Turning takers into healers….

Many feel frustration about the failure of our “guardians” to act on the needs of our environments.  They display, our own frozen helplessness when facing obvious threats. That’s great as just the kind of observation that is the stimulus for new kinds of thinking.  “Changing Normal” for a planet stuck in the past, you might say.

In acknowledging Steve’s frustration with the crime of silence by our guardians was reserving the possibility that “masters of the universe” responsible might not be “the usual suspects”.  It could also refer to anyone who thinks of their being a “master of their own fate”.

Frank then offered a nice way to prompt his students,

“Hmmm, each year for the past 20 or so, in orientation week, i greet my new crop of students with: “i am a green but the wilderness i am interested in is not in East Gippsland (Oregon?) but behind the eyes looking at me across this room. If i can make you wilder, i.e. LESS predictable to me, by the time you leave this room, i have done my job.” Continue reading Turning takers into healers….