[Dialogue] ICA group on a path forward

Mon Mar 10 11:45:40 PDT 2025

Good to hear from you, Jim.

Thanks for sharing some of your notes on what colleagues are doing. I am grateful for this ongoing conversation and impressed with what colleagues are engaged in and asking, including the efforts in my home state of Oklahoma that Bill and Mark and others are facilitating. It is good to see that we are focused on the present and the future not just on the past.

Some of you might find interesting this recent piece on the MOM: https://robertsonwork.substack.com/p/the-movement-of-movements-mom-dancing These are indeed challenging times for each of us as an Earthling, an American, and an elder.

How can we each help create islands of sanity to catalyze beloved community? How can we each care for our body-mind so that despair does not stop us from taking compassionate actions in the here and in the now?

Your colleague in transformation,

Rob

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Subject: Re: ICA group on a path forward

Thanks for responding, Rob.  And to Judy for connecting with you  And anyone else listening, especially the folks who have gotten together on zoom the last 3 saturdays.

 A couple of weeks ago, Bill Parker, who has been working on (help me if I use the wrong words) forming a human community network in Oklahoma to address human suffering there, sent an email around wondering if it was time for us to talk about “a path forward”. Several of us responded.  Bill is looking for wisdom on how to move forward with his next step of connecting social networks across 24 regions in Oklahoma (which he also thinks might be appropriate and perhaps replicable in other places.  I recalled work you have done with the “movement of movements” approach and thought that might be helpful

However, it seems to me that In our group that has to do with a path forward, we are asking several different questions at this point based on our unique existential situations.  Here is my impression, please add and/or correct.
There is no organizational connection to ICA or any other organization

  1.  Bill Parker’s question. How do we weave the networks that are building the new society together with a deeper sense of commonality and therefore more effectiveness
  2.  Wanda‘ Holcombe’s question how do I stay in touch and float with the brand new and how does the global become our local through the internet
  3.  Judi White’s question how do I survive as a Shapeshifter?
  4.  Susan erickson. How do I stay up on what’s happening and know what to do day by day
  5.  Don Bushman’s question what wisdom do we have to offer in this moment?
  6.  Several of us are asking what does it mean to be our age and phase and not some other?
  7.  Karen Snyder Troxel wondered about being a shape shifter as she is coming up with different ideas each week
  8.  Judy Wiegel sees this as an exciting time to be alive and i missed her question
  9.  Michael and Molly Shaw were asking what does a church have to show for it?    And where do we locate?
  10. Richard Maguire wasn’t really asking. He was showing a pathway of collaboration that he and Maria are working with. That’s very interesting.
  11. Milan and Linda Hamilton have contributed stories and energy around their work in Redlands with their ANCA approach Accelerating Neighborhood Climate Action which is built on work that Sunny Walker and others have been working on in Colorado
  12. I guess my question was what is my local human development project and
  13. Wanda and some are asking How is the Internet and all that access how is that the new local
  14. Jean Watts was on but i missed what she said due to a “comfort break”
  15. Who have i missed?
  16. which got me thinking about Bill‘s question at the end about being more disciplined and moving things forward and it occurred to me that for the most part interaction over the Internet comes first of all as Listening to someone next it comes asl looking at faces on a screen and Serial talking and when we say what about our methods, we have to realize that neither one of those things actually produces transparency or creates a trans establishment — or has much to do with what we used to do that we called our methods

Jim Wiegel

“…the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy. Come and let us talk“.

The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver

On Mar 9, 2025, at 11:18 AM, Robertson Work <warkers at msn.com> wrote:

Dear Jim,

Hope all is well.

Judi White wrote to me asking if I would join the Zoom meeting this coming Saturday for the ICA group on a path forward. She also mentioned that you said to the group that I should participate and speak this Saturday.

How is the discussion going? What is your vision of what can emerge? What does the group need to hear?

Best wishes in this time of transformation,

Rob

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