behaviour in Flanders.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Submitted by Helen Titchen Beeth on March 20, 2008 - 19:47.
I realise that my desire is simply for this space to be alive. Seeing the potential of this online community, I see also that if others do not also see it, then we cannot manifest it together. Something I have been holding since our time together is the visceral knowing that there is only us, and there is only now, for doing what the world needs us to do. The only place where we can find wise action is in our collective clarity. The only place where we can find collective clarity is through joint inquiry, where each of us brings our full commitment - as Duri says, not in time, but in presence - to this space. I summon you here, my genies...