Conversations in the Morning

My wife brought me a cup of hot chocolate without sugar in it. Even without sugar, it’s such a heart-warming comfort drink! Each morning, when that happens, I sip on it slowly as to let the taste of cocoa linger in my mouth after each sip.

It was early morning, and I was sitting in my writing den, busy with envisioning Campus Co-Evolve and its forthcoming first program, Four Rivers: a Course for R.Evolutionary Changemakers.

As I lifted my eyes from the screen to her face, suddenly I felt warm waves of gratitude and love washing over my body. I couldn’t resist telling her about it. She responded and this conversation followed:

Anna: I feel it like a flow, connecting you and me. It’s like also like taking care of things, making sure that everything flows… the food flow, the household flow, taking care of the children and the flow at work.

Me: Yes, you know a lot about flows because you’ve been doing that all your life, haven’t you? Making sure that nothing blocks the flow… Isn’t it what life is all about? I mean not only our life but also Life itself. The life of organizations and society, too. Maybe that’s why Spiral Dynamics uses the nickname “FlexFlow” for the first stage of consciousness after the stages dominated by the small self… But what is that tries to stop the flow?

Anna: When people are struggling for basic survival, the anxieties generated by that block the flow of energies. When those issues are resolved, our egocentric and narcissistic tendencies can still block it. On the other hand, staying in flow is naturally nurturing to the community and our creativity. We need others to help us stay in flow when we get trapped and stuck in our unresolved issues.

Me: So is that just a question of personal development?

Anna: Not quite. The market economy is built to extract and exploit planetary and human resources rather than support the flow of resources including human creativity. It destroys the environment and isolates people from their own potential and each other.

Me: Well then, what are we going to do about it? What is the difference that our course can make?

We couldn’t continue our conversation that morning because she had to leave for work. As I went back to dream up the course description, I remembered the evolutionary purpose of the Campus: a growing network of r.evolutionary changemakers and their communities of practice, supported by state-of-the-art electronic, social, and inner technologies, triggers a viral wave of new capabilities for facilitating transformation at all scale.

I’m thrilled just by thinking of the wave that we can start flowing, right here on the Campus, by removing every obstacle between our highest aspirations and the tremendous resources we have for reaching them…

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