Many feel\u00a0frustration about the failure of our \u201cguardians\u201d to act on the needs of our environments. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0\u201cChanging Normal\u201d for a planet stuck in the past, you might say.<\/p>\n
In acknowledging Steve\u2019s 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”. \u00a0It could also refer to anyone who thinks of their being a “master of their own fate\u201d.<\/p>\n
Frank then offered a nice way to prompt his students,<\/p>\n
\u201cHmmm, each year for the past 20 or so, in orientation week, i greet my new crop of students with: \u201ci 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That\u2019s a great <\/strong><\/em>way of saying it, helping learners become more independent, enriching the compost in the wild place between their ears, and raising their own and our richer crops of better questions!<\/p>\n
Our human self-image isn\u2019t really about creatively exploring a wilderness, though. Functionally that indeed is much of what we do<\/strong><\/em>, of course. Our self-image, though, is more frozen on the poles of \u201cmore\u201d or \u201cless\u201d in feeding our own wants. \u00a0The vision of “sustainability” around the world is then framed as little more than a self-negation \u201cless not more\u201d.<\/p>\n
I was also thinking of that this morning as defining our problem with our \u201ctaker\u201d self-image, and that neither of the poles of being more or less of a taker makes you a \u201chealer”. A healer has to start with \u201cdo no harm\u201d and study the many ways symptom response can add to bigger crisis conditions. \u00a0That requires then exploring the wilderness of relationships you’re immersed in for how to avoid that.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not simply the idea of reducing one\u2019s takings for selfish use, but adds learning to use your takings for better use. \u00a0Maybe the problem isn\u2019t our takings, but that we haven\u2019t learned how to become more unpredictable in discovering their use for healing?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Many feel\u00a0frustration about the failure of our \u201cguardians\u201d to act on the needs of our environments. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0\u201cChanging Normal\u201d for a planet stuck in the past, you might say. … Continue reading Turning takers into healers\u2026.<\/span>