COMMUNITY? Who gives a F*@!? - Are we moving from “we” to “me”?

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We don’t have to tell you. The world is increasingly polarised and binary. It’s full of strong opinions and cancel culture. We’re in the middle of some truly terrifying global conflicts and there have been radical upsets in the politics and governance of many countries.

At the same time, we wonder if we are witnessing an ORSC Community - and a wider culture - that might be playing it safe.

Not long ago, our ORSC Community was thriving, working together in many formations, and doing brave world work, including with the Deep Democracy tool/process.

Designed specifically to address strong opinions, entrenched ideas and conflictual stuckness, the Deep Democracy process is a way to move beyond who is doing and saying what to whom to find out what is trying to happen.

These conversations are complex and sometimes messy.

Yet ORSCers keen to practice and learn once took the Deep Democracy process to the streets of South London after the London riots in 2011, they also facilitated lively conversations in our own community about capitalism and Brexit, and they took the process into UK prisons to create understanding and empathy between prison officers and prisoners through a deep democracy dialogue.

Come join us on 17th September at 5pm UK time for a provocative conversation about community to dig into these types of questions.

As an experiment, we will have two events happening concurrently - one virtually with two ORSCers in South Africa and The Netherlands new to the process and keen to learn and practice, and one in person in London with two seasoned ORSC Faculty - also keen to learn and practice.

We will start off together in a hybrid formation to set context for this experiment. Then we will run two separate processes - one virtual and one in person. And then we will come together at the end to see what we have learned and what the pros and cons were of each platform for this process.

Virtual systems coaches

In-person systems coaches

This is an invitation to experiment, play and learn the power and complexity of this amazing tool/process.

Come and join us!!