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Embracing What Is

Thursday Jul 10 2008

By Eliezer Sobel | Website


There is much talk on Serene Ambition and elsewhere about altering one’s perspective and internal conversation about aging so as to “create a future to live into” that infuses the present with passion and energy, as distinct from the dreary resignation of merely playing out the repetitive and predictable habits and tendencies generated by the past. And yet, while this sounds good in theory, what of the physical limitations imposed by age?

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Written by admin at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging conversation possibility suffering time

Youth Solidarity

Monday Jun 30 2008

Technology is bringing the youth of Detroit and Palestine together in conversation. Young media makers in Palestine and youth from communities of color in Michigan engaged in parallel workshops that introduced digital stories, music videos and murals. A recent videoconferenceheld during the Allied Media Conference in Detroit linked the two groups of young people and allowed them to share stories about their lives, how they feel about how they as a group are perceived, and the daily struggles they face. This conversation is a beginning which may, one day, weave peace out of shared hopes and dreams.

See and hear their stories at the US-Palestinian Youth Solidarity Network.

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Written by admin at News

Tagged with: conversation detroit palestine solidarity youth

The World We Want: It Begins with a Conversation

Tuesday Jun 24 2008

By David Korten | Great Turning website

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How does it happen? It starts with a conversation. A while back, Cecile Andrews, our local Seattle author of The Circle of Simplicity, explained to me how the women’s movement changed the story on gender and unleashed the long suppressed power of the feminine. It started with discussion circles in which women came together to share personal stories. As each woman spoke her truth, a larger truth was revealed for all to see. The prevailing story that the key to a woman’s happiness is to find the right man, marry him, and devote her life to his service was not true.[Read More]

Written by admin at The Great Turning

Tagged with: choice conversation responsibility voluntary_simplicity womens_movement

What Conversation Are You?

Monday Jun 23 2008

  By Jim Selman | Bio
As many of you know, I view aging, and the rest of life for that matter, as a series of conversations. In my work, I try to show people that if we can observe ourselves and our world through the lens of language, we can see that everything we think and experience occurs in the context of some interpretation or another. For most people most of the time, our interpretation is that there is a ‘real world’ out there, and if we could only understand it and control it (and ourselves), then we’d be okay and win whatever game we’re playing. Of course, in this interpretation (called the Cartesian paradigm), people (that means us) are objects and our conversation about aging is basically that we wear out like our cars and eventually aren’t useful any longer.[Read More]

Written by admin at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging conversation empowerment possibility wisdom

The World We Want: What If We All Wanted the Same Thing?

Tuesday May 27 2008

By David Korten | Great Turning website

Read more posts in The World We Want series.

Wouldn’t it be nice if it turned out the choices we must make together to survive together are the same choices we must make to create the very world most of all the world’s people want? If that were case, then we should be able to just get together and make it happen. Wouldn’t that be cool? Maybe we should start a conversation to find out what people truly want…[Read More]

Written by admin at The Great Turning

Tagged with: choice compassion conversation cooperation earth_charter

The World Cafe

Tuesday Mar 11 2008

   By Shae Hadden | Bio
Conversations can change the world. When we speak openly about what matters most to us, we can build authentic relationships. We can tap into the wisdom and collective intelligence we need to address our problems. We can create the future together. I’ve been excited in the last few weeks to learn about The World Café through conversations with Juanita Brown, co-founder of the World Cafe and Anne Dosher, who at age 85 serves as the “elder” of this global movement to create cultures of dialogue. Based on living systems thinking, this relatively new technology (discovered in 1995) works especially well in large groups where a traditional dialogue circle would not normally be possible.[Read More]

Written by admin at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: conversation dialogue generosity inclusiveness respect the_world_cafe

Ethical Will or Intergen Conversation?

Tuesday Jan 29 2008

By Shae Hadden | Bio
I was reading an article about ethical wills recently that got me wondering about what kind of legacy I might leave behind if I were to die tomorrow. This type of ‘leave behind’ document—like diaries, journals, books, letters and photo albums—are usually loving prepared over the course of several years. Nowadays, we also have innumerable opportunities to record our lives and thoughts online to share with friends and family. So why bother going to the trouble of preparing an ethical will in addition to a legal will?[Read More]

Written by admin at Wisdom in Action
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Tagged with: conversation ethical_will future lessons wisdom

The Art of Conversation

Friday Dec 21 2007

I was watching the CBS show “Sunday Morning” on the weekend and it had a segment on the dying art of conversation. The point was that with all our technology and almost real-time connections available with email, handhelds and social networking sites, people seem to have lost the ability to have conversations. It was a thought-provoking and, I think, mostly true observation about what is happening to us. The show also showcased a new book by Stephen Miller called Conversation: A History of a Declining Art. The program drove home the fact that we may be communicating more than ever, but we’re conversing less and less. Various people were interviewed and all agreed that we’re losing (perhaps have already lost) what may be one of the most basic and pleasurable aspects of life.[Read More]

Written by admin at Wisdom in Action
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Tagged with: community context conversation creativity culture self-expression

Father and Son

Monday Oct 15 2007

I was speaking about the future with my son recently over an obscenely large steak at an Argentinian restaurant in Mexico City. We’d just seen a real ‘shoot ’em up’ film which just happened to be called Shoot ’em Up. The hero, a kind of homeless James Bond, lives on the street, reminiscent of Lee Child’s character Jack Reach. They are both tougher than tough guys, the kind of character who make the bad guys feel bad that they ever met. Last night’s film was about 500 guys getting wasted by the hero, including 20 or so in an aerial gunfight while skydiving. This movie was way over the top. We talked about various film genres and ended up declaring this will become a cult classic along the lines of Pulp Fiction and Straw Dogs. This is definitely a guy film.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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Tagged with: contribution conversation eldering future perspective

Time and Temporality

Wednesday Oct 10 2007

Lately I have been thinking about the future and the distinction between time and temporality. Our relationship to time can vary depending upon our culture and the era in which we are living. If I imagine living 300 or 400 years ago in what was primarily an agricultural ‘reality’, time was cyclical—we measured it in terms of seasons and lived in the certainty that life didn’t change much from one generation to the next. I can contrast that to today when time is viewed more like a highway moving ‘from’ someplace ‘to’ someplace. The future is an unknown and each generation is pretty much making up their own story and their own rules. These two views are as distinct as a circle and a line.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Personal Empowerment
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Tagged with: conversation future past possibility temporality time

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