by Sheri Sophia Herndon
Living Wisdom For Being And Becoming An Awakening Civilization
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April 1, 2024
<p>“If our capacity for wisdom arises from influences and practices at a relatively small scale, but our biggest problems arise from underlying delusions within system dynamics at a planetary scale, what follows for how we should educate ourselves?" ~ Jonathan Rowson</p> <p>With this next conversation, I’m officially launching my Wisdom Dialogue Series. If I only had time to tell you how this is a culmination of my life up to this moment, and how this is the result of a flow of synchronicities in my life that have been growing and growing so powerfully. Without further adieu, the first episode is with my guest Alan Briskin. He’s so perfect to be the first guest and let me share about him and you’ll see why.</p> <p><em>Alan Briskin, Ph.D. </em>is the author and co-author of multiple books on the workplace, health care, and collective wisdom, including <em>The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, Daily Miracles,</em> and <em>The Power of Collective Wisdom</em>. He has been working with groups and organizations for 40 years as an executive coach and consultant. </p> <p>Co-founder of The Collective Wisdom Initiative, sponsored by the Fetzer Institute, Dr. Briskin’s long-term clients have included Kaiser Permanente, George Lucas Educational Foundation, and the Goi Peace Foundation in Tokyo. He has held positions as Executive Advisor at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Senior Advisor to the One Humanity Institute. His work has sought to integrate the interior experience of individuals and groups with the realities of external power, privilege, and institutional history. He is currently working on a forthcoming book with Mary Gelinas<em>, Space is Not Empty: Harnessing the Power of Relational Fields to Impact Our World.</em></p> <p>That is just the tip of the iceberg of who Alan is because we are infinite people who are more than our bios. Nonetheless, it’s inspiring to hear part of his story. I hope that this wisdom dialogue supports you, my listener and viewer and Awakening Together community member, in discovering more of your own capacity, your own deep longing for meaningful conversation and more of the wisdom in your own life.</p> <p>I believe that the world needs more wisdom and we need more dialogue and we also need spaces and containers for dialogue beyond just the normal meeting kind of conversations. Of course you might want to know “What is a wisdom dialogue?” What is wisdom and what then is dialogue? Listen in and find out. </p> <p>This first Wisdom Dialogue emerged out of what was going to be our ‘prep’ call for the formal interview I was going to have with Alan. It wanted to be a Wisdom Dialogue. We were quickly in a deep connected (communitas) space that was guiding us as much as we were guiding it through the flow of our conversation. There was a delightful exploration. Many of my listeners and viewers are familiar I am sure with the aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta, and if not please check out his work. In his book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Will Change The World (which I highly recommend), he speaks generously about the difference between having an ordinary conversation and having a ‘yarn’. Yarning is simply put the Aboriginal approach to group dialogue, knowledge creation, sharing and decision making; it’s also about “the creation of a space without a stage to share experiences, to draw on the ground and sketch ideas out to illustrate a point.” Doesn’t that sound like what a Wisdom Dialogue might be? I hope so. So this wonderful yarn was inspiring, nurturing, insightful, and invited each of us into deeper parts of ourselves together, as we care about each other and the earth and these times we are in. Let us learn as members of this global family different ways of learning and sharing in language - letting the heart lead with the head following - mastery and the emissary.</p> <p>For the rest of the show notes, visit www.awakeningtogether.one</p>
December 21, 2023
<p>When we hear the words ‘welcome disturbance’ what typically happens to us is that we have resistance. This is deeply engrained in our lives thanks to a strong cultural tendency to fear change. It’s been educated into us. We think it’s who we truly are but it’s not; we are resilient and adaptive and we need to remember all this in order to activate our self-organizing capacities and future potentials. Buckminster Fuller reminds us in his famous quote which is so on point here, that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” In the next 70 minutes we’re going to be pointing our navigation system toward that new model, new capacities to embody that new model and inspiration for how to share it wherever we go. It gets so simple. This next episode is special for several reasons, one is because it’s full of wisdom of how we can create capacities for being more resilient, dissolving that tendency toward an immunity to change. In order to create profound change in the world we have to be comfortable with change, we have to welcome the discomfort and stay curious and open. Another reason why this is so special is because this dialogue is with two masters of process who both have been mentors of mine going back to 2005. My life was profoundly impacted by them both. They are Anne Stadler and Peggy Holman. And the one deepest to my heart in this moment is because Anne left this planet only weeks ago. This deep and nurturing dialogue happened last August and now I’m releasing it only weeks after Anne journeyed on. Her bright radiant spirit is still with so many of us. She lived and gifted us with her brilliance for 92 years. She impacted so many people in so many ways as you will see. I hope you will also feel the deep resonance of her bright