Making sense of what’s happening in the world, besides the crises

I don’t have an accurate map of all the unconferences, barcamps, world cafés, “open space” sessions and appreciative inquiries that occur in many countries, with increasing frequency. In a sense, it would never be accurate because by the time a new video gets posted about an event occurring, two other went unnoticed by those who were not there. Thus, memes and practices worth to replicate can’t spread as rapidly as it would be useful and necessary to scale up innovation. Noticing it contributed to the following dual motivation of this writing.

• Share and test my glimpses of the meaning of what is emerging, by getting your feedback
• Spark collective reflection on what the awakening social body of emergence is learning about itself

There's no doubt that the rate at which emergent projects multiply is speeding. Simultaneously, we need to slow down and come together to make sense of what is really happening. “When I slow down. I notice more detail, … The more we are aware, the more possible choices we have.” (The Intuitive Body: Discovering the Wisdom of Conscious Embodiment and Aikido, by Wendy Palmer)

May this blog, both the writing and reading of it, contribute to our co-sensing of, and shared attention to, the event and initiatives that serve as change accelerators. May it also become an excuse to slow down enough to hear the exquisite patterns of music that the evolutionary impulse is playing on us.