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Jeremy asks how to tell the story of his work(tags: being reflection)
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Part on of a series on neighbour to neighbour reconciliation(tags: firstnations)
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A lovely little book on how to live in community
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Nicholas Humphrey’s latest book on the mystery of consciousness travelled with me to Crete, Latvia and America. And the intellectual journey it took me on has half-persuaded me that his evolutionary approach will one day provide an answer.
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An interesting critique of Andrew Cohen(tags: processarts facilitation)
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I don’t care what your talent is, just do something like this whenever you can and the world becomes that much more livable.
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A little marker to note the passing of a great Canadian institution. Tomorrow night, in Massey Hall, The Rheostatics play their last gig. They’ve been at it for over 20 years and it’s coming to an end. If, like me, you never saw them live, you can download some of their shows here.
Writing today in the Globe and Mail about their career, guitarist and hockey writer extraordinaire Dave Bidini explained the band’s ethos succinctly:”…We were four satellites who got a long and if you listened closely or saw us on a good night, you got bit.” Yup. Still one of my all time favourite road trip bands. Nothing like 2067 playing at full volume to keep me awake as the miles tick past on northern Vancouver Island.
Thanks guys, for the great music and the great take on what our country is all about.
[tags]rheostatics, dave bidini[/tags]
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The art of mapping the moment
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I wasn’t at the Nexus for Change conference although I was there in spirit. I had a few lovely long design talks with Peggy Holman, Gabriel Shirley and Tracy Robinson who were hosting various parts of it. I also followed it online a little and even from a distance it was possible to pick up a thread and extend it a little into my own learning. What stood out for me was this emerging identity as a process artist.
John Abbe brought this to my attention with an update to his weblog in which he announced a Nexus project involving creating a wiki around process arts. It’s a great thought and a lovely enterprise, and it has given me some inspiration for talking about my work and what I try to bring to groups, organizations and communities.
I am certainly an artist in the traditional sense of the world, especially in the modality of music where I have practiced consciously since 1979. I am a martial artist, and I do rock balancing more as a meditation than as an art, but still. I have also spent times in my life working artistically with words, writing novels, poetry and other pieces from a place of deep artistic practice. I still practice that somewhat, although I wouldn’t count weblogging necessarily in that field. Blogging for me falls into another category, which I can now name as ProcessArts.
My practice as a process artist includes the following:
- open source learning here at the Parking Lot
- surfing with eyes, ears and fingers for ideas, inspiration and beauty
- parenting and living in a creative set of family relationships (which have their expression in the world in various ways!)
- the art of hosting, designing and convening conversations that matter.
- the art of harvesting learning from questions and learning journeys that I am on.
- Inspiring, creating and supporting change in a way that feeds evolution, life and peace at the many levels of social organization on this planet, from friendships to public service, in response to deep and heartfelt invitations to co-create and collaborate.
I’m going to give this some more thought, but I’d like to ask you two questions, dear reader(s):
- Where do you practice ProcessArts in your life?
- What experience of my ProcessArt practice have you seen that I’m missing in this broad list?
Curious…thanks to John, a little learning journey has begun.
[tags]processarts, john abbe, nexusforchange[/tags]