presence. Our conversation was recorded 15 months ago and is just now being released. Both Anne and Peggy are elders and masters in Open Space Technology (OST) and they have brought a deep wisdom to every gathering they convened and every space they opened. I was blessed to be at many of these and they had a huge impact on my training because I was essentially I was being trained by masters. I didn’t really know that at the time. Only with hindsight do I see the kind of perfection of the divine design of my life. As I listened to this conversation again, my heart beamed with gratitude that I had this interview available to share with the world - to reveal the combined genius of Anne and Peggy. Who are these amazing women? Here is a short bio of each (longer bios are on the show notes). Anne is a pioneering elder. Her 61 years of work have included co-creative community building; facilitating self-organizing leadership and organizational development; and award winning television production. She was the volunteer Founding Director of Friends of Third Place Commons. </p> <p>Peggy is the Co-Author of <a href="https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/the-change-handbook">The Change Handbook</a> which profiles 61 practices that engage people in creating their desired future. She’s also the author of the award-winning <a href="https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/engaging-emergence">Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity</a> that offers a roadmap for tackling complex challenges through stories, principles, and practices. Co-founder of <a href="https://journalismthatmatters.org/">Journalism That Matters</a>, a nonprofit that supports and equips the adventurers who transform relationships between communities and journalism for a strong, inclusive democracy. You can check out the longer bios on the website awakeningtogether.one or in the show notes on the various platforms! Do subscribe and share and share a review wherever you are inspired.</p> <p>Thanks for joining us.</p> <p><br></p> <p>For show notes, visit www.awakeningtogether.one</p>
October 11, 2023
<p>How do we share? How do we learn to share. We learn early on in life that sharing is important even if challenging. But we don’t really learn how to share decision-making or leadership or things we hold in common. We have been raised in a very my my my culture. Now we are moving powerfully into a WE culture. This we might say is whole human culture, this is true human being culture. </p> <p>When we think of leadership we often think of the personal side of it and that’s critical but it’s not the whole story. What is more and more needed is to really understand shared leadership, this is the future, this is what’s needed now more than ever. Shared leadership brings with it other dimensions of our capacities, our awareness, and how we need to play differently. You might think of it as distributed leadership as well. This gets us closer to what we name as collective intelligence. With shared leadership comes greater access to the wholeness and to greater intelligence that can be revealed through increased participation. We know our politics needs better participatory democracy, so we need spaces to practice. </p> <p>It is this understanding and more that we are exploring in part 2 of this conversation around the ideas of a participatory commons, but we can also talk about it as shared leadership and how it relates to patterns of connection and creativity and shared power. I read many years ago a great quote about the next evolutionary edge for humanity being about sharing power. We might think that’s an exaggeration but when you go deeper, you can see how this is where we find synergy, cooperation, cocreation, and we become more whole. Let’s create communities of practice to become proficient at this. Each of our guests here has incredible wisdom and experience that can be of support to each of us in multiple different kinds of situations. </p> <p>To more fully explore this, we may realize that we are redefining leadership and to understand that we are often inside of a commons. A commons is our shared resources, those can be physical, the land, finances, time, energy, intention and more. In this kind of space of true participatory leadership, we want to be able to be fluid, we don’t want to be rigid, we aren’t looking at a hierarchical approach, and we don’t want to be flat, where everyone is equal. We want to be like a jazz band, not a symphony, where there is only one conductor. </p> <p>In order to redefine leadership in this more expanded participatory and shared and creative way, we need to look at what it means to be serving the common good; how do we align around a common goal; how are we serving community together; how do we scale a morally and ethically grounded collective vision? These are some ways that we create the container and structure needed for the work that is ahead of us - this great regeneration of our biosphere and all our social systems. These capacities and explorations we believe are so vital to the times we are in. </p> <p>Personally, I live near Seattle on Vashon island and this is in the bioregion called Cascadia. There are bioregions all over the world working toward regeneration, bioregions are a pattern in relationship to watersheds. Right now we have a fabulous ‘bioregional activation tour’ happening called <a href="https://regeneratecascadia.org/">Regenerate Cascadia.</a> It’s so exciting - it’s 5 weeks, 14 stops, with 100 plus organizers. This is a commons this glorious bioregion - these land and waters. This bioregion is a commons and for 5 weeks we are exploring some of these questions all up and down the Pacific Northwest Coast. </p> <p>For additional show notes, visit www.awakeningtogether.one</p> <p>To subscribe for email updates, visit awakeningtogether.substack.com</p>
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