Spiraling up...

What could become possible if we had good maps of today's world-changing disciplines and movements, and their inter-relatedness? I have been holding that question and earlier variations of it for two decades, as central to what my life's work is dedicated to: a better world guided by conscious evolution.

The night of our knowledge cafés and my workshop during the Learning Day of the European Commission, Toke and I stayed in Helen's house in Brussels. In the morning I had a chance to invite him to see with me into that "What could become possible" question and sharpen it if possible.

As I was talking about why that question has so profound meaning to me, and why it is so essential to large-scale evolutionary breakthroughs, Toke started jotting down his insight in his unique combination of words and doodling. I was so inspired by his active and generous listening that I could hardly wait to finish what I needed to say to illuminate my question, and start co-sensing its resonance in our heart.

This was one of those times when I really wished we had a recording device handy but we didn't. (To be more precise, I didn't want to interrupt the flow with the 10 minutes it would have taken for me to figure out how to turn on the built-in voice-recording function of MS Word.) So, what you see here is only sketchy outline of key ideas from our rich conversation, using Toke's visual notes (see below) as my memory aid. It reflects only what I recall what was expressed but I feel it's too important to not try to share it with you and open the conversation with those interested to be part of it. Toke, please correct or complete my recollection with yours.

As I was speaking, Toke started drawing clusters of little people and labeling them as individuals, teams, practitioners, leading to an expanding spiral.

In our conversation it became clear to me that:

1. The "what will become possible" will be clearer if we engaged the "how to map the unmappable" question, the path to which starts with one or two individuals who hold a lived, next-level pattern that they are passionate to host.

2. Then we need to form a hosting team and invite the practitioners of the various disciplines, as key stakeholders in mapping the unmappable, to help drawing the picture in which most dots connect. The "connecting the dots" expression refers to, in this context, the areas of where the separately originated, upward moving and expanding vortices touch and interpenetrate. Each vortex represents one of the evolutionary disciplines and its community of practitioners.

3. We need a couple of good patterners on the hosting team, cartographers of our Emerging Planetary Reality. They should include people who not only have an eye for grasping large, complex patterns of meaning but can also express them in forms that can be navigated by attenuating or amplifying the representation's complexity, as needed.

4. What can become possible through the "AoH of Conscious Evolution" process as an infinite game is nothing less than the emergence of the next of level of our world and human relationships.

Where we go from here? My sense is that we need to expand the conversation, by inviting those whom we sense could be good mates for this particular journey, co-crafting the Call to a hosting team and form the team. I can't see further than that but don't even need to, the process will reveal itself.