This morning I was ready to scrap the idea of the Metafari. Although it had given myself so much, I felt serious doubt about the idea, and about the possibility of getting people to join.
But a mail from across the Atlantic changed it all in a few minutes. Some wise words gave a new light to the idea, and brought the passion out again. Yes this is something of value, and yes, we are looking for journey comrades!
We are, I think, moving into a time when organizational structures will be much less rigid and fixed than ever before, and they will keep changing with the participants.
I think perhaps the essence of networks, for the future, is in the relationships between people, and (as Harrison Owen says) "holding the space" for the relationships at those various levels. So I think what you are doing, what a number of us are doing, is pioneering a new way of being together in organizational structures, that is very creative and also very challenging.
We are having to imagine new relationships and new structures, without a lot of direction or pattern to go on.
It is like that wonderful image Margaret Wheatley offers, in one of her books, of how the old rusting machinery is sinking into the ground and the green grass is growing up all around it and soon covers over the machinery. That green grass is springing up everywhere, in no particular pattern, but it creates a pattern. The question is, "how do you organize grass?" :) And maybe that is a silly question - maybe the question is how do we make the space available for the grass to grow?
Best regards,
Rosemary Cairns
Internationa Association of Facilitators
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