Collaborative note taking
Energy comes from both sides...
Being... then in actuation in the tasks that are performed...
If we were to do either independent of the other... we would get far less of both #wikigardening...
Working plans are critical to getting the actual work done...
The Yin Yang of effectiveness...
issue: Unprocessed reactions...
Emotional reactions we have to a moment as a measuring device...
LOOKING AT OUR JOINT REACTIONS TO SOMETHING...
DNA level reactions - how do we bring this forward...
Two Forms of Trust
The Kinds of Energy
The Quality of Energy
The Amount of Energy
The Direction of Energy
Anxious, fearful, despairing...
vs. high vibing, joyful, I want to be here, and bring everyone else here...
We co-create it and can take it higher if we do it in awareness...
Observe our own emotionality and that of others - how that affects Energy, ebbs with Energy, flows with Energy...
PM Side - is also impacted by energetic bouquet present...
Best is if we can witness, manage, be aware of that... then we have best way to take forward whatever the PM is taking forward...
For our PM / Rational / Trust from building things... hold that as true AND maintain vigilant energy of where is our energy, how is our energy, where is our contribution to it.
Trauma, wounds, showing up in opposition, "But" vs. "And"
As we are aware of how we are... then whatever we build... is more effective...
Our words come from... underlying energy and emotional reactions...
Have to integrate the underlying energy... into the emotions.. .into the words that arise... into the action that arises... words and actions following from emotions are like runaway train...
Have to return to the underlying energy...
Non verbals... body langauge... engagement... leaning in... comments... questioning what we can do next... suggesting things we left out...
Sometimes we lack the language to say - even if we have the opportunity...
https://davidburkus.com/2022/07/two-types-of-trust-on-teams/ David Burkus article on two types of trust
Underneath emotions are needs and they drive us far more than we realize. What do I/we need right now? is an ask that accelerates ability to concisely articulate. "I need to be heard", to be absorbed in a curated sense into what we are being and doing as a community. We are slowly growing that. Encourage to introspect what our needs are and articulate them in preference to "i feel angry, frustrated, energy" - figure out where that energy is coming from as that does us a lot of good.
self-perception - do i feel part of this group and do i feel heard - subtle complexity - sense of Belonging critical to team. Will have lost a person' s wisdom, critical to group if not engaged.
Being stuck in what each of us wants vs group; abandoning the group in favor of what I want/need
leaning into emotions
Not just the responsability of one person; a shared responsibility of the group
Felt sense of the energy present - does us and does group a lot of good
responsibility of whoever is facilitating to make sure other people are heard AND simultaneous responsibility of people within a group to speak up when something doesn't feel right.
Thomas Killman Conflict Model
Jonathan - needing to be heard, and not just heard but having the important essence I am trying to express curated into the body of what is emerging.
The sense of belonging critial to a high performing team
How do we read the mind of the group?
Erik - flip side is the danger of group becoming more important than the individual.
Word energy - mostly accepted here-, most have a way to relate to it even if don't hold it exactly as the same. Notion of energy as in chakras, acupuncture, different models; organ in Japan has opposite energy outside/inside Hard to find agreement between different systems of energy. Yet energy is also the crux for me, but I have no idea what it is. In general sense of energy I agree, in detail we might all disagree or not. I wont join in astrology.
How do we determine action is the right action without discernment of really understanding ourselves and others, real being - have seen projects fail because someone wasn't right person in that position. Discernment is key. Also about doing things (Shakespeare) lots of effort by people with no meaning. The more time we spend coming to unity and clarity on purpose, understanding and discernment, the more likely we are to realize the thing that we should do. PM should be asking "What is the best, right thing we ought to do". If someone is afraid to speak up, they might have profound questions about whether project is timely and right project. Maybe they are not in the right place. It is the danger of the Good vs the Best. Less patience with just a lot of activity and more desire to do the One thing, focused better.
Saying something is backed by science doesn't create trust. Feeling into sense in the group - this feels great here now... (WM recap: the Vibe as a felt-sense letting each individual know whether to lean in, or take energy and effort to other places. An aligned vibe increases trust and encourages leaning in.)
Sensitive people as extraordinary measuring devices of what is present in the room. Bucky Fuller pointed to humans as far more accurate than other measuring devices.
Feeling a pain of wanting to know where group is going and being overwhelmed by all offers on the table. Leads to curiosity - what are our highest, most important favorite ideas, needs being unmet - something a la taking temperature, creating a heat map of what the group wants/needs/feels/has energy for/resonates towards.
Needing to work with people without felt sense of trust, not in same room. Scale is really important. and often you don't get a choice of people you know and who know you. It makes you distrust yourself. Scale really important if you want to do something on planet level.
