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COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION. IN CREATIVE LEADERSHIP. FOUR PILLARS OF COMMUNITY Each human being is unique. All human beings are the same. No human being is a category. Human beings can engage creatively with each other. DIVERSITY AMONG HUMAN BEINGS IS A FOUNDATION OF CREATIVITY. OUR
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COMMUNITYAND COMMUNICATION IN CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
FOUR PILLARS OF COMMUNITYEach human being is unique.All human beings are the same.No human being is a category.Human beings can engage creatively with each other.
DIVERSITY AMONGHUMAN BEINGSIS AFOUNDATION OF CREATIVITY OUR COMMON HUMANITY IS A FOUNDATION OF PEACE
Beginning With A Question How can we be truly humane and creative with each other as we work through the difficult issues and challenges we face today?
The real voyage of discoveryconsists not of finding new landsbut of seeing the territorywith new eyes Marcel Proust
Only with the support, insight, and fellowship of communitycan we face the dangers oflearning meaningful things. Fred Kofman & Peter Senge
TO DO CREATIVECOMMUNICATIONWE NEED A COHERENT VISIONAND A WILLINGNESS TO EXPLORE THAT VISIONOPENLYWITH A MUTUAL SENSE OF COMMUNITYWilliam Isaacs
Finding a Vision “in Community”What would people be like within and with others in a best-of-all-possible worlds?Not a utopia, a perfect, ideal, impossible world – no place.But a real, everyday world.
QUALITIES OF CHARACTERin Community Living TogetherPersonal Freedom with Respectwith Responsibility GENUINE INTEREST “Understanding” Self-understanding Others
COMMUNITY ACKNOWLEDGMENT Appreciation Appreciation of Others of Self EMPATHOS Empathy Openness Honesty
COMMUNITYALTRUISMCaring Self- Support actualizationMUTUAL TRUSTTrust Trust of Others of Self
COMMUNITY CREATIVE COMMUNICATION SENSE OF ONENESS
DOMINATION TO PARTNERSHIPI bet Genuine InterestI wonderI judge AcknowledgmentI learn I pity EmpathosI sense/feel
DOMINATION TO PARTNERSHIPI want AltruismI/we needCan I trust TrustCan I trustyou? myself?
DOMINATION TO PARTNERSHIPI knowCreative I meanCommunicationI’m lonely Sense ofI’m aloneOneness
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand Russell
Goal: To resolve an issueTo solve a problem To answer a questionObjective:To understand each other
Focus: Thoughts in the form ofopinions, conclusions generalizations, etc.Process:Debate, argument, etc.OutcomeAn Agreement
Goal: To be creative within and with each otherPurpose:To be responsible and to respect each other as human beings
Objective:To become familiar with each otherFocus:Living MeaningProcess:Clear ExpressionDeep Listening
MAKING DECISIONSGoal:To find places of meaning we feel good aboutObjective:To search for, discover, and explore meaning together(to find emergent meaning)
Focus:Living MeaningProcess:Clear ExpressionDeep ListeningOutcome:Agreements to “act as if”for a while . . .
Living MeaningSomething that happenedAn experienceSomething you saw, heard, readThinking, Feeling, IntuitionImagination, Insight
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoingthere is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi