Hosting Conversations about Questions that Matter
More Weft for our Cross-Weaving
If the warp we're weaving upon is the online World Cafe we experienced on Tuesday, the weft is already rich and multi-coloured.
Besides the bright strands we're starting to add here, there is also this thread started on the MaestroConference registration page, where people started linking their comments through FaceBook, and here are more in the spontaneous responses that grew on the event listing on Axiladitsa's Ning site, as the conversation was in progress.
I'm excited to see where this goes...
Do you know of a tweet hash tag being used (shall we create one?), or other social media sharing of this phenomenon?
If we think of the warp being of a larger cloth ... say for example the movement we are talking about itself ... where might each of us find and contribute to the weft?
What vibrant garment could be collectively woven that would be capable of holding the whole world in its embrace?
Is this 'weaving' metaphor one that resonates for you? If not, how do you see it? And if it does resonate, what do you imagine as the warp we are weaving upon? Where do you see the threads of the weft appearing and disappearing and weaving together?
In gratitude for you all, and for our ability to talk with each other with mutual respect and interest,
Amy
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Permalink Reply by Ben Roberts on -
A lovely and rich metaphor, Amy. I had to remind myself, despite owning a four-treadle loom when I was a teen, which is warp and which is weft! So... if the warp is made up of vertical strands that provide the structure of the fabric and the weft is the horizontal strand that gets passed back and forth between the warp to weave the cloth, what does that suggest about the work we are doing?
On Tuesday, I see our hosting team as having set some strands of warp and all our wonderful participants as having supplied the weft, flowing in time through the structure we provided. Together, we wove a lovely and poetic section of this larger cloth of emergent possibility in the world. As we move forward, I see us continuing to weave the weft in offering our voices of hope, compassion and concern, of stories about what is inspiring us and what is holding us back. I see us doing this in all the many venues that are available, from local gatherings to global conversations, within our families, in our places of worship, in central squares, in conference calls and on the internet (oh, and right here too, if you feel so inspired!). There is a deep hunger for authentic dialogue, as Danny Gal discovered in Tel Aviv and Odysseas in Syntagma.
And I also see us (especially THIS community) as having exciting new opportunities to be warp-setters, creating an ever-expanding array of strands of hospitable space in which the weft of conversation that matters can be held. So much more is possible now in this regard because of what is awakening in the world and because of the many new tools we have to gather it. There are groups waiting to be convened and conversations wanting to happen everywhere we turn--thousands of miles of weft searching for authentic and generative warp around which to become entwined. Enough to make manifest that "single garment of destiny" that indeed already holds the whole world in its embrace.
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Permalink Reply by Dave Furze on
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I agree with Ben - A lovely and rich metaphor, Amy.
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