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

[Mo McKenna]

Hi Lionel
Great to hear from you - hope you get to Toronto again next year and we can 
get a chance to meet.

Regarding Joseph Campbell - I have read a number of his books and your email 
reminded me of a TV series  "Mythos Series" that I watched on Joseph 
Campbell.  YouTube has intros to the series 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2JnNXnB62I&feature=related.

cheers
Mo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lionel Boxer" <lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au>
To: <AnneLondon at aol.com>; <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>; 
<maureenmckenna at sympatico.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Re: An article by David Cooperrider on BAWB: Awis What 
Moves Us Forward


> 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?
>
>
> Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
> Associate of RMIT University - lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au
> 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
> www.aradford.co.uk
> www.aipractitioner.com
>
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