In a conversation with friend and Radical Transitions recipe contributor, Linda Fabe, in Cincinnati last weekend, she inspired a possible distinction about the 4 conversations in the intentional mode we’re working with. Since shadow conversations are the “old” conversations that divided communities, the 4 conversations are the “new” conversations designed to build community. I like the distinction because of its elegant reminder of how focus makes the difference. Even this meta-conversation implies how the old conversations about money, allies, and power do not have the possibility that focus has in engaging the gifts of the community.
Archive for January, 2008
People continue to be amazed by the power of small acts as realizations of dreams. They’re empowering antidotes to shadow conversations about scale and speed, which are postponements of small acts. The irony of these postponement conversations is that talk about scale and speed sound important and worthy of attention and action. In fact, large acts of scale and speed often only engage the tangible asset wealthy few. Small acts democratize communities where assets run the gamut from very tangible to the very intangible.
