[Manuela van der Glas]

Dear all

It was lovely seeing two new faces joining the conversation.

A heartfelt thank you for all participating in the conversation 🙏🏻

We started out one hour early due to the winter time changes in Europe vs US and ended our conversation roughly on time nevertheless.

The conversation started out with generational / collective trauma and how it is passed on, colonialism vs. indigenous peoples, feudal and capitalist systems / business models and totalitarian governance vs republican and democratic constitutions. This leaning on to the topics that last Saturday were shared.

We figured that ‘size matters’ in the sense of the amount of people able to participate in ‘demos’ democracy (coherently) as well as the dangers of propaganda and ‘attention grabbing’ vs. ability to think.

To conclude: Of essence is our relationship (probably with ourselves) and how we relate to one another as well as to the non-human world. We sensed how challenging it can sometimes be to stay in relation – and how important survival (ie in colonialism and its re-actions) vs. feeling safe ( in relating by listening to, being heard, being seen) is.

Interestingly an article came to be written today morning ( you know, I love writing) with the title:

“Lived healthy governance = the fundament for ‘strategy’. Here’s what we forgot & urgently need to re-member”

I sense – in addition to Iains’ invitation to look for the truth, the beauty and the good, the a.m. article offers an additional approach about how we can create some common ground to ‘live by’. Should you like to read it, please do let me know. I am happy to share the link.

We see each other again on the 6th of December 2024 at 6 pm CET.

Our zoom link is:

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I wish you a joyful month and look very much forward to continuing our conversation then.

with kindness, Manuela

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[Manuela van der Glas]

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