For anyone interested in watching any of Walter Brueggemann (sorry to be the resident pharisee about his name), I have archived his offerings as they are to be found on Youtube. https://budtillinghast.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/walter-brueggemann/ <https://budtillinghast.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/walter-brueggemann/> Enjoy, Bud Tillinghast
On 18 Oct 2017, at 9:59 pm, Isobel and Jim Bishop via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Dear David,
Thank you very much for sending this note to us all.
I deeply appreciate your thoughts and wisdom, and the back and forth discussions happening between folks. .
Bruggemann is a good guide these days on my journey.
xx
Isobel Bishop. On 19/10/2017, at 3:08 AM, David Flowers via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
Jim,
I've been experimenting and developing servant leadership applications in the classroom. It is my thesis that how the world holds and raises up leaders today correlates exactly with the economic political and cultural systems we now have. It starts with servant leadership and Associational life. Connecting people. There are two Dynamics in any group that I work with. There is always the task at hand but there is also always the people in the room. It starts with values and identifying personal values. We have conversations every session on that. Some resources I use include Journey to the East Heifetz on Adaptive Leadership Bruggemann on The Empire of Scarcity McKnight on The Abundant Community Block on Associational Life.
I also review established Leadership theories that to my mind are organized around treating people as objects to be organized around a goal in contrast to Servant leadership which treats people as the goal.
Bruggemann's Empire of scarcity is a good lead into the social process triangles. Much of our Notions on leadership and experience of economic tyranny begin with the basic lie of scarcity. Scarce resources is an economic theory and not an absolute.
Bonhoeffer's ethical decision making model - observe, judge, weigh up the values, decide and act - has weigh up the values at the center. As Leaders we are often tempted to provide previously developed Technical Solutions to Adaptive problems - the value step is often sacrificed for reasons of expediency in service to the scarce resources paradigm.
Jim - I'm trying to teach servant leadership in the context of the biosphere as home being the categorical imperative.
I very much appreciate your question and hope these little Snippets are understandable