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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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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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
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 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
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
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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]
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 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]
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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]
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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
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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]
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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]
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