Seminar Collaborations
During this session, we encourage participants’ participation, involvement, contributions, and collaborations!
The following slides are intended to guide this process, with the aim of eliciting and listening, collaborating and co-creating.
Topics Summary
Table of Contents
Answering the Questions
Freedom, Justice, Community - The Ideal University Society; The World We Know in Our Hearts
Our Shared Premise
Compass of Joy
Purpose, Vision, Mission
Creating a Common Worldview
Human Nature
Our Values
Standards
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness; Science, Art, and Education/Spirituality/Religion
Good and Evil
Consent
Collaborating
How Shall We Govern Ourselves?
How Shall We Adjudicate Any Harm?
Committees of Correspondence, Observation, and Safety
What Shall We Create and Manifest?
What Shall We Implement?
How Shall We Implement?
Consciousness As Prime
My Personal Pledge
Focus Teams
Resources for Conscious Collaborating
Answering the Questions
This session and any subsequent sessions will be answering questions.
When we have a variety of answers, our scribe will place them on the slide for us to consent to.
If we take the questions in order, it will give some structure to this process.
Please be tolerant of the compulsion in the “circle consent process”.
Remember, everything is voluntary as inspired.
Remember too that the entire foundation of the deception is that “silence is consent” or silence is acquiescence/agreement. Instead, we encourage your active participation and involvement and active consent!
Freedom, Justice, Community
The Ideal Universal Society;
The World We Know In Our Hearts
Is this Our Shared Premise?
In a just society, one that protects our individual natural and unalienable rights, our lives are secure and all individuals are free, at liberty, to pursue happiness. Happiness results most reliably from discovering and accomplishing one’s life purpose, an ever-evolving process.
Typically this involves identifying/following/expressing our “compass of joy” (what brings us alive), and then eliciting, listening to, and collaborating in some form with other members of our community regarding what is needed and desired by the people, and serving in ways that fulfill ourselves, empower the expression of our transcendent purpose, contribute to community, as well as do no harm.
“A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul,
the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community,
the virtue of each one is living.”
- Rudolf Steiner
Shared Premise
What is our shared premise; what we agree on “as a given”?
Shared Premise - by Participants on 5/15/22
What is our shared premise; what we agree on “as a given”?
In a just society, one based on Natural Law, one that protects our individual natural and unalienable rights, our lives are secure and all individuals are free, at liberty, to pursue happiness. Happiness results most reliably from experiencing one’s wholeness and our profound interconnectedness with all life, and discovering and accomplishing one’s life purpose, an ever-evolving life-empowering process.
Typically this involves identifying/following/expressing our “compass of joy” (what brings us alive), and then eliciting, listening to, and collaborating in some form with other members of our community regarding what is needed and desired by the people, and serving in ways that fulfill ourselves, empower the expression of our transcendent purpose, contribute to community, as well as do no harm.
Compass of Joy
What are each of our passions and gifts? What brings each of us alive?
“Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive...then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." – Howard Thurman
Compass of Joy - by Participants on 5/15/22
What are each of our passions and gifts? What brings each of us alive?
“Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive...then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
– Howard Thurman
John: Continually evolving my understanding of the relationship between the individual and the community. The purpose of community is to inspire the individual.
Ben: What inspires me is to create beautiful things for others to enjoy; a process of surrender.
Katja: What makes me come alive is experiencing beauty and feeling connected to all of creation. To express myself and create.
Larry: My joy comes from connection, interconnection, and learning with and of place, experience, story, and members of community.
Keith: My joy is when we are whole, balanced, healthy, and our basics are met.
Michele C: My joy is re-establishing & experiencing my relationship w/ God & sharing the fruits of that with others by helping others learn how to heal themselves. Together we co-create education so all children are free to learn, create, self-actualize, & pursue their innate joy & vocational arousal.
Michele: My joy is justice, like-mindedness, and people working together. Medical freedom is very important to me.
Arthur (MRO): Growing healthy food and providing it to people because I can.
Max: My joy is helping people overcome their health challenges and achieve their health and performance goals. And seeing people achieve a state of freedom and do whatever they desire to do.
Margaret: My compass of joy is being in presence, communing with the beauty of nature, experiencing our profound interconnectedness with all life, allowing for the inspiration (in spirit), evolving our consciousness, and co-creating intentional community.
Bill: Freedom, justice, and community.
Dave (CA): Distinguishing between the private and the public. Being happy in the present and with what I have. If you are not happy with what you have, you will never be happy when you get what you want.
Darlene: Working on an ideal Chaplins course w/ spiritual presence that unifies & creating replicable intentional community, including artisan camps.
Robin: Change the context; help us move from rivalrous tribalism to collaborative wholism.
Jody: Everything that everyone said plus allowing people the full freedom of self-actualization, plus equality in the world where everyone’s needs are met and everyone is inspired, encouraged, and empowered to full self-expression.
Niki: My compass of joy is being around people striving for this type of community and removing blockages.