Importance of experientially feeling energy in body toward healing or destroying - struggle to understand how that works; for JSu, it is not from a named system but from experience learning from teachers - as clarification of when JSu speaks of energy, this is where he comes from.
Two main pieces: facilitating to take everything discussed today and create some output of how we actually inform our activities. Make a list of main activities being done in MP (meetings, working on building tools, etc.) and cross reference learning to the meetings, directory, wiki - to have tangible "how do we apply this to something we are working on".
Create context in which those wanting to move forward can efficiently do that honoring what has emerged
Question: what has worked for MP currently; how create process and system for things to be scheduled so at end of each meeting there is a template of decisions to be made, kept in meeting notes. Vs things being pushed out as no time/place to discuss. Make a when/where to be discussed, even if in a separate meeting.
Keep a log of who submitted what for what, for whole group to see how things are flowing, keep visible to all
RFG for people with questions
A place where any issue anyone brings up lives in a sinlge log - allows group to have intelligence to vote on what issues are most pressing, then have teams dedicated to relieve what such issues are
Shared link to Airtable https://airtable.com/shri1wpG7ceoQQRTA
A form to enter Issues; from issues, needs are seen
What's issue, need, RFG - but can start tracking these using the forms set up
Call issues "stories" vs "issues" - stories of members with good intentions who have a need/something to do
Main landing page, to keep it on one page - to be able to refer back to a basic setup (WM, JSu, JSa, WL, EW..? are working on it)
EW would like to facilitate meetings at times
JSu hope if this grows we will all be facilitating lots of different spaces, each node integrates - so helping people who want to facilitate to find people who gravitate and resonate with them - have millions of them in the world. Facilitation go kit to gather crew, facilitate, help each other. - Adds process for empowering facilitators
Idea of having others facilitate at times to see how it feels, creates other textures, things coming up, having things more clearly named as we each bring different backgrounds
In space of being/doing am feeling shift happening in the room and meetings I'm in thats part of the shift towards doing. Feeling it in own work, popping up now as speak about facilitation, practice, feeling the room from different angles of experinece and roles. Things emerging from the group. I'm in inquiry about MP when is right time to allow something to emerge from MP as a group, vs saying I know X that is already in the work so we don't need to reinvent from ground up. But don't want to invite them in if not yet ready. Our way of finding joy, happiness, cocreativity in our own lives, and inside a group (easier when defined as grow relationships and trust). Harder when scaling up. But need to keep asking where do we want to go and so need to answer at what point bring in these large pieces that could squash what is happening here but could also facilitate and upshift us to the next level. Just voicing the question into the room.
Depends a lot on facilitation styles - intrusion of facilitation into the process questions. May need to flip between styles and become very flexible, aware of which styles to use when. Say Yes, do No example.
We are talking about many things others have spent lifetimes working on. Answers are there. Resonate with not reinventing the wheel and aggregating the work and resources together. Program Management - you don't have to do a lot, just find highly talented people and coordinate resources and empower them.
Powerful question: Do you know anyone who does well what you are talking about needing to do well?
How incorporate what comes from notes on Being/Doing into our (process, tools, systems).
Might be easy to incorporate based on basic forms and logs. Translate issues/needs/stories and combine with process of group sourcing, aggregate, tie to accessible platform to serve every sovereign seeking to emerge and move
JSa Offers to talk about technologies that don't exist that all sovereigns could use
JSu Practice: where would this go? Issue - technologies don't exist - to issue log? Evaluate when right time to discuss is? Put time and resources then.
VA, JSa work with JSu this week on setting up some PM backbone items to present to group next week.
Makes every significant decision transparent to the group!
Wrap:
Level of participation, wisdom shared
A lot of I and We. We is hard, not built into us in our culture. As we look at ourselves as a community we begin to see our effect as individuals collected together. The amount of that today was really exciting to me.
Appreciated MW comment in the chat - "here's what's most alive; this is what I need".. When I read it, it helped me make a shift from "what am I to do here". Felt like the right day to say how do I discern and say, is this the right time to bring this piece in. Doing as outpouring of framing I come from into the conversation. and compulsion to act. Challenge of MP - there are many things I could be doing today - Of those 50, I actually want to be doing 30, of those 30, which is the most in service right now? becomes the question in everr moment, meeting.
Capturing "these are doings that are coming out of this meeting" - keep asking, do we still feel this piece is alive, is it building momentum or is it dissolving, roadblocks, not having needed pieces.
If we had a clearer understanding of how valuable something is to others, it would allow more things to be done in parallel. Created a template because it was useful to someone - it being useful helped it get created by one creating it. So also need some level of commitment on the part of the one using it. Having firm decisions and commitment on doing an experiment creates space for people to put energy in and do a thing well, because it is going to be used.
how do we actually create the back pressure that shows us what we bring forward is valuable and so it is responded to. Struggle to discern.
How to solve the issue of the void vs knowing clearly what is valuable to have/do
If we can share our needs, we discover where our services will be of value. Find out what people want and need. It leads to us bottling up what is needed. We can discern the lowest hanging fruit, lean approach to what are we doing first. - Internal and external needs. Share needs, get resources from and through group. As we look at serving one another in practical way, we become aware of external needs. Emotions engage - I care they succeed, I know they have a need.
Vision that world runs on marketing and advertising creating needs we don't need and ignoring needs we don't see. What if there was a gigantic needs database - if world needs X, I can create it.
Majority of needs are common, very few are individual. If we could develop a listening engine that could be very powerful.
Tokens to vote with as a way to flush out what's most important. Put together with listening engine, have pragmatic plans to see those things acted on.
In 2 or 3 works, can VA cohost a workshop on Offers and Needs - provide resources to do 2hr matchmaking session on zoom with group of 20-30 people. At end of event, all needs were posted on event page and showed up in group's directory until expiry. Became input method to express needs, facilitated in community with others and sharing, afterwards capturing. if not solved during session, lives on. Low tech way to get started.
Use this to invite new people from other groups for start of next cycle, get list of needs, problems, and report back with what resources we have. 2-3 weeks from today. JSu commits that if VA hosts, we will do it.
We are doing things in new ways and doing new things, and we are swimming in new value being created and noticed.
JSu to talk to KS more about this
Pain button; include a song that relates to the suffering
Outer edges of our ability to articulate in edge experiences, emergent and drowning
JSu: Stacey speaking for a lot of suffering people around the world and for whom it is not self evident who to turn to, how to get help - we can do better.
*Tangents/Things not yet discussed:
how do the external systems of the world (climate feedback loops) impact our balance between doing/being - ex) are we acting this way because we are in an ACTUAL crises or a manufactured crises (when your boss creates a crises to get someone to work faster when it's not actually a crises)?
what happens when there's a group of 10 people and 1 person who missed a previous meeting has a burning concern that was addressed last time for an hour? do we spend time going into it again, asking to watch the recording? How to balance the need to move forward when people can't be at every meeting?
Alignment has to come out of the beingness together, feeling "this is the next emergent thing". Identifying it, like with faciliation so there can be both being and doing; from there follows bringing in people trained to do this. Only saying it because it emerges at that moment as a result of (...)
LANGUAGE / LEXICON
Energy - crazy world... and yet absolutely the crux... and yet we don't know how to relate to it...
The big tension out there... spirituality and energy.. and the difficulty verifying or measuring...
Constructive theory - The physics of information...
being
How do we determine an action is the right action... if we don't ahve the discernment that comes out of really understanding one another...
learn from failure - experiments and learning fast.
We have to come back to what is happening
Trust exists on so many levels
Ability to "be" depends upon distributing the "work" and would be positively impacted by increasing the --> Ability to self organize, which depends upon --> way to submit proposals / way to contact other people / way to create sub-groups /ability to understand what's happening --> these all require doing in order to create systems such as a directory, proposal system, shared calendar --> which require doing and iteration on how these actions impacted others and made them feel.
Who among us are the canaries in the coal mine
The Game is the infinite game - privilege be in a small group
AND - we need to do that across lots of people we will never meet...
Lots of individuals rooms with people have the felt sense of trust...
Do we need to feel 100% comfortable in the main room or in a sub-room? Constant tension between the scale and how this impacts how hard it will be to either do or be in a group. is there a change in the ideal ratio at scale?
How do we take what was discussed today, and create output that would inform our activities.
Hypotheses:
Activities X Certain Balance
Ex) Weekly Meetings x being and doing
Ex) Shared calendars
Is there something avaialbe within one or two degrees...
Activities: (What are activities you want to be involved with?)
Strategy, and how to tie resourcing to what is emerging...
Digesting, discerning what is seeking to emerge and what is present but not yet spoken or needs to be spoken; moving anything forward that touches on the feel of community in ways that brings up the highest potential in participants for the highest good in the world
meta game, landing page, needs tracker, read the mind of the group (curation),
Creating an awesome member directory
Resource Development, For-profit entity transition to steward ownership, building support systems
I'd like to help with process and program
Claryfying: governance models - concepts of complexity, collaboration and knowledge management platforms - scaling strategies
Becoming more literate as a community on how to work in complexity
Welcoming; checking up on people, leading philosophical discussions, consulting with personal development goals
assisting to build clarity in energy exchange
supporting written clarity of universal values
digesting and reflecting
Creating a map that helps each person in Meta Project a way to see how their piece fits into the larger whole
Putting our receptors out to others orgs/actors in a way that recognizes and records them—and hopefully involves them
Focusing on disagreement to understand where we are - sitting in the fire / being and tension
Ideas: a session to go through the orgs and have people vouch for them.