Toward RoanokeFood Security

Co-sensing: opening up and becoming one with the world outside

Hunter Hartley - Presenter

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"Co-Sensing" and the “U” Journey

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"Toward Roanoke Food Security" - Co-sensing (an overview)

• My "intention statement":• Current situation: What key challenge or question is the group facing?• Stakeholders: How might others view this situation?• Intention: What future are we trying to create?• Learning threshold: What do we need to let-go of? What do we need to learn?• Help: "Where" or in "what" do we need input or help?

• Stillness

• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

• Generative dialogue

• Closing remarks

• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

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My "intention statement" - The Current Situation

What key challenge or question is the group facing?

Understanding and coordinating efforts to effectively address food security involves having an appreciation for systems thinking interwoven in our approach.

Without such an appreciation even one's best efforts will be limited to addressing symptoms arising as systemic issues related to food insecurity.

In this same regard, the quality of interpersonal relationships in relation to systems thinking is often overlooked. Specifically, how does the mode of communication a group chooses to adopt going to influence the quality of that group's efforts? Without a continuing effort to address the quality of collective attention, outcomes merely reflect a perpetuation of failures/blind spots unconsciously embedded within the individual(s)/group.

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My "intention statement" - Stakeholders

How might others view this situation?

The quality of mindfulness from which this group acts is subsequently reflected in our respective efforts and visible in the interpersonal relations we sustain with the community.

In respect to our efforts to address food security, others will view the efficacy of our work as it addresses the underlying systemic issues. Does our collaboration represent an effective, high quality effort to address not just one or two aspects of food security, but all interrelated issues from which Roanoke's food insecurity arises?

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My "intention statement" - Intention

What future are we trying to create?

We’re aspiring to create a future in which Roanoke’s overall design functions as a resilient "ecosystem”, capable of adaptively responding to “outside” influences typically occurring beyond the scope or realm of managerial control.

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My "intention statement" - Learning threshold

What do we need to let go of and learn?

Because this is not easy work and the reflective process itself appropriates the questions, “Who is my Self” and “What is my Work”, we must be open and willing to acknowledge possible deficits in what we think we “know” in order to better address relational “gaps” in the broader (communal) context. For these reasons, we subsequently enlist this exercise as a means of better informing our collective experience with an emerging future.

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My "intention statement" - Help

"Where" or in "what" do we need help?

We need help in understanding the quality of our efforts. We have the appropriate tools available to help us become a highly functional group capable of mindfully addressing the interrelated aspects of food security. We must however, recognize the needfulness for this higher quality engagement and subsequently practice this form of meaning-making in our relational interactions.

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● Listen to your heart: Connect with your heart to what you're hearing.

● Listen to what resonates: What images, metaphors, feelings and gestures come up for you that capture the essence of what you heard?

Stillness

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● Each coach shares the images/ metaphors, feelings and gestures that came up.

● Having listened to all coaches, the moderator reflects back on what s/he heard.

Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures (Open Will)

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● All reflect on the moderator’s remarks and move into a generative dialogue on how these observations can offer new perspectives for better serving the group’s situation and journey.

● Go with the flow of the dialogue. Build on each others ideas.

Generative Dialogue

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● By Coaches:

● By Moderator: How do I now see our situation and way forward?

● Thank you: An expression of genuine appreciation to each other.

Closing Remarks

Toward RoanokeFood Security

Co-sensing: opening up and becoming one with the world outside

Hunter Hartley - Presenter