Grass roots journeys

  ... application of this strategy is widespread and
plays a major role in evolution of bacterial genomes ...

Over the past five years we discovered that osmosis and more fully human ways of knowledge transfer works best. "Show, don't tell!" when working together, guarding we have and make our own choices, promiscuity in working together relationships build networks the fastest, and relentlessly reflecting, and are now standing at a threshold. Not with one, but with many, in a network of interdependents ... each of us can be anything we choose to be ... as long as we keep our emotional intelligence turned on and well-guarded by our own maturity.

No matter how well we prepare, 20% of any journey goes through the Great Unknown, that is the 20% we didn't come prepared for. So preparation is important. We wouldn't want to change that number to 40%. And on every journey we need to be prepared for things we aren't prepared for. And that preparation for unpreparedness makes all the difference. How we deal with the unexpected and how we cope with self, life, and others in chaos and with survival consciousnesses fully turned on, that makes all the difference. Self-esteem and Self-confidence.

So now we embark on another journey, no longer marketing and facilitating and training agile inside in a coaching pyramid, outside and up we fly. The lightning workshop is intended to evolve and grow into a grass roots workshop in cross training and gaining wisdom passed on by Virginia. Those that appear are the right beings to appear.

Its facilitators receive a day's fee per day of training, EURO 1000, plus any travel and stay-over expenses - and a simple guestroom with one of our hosts will do nicely too. Participants arrange and pay for that together. Participants also provide and pay for the workshop location and food and drink expenses together. This leaves in terms of expenses some handouts and possibly additional materials. As facilitators we consider that included in our fee, as long as things don't get too crazy, and then we properly (re)negotiate, of course.

  1. Impoverished realities and starving bodies break the hearts of individuals and communities.
  2. Basic needs of all involved are adequately covered. We have what is just necessary with an occasional cookie or piece of pie (luck).
  3. We have a surplus and can easily hold space while maintaining survival consciousness.
  4. We give away what we have more than what we experience as surplus while being able to maintain survival consciousness.
  5. When we attract resources faster than we can spin out and give away, we (re)center to lose or choose any attachments and fixations we may have attracted.

Each lightning workshop is facilitated by 2 facilitators (per 20 people). We always work with a back-seat facilitator, to handle some of that infamous 20% we didn't see coming, and for facilitating the reflections, because likely a backseat facilitator feels less stake than the lead facilitator at that point in time, and that improves relentlessness of reflection tremendously ;-)

Playful note possibly (re)useful for (new) insights in knowledge transfer and retention issues: http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/67/1/293?