How might we...
- Practice/Emergence: How might we practice the five elements?
- How might we share stories of experiencing harm in networked governance contexts that are grounded in emotions (rather than specifics of people and place)?
- How might we share stories of experiencing harm in networked governance contexts that are grounded in emotions (rather than specifics of people and place)?
Hypothesis
If we ground stories in feelings/emotions (rather than person or place), then we might end up with something more generative/creative.
Design
On the next call (or maybe as homework?):
- Have everyone think about a particular instance of harm in a network: right before it happened, during, after, long after
- People can write, meditate, draw about it
- Notice where you’re feeling it in your body at each of those times
- Pair share
- What learning happened?
Metrics
Success
- Min success: We learn something about harm and healing in networked governance
- We felt grounded in something tangible
- We protect people’s confidence
Failure
- No one wants to do this
- People feel harm
- We share experiences without accountability mechanisms
Learnings
- Can’t talk about harm without trust
- Rooting in emotions tends to unfairly burden POC – having to rehash the emotional impact doesn’t have the sort of impact that makes it worth it; anything when you’re centering emotion requires a certain degree of trust and i don’t know if this is the right context; of course we’re going to ground in some experience of the past and this is new
Decisions
What we want to do first is define governance
Questions
- What do we mean by governance?
- What would it take to build trust to actually share personal stories around harm in governance with each other?