Hi mmp,
What's your preferred closing circle process? I am interested to know
how you "do nothing" for the closing circle too. :)
Thanks!
All the best,
Jake
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:35 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
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wrote:
Dear Doris and you other tender and friendly folks out there,
"Tend and Befriend" is always a basic response, crisis or not.
But since crisis is a basic prerequisite for the unfolding of time and
space for selforganisation "Tend and Befriend" also unfolds more freely.
In os events that deal with urgent matters, "tend and befriend" is
always present.
In the context of such gatherings it is usually not perceived as
something special by participants.
Facilitators, however, busy with doing nothing, do observe it every
time. There are even attempts to have the paricipants increase their
awareness of this by ending an os event with reflections along the
medicine wheel. Which, as I discovered, is a grand way of looking at
such elements as vision, management, community and leadership... but
rarely gets much attention by participants. They already know all that.
And I guess, they are more interested to get busy on the actions they
just worked on.
Greetings from Berlin, where I see "Tend and Befriend" abound... to the
astonishment of the folks in charge who see stuff happening they felt
responsible for....
Cheers and enjoy tending and befriending and being tended and befriendet
mmp
Am 20.04.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Doris Gottlieb via OSList:
> Dear Peggy,
>
> Thank you for sending the article and for reminding me about
Tend and
> Befriend as one of the basic responses of humans in crisis and
stress.
> It is so valuable to expand my noticing in working in times of
crisis to
> include this frame and look for where and how it happens.
>
> With love and gratitude,
>
> Doris
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 AM agusj via OSList
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> wrote:
>
> Hi Peggy!
>
> Thanks for share this The psychologist, Shelley Taylor,
working with
> a team of women, found women tended to respond differently. They
> took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
>
> I love it! I knew in my profound self that there should be
another way.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Warm regards
>
> Agustín
>
>
> On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 04:16:09 PM GMT-5, Peggy Holman via
> OSList <[email protected]
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>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about
> something similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been
> struck by how frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this
together”.
> So I’ve been thinking about how it is a time of both personal
> responsibility AND a sense of the greater good that has never
> existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same age.) Even talk of
> sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about from their
> youth in World War 2.
>
> Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the
> amazing amount of constructive journalism happening right now.
> Practical, responsive, listening to the questions from the
public.
> And, of course, the generosity of people self-organizing to
help others.
>
> One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend"
> rather than "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman
> psychologist looked at the research that led to coining the
phrase
> fight or flight to characterize human response to threat or
stress.
> Turns out, like much of that early social science research,
it was
> done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley Taylor,
working
> with a team of women, found women tended to respond differently.
> They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
>
> With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus
> following the pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure
> like to see made conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute
piece
> about it:
>
https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad.
>
> I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending
more
> encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.
>
> Be well and stay sane,
> Peggy
>
>
>
>
>
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>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and
that
>> maybe you can add on to, as a story and conversation here. And
>> then in the world. This overlaps with some other recent
threads,
>> too, I think.
>>
>> As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing
is, as
>> best I can tell, my oldest memory. I've seen pictures of stuff
>> that happened before, but I clearly remember the space toys
being
>> given away at gas stations, our family buying our first
color TV,
>> and (just like now) keeping our distance... in that case we were
>> supposed to stay six feet from the new set.
>>
>> From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble"
>> photos, Bucky Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images. Now
>> we had a picture of "all in this together" where "all"
really was
>> every human. And then, a few decades later, we've created a
>> global network, a global economy, and global epidemics. Not
>> everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those images
>> from space, but somehow we all grew up participating in the
>> creation of these global structures and phenomena.
>> Now I think we might have a chance to accelerate our swing back,
>> to the micro, the local, the individual in equally strong,
>> long-term ways. It took us a while to get there, but the
message
>> coming clearer now is "wear a mask," for instance, "to protect
>> others..." And inside of that, this seems like a visceral
>> reminder that "what you, the little individual does -- does
>> matter." It matters with masks and the virus, but it can
be, and
>> I hope it will be, quickly translated to the plastic we use, the
>> miles we drive, the other things we purchase and reinforce with
>> our money, the way we manage emotions in groups, and so on. It
>> matters for everyone to manage their own "stuff," their own
>> behavior, purchases, words, and other choices.
>>
>> This is what I hope we might be learning, anyway. And
within all
>> of the possibilities, choosing to take responsibility for one's
>> own experience, actively choosing to be learning and
contributing,
>> seems to me about the best choices we could focus on, each
of us,
>> individually and personally. What we've been saying all
along, in
>> various ways, that individual agency and actions matter, seems
>> more important and understandable that ever.
>>
>> This makes me curious if and how what is happening now with the
>> virus and what we've all been teaching and practicing and
inviting
>> "in open space," might shape the world over the next few
decades.
>> I wonder what kind of a world might emerge from increasing
>> awareness of personal agency, responsibility, learning and
>> contributing, in meetings and everywhere else.
>>
>> This is one good thing I have imagined could emerge from this.
>> This is the view I'm testing as I watch the news and talk with
>> clients these days.
>>
>> What do you think might come out of the current situation,
on any
>> scale?
>>
>> And is there anything else to do about helping it along, for
now,
>> wherever we are?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
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