Intuition from England

I am learning vast amounts about intuition, from a lovely home in Sturminster Newton, the home of my teachers and friends, Jeraldene Lovell and Clive Cole. I arrived here on the 11th. The days have been deliciously spacious. The learning and profound ahas feels like a masterpiece of music — crescendo, followed by another, followed by another.

Below is a bit I wrote in response to an email thread with some other colleagues, participants from the Ottawa area Art of Hosting community (that stretches to other places — Saskatchewan to Ireland). It begins to share some of what is taking shape in my consciousness, and thus, what I can work with.

“Juicy. Again.

To intuition, it is my learning that intuition is part of the reality revolution that we are living. What came to me today is that “Intuition waters and feeds intention (it helps us align with the natural light or energy we feel). Intention creates reality (we have capacity to invoke it into presence through the discipline of observation).

Yah, but what about projects, etc? For me, yup, it is still about leadership, change, and dialogue. Or even participatory leadership. Art of Hosting provides practice and ways to live into that. And underneath lies the part that captures my heart and interest. The one in which manifesting is a core capacity.

Last time at Galilee Centre, we spoke of the intention to tap the intelligence of the group and of the field. The wizarding that we touched then, is one of moving from that tapping (in an of itself an extremely useful practice) to manifesting.

Ah, a few stirrings that I offer to the center. In the spirit, practice, and yearning to touch the essence in this time of upgrading — kind of cool to be human. It is about the work. And for me, it can’t not be about the underlaying story of reality revolution.

Worth some time together — anyone, anyone.

Tenneson”

Conversational Leadership

Appreciating this Wordle (www.worldle.net) created by Jean-Francios Hivon, from Leadership Conference 2011. Wordle lets you enter text (in this case, tweets received, which it then uses to create an image showing frequency of word use. The larger the word, the more it was used in the whole of the tweets.

I love seeing “create leader conversation and meaning” to the left. I love remembering how much the distinction of hero and host was made, particularly by opening keynote, Margaret Wheatley.

Here is another, created by my friend Trevor Maber to represent the twitter feed from the first day.

Tweets of the Weeks

  • Watching Zoe and her company dance at annual competition. Lyrical. Hip Hop coming.
  • Conversational leadership requires awareness on what motivates. Conversation connects us to purpose, which motivates. #blplc2011
  • “@JF_Hivon: #blplc2011 Orgs great at starting new projects: not so great at stopping things that don’t work. CREATE an org TO DON’T list”
  • Going through theme-catcher notes to identify themes, practices, emerging ideas, killer questions — at #blplc2011
  • Going into opening keynote, Meg Wheatley, at Leadership Saskatoon. Will be catching themes for dialogue poems. #blplc2011
  • @benjaminaaron: through external attention & internal intention consciousness contracts into dissipative structures we process as identities
  • April snow in Utah Valley. Saturday surprise that I woke to… http://yfrog.com/h4o4lecj
  • Reflections from my friend Bob Stilger of a Zimbabwe experience we shared and how it relates to current Japan: http://bit.ly/k7KzPH
  • Friend Cindy at Quantum Leadership Workshop: “In Newtonian World, the game is certainty. In Quantum, it is co-creation.”
  • My friend Carla Kelley of HREC Utah at Quantum Leadership Workshop: “Love is all that exists. Everything else is a distraction.”

 

Allow — Danna Faulds

A poem that my friend and colleague in learning, Allister Hain, shared with. Well timed. I have been in a few conversations recently with people close to me that are learning about control (and thus, as am I). A long-time friend feeling the realities of mid life, being family, working, serving in church, and trying to remember place in the world. And with my teenaged daughter, who is beginning to learn about contrast.

ALLOW by Danna Faulds
There is no controlling life.
Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado.
Dam a stream and it will create a new channel.
Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet.
Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground.
The only safety lies in letting it all in —
the wild and weak —
fear, fantasies, failures, and success.
When loss rips off the doors of the heart
or sadness veils your vision with despair,
practice becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your known way of being,
the whole world is revealed to your new eyes.

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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