Hi Ray,
I'd love to participate if you have a slot available.
Cheers, Lawry
On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:12 PM, "Ray Harrell" <[email protected]> wrote:
To the Future of Work list:
I’m going to be starting a Virtual Medicine Wheel on the subject of
the “meaning of apprenticeship” based in my own studies with the man
who I apprenticed with. I have five spots open on a 32 position
wheel. Each person will pick a name that is anonymous and a pla
ce on the wheel. The time for the wheel will be daily and the text
s will be sent out so that members have them at the beginning of the
day. When members respond it will be with the name they took and
the only knowledge of the person behind the name will be the leader
(me) and I won’t tell.
Reponses are short, usually no more than seven lines. The purpose
of the wheel is to build consciousness and awareness through group
observation around a specific text. The texts are from our
traditions on apprenticeship and traditional education, but one can
come from any tradition to sit at the wheel. The requirement is
daily reading and response according to what you feel is correct for
you. The readings are about as long as a newspaper article with
some as short as American news but many extending to the length of
a British newspaper article. Each person at the Wheel provides
a mirror on the text so that a greater consciousness can grow from
the observations. Each day I will “digest” the comments into a
single e-mail and send them out after 6 pm for everyone to experienc
e the knowledge and responses of each other.
There is no cost for this. It is a service that we do in the
interest of cross cultural communication and the exploration of
problem solving in the context of a traditional structure that is
known as the Medicine Wheel or the Wheel with paths etc. There
is no proselytizing or making people into something they are not.
Cross Cultural respect is the rule of the list although everyone
should understand that there is some language that reflects the 500
year conflict between European people and the Indigenous peoples of
this place. That means that occasionally there will be comments
about “White” people. I leave them in because many of the texts
are old and speak to the conflict of the ancestors with the people i
nvading their lives. History is just history and current prejudic
ial dis-respect is not allowed from any sector. Passion is allo
wed, evolutionary change is encouraged and truthfulness and persona
l generosity at the Wheel is required. It is the same as if a Fre
nch pianist gave a series of virtual readings about French music to
people from France with a smattering of professional pianists invit
ed from other countries.
We all “play the piano” but this is about our own culture’s history
with the instrument. (Metaphorical not literal statement)
REH
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