[Dialogue] An Artform about the YES to all of life

[Jo Nelson]

Wow.  Thank you, Wandaa!

And I also just listened again to Amanda Gorman’s speech for the inauguration. It’s also right on target.

Take care,
Jo


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Jo Nelson, CPF Emeritus, CTF  <jnelson at ica-associates.ca>
Certified Professional Facilitator and ICA Certified ToP™ Facilitator
ICA Associates, Inc.
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[IAF Certified Professional Facilitator Emeritus]

“You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage of others.” R. Buckminster Fuller



From: Holcombe Wanda <wandah70 at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 2:34 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Cc: Jo Nelson <jnelson at ica-associates.ca>
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] An Artform about the YES to all of life
I Hope this poem will work for you…if not just enjoy. It was shared with me recently by one of my “Activist” Muslim friend:


I sometimes forget that

I was created for joy

My mind is too busy

My heart is too heavy

Heavy for me to remember

that I have been

called to dance

the sacred dance for life

I was created to smile

to love

to be lifted up

and lift others up

O sacred one

Untangle  my feet

from all that ensnares

Free my soul

That we might

Dance

and that our dancing

might be contagious.



Hafiz



Hafiz (/ˈhɑːfɪz/<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English>; Arabic<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language>: حافظ‎, romanized<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic>: ḥāfiẓ, حُفَّاظ, pl.<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural> ḥuffāẓ, حافظة f.<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminine_(grammar)> ḥāfiẓa), literally meaning "guardian" or "memorizer", depending on the context, is a term used by Muslims<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim> for someone who has completely memorized<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorization> the Quran<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran>. Hafiza is the female<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam> equivalent.[1]<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)#cite_note-Ludwig_2009-1>

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On Jul 29, 2021, at 1:07 PM, Jo Nelson via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

Hi, all,

I’m searching for an artform, which could be a poem, a song, or a very short video, that could be the starting point for a fairly quick discussion grounding the X  of the Word -- YES to the past, the future, my life, all of life.  (You will note that the current version of Courage to Lead talks about the YES to the past, future, my life, and all of life rather than using the phrases “the past is approved, the future is open, my life is received, life is good”.  This is designed to get through the immediate reactions to the old language that was blocking people being able to ground the Word in their lives.) This artform should be tangential to the topic and allow a conversation that grounds it.

I’m guessing that you in this group will be a better resource than I have found so far.  I don’t need just quotes – they don’t lead to much of a conversation.  And even if you don’t know of any artforms for this, I’m hoping just raising the question will be helpful for your ruminations!

I’m updating and putting online an old ICA Associates Inc. facilitation course called “Participation Paradigm”.  In this course we taught 4 chapters of Courage to Lead that correspond to the four sections of RS-1 images as well as the Contentless Method (the phenomenological method behind all ToP methods). We will study the four chapters, and I am working on artform conversations to ground the previous session and make the transitions to the next session.

This course, along with one updating our old Image Change course and several others will be offered online in the fall in addition to the ones we have been offering online so far.

Take care,
Jo

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Jo Nelson, CPF Emeritus, CTF  <jnelson at ica-associates.ca>
Certified Professional Facilitator and ICA Certified ToP™ Facilitator
ICA Associates, Inc.
401 Richmond Street West, Suite #405, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 3A8

Ph. 1 416-691-2316, x2230  Toll-free 1 877-691-1422  Fax 1 416-691-2491
Website http://ica-associates.ca
Cellphone 647 233 6910
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