[Dialogue] Go Gordon!

[Terry Bergdall]

Video regarding ToP and Occupy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnjmWcJjET4



On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:14 PM, David Walters <walters at alaweb.com> wrote:

> Two quations:
>
> 1. Can Gordon or some one tell more about the commotion Gordon caused at
> the ToP meeting. Any video available.
>
> 2. What does a 69 year old fart look like?
>
> -David Walters
>
> --- stevehar11201 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: steve har <stevehar11201 at gmail.com>
> To: dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net
> Subject: [Dialogue] Go Gordon!
> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:25:35 -0500
>
> What a mensch Gordon is!
>
> Still practicing being in the game being a social pioneer even with --
> gasp 20 somethings.  Shades of HR Neibhur addressing the needs of the
> times. Still willing to have integrity
>
> Integrity. Yes, that Joe Mathews Invention.
> My personal working definition: what you say is what you do; what you
> do is what you say, except when it isn't and then I get to clean up
> the mess, --- 100% free, a100% responsible.
>
> Gordon It must be exhilarating being with 20 somethings engaged,
> fearless. Tell us a STORY! Better yet make a YouTube or a
> VoiceThread.com, 21st C style. Make the local story sing a global
> song.
>
> By the Way...Ellie Stock is working on an Internet story about
> Dreaming the Dreamer and it isn't going to live in an email or a text
> thread.
>
> For me, is exhilarating being with 20 somethings on my Stanford
> University Project Team. They are all about engagement not detachment.
>
> On my team are all about making something happen -- not having a
> bigger better gestalt or a better plan. They are fearless. They are
> making a software product they don't do "Rusty" they do Jane style
> we're in this together making something happen.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDO3ob-4ZY
>
> They respect this 69 year old fart when I row the boat as well as they
> do and when I get tasks done like everyone else.
>
> Sometimes they ask me to "navigate" from experience, but they sure
> don't want some one to "facilitate" from the sidelines, they want
> someone fully engaged in the task at hand. Here is a piece of their
> work:
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yNi_WmF_qNddSLulOxc1yOYXUeBR72n02wiovlGK33U/edit
>
> Re-reading Jon & Maureens book -the 9 Disciplines of a Facilitator Ch
> 12 -  this morning they say [paraphrasing]
> If awareness is is about understanding, action is about accomplishing
>
> [there are] three issues facing facilitative leaders
> They all have to do with effective action:
> -intent [which has do do with changing not planning],
> -implementation,
> -impact
>
> Re Lee's Dag quote: If you get past the nostalgia and the
> romantic/poetic words, what you see is a guy who is fully engaged and
> taking the risks he chooses to take [and in conversation with himself
> about it].
>
> One time in NYC I met Kofi Annan on his very last day as
> Secretary-General  of the United Nations at
> Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Another guy with an intact value
> system who chooses to navigate in unsettled waters. Still in the game,
> long since retired.
>
> Thank-you Gordon for your leadership example, for being a guide, a
> navigator.
>
>  Hunting for some stories of women navigators - not people of the
> peanut gallery but people who have an intact value system and lead in
> un-chartered waters. like the navigators in the Marshall Islands who
> used to navigate with stick charts and according to Wiegel bounced the
> babies on their knees and sang songs, teaching the young ones the
> sound of the wind and the waves.
>
> Grace Lee Boggs is a heavy hitter. Wish I could hear a 1st hand story
> of someone I know. Someone out there like Gordon. If you look at Kaze
> Gadway, she is hanging out with young-ones too. She might be achieving
> "universal grandmother status"
>
> Anyone know any other female navigators, any other female guides like
> Kaze? It would be powerful to develop some new leadership examples
> beyond the stale ones that get shared over and over again.
>
> We should do this kind of work now with and for 20 somethings --  and
> stop trying to amuse ourselves with one more client, just one more
> consulting contract, just one more set of custom workshop procedures
> from an unnamed but paying client.
>
> The role of Elders is to pass on practices worth practicing not
> nostalgia and opinions about the way it ought to be. It is past time
> to pay it forward. I'm getting older by the minute.
>
> How about you?
>
> --
> Steve
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