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Sharing our gifts and privileges for a better world
Juanita and I, along with Mariah from the World Cafe community and Austin from YES! www.yesworld.org, had a wonderful daylong inter-generational dialogue on May 2. It was on the theme of "Sharing Our Gifts and Privileges for Social Change" and we had a delightful cafe in the morning where we explored four questions:
1) Think of 1-2 experiences in your life where you first became aware of a gift or privilege you had (first everyone drew a bit on the table, and then they shared those experiences with their table);
2) How are those gifts and privileges manifesting in your life today? -- We had a beautiful harvest of the gifts and privileges in the room after this --
3) Where do you feel blocked or challenged in your gifts and privileges? (silent time for free-writing first) and
4) If you could have any support to unleash those blocked spaces, what would it be? (sharing with a partner, then harvesting with the whole group).
It was rich and super powerful to see what all was present in the room. And to notice how similar strengths and challenges lived among each of the generations.
In fact, what was great was the ability to have an inter-gen day where people didn't feel overly-identified or boxed by their ages, and were instead able to listen, share, speak, receive, play, etc. together as a community.
1) Think of 1-2 experiences in your life where you first became aware of a gift or privilege you had (first everyone drew a bit on the table, and then they shared those experiences with their table);
2) How are those gifts and privileges manifesting in your life today? -- We had a beautiful harvest of the gifts and privileges in the room after this --
3) Where do you feel blocked or challenged in your gifts and privileges? (silent time for free-writing first) and
4) If you could have any support to unleash those blocked spaces, what would it be? (sharing with a partner, then harvesting with the whole group).
It was rich and super powerful to see what all was present in the room. And to notice how similar strengths and challenges lived among each of the generations.
In fact, what was great was the ability to have an inter-gen day where people didn't feel overly-identified or boxed by their ages, and were instead able to listen, share, speak, receive, play, etc. together as a community.
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