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Curious about the Way Forward?
It surely won’t surprise you that I am curious about systemic dynamics. However, you might not know how curiosity has helped me shift from being a planning/control freak to dance with emergence. I have been learning about how that planning mode and desire for control can be rooted in a trauma response.
What is the “prepared” but not “controlled” way of working with systems? One stop on my learning journey has been through my interaction with the Quaker community of late (thanks Eric) and its “way forward” way of asking with curiosity whether a way might open then waiting, together, to sense into what way that is.
I am finding this an increasingly useful way to approach the climate crisis. I wonder what way might open. What if we don’t know how it might turn out? What if we can’t plan forward the things that must unfold before us but only discover them as the systems interact and open the way? What if this isn’t the end of humanity?
Curious about the Way Forward?
It surely won’t surprise you that I am curious about systemic dynamics. However, you might not know how curiosity has helped me shift from being a planning/control freak to dance with emergence. I have been learning about how that planning mode and desire for control can be rooted in a trauma response.
What is the “prepared” but not “controlled” way of working with systems? One stop on my learning journey has been through my interaction with the Quaker community of late (thanks Eric) and its “way forward” way of asking with curiosity whether a way might open then waiting, together, to sense into what way that is.
I am finding this an increasingly useful way to approach the climate crisis. I wonder what way might open. What if we don’t know how it might turn out? What if we can’t plan forward the things that must unfold before us but only discover them as the systems interact and open the way? What if this isn’t the end of humanity?