[Dialogue] The Transestablishment Stance

[Jo Nelson]

ICA Canada has an online study of the book Courage to Lead. (The spring session is nearly finished: there will be another in the fall.)

The study of the week before last was on Chapter 8:  Trans-establishment Style. This chapter has some good points about the trans-establishment style that it is easy to forget. Here is a pertinent quote:  “While the disestablishment and pro-establishment argue over the shape of the present or the past, the trans-establishment asks the futuristic questions on behalf of everyone else, and dares to imagine something different.”

The participants had some good examples of how they are asking the “what if?” questions about the future and stepping into the trans-establishment role in their organizations and communities.

Personally, one thing I am doing that I think is trans-establishment is sharing stories on my blog (jofacilitator.ca) of “Ordinary People who are Making a Positive Difference”.  My intention is to highlight the places where positive change is happening that we can affect, and to support a stance of gratitude.  Some of these stories are quite mundane.  Others show ordinary people who have made radical changes that have benefitted their communities.  I believe that this is where we can impact change.  I share a story every week, from the ones people sent for my 70th birthday. I currently have 36 more to share.   Everyone is invited to send a story to me to add to the list to share

What are others  doing to ask the futuristic questions to make a difference?

Take care,
Jo

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Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 1:31 PM
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Subject: [Dialogue] The Transestablishment Stance

I have been thinking a lot about this lately, especially with The Donald in the White House and Congress in dysfunctional mode.  We know how to be the establishment dimension by supporting the status quo and we know how to be the disestablishment dimension by being critical of the establishment.  Those of us on the Left do a lot of shouting at screens these days.....anger and frustration with the way things are going in the government.  Personally, I have been more engaged in politics since November 2016 than I ever was, sometimes jumping into the mud pit to take on the other side.  But what about the third dimension, the trans-establishment, that we talked so much about in the Institute over the past 50 or 60 years?!  That was the correct stance we said.  But what does it mean to be trans-establishment in the Trump Era when things we love and care about are being dismantled?  I didn't worry too much during the Reagan or Bush years though they were conservative Republicans.  We knew this too would pass, hopefully after the next election.  But during the Trump years I worry about lots of things, not the least of which is the survival of democracy, the survival of life on the planet, White Supremacists in power, human rights for minorities and people of color, women, unconventional life-styles, etc.  The list goes on and on but you get my point.

Is the trans-establishment stance still viable in these times and if so, what's it mean to live it out as a Movement Network and in individual families and in faith communities and other groups?

Any wisdom on this matter would be much appreciated.
Carleton Stock
St. Louis, MO
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