MOMENTAUFNAHMEN: The eye of the needle

 Hello xx, 

good to see you yesterday! Thank you for the nice conversation, many interesting insights, it helps me to get a better understanding of the xx context. 

Some thoughts I have to share. You decide how far they are relevant or where you want to take them.

In our first check in, xx brought up the image of 'moving the needle', which kind of resonates with the 3 focus topics from the breakouts. An image and question that popped up in my head as a response was: What are we doing with the needle? What is in our power to do? I recently read an article about 'moving through the eye of the needle' and I believe we all are just at this crossroads at the moment, where there is an opening and we see it all, but the window is small. Maybe the question shouldn't be 'How do we broaden the window?', but much more 'What of our baggage do we have to leave behind to fit through the opening?' And, hand in hand with that, What's essential, what's continuing, what's important? And this in, and together with as many different contexts as we can imagine. 

I believe that, by now, we have a proper set of visions of what's on the other side of this opening, we sense the potential - but linking it to the conversations we had in another breakout, even we often lack the capacity to let this new reality unfold, to fit through the window ourselves.  Today, on my morning walk, I observed nature getting ready to blossom. Trees have already formed all the new leaves and petals, but they still hide in buds, informed by the many seasons before and by the current context that makes them wait a little longer. It is cold, there is not enough energy to unfold yet and start into another part of the cycle.

So what is a first bold move we can take to drop some baggage AND create more capacity to do so, both for ourselves and our environments? How can we bring more warmth? 

Another metaphor that links to this that is related to the whitepaper and what to do with it: Are we fixing our ideas as if we would pin a butterfly on a desk of a scientist? How can we bring the butterfly back to the meadow? How do we bring the ideas into places where they can directly interact with the contexts they live in? What does it actually need to fill them with life and how do they change when we do so? 

I am wondering: Do we want to spread dead ideas or explore how we want to live together? And what is it we want the attention for? 

Enough nature metaphors for today, I hope you have a joyful second conversation today.

Much appreciation for this amazing & brave space!

Looking forward to the next one,

Sophie