Super nice 🌿 climate change can get simpler in a way I find when we come back to the body and the inner work. Great place to work from to create lasting positive change individually and collectively.
A beautiful read. Here on the prairies of Western Canada, we are still waiting for the seventies to show their Spring warmth and regenerative breath. How true that clarity arrives when we step away or change the angle of our lens. I saw life more fully when I stepped into a (Buckminster) Fuller perspective as a young social worker in the 70s. I experienced the transformation from triad to tetrad frameworks; from a stable 3 to a wholistic 4. I experienced the simple pulse of 3 angles going to a minimum whole pattern of 6 interconnected relationship angles. I started with 3 dimensions in my '60s study of social work, introductions to systems theory, defined then as a set of interacting parts, and the triad framework: person-interaction-environment, known in social work circles as PIE. This framework was with me for the first decade of my career. However, I was perplexed by an unanswered question of how many interacting parts are needed to make a system. The answers were wide-ranging and mostly equivocal. Nothing definite other than at least 2. My 1st definitive answer came in the '70s after reading (or at least trying to read and comprehend) Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics. His answer was unequivocal. A minimum of 4 ...the geometric tetrahedron ... the molecular structure of the carbon atom ...the essence of life. If Fuller was right, what was the missing 4th in my triad framework? It was not a quick revelation, but when it came, the missing 4th in social work's PIE triad was "validators" (beliefs, norms, attitudes) that interact with and (often) govern the other 3, positively and/or negatively. It was also a missing 4th in the triads of our personal lives. It would be interesting to see what might be added to your stable triad frameworks for them to also be holistic tetrads. What changes, additional clarity might surface if there was a holistic 4th in Sex, God, Money & ?, a 12-week journey into the relationship patterns and embedded beliefs in, around, and between them.
I absolutely love all of this. Thank you for giving us a glimpse of such a beautiful weekend. I've been thinking about you since you headed south on Wednesday. I am loving how this is all unfolding and can't wait to hear more.
Now to decide which quote to pull for the restack. There are some real gems here, love 🥰
