Resonance, 3rd Eyes and other echoes from collective learning

Dear all,
I started sketching this 3rd Eye process after 25 years of facilitating groups in various organizations. By then, I knew very well that many training - working group situations missed something absolutely vital to any collectivity : the feeling of being part of something larger than oneself, the feeling of the collective body of knowledge, of basic goodness, of humanity. The feeling of life.

I thought that if life was absent from these learning frames, I ought to do something to bring life back into them -and / or change them...

Taken from another perspective, we can look at these learning set ups through a rationality vs sensitivity standpoint. Rational and instrumental knowledge vs feeling or aesthetic rlationship to reality. Western preferences regarding knowledge vs Eastern rapport to life. I thought that I needed to reconcile both perspectives and enact, embody them into our facilitation work.

This is somewhat how I started to integrate creative and artful approaches into the spaces I was in charge of. Not limited to harvesting, I believe that when people create the story themselves, they own it more deeply. Who is the Eye? Who should be the Eye? Personally, my intention is to give the video camera back to the poeple so that they, themselves, tell their story. Emancipating means. But this is not a common practice in many organizations. I am also working on that.

I'll leave it here, only asking about your own work. How do you invite life back into our world, one learning moment at a time? How do you do this? What does it imply for you, for the people you work with, for the organization?

Warmth
- Isabelle