Just revived this write-up and worksheet for class exercises. In case it is useful to Wiegel. Don't know how Tim will get it to him but I will just shoot it out and see what happens. Jaime wangzhimu2031 earthrise consciousness, a gift; earthbound commitment, my choice yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate! in all, celebrate!
Dear All, I think this work on the life journey charts are helpful, but only to a point. It is a trans-rational way to map the journey, but each of us has our particular journey and that is what is so important. Poor Jesus barely got started. Just imagine what he would have achieved had he gotten to be an elder with wisdom. In our India leadership program we did a depth exercise in charting one’s life. Although most of the people we worked with were young, in their 30’s and 40’s, it was always a profound address. To name the parts of one’s journey is so revealing, and to decide what meaning (mission) would unfold in an “open” future was a deep struggle. But the transparency happened when we sat in a circle and shared our insights. One of the parts of the charting process was to have people brainstorm people who had impacted their lives. They could be alive or dead, authors, actors painters, poets, etc., and they could be ordinary or famous. Didn’t matter. What I asked them to do is place them in the chart section for “people” and let that inform what that section of the journey was about. As people shared a transparency for all always occurred. Fate became destiny. Accident became gift. At the end I would ask two questions; “Does anyone know the ticket collectors name who threw Gandhi off the train in South Africa? Wouldn’t you like to thank that SOB for being such a SOB?” and “Who is the SOB in your life you would like to thank today?” (I didn’t expect them to answer that aloud). Then I would make a concluding statement. “I have no idea what the future holds for each of you. But this I know, when our lives our complete and we stand before the honest assessment, it will not be about our achievements, awards or reputation. There is only one question that is before us. How many people wrote your name down on their life journey?” G&P, Jack
On Dec 19, 2016, at 09:01, Jaime R Vergara via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Just revived this write-up and worksheet for class exercises. In case it is useful to Wiegel.
Don't know how Tim will get it to him but I will just shoot it out and see what happens. Jaime
wangzhimu2031 earthrise consciousness, a gift; earthbound commitment, my choice yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate! in all, celebrate!
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I agree with Jack that the life phases chart is only a tool for starting to think. While working on Rodney’s biography I referred to it periodically as I thought through the different phases of his life…It does reflect a journey. And as I say in the introduction to Zero Meridian, Five Degrees North…he often referred to the fact that he had lived five lifetimes. Granted…with his death at 85 he didn’t get very far into the last phase, but he certainly had a lot of wisdom to share. And enjoyed sharing it. Priscilla
On Dec 19, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Jack Gilles via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Dear All,
I think this work on the life journey charts are helpful, but only to a point. It is a trans-rational way to map the journey, but each of us has our particular journey and that is what is so important. Poor Jesus barely got started. Just imagine what he would have achieved had he gotten to be an elder with wisdom.
In our India leadership program we did a depth exercise in charting one’s life. Although most of the people we worked with were young, in their 30’s and 40’s, it was always a profound address. To name the parts of one’s journey is so revealing, and to decide what meaning (mission) would unfold in an “open” future was a deep struggle. But the transparency happened when we sat in a circle and shared our insights.
One of the parts of the charting process was to have people brainstorm people who had impacted their lives. They could be alive or dead, authors, actors painters, poets, etc., and they could be ordinary or famous. Didn’t matter. What I asked them to do is place them in the chart section for “people” and let that inform what that section of the journey was about. As people shared a transparency for all always occurred. Fate became destiny. Accident became gift.
At the end I would ask two questions; “Does anyone know the ticket collectors name who threw Gandhi off the train in South Africa? Wouldn’t you like to thank that SOB for being such a SOB?” and “Who is the SOB in your life you would like to thank today?” (I didn’t expect them to answer that aloud). Then I would make a concluding statement. “I have no idea what the future holds for each of you. But this I know, when our lives our complete and we stand before the honest assessment, it will not be about our achievements, awards or reputation. There is only one question that is before us. How many people wrote your name down on their life journey?”
G&P,
Jack
On Dec 19, 2016, at 09:01, Jaime R Vergara via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
Just revived this write-up and worksheet for class exercises. In case it is useful to Wiegel.
Don't know how Tim will get it to him but I will just shoot it out and see what happens. Jaime
wangzhimu2031 earthrise consciousness, a gift; earthbound commitment, my choice yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate! in all, celebrate!
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Thanks everyone for chatting about this subject. Jim and I are trying to create our Memoirs for our three adult family and our grandchildren.. These tools you have offered us will be invaluable as Joe Slicker would say.. to Prime the pump,Experimental dig and Depth drill.. Merry Christmas to you all and all yours, Isobel Bishop.. Sent from my iPhone
On 20 Dec 2016, at 2:55 am, Jack Gilles via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Dear All,
I think this work on the life journey charts are helpful, but only to a point. It is a trans-rational way to map the journey, but each of us has our particular journey and that is what is so important. Poor Jesus barely got started. Just imagine what he would have achieved had he gotten to be an elder with wisdom.
In our India leadership program we did a depth exercise in charting one’s life. Although most of the people we worked with were young, in their 30’s and 40’s, it was always a profound address. To name the parts of one’s journey is so revealing, and to decide what meaning (mission) would unfold in an “open” future was a deep struggle. But the transparency happened when we sat in a circle and shared our insights.
One of the parts of the charting process was to have people brainstorm people who had impacted their lives. They could be alive or dead, authors, actors painters, poets, etc., and they could be ordinary or famous. Didn’t matter. What I asked them to do is place them in the chart section for “people” and let that inform what that section of the journey was about. As people shared a transparency for all always occurred. Fate became destiny. Accident became gift.
At the end I would ask two questions; “Does anyone know the ticket collectors name who threw Gandhi off the train in South Africa? Wouldn’t you like to thank that SOB for being such a SOB?” and “Who is the SOB in your life you would like to thank today?” (I didn’t expect them to answer that aloud). Then I would make a concluding statement. “I have no idea what the future holds for each of you. But this I know, when our lives our complete and we stand before the honest assessment, it will not be about our achievements, awards or reputation. There is only one question that is before us. How many people wrote your name down on their life journey?”
G&P,
Jack
On Dec 19, 2016, at 09:01, Jaime R Vergara via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Just revived this write-up and worksheet for class exercises. In case it is useful to Wiegel.
Don't know how Tim will get it to him but I will just shoot it out and see what happens. Jaime
wangzhimu2031 earthrise consciousness, a gift; earthbound commitment, my choice yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate! in all, celebrate!
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