Author: Tenneson Woolf

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Deep Dive — 3 Days or a Year of 3 Hours?

Chris Corrigan, Gabriel Shirley, and I were talking this week about the a belief around time that shows up with our clients. Often, when proposing three days together, the response is some version of “we don’t have time for that.” The alternative proposed is usually some shorter time frame, two hours each time over several weeks or months. I loved how Chris voiced it — you can spend three days or a years worth of three hours.

I have worked in both contexts. I know the sweetness of three days and nights together that can go to the deepest levels — it opens the community to itself. It reminds me of speaking this sweetness and offering it as choice.

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Friendships

Yesterday I was in Seattle, sitting round a table with Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, Tom Hurley, Chris Corrigan, Bob Stilger, Teresa Posakony – what a wonderful group. We were searching for language to offer at a joint open house last night at the Systems Thinking in Action Conference. We were celebrating friendship and noticing, “friendship is a medium, born from connection and conversation, that makes, learning, change, and co-creation that much more possible.”

This reminds me of something Chris has spoken often about wise action that lasts. Sustainable change comes from relationships of friendship and love. This continues to inspire me and to help me see the important purpose of developing our friendships and love.

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Resources — Poetry

Resources I Use

Holly Masturzo
Lovely harvest on the empty next from a phone conversation.

Mark Nepo
http://www.marknepo.com/
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher with a strong leaning to spirituality. I have read some of his book, The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life. He sends a weekly thought that I have often found helpful personally and a good tool for inviting presence to start a meeting or to seal the close of a meeting.

Resources I Have Noticed and Would Like to Learn More About

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Open Space Technology — Resources

Introduction to Open Space: A paper that Jon Swanson wrote for the Journal of Aboriginal Management called “A Model For Aboriginal Facilitation.”

Action Planning Resources
Chris Corrigan compiled three useful approaches to facilitating action planning in Open Space. The first is his own version of moving to action, the second is Diana Larsen’s approach to prioritizing ideas by impact and energy and the third approach is Jack Martin Leith’s approach to project planning, which he blogged here. The three are in an easy to download .pdf. Enoy.

A couple of video resources from OS Practitioner, Esther Matte.
Watch an Open Space event in a 30-seconds time-lapse video
Short film on Open Space (3 min 34 sec)

“Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened” — what does this mean? A question from Ashley Cooper. Reflections, hosted by Chris Corrigan, from participants at the July 2008 open space on open space. http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/Whateverhappens.mp3

Chris Corrigan

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Gifts of Circle - Question Cardsasd
Gifts of Circle is 30 short essays divided into 4 sections: 1) Circle's Bigger Purpose, 2) Circle's Practice, 3) Circle's First Requirements, and 4) Circle's Possibility for Men. From the Introduction: "Circle is what I turn to in the most comprehensive stories I know -- the stories of human beings trying to be kind and aware together, trying to make a difference in varied causes for which we need to go well together. Circle is also what I turn to in the most immediate needs that live right in front of me and in front of most of us -- sharing dreams and difficulties, exploring conflicts and coherences. Circle is what I turn to. Circle is what turns us to each other."

Question Cards is an accompanying tool to Gifts of Circle. Each card (34) offers a quote from the corresponding chapter in the book, followed by sample questions to grow your Circle hosting skills and to create connection, courage, and compassionate action among groups you host in Circle.

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In My Nature is a collection of 10 poems. From A Note of Beginning: "This collection of poems arises from the many conversations I've been having about nature. Nature as guide. Nature as wild. Nature as organized. I remain a human being that so appreciates a curious nature in people. That so appreciates questions that pick fruit from inner being, that gather insights and intuitions to a basket, and then brings the to table to be enjoyed and shared over the next week."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in In My Nature. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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Most Mornings is a collection of 37 poems. I loved writing them. From the introduction: "This collection of poems comes from some of my sense-making that so often happens in the morning, nurtured by overnight sleep. The poems sample practices. They sample learnings. They sample insights and discoveries. They sample dilemmas and concerns."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in Most Mornings. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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