Playing the Macro Violin: Shifting from Ego to Eco-System Being
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Playing the Macro ViolinShifting from "Ego" to "Eco-System" Being
"When I gave my first concert in Chartres, I felt that the cathedral almost
kicked me out. For I was young and I tried to perform as I always did: just playing my violin. But then I came to realize that in Chartres you actually
cannot play your small violin, but you have to play the macro violin. The small
violin is the instrument that is in your hands. The macro violin is the whole
cathedral that surrounds you. The cathedral of Chartres is entirely built
according to musical principles. Playing the macro violin requires you to listen and to play from another place. You
have to move your listening and playing from within to beyond yourself." - quoted from Miha Pogacnik and Scharmer's, "
The Blind Spot of Leadership"
Playing the Macro Violin (overview)
• My "intention statement":• Current situation: What key challenge or question is the group facing?• Stakeholders: How might others view this situation?• Intention: What future are we trying to create?• Learning threshold: What do we need to let-go of - and what do we need to learn?• Help: "Where" or in "what" do we need input or help?
• Stillness
• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)
• Generative dialogue
• Closing remarks
• Individual journaling to capture the learning points
My "intention statement" - The Current Situation
What key challenge or question is the group facing?
"From your experience thus far, what's the single greatest determinant or factor shaping (informing) your
answer to the two questions with which one's presented at the bottom of the "U" . . . Who is my Self? (highest future potential "self") and What is my Work?."
My "intention statement" - The Current Situation
"How we relate to our own and others gender and sex is both extremely personal and
profoundly philosophical. In fact, few domains of inquiry are as equally personal and
simultaneously philosophical than sex, gender, and sexuality. This inquiry is personal in that few topics are more intimate to our sense of
self-identity, our most immediate desires, and our needs for love, intimacy, and connection."
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens from the Forward to Integral Voices on Sex, Gender, and Sexulaity
My "intention statement" - Stakeholders
How might others view this situation?
What's the nature and quality of our
interpersonal relations with community
members? Is it mindful? If so, how . .
. in what ways?
My "intention statement" - Intention
What future are we trying to create?
"So you don't get to choose between yourself and this other, between the shape of yourself and what's passing around you.
So this is the piece I wrote for the plane, but also to look at the way that human beings can travel enormous distances.
They don't have to do the work, they simply have to have the conversation . . . and the conversation does all the work for you. The organization doesn't have to do the work, it just has to have the conversation with the people itself. The converstaion creates a
dynamic whereby you look around and the work's been done."
TEDx - David Whyte - "The Conversational Nature of Reality"
My "intention statement" - Learning threshold
What do we need to let go of and learn?
"We live on a razor's edge. From one instant to another, any of us can regress to
yesterday's mindset or connect with an emerging future possibility. In all countries and civilizations around the globe, we face the same challenge: crossing the threshold to this other side, to the field of the future that is waiting to emerge. Rilke referred to
crossing this threshold as a shift of perspective and consciousness:
... for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.
("Archaic Torso of Apollo," Rainer Maria Rilke)"
"You Must Change Your Life" - Otto Scharmer, HuffPost
My "intention statement" - Help
"Where" or in "what" do we need help?
"We will be continuing to orient ourselves to the
issue at hand and working to gain a deeper
appreciation of the affects of mindfulness in
directing our conversation."
Roanoke Food Security Mindfulness Initiative
Stillness
Listen to your heart: Connect with your heart to what you're hearing.
Listen to what resonates: What images, metaphors, feelings and
gestures come up for you that capture the essence of what you
heard?
Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)
Each coach shares the images/metaphors, feelings and gestures
that came up.
Having listened to all coaches, the moderator
reflects back on what s/he heard.
Generative Dialogue
All reflect on the moderator’s remarks and move into a generative dialogue on how these
observations can offer new perspectives for better
serving the group’s situation and journey.
Go with the flow of the dialogue. Build on each
others ideas.
Closing Remarks
By coaches
By moderator: How do I now see
our situation and way forward?
Thank you: An expression of
genuine appreciation to each other.
Playing the Macro ViolinShifting from "Ego" to "Eco-System" Being