Tuesday afternoon: What was this afternoon about?

At two o'clock we sat in the circle again: How do we go from here?

We started talking about process and content. Should we use social technologies as: Open Space; World Café; Listening to the middle; contemplating; …
Or should we elaborate on the treads of the conversation this morning…

Or maybe we have to talk about: For what? before we talk about How?

What is needed now? Maybe more connection; because wisdom comes in relation?

Some tried to combine: A World Café could connect us more AND we can talk around the content of this morning.

What is in the middle right now?
    …. be in the not-knowing …
        this becomes tickling …

Maybe we are making relation with the larger field of Collective Intelligence? What is the relation of us with/as Evolution? Evolution as our highest social potential. How to be a better evolutionary agent?

Something is getting shaped here; the field of Collective Intelligence is using US.
Some principles we can use maybe:
    form follows function; function follows purpose
    purpose – connection – action – results

The community is finding it’s way. The question that is rising: How do we connect? How do we relate?
Maybe the Collective Intelligence way of working is getting to know each other?

Some explanation on ‘The magic in the middle’ – connecting beyond the personal. The magic in the middle, is speaking from and to the middle, the in-between-us.

Somebody spoke about the need to include the body; in body to body connection really new things can emerge. Some stood up and starting to do little movements in silence, behind their chairs.

The tension was building! Some found it juicy! Tension in the middle!
Can we hold the tension? So that something new can be born?
Like the implicit order is trying to unfold…

So, collective intelligence is here; now what?
It is not here, the possibility is here, it might unfold.

Until this point a lot of suggestions were done, hardly any got a response… Our ego’s were bleeding…

What wants to be called into being now?
What can be named now? Naming needs grounding, the gravity and the senses.

We noticed waves of something happening, and sometimes not.
Do we listen deeply?
This tension, this searching; it seems a necessary process, we cannot skip it!
We are not doing democracy; what are we doing?
If we try too hard to be collective intelligence, we won’t get it. What if we try to be just co-stupid for 4 days?

It became clear that we all showed the commitment to hang in!!! The collective confusion is a good way to collective intelligence.

Then we got some explanation on the community building theory of Scott Peck. How we go from pseudo community, to chaos (where we were/are now!), then comes emptying and finally to community.

What would I need to empty myself?
Each one of us wants to do ‘something’, maybe that wants to empty?
The solid idea of purpose is maybe in the way of the collective intelligence?
Collective intelligence seems to be all inclusive: beyond good and wrong.

BREAK

From a hindsight, the energy shifted here; and we came to talk about the difference of the two afternoons.

There was an explanation on the U-curve; probably we are in the co-sensing phase?
Someone was invited to speak from the heart… and we noticed too much male sky-energy was voiced and not enough female grounding. This was named as a longing for listening deeper, to slow down, to build on each other, to listen for the wisdom to come…

Thank you for sharing what is difficult to share…
… belonging…
        …Earth…
I know more than I have words for… and she used her body and  movement to show us … (not being able to share this via this medium).

To become whole again, we have to honour the Sacred Feminine, for the systemic balance.

In one of the preparation conference calls the convening team came across: Holding space for the unfolding of direction. Like the balance of feminine and masculine…

This balance is bloody important and needed; it has to become a felt sense in the body on cell level … and … It is game! The universe doesn’t care!

Do you notice the capacities we are building? The difference between discussion and speaking to bring something present; speaking your truth when it is the time to do it.

The group's intelligence is increasing my personal intelligence at incredible speed! This is collective intelligence in action. And what enabled it is the listening (the feminine), the receptivity and to voice it, to reflect it back to the whole (the masculine). Feelings and emotional intelligence (EQ) tend to be more inclusive than the ideas (IQ). Integrative intelligence has to integrate both and this seems to be happening.

Somebody raised his burning question how collective intelligence is related to complexity theory? A kind of answer came about mavens and connectors; and websites as hubs.

Again a voice spoke about the embodiment of this all:

Resonance AND dissonance.

Cooperation AND competition.

Then we closed the circle for that moment, with time for posting here, for meditation, for whatever....

(More tomorrow! European time)