A project I’ve been working on is called We Are In.Tuition.
We Are In.Tuition is a creative residency, dojo, retreat, open value network and fieldbook. It’s the result of 15 months of dojos / gatherings jamming on a loosely defined field of shared practice: intuition and mutual care in leadership, innovation and the future of work.
In February this year, we spent a weekend at Cowra’s The Corridor Project, a rural Australian Woolshed to explore the question- what does it mean to be intuitive, trusting in flow, emergence and embodied wisdom when living in patriarchal structures?
We have since, created an Open Value Network (OVN) to practice and support new and ancient ways of being and livelihood. We are a group of fringe dwelling academics and creative practitioners.
When I designed the playshop series I pulled out a big sheet of paper and wrote down all the methods, exercises, ideas and practices that had inspired me recently. As a result, our workshop became a bootlegged remix of all kinds of ways of working, and I thought it’s useful to list them here:
- Coyote Pedagogy – Jon Young’s 8 Shields
- Emergence Pedagogy
- The Art of Hosting
- Possibility Management
- Non-Violent Communication – Marshall Rosenberg
- Dragon Dreaming
- Value Polarities – Daniel Barcay
- Social Presencing Theatre – Otto Scharmer
- Theory U – Otto Scharmer
- Open Space Technology
- Co-Design
- Co-Ethnography
- Collective Impact
- Open Value Network
- Dojo Principles
- Deep Ecology – Joanna Macy, Arne Naess
- Positionality – Rebecca Freeth
- Serendipity Management – Inkinen Jaako
- Taboos and Authority – Arnold Mindel
- Hidden Commitments / Immunity to Change – Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
- Epic Storytelling and Hero’s Journey
- Aboriginal Lore
- Political Literacy
- Zen
- Conversational Intelligence
- Satsang
- Coaching
- Magic and Shamanism
While I was wondering whether this wild mix would make for a confusing retreat, it turned out to be just fabulous. Everyone said that we learned and did “sooo much, but it didn’t feel that way”.
A year into the project, we’re now raising money to help design and print a fieldbook we made as a result of our explorations in Cowra earlier this year. We’re inviting you to pre-purchase a fieldbook through our crowdfunding campaign. We have also pulled together range of “rewards” to suit a variety of tastes and budgets as a way to say thank you for your kind donation.
This think-and-do’ fieldbook will be produced under Creative Commons licence, to be shared and remixed by anyone!
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