Intergenerations

Intergenerational at Shambhala: story and what is next?

At the Shambhala Summer Institute, June ’08, people were invited to join a conversation around the next steps for the intergenerational work in Shambhala. It started with people trying to put the story together…

Meg Wheatley remembered that at the first Institute people were wondering: Where is the youth? At the last dinner, the kitchen and serving staff said they had enjoyed the conversations. Then they noticed: they were young!

Different pieces made something happen: the work of Berkana, the Pioneers of Change, David Isaac and Juanita Brown wanting to open space for more young people, Toke Møller hosting a module together with Marianne Knuth…
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Greetings!

I have a little theory about the Upanishads (Hindu mystical texts) - one that I have long been nurturing but that makes itself clearer to me every day. And I thought it might be worth sharing it here.

Upanishads means (etymologically) 'to sit down beside/close to'. Usually, it is presented as sitting down close to the Guru to acquire knowledge - but I think that this is unnecessary Guru worship (and this is where I defect). Doesn't the Guru learn from his student? What, nothing at all?
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You are invited to join an Intergenerational gathering happening in Greece, in September 2008. Pioneers of Change (the network) is inviting pioneers of all ages to celebrate with them their 10th anniversary.

Here you can read how it all started…

These are the guiding questions:
What happens when pioneers across generations and networks meet in a space of generative dialogue, co-creation and celebration?

What emerges when those of us who sense the new life bring our stories together?

What would we see when we sit in our diversity and wholeness, connected to the Earth, sensing the emergent future?
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Imagine,

 

that you are sitting in Axladitsa, and that there is a very special moment, where you suddenly feel a part of you connect across a generation and experience their perspective intimately... that you really feel that you could be standing in their shoes...sitting in their chair.. breathing the same breath of air with them

 

Here is to moments like that to come.

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Here's a great little slide show that tells how young people may lead the change in organizations and habits, which can replace old, less effective, less efficient, and less enjoyable ways to work. Grown with the internet, they use it as a natural ally.

 

What can the rest of us learn from them? What do you think?

 

 

You are invited to join an Intergenerational gathering happening in Greece, in September 2008. Pioneers of Change (the network) is inviting pioneers of all ages to celebrate with them their 10th anniversary.

Here you can read how it all started…

These are the guiding questions:
What happens when pioneers across generations and networks meet in a space of generative dialogue, co-creation and celebration?

What emerges when those of us who sense the new life bring our stories together?

What would we see when we sit in our diversity and wholeness, connected to the Earth, sensing the emergent future?
 read more »

Pulling this blog entry from where it was originally posted into this site.