Purpose, Vision, Mission
What is your life purpose? What is your purpose for being here?
What do you envision as your ideal life?
What are you divinely inspired to do?
Purpose, Vision, Mission
What is our purpose for being here?
What do we envision as our ideal life, the ideal universal society, the world we know in our hearts is possible?
What are we divinely inspired to do?
Purpose, Vision, Mission - by Participants on 5/15/22
What is our purpose for being here?
To empower the individual to come to full expression.
What do we envision as our ideal life, the ideal universal society, the world we know in our hearts is possible?
See slide #10.
What are we divinely inspired to do?
Manifest slide #10.
Creating a Common Worldview
Is it reasonable to believe that we could create a world view that would be inclusive/unifying and also satisfying to the individual?
Is there a way to describe human nature so that we all feel that it is accurate?
Could the values that we espouse be expressed as standards that we expect each of us to live up to?
What would some of those values and standards be?
A Satisfying and Unifying World View:
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A Satisfying and Unifying World View
- by Participants on 5/22/22
Human Nature is:
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Human Nature is - by Participants on 5/22/22
Our Values
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Our Values - by Participants on 5/22/22
Standards we expect us to live up to:
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Standards we expect us to live up to:
- by Participants on 5/22/22
"the property of being in accord with fact or reality"
"the state or character of being true" ("conforming to reality or fact"; "real; genuine; authentic")
"sincerity in action, character, and utterance"
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/truth https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truth
"a transcendent fundamental or spiritual reality"
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/truth https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truth
a truism, a maxim, a principle, and/or a philosophy
https://www.freethesaurus.com/truth
What about Truth, Beauty, and Goodness?
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What about Science, Art, and Education*/Spirituality/Religion?
*the value inculcating process
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What about Good and Evil?
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What about Consent?
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What about Collaborating?
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How shall we govern ourselves?
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How shall we adjudicate any harm?
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Committee of Correspondence
How shall we efficiently and effectively communicate and coordinate/address our life-empowering common cause, important matters, and emergencies within and among our communities?
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Committee of Observation
How shall we inspect, observe, and report our observations regarding:
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Committee of Safety
How shall we protect ourselves? How shall we plan for various disasters/tyranny, etc.? What shall be our survival tool kit?
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Umbrella Organization of the
Committees of Correspondence, Observation, & Safety
How shall we coordinate and oversee the Committees of Correspondence, Observation, and Safety within each community and county/geographic location to help ensure their efficient and effective operation?
What shall we implement?
What is the World We Know In Our Hearts Is Possible?!
What is needed/desired?
How many people? (The tithing, etc.)
Is an intentional community with land going to be created; is this a goal?
What of a virtual intentional community?
What shall we create and manifest?
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How shall we implement?
Consciousness As Prime
What are effective manifesting skills & tools to manifest what we intend and desire?
My Personal Pledge
Pledge/Promise/Testimony/Covenant/Compact in the form of a statement in support of my commitment to co-creating a regenerative life-empowering safe-haven community.
Shall We Establish Focus Teams?
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Resources for Conscious Collaborating
- Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy is based on all members having a voice, in the round at times, all voices being equal, and decisions (as good enough for now, safe enough to try with a method of evaluation within a time frame) being made by active consent, with objections as well reasoned "arguments" being welcome to deepen the conversation and account for unintended consequences. https://www.sociocracyforall.org/
- Bohm Dialogue
“If we are to live in harmony with ourselves and with nature, we need to be able to communicate freely in a creative movement in which no one permanently holds to or otherwise defends his own ideas.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/05/david-bohm-on-dialogue/
- Collective Presencing
“...the practice brings the benefit of generating wise action on behalf of the whole, as well as a deep, ongoing engagement with the social and natural field—the level from which generative social transformation of the kind we so badly need can spring.”
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/collective-presencing-a-new-human-capacity/
https://www.collectivepresencing.org/
- Goethean Conversation
"The purpose of Goethean conversations is to call forth a fullness of spiritual life, not to stage displays of intellectual fireworks. They strive to enter the sun-warm realm of living thoughts where a thinker uses all of himself as a tool of knowledge, where – in the manner of his thinking – he takes part as a creative spirit in the ongoing creative process of the cosmos."
https://docplayer.net/102479399-The-art-of-goethean-conversation.html
https://leadtogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Art-of-Goethean-Conversation.pdf
- Eckhart Tolle's wisdom on presence is about allowing for the "evolutionary impulse" to prompt/inspire us into "awakened doing" (vs. "egoic efforting"). https://eckharttolle.com/a-new-earth-excerpt/
- Compassionate Communication; “Non-violent communication” (NVC); the Art of Dialogue
Using “I” language and taking responsibility for our interpretations (See The Gap). Example: When I observe _____ (objective observation), I feel_____ because I
value/need/desire ______. Make a request (without expectation). Examples: Would you be willing to _______? Would/could you consider that _______? I would appreciate that _____. I request that ________.