Talking Points - Circle Conversations - Philosophy

## This is where all of our conversational work resides

### We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us

The depth of our culture - Dimensionality - Not looking at a flat plane - recognizing that nothing is flat, relationships.

##### Exponential change

Not 123, but 1248 - Kurzweil - relationships are the key - Operating at levels that we can control - CADRE is the solution - It makes us resilient to exponential change - Complexity is a double edged sword

##### How long have we been human

* Modern, sophisticated
* Ice age migrations
* Tool kits
* WE stand on the shoulders

##### Grace of Acceptance

* Humility
* Come to Common Space
* Present in the Moment

##### Cyclical [Iterative] Process

Yin Yang is motion as a 3d or 4 d sphere with/in precession

##### Situational Leadership

Kenneth Blanchard - S:\Johns Stuff\UD&C Business\Management\HUMAN RESOURCES\Blanchard Situational Leadership Color Model.pdf

##### Guilds

* Age of Man: at age 18 transition
* We make mistakes softened by mentors
	+ Learned by being with people

##### Women & Children Oppression \*\*\*

* Gen Z Sex Aversion
* The High Cost of Men's Loneliness
* 1 of 2.2 billion children at risk of mortality as a result of climate change
	+ UNICEF Report

##### Human Impact on the Earth

* We are living in the Anthropocene which means humans have affected everything
* How to Discuss Climate Change
* The role of high-socioeconomic-status people
* We can/do/are having an impact on the earth
	+ Climate Change is Long term
	+ The Road To Hell[1]
	+ Trashing the planet and hiding the money
* Permaculture is about managing the earth for people as long as we do it with earth first
* Climate Crisis
	+ United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
	+ The End of the World for Whom

##### Human Impact on ourselves

* World Land Use
* We are the least healthy since modern civilization started 12,000 years ago
	+ Joanna Macy Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path
* Historically our emotions ran our lives, we needed fight or flight, Not in these times, these circumstances, and we're stuck there!
	+ Democracy and the Road to Tyranny

##### Information Explosion

* Overload,
* Distrust, "Fake News"
* Quality of information

##### The fallacy of Control at a distance

* Be here now! Observe and Interact
* Think global, act local
* Industrial model of growth

##### Science

* Can Science make mistakes?
	+ Earths Iron Core
	+ Wild New Paper Suggests Earth's Tectonic Activity Has an Unseen Source
	+ Importance of Scientific method
* Observation and pattern - Recognition documentation and Time
* The Catholic church started the Scientific Method in Monasteries in the Middle Ages
	+ Science, through the evolution of religion, the keeping of details through time, is an evolving process
	+ Mendel and the Peas
* Religion describes/explains what we don’t / can’t understand
* God and Science are not mutually exclusive.  We can have both.
* Our emotions have taken over
	+ Dunning Kruger Effect

##### Generations / Togetherness \*\*\*

* We are not separate generations
* Acceptance is the key

##### Brave Space

We are not trying to create the answers, we are trying to create a group process that will create the answers.

##### Opinionation

* Opinions are NOT Solutions
* Blah Blah Blah

##### Fit the format of the Message to the Audience

* multiple audiences , multiple formats
	+ books
	+ blogs
	+ Wiki Database
	+ AI