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More Reflections on Moving the Edge - Can this be a Training?

 

Training

 

 

The Moving the Edge gathering and the other salons and cafes that have emerged in the last year can be seen as a learning environment.  They are an exploration in how to evolve our co-intelligence, how to speak from the Middle, how to lean in and listen to the CircleBeing, how to be together in authenticity as individuals who express the imagination and voice of a collective being that is seeking to know itself and to evolve.

 

In this process a field of learning, of co-creating, and of being in training is taking shape.   And the wise ones of the movement hold the space across geography and time space so this new way of knowing can emerge.

 

I as a teacher and trainer see the potential for a greater movement that some of us will be seeding, teaching, planting, growing, nurturing within the greater community of humanity.  In these salons now we are in training, we are learning about how to do this, how to be together, how to evolve in co-intelligence, and new ways of leading. And as more new members move into the circle, the circle widens across the planet, and more come into training.  There are circles within circles. It is very unofficial and organic as this happens now, and yet it is taking shape and gaining momentum.  It seems that within this emerging system there is a great attractor at work.  We are called, and know not why.  And we come.

 

There is a learning prototype for collective intelligence (a general use of the term) happening.  And its nature may be that is will never have specific definition but will ever evolve and take variable shape as we carry this collective way of co-creating and innovating into various human environments and organizational contexts.  We are in the process of discovering and co-creating how we will do that.

 

It was probably no accident that many at Moving the Edge are free lance consultants, facilitators of change, and creative people.  We do work from outside the traditional societal structures.  And yet our work is to re-enter and re-from, and transform the way of being, ways of knowing and working in those organizational and societal contexts.  And some are young students who can learn ways of approaching their life and profession as integrated wholes within the individuated collective.  They can start from that place. What a gift for us all that they are here.

 

I would love to see some special interest groups emerge from this community.  We can learn, be in training, experiment, practice, collaborate, with how the collective knowing, the intelligence of the Middle can be taken to the next layer of society and the one after that and so on (I have an image of ever expanding circles into the world).  Our laboratory is us, and the ones to whom we are connected in our work and personal relationships, potentially our clients.  We are the prototype. We are in training. We are preparing to co-develop how to train co-creation.
Submitted by Judy Wallace on March 27, 2006 - 15:10.

We are prototypes!

Submitted by Jan Nouwen on March 28, 2006 - 10:58.

very inspiring thought. To see us as in training, as prototypes. I picked up work yesterday and found myself doing it very different. More full, supported and with tremendous care and connection. Beautiful things happened instantaniously and I danced throug the day. By the way, I am one of those business consultants.

I can feel the potential you mentoned and I feel my work is redefined in this manner. Gives me great joy and purpose.

And remember, during our gathering, each time we felt a deep wish for something to happen and we asked ourselves the question how to do it, this very asking seemed to be a signal to pay attention for it already was happening. Let's be alert and awake.

Jan