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Topic: A Tribe For All Seasons
Host: Abby Straus, M.Div
Date: Wednesday December 10th
Time: 7pm – 8pm Eastern
Join Abby as she and a few tribal leaders create a conversation on one of the hottest topics of 2009.
Seth Godin has done it again. His new book: “Tribes We Need You To Lead Us” is a call for leadership. As the inside cover flap of his book states, ” A tribe is any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader, and an idea. For millions of years, humans have joined tribes, be they religious, ethnic, political, or even musical … It’s our nature.
Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. All those blogs and social networking sites are helping existing tribes get bigger and enabling new tribes to be born – groups of ten and ten million who care about their iPhones, or a political campaign, or a new way to fight global warming.
Who is going to lead all these tribes?
The Web can do amazing things, but it can’t provide leadership. That still has to come from individuals – people just like you who have a passion about something. Anyone who wants to make a difference now has the tools at her fingertips.”
For our December Something in Common call, we’ll be exploring tribes: our roles as tribal leaders and as members of tribes ourselves. The virtual world allows us to connect with more people than ever before, in ways we never imagined only a decade ago. What are the strengths and opportunities of this connection, and where and how do we still need to connect in person?
How do we integrate these two ways of being together? What possibilities do we see for the future, and how can each of us take action to realize our vision?
This is the final program of the series. Something In Common, hosted by Abby Straus, M.Div, was
designed exclusively for The Coaching Commons and produced by Katherine Gotshall English.
To listen to past recordings of this relevant program, search the following dates: September 10,
October 8 and November 12.
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Recognitions to those who are taking action and willing to flow counter to what most like to call the NORM!
Abby Straus you are an amazingly artful facitilator, the real thing, someone whom I will always hold in my minds eye as I facilitate calls and groups a like…heck even one-on-one dialogs.
Thanks for sharing so thoughtfully and with such an open spirit.
Then there is Katherine Gotshall English…my words simply won’t share my feelings of gratitude for coming to know you. You boldly invite others to come together in ways that you yourself aren’t even sure how it will work.
The outcome is clearly not your goal rather it is to provoke and to stir, to encourage each of us to step in to something we normally might not be willing to make time for…an intimate and open dialog of how “I” and “YOU” might in our difference be able to find a new direction, a new opportunity or even a new curiosity to explorer.
Katherine is clearly a contributor to the community I know as coaching. Her legacy is not one of grandeur, we most likely will not know her for creating the 8th wonder of the world, rather for the seeds of thought that she continuosly plants with others and so courageously allows us to germinate.
Thank you both for the opportunity to go places that I have wanted to go for quite some time.
A dialog of hope, of possiblity, of questioning, of doubt and one that is never seen as personal rather an opportunity to explorer for those who are willing.
I will leave both of you with the gift I have received, which I feel came to be on our call last night…
The “UNCOMMON CONVERSATION” is “NOT” the typical hour long chat that we as a community have become so accustomed to…it is not about stretching our comfort zone or even spurring one to action. Those discussion so typical in every sense of the word that I might even call them “trivial”.
The gift of the uncommon is this…
Is having a willingness to come from a place of “what I don’t know”, a willingness to question “what everyone is so sure to be true”. It is only here in this place of question that we can really begin to embrace the possibility of curiosity.
It is here that we have permission to let go of our bias and our learning and in so doing begin to recognize that “I” and “WE” do have something to say, something to contribute.
Letting go of what “I KNOW I KNOW” is the uncommon, framing my world around “WHAT I KNOW” is all to common and unfortunately very small and limiting.
Thank you Abby and Katherine for allowing me to be a part of your creation.
Namaste,
James Possible
PS: One last thought…
Here’s to the tribe we may never know to be and yet a part we are.
Here’s to the tribe who does speak for me and yet knows of who I am.
Here’s to the tribe who shares all there is to share and yet cares enough not care.
Abby and Katherine because of you this tribe lives…wink!
Hugs and kisses and a big warm smile!