Replying to LO24936 --
Fellow learners,
I have been a mostly silent participant in this virtual conversation for
several years now.
What is this morning breaking dawn upon my face, shining bright (perhaps
for one gloriously transient and endless moment), with the help of
Andrew's provocation and Leo's beautiful response, is the possible role of
this exchange in charting the shapes that our exchanges with each other
need to take in order to allow enough room for us to be wholly (holy?) in
conversation around this strange attractor called learning organisations.
It makes me wonder afresh about the calls for brevity, not so much about
the reduction in quantity inherent in brevity, but more about the deep
assumptions about the meaning of quality that seem in some way to underpin
the these calls. I suppose I am feeling the call to expore the extent to
which these calls are themselves what most needs to be gently and
sensitively explored.
It is a little as if learning organisations are like ideas about
communities of people who can see, but which are blocked from emerging, as
the idea of blindness has itself created civilisations that are designed
for people who are blind, regardless of whether we are inherently blind.
Although we come together around our wish to communicate about our
journeys to allow communities of seeing to emerge, many of the pressures
we feel will naturally derive from norms that belong to the culture of
blindness in which we are mostly immersed.
So it feels this morning anyway. Thanks again Leo and Andrew for the light
in my eyes, which is so disturbing to my blindness...
>SILENT DIALOGUE
>
>I had a silent dialogue
>far behind my eyes
>thoughts were talking with my thoughts
>in unheard words
>softer than breeze
>travelling surprising ways
>through my cerebral maze.
>
>in an endless coloured ocean
>of interfering waves
>lies a lonesome island
>grown from down below
>by a peaceful trio
>of dreamy volcano cones.
>
>was it accident or serendipity?
>this isle was visited
>on an Eastern sunday
>centuries ago
>by a roaming Dutchman
>searching for Terra Incognita
>
>was it accident or serendipity?
>a wandering thought
>found a neuronic path
>to unknown island in my mind
>
>the Gods were staring silent
>on the slopes of Eastern Island
>and listen without a motion
>to whispers of surrounding ocean.
>they spoke words, so wise
>not with lips, but with their eyes,
>the answers came in waves.
>
>secrets of a silent dialogue,
>mysterious island in my mind.
Warm regards
Mark
Mark Feenstra
mark@bookrite.com
PO Box 99 193
Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand
Ph. 64 9 307 3770
Fax 64 9 307 3740
--"Mark Feenstra" <mark@strategiclearning.co.nz>
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