Transformative Circles - Finding our authentic voice
Collaborative workshops focussing on the current processes of
change in ourselves and the world,
towards a more generous and creative future.
While many of us are aware that the systems we are living with
are not serving the interests of the majority of humanity, and are
actually damaging the foundations of life
on this planet, we can be overwhelmed with feeling helpless to
change direction. Our dependency on these systems in providing our
everyday needs, traps us into
supporting them. Lulled into a stupor by media, drugs and
shopping, we are complicit in our own destruction.
With increasing world-wide communication, our collective concern
for the human family and the whole biosphere, brings an awareness
of ourselves as integral to the web of life. This understanding
sees in the current crises the possibility of a
new consciousness breaking through old habits of thought and
patterns of behaviour, to produce a more just and sustainable
future.
Can we become agents instead of victims?
You are invited to join a circle online.
What transforms a meeting into a circle is the willingness of
people to shift from informal socializing or opinionated
discussion, into a receptive attitude of
thoughtful speaking and deep listening.
(http://www.peerspirit.com)
Collective thinking is fundamentally opposed to the current
system which is managed by the individualist thought. For this, we
need time, it is a long-term process. It is usually
common that, when considering a decision, two people with
contrary ideas will tend to bring themselves into conflict and they
will defend their ideas fiercely, with the single
objective of convincing, winning or, at the most, reaching
middle ground.
The main objective of collective thinking is constructing. This
meaning, two people with different ideas combining their energy in
order to build something. Then, it is not about my
idea or yours. It will be the two ideas together that produce a
new outcome that we did not know about in the first place. This is
why active listening in which we are not just
preparing for our next intervention is so necessary. Collective
thinking is born once we understand that every opinion, ours and
those different to ours, all of them, are needed in order to
generate the idea of consensus; an idea which, after being
indirectly constructed,
will transform us.
(http://www.99posto.org/english/dynamisation-text-for-the-local-peoples-assemblies-in-serbia)
