"Apply self-regulation and accept feedback."
Efficient or resilient systems require noting and correcting inefficient or non-resilient practices.
My old labor cooperative, The Hoedads, ran on Robert's Rules of Order, but also appended to the end of each meeting a session borrowed from anarcho-syndicalist committee work, known as "Crit-Self-Crit." We would each rise in place and air a grievance we had with anyone, or clique, or the whole team, followed by a grievance we had with our own performance. Dialoguing was not permitted; one had to wait one's turn and even then responding to a specific criticism, other than to contribute to a solution, was discouraged. In this way we had time to consider the viewpoint that had been expressed, and perhaps acknowledge the truth in it and rise to the moment, making a public and private commitment to do better for the sake of all. Solidarity is People Care.
1. Ask your site what it wants from you, through close observation and interaction. Watch the seasons and learn.
2. Contemplate what you have seen and learned in a place and state of reflection.
3. Observe what is happening off-site as well, remembering that everything affects all. Here we see smoke from tundra and taiga fires over a thousand miles away. What does this mean for the world? Your region? Your locality? Your site? How should you respond?
4. Check your findings with others and be prepared to discover, in everyone's accumulated wisdom, your mistakes. Freely acknowledge these when they have been confirmed -- this too adds to the pool of knowledge.
In this way, your commitment to Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share will be honed and strengthened, and in your short time in the world you will have made a contribution.
To find out, to examine, to unravel, to penetrate, there must be freedom to listen and freedom to perceive.
-- Krishnamurti
-- Krishnamurti
(To be continued)