on the road as ever and thinking about a conversation earlier in the day with my good friend Michael Fielding who I don't see often enough.
Michael is currently exploring the idea of creating space - space for people to meet and talk, have the space to indulge in real conversation and not just exchange information. It seems to me that this allies closely with some of David Bohms work - the difference between dialogue and conversation. My particular interest comes in two ways - we will shortly be inviting people together through incredible ed. to the latest of our fundraiser / gatherings and we want to know something of their stories that they bring to the event. We have two questions to explore - what does IET mean to you? And, why does a focus on food matter? This focus will hopefully generate material for us in two areas of the metric - one related to observation, the other related to maintenance. Observation - because we are going to encourage people to report their learning journeys with IET - both personal and collective and we hope to think through these observations to establish some pointers for motives, commitments and understandings and values that bring them to the project - Maintenance - because we hope that the material will also generate some guidance for us in the form of things which people would like to achieve next, as well as some guidance towards what matters to them. We will see.
What we can do is consider carefully the space we create for the dialogue to occur, conducive to opening up, supportive but probing, purposeful for them individually and for us as a collective so it helps us to move the thinking forward into the next phase.
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