Thinking together is a lost art. As a teacher I do hard thinking, then I tell you about all my insights. If you think it is insightful, clever, smart or feels new to you, you register your acceptance of my insights with a nod or a “great message Ron,” and assume those insights will now change your life. But we haven’t thought together. And we certainly haven’t come “to know together.”
Thinking together and coming to know together requires a posture of being that will accommodate new shifts in us. We have discussed the two components of the social field. Now we look at the four ways of being or listening.
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David Bohm the great quantum physicist, said “the tree doesn’t come from the seed. The seed is an aperture that organizes the processes of growth through which the tree finally emerges.”
When people come together whether that is in real time and space or cyberspace, there is an invisible architecture and shape in those relationships. That invisible architecture is called the social field, and it is comprised of visible and external “what we say and do with each” as well as the invisible and internal origins of those actions. How we act and interact, learn and unlearn, see and reveal, grow and transform is determined by how that social field is sourced by our interior life and the content of the conversation. The social field is formed by some aperture that organizes how those interactions occur.
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velocity learning conversations
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Velocity Learning Conversations are spaces where leaders come together to discuss theological, spiritual formation, leadership and ecclesiological contours of 21st century ministry.
On-site VLCs are limited to no more than 40 participants where ministry leaders from various churches, in that region, come together to discuss theological, spiritual formation, leadership and ecclesiological contours of 21st century ministry guided by Ron.
Online VLCs provide a space where leaders from all over the world can meet on the web for live conversation to discuss spiritual formation, theology, leadership and personal development.
The format for VLCs is dialogue: a genuine listening and learning from each other about the issues most pressing in ministry today. The only ministry experiences in this post-Christendom era are two: 1. slow death 2. deep change. [read more...]
