She sat up and said, “Look, forget everything I’ve been teaching you about working with governments and bureaucracies.” I looked down at her, shocked. I said, “Now you tell me this, now.” She sounded kind of funny also. She said, “Yes. I’m lying here being an anthropologist on my own dying, a fascinating experience. There’s absolutely no hierarchy to it.” She said, “I realize that, if we’re going to grow and bring our time, it’s a question of people getting together in teaching/learning communities, growing together, doing your kinds of processes, Jean, other people’s processes, whatever it takes to grow together in body, mind and spirit. Then on the basis of this deepening, this broadening, this growing understanding, this use of more capacities, knowing what they have to do to go out into the world and to make the difference, to respond to whatever has to be happening, like a light at a corner where people have been getting killed or creating places where women are safe to putting in the green ecology in companies.” She said, “Whatever it takes, but you’ve got to do this from inside out, and together, if people are working together in these teaching/learning
communities, then the world will thrive and grow.”
So in my own small way, miniscule way, I would put it, wherever I am, I try to leave ongoing
teaching/learning communities, because if people are just looking at this overwhelming task of
their own unique self over against the world, they’re going to give up. A lot of people don’t,
but many people do. But if you have a community — now, this is not a psychotherapeutic
community. I must say this.
Jennifer: Like a commune.
Jean: Otherwise you get eclectic carnivores who take off all the energy, but if it is a growth
community, dedicated to social artistry — bring in the artistry that a good artist — his or her
skills and talent and focus and passion and stick‐to‐it‐ness and willingness to fail and, above all,
love of what they’re doing. If you apply it to society — and this time the canvas is not the
music, paper or the physical canvas. The canvas is society itself, and that’s why I’ve created
this whole field called social artistry. We’re all over the world, training people in their own
development in the light of social change, but ultimately it goes back to this: people forming
their own teaching/learning communities.
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