I’ll cut and paste the description of the talk:

Real Teams for Non-Profits and Other Organizations

Self-Organizing Teams are the new paradigm for collaborative learning and leadership. Eliminate hierarchical systems and replace them with truly democratic models of working together. We look at a family, a village, and a community as a team where everyone has gifts to share. TrackersTEAMS principles come from a place you would not expect, the high-tech world of software development. Truly innovative software developers leave hierarchy behind and celebrate getting work done well and quickly with common effort. They call this model Agile Teamwork. With the blessings of our elder and internationally renowned team consultant Diana Larsen, we have combined the awareness of ecology with agile teamwork principles for a highly effective way of getting things done. We call it Natural Agile Teams. TrackersTEAMS helps you foster sustainability in both learning and working. As we work through our year we take on core routines of facilitation and find that coming together generates better communication and healthier results. While many models sound great on a whiteboard or flip chart, Natural Agile Teams yields results tested by some of the most successful collaborative entrepreneurs and companies today.

Check out the event listing on Friday, May 30th, and you’ll find it: http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php/projects/vbc8/workshops

Totally! Adorno speaks on this a lot…
and a lot of people see morality and ethics as a sort of compass, a navigation mechanism for their journey through life. But when you think about the fact that these are social constructs, we look like animals circling a pen.

Genius! Poetry, in fact.

Yes, morality and ethics that don’t take into account the power and demands of the moment, not only interfere, but stand fundamentally in opposition to Life. I do believe indigenous moral systems exist that embrace the dictates of the moment. But the only way to get back to these, for ourselves, lies through abandoning artificiality and the obsession with looking to an authority for direction.

Totally! Adorno speaks on this a lot…
and a lot of people see morality and ethics as a sort of compass, a navigation mechanism for their journey through life. But when you think about the fact that these are social constructs, we look like animals circling a pen.
I’ll share a story that my housemate told me.

He had a friend, Jeremy, who was going through this strange period of life where he was “watching Fight Club all the time and not sleeping much”. One afternoon he was sitting at a red light at a busy street in West Olympia. And he got this sudden, uncontrollable urge to just slam on the gas. It built, and built…..and he gunned it….feeling the sort of crazy wisdom, an exhilarating, divine inspiration….
And T-boned a very large white SUV.
And then the feeling of doom set in. The woman got out of the drivers seat and said she didn’t think she was injured. But she wanted to have an X-ray to make sure nothing was out of place. There wasn’t too much damage on the car either.
So she goes and gets an Xray. And this is what happened. They found a rapidly growing malignant tumor in some obscure place in her torso, that would not have been detectable by any other means. They operated immediately, because waiting anymore could very likely have meant a death sentence.
And she was operated on, and is in good health.
And Jeremy….his parents bought him a brand new car soonafter. For no obvious reason.

So the moral of the story is that he could have listened to social convention and NOT slammed on the gas pedal at the red light. Morality would have said you shouldn’t needlessly cause car accidents.
And then there’s the universe speaking and acting through us, which requires intimacy with the crazy wisdom it carries. Morality, ethics…they could potentially interfere with that.
And thus I pledge allegiance to no side of the game, only dedicating myself to the Web of Life and the spiritual ecology we all embody.

You just use everything the dreamer says. Paradoxes, exceptions, contradictions, all of those count as part of the dream language - your shiny clean dumpster would stand out as a negation of your metaphor of a normal dumpster, which would help you figure out the thing in your waking life that it refers to. Yasee? I always want to know about your experiences with dumpsters, and we start there.

If you gave me an encyclopedia or textbook definition of a dumpster, now I couldn’t do anything with that, because it wouldn’t have anything to do with your personal metaphors. I run into that problem a lot, including when I interview myself!

Thank you for the thousand congratulations.

Keep up the great work.

Curt

I too absolutely CELEBRATE what you have given your son. A thousand congratulations.