andrew markell
intro’d to Andrew via Gunther‘s post..
@goonth
@beccanalia believe what you want. This is what we’re doing about it -> medium.com/training-the-m…
We can stubbornly hold on to the old laws that govern a liberal democracy, or we can create new ones that will support a true civic engagement model for democracy.
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First, we connect the breaking down and collapse of familiar institutional elements such as financial and educational systems, monetary policies and political platforms as a welcome and necessary consequence of the systemic entropy found within the current monocultural paradigm. Creative collapse, within an evolutionary framework, is a good thing. It means we are evolving.
a nother way.. systemic change that is deep enough.. for all of us.. aka: not part\ial..
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The point is to give people the tools to make or create different choices.
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
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So the first thing we must talk about when we speak of participation is training — a fundamental requirement absent in the liberal worldview.
training..? life is the training/prep/whatever..
let’s do this first: free art-ists.
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In a civic democracy, participants *earn the right to speak by training; to see reality coherently, to build health into the body, to understand that the world works systemically and to privilege local, applied and tested knowledge over abstract theoretical knowledge. In a civic democracy, self-mastery is prized above all other skills and certifications. And this self-mastery, by definition, encompasses the four domains of cognitive, physical, emotional and imaginative or incorporeal (what some might consider ‘spiritual’) skill acquisition.
*oh my
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One important thing to note about the type of training we offer is that it builds up the nervous system of the individual.
sounds like detox..
perhaps detox though.. less complicated..more accessible.. to everyone.. today..
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. to facil the thing we’ve not yet tried: the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
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democracy is the joining together of allto promote the diverse goods of all.
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For the public sphere to matter, to create genuine participation, it would have to connect to precisely what it resists, which is real human power, (bi)partisanship, risk-taking and the ability to handle local issues with grace and clarity.
energy\ness
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In truth, civic engagement will never rely on Facebook pages, Google searches, or Twitter feeds for human interaction and community-centric creativity. Those capacities and emerging literacies exist in the minds, imaginations and hearts of people. Literacies of the imagination, as we like to call them, can only be fostered through deepened interactions in physical spaces and within places where nature can bring human beings back to their true essence.
rev of everyday life.. a nother way
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We mentioned atop this piece that ‘fixing’ the current system is futile. To be more specific about that point, what we see happening in this transitional approach is accosting and improving upon certain elements in the current system for the (co)creation of a new one.
So to briefly summarize, things like term limits, voting reform and policy thresholds would find new life within localized contingencies, which in turn would affect how the system works at the national or federal level.
perhaps we be brave enough to disengage from what’s irrelevant. from all the manufactured consent ness. perhaps we reimagine our broken feedback loop.
ie: redefine decision making.. make consensus irrelevant – public consensus always oppresses someone.. et al
the post ends with this 2014 talk by Andrew:
Emptiness and Power: A Geometry for Breakthrough Change | TEDxSacramentoSalon
what if we were to re imagine the things/people we love to hate..
what if i told you you could get beyond heroes/villians.. right/wrong.. success/failure.. an entire diff reality could open up for you
change you seek has very little to do with external world..
to be clear… will be challenging and deceptively simple..
w/discipline and sustained perceptions.. find core truths.. a clearing.. out of which and entirely new field of possibilities.. a revers process
i’m not going to teach you anything about what you want.. i will teach you: emptiness and power
what most people take to be power is the illusion of power.. our assumptions under close scrutiny .. collapse.. that estrangement/isolation sticks..
clarity of vision and power almost always emerge in a landscape marked by uncertainty/unknown.. place of exile.. where everything goes upside down..
relationship between wisdom and experience of collapse/dispair.. that neg emotions which we try to avoid..
extremely seductive to focus all our efforts for change on external world..
way to get to wisdom is by developing a partnership with the experience of estrangement/despair/uncertainty.. the way/path to leadership/power must cross thru thresholds at times terrifying..
1990s – working with gangsters..
in time of uncertainty.. no greater certainty/possibility than arrival of invincible hero.. and no this night.. your hero is dead..
in these time of unmatched complexity/uncertainty.. there are no solutions.. the hero is dead.. that is the paradox i have been pursuing..
disruption is an internal art.. that place of emptiness is the power we need…
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find/follow Andrew:
http://exileleadership.com/about/team/
Andrew has been working with leaders around the globe for the last twenty years that are acting in bold and courageous ways to transform their organizations and impact the world.
During this time he has worked with top executives and founders in publically traded and family held companies, executive directors of NGO’s and non-profits, government and university leaders, and has taught dozens of courses at the university level. Andrew began his career working with hard-core gangsters on the west coast for a decade beginning in 1995 at a time when violence and urban mayhem was prolific. This body of work gives him an edge in high intensity corporate and organizational settings and allows him to see situations from unique and important vantage points.
Andrew’s learning background has prepared him to engage complex and ambiguous projects. He has studied and lived in a wide diversity of cultures around the world and has been trained by exceptional teachers. Some of these teachers come from traditional backgrounds in the areas of philosophy, religion, facilitation, innovation and strategic development. Others from non-traditional sources: Tibetan monks while living in the Himalaya and Nepal, a Native-American medicine woman and her family for 12 years and I’ Chuan martial arts training for more than twenty years.
The perspective Andrew brings to every project is grounded in the insight that this era in time represents a threshold historical moment. The legacy of our collective planetary leadership will mark the future in ways that are almost incomprehensible in their magnitude and importance, and there are tools available to help.
Andrew speaks English and Spanish. His Nepali and Chinese need a month overseas to rekindle, some years ago he could read Sanskrit and Hebrew, and he is currently learning Portuguese.
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