[Ailist] Re: An article by David Cooperrider on BAWB: Aw is What Moves Us Forward

[Lionel Boxer]

Interesting that when you google "Awe is What Moves Us Forward" this
site comes up first:
http://halmanogue.blogspot.com/2007/10/yea-im-in-awe.htm

It is about Joseph Campbell - the blog cites (implying these are
Campbell's words):
" Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life
seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is
negativism to life. We are not there until we can say "yea" to it all.
To take a righteous attitude toward anything is to denigrate it. Awe is
what moves us forward."

I have read a few of Joseph Campbell.  Is anyone else on the ailist
familiar with his work?


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Graduate School of Business
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>>> <AnneLondon at aol.com> 10/12/07 2:00 AM >>>

In a message dated 8/12/07 19:37:56, maureenmckenna at sympatico.ca writes:
> every now and again I go searching on the AI commons.. and today I
came 
> across an article that David Cooperrider wrote in 2007 on Business as
an Agent 
> of World Benefit:  "Awe is What Moves Us Forward".  
> 

Mo, 

Thanks for the reminder of the metaphor of Indra's Net. 

It is a metaphor I remember David bringing to conversations when a group
of 
us got together to talk about lifting AI up to the world – this led to
the 
creation of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting (AIC LLC).   The vestiges of
those 
early conversations are still there for me in AIC's Purpose and
Principles which 
can be seen at http://www.aiconsulting.org/principles.htm.

I am also finding the image of Indra's Net powerful in conversations
about 
whole systems change with consultants and business leaders. This
metaphor for a 
web of relationships that sparkle, flourish and amplify highlights that 
whatever we do has an impact on others even if we can't see it directly.
The sense 
of awe in that seems to place even more need to be mindful about what we
do and 
where we focus our attention. Conversations can then be about: What is
it we 
really need to do here to help relationships sparkle, flourish and
amplify? 

Thanks for the opportunity to remember some great conversations!

Anne
ps thanks to everyone for the responses on AI and leadership


Anne Radford
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www.aipractitioner.com
   
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