Below is the next part of the commentary on my presentation to the national SOFiA conference .....and here again is the link to the full presentation: http://prezi.com/bq9cuhninz0f/awakening-faith-in-an-alternative-future/
The use of U as a metaphor for a journey of presence, suggests there are different practices at different stages of the journey. Different authors have divided the U into different segments. I tend to explore the U as four separate sets of practices. For this presentation I named those sets of practices (in order around the U) as:
- Appreciating ourselves as individuals, what we have to give and what we sense and feel in our surroundings
- Immersing ourselves in the world – seeking the perspectives of others so that our perspectives don’t colonise others’
- Co-working and co-creating to come up with creative solutions to the problems that confront us.
- Taking small scale actions (prototypes) that can be tried and improved, removed or updated in further iterations….
As I delivered the presentation I concentrated on some contemporary practices that bring life to these segments. However I also pointed out several traditional practices (from religious contexts) that were designed to take people on this U shaped journey (even if some of that original sense of those practices may have been lost as they became rote).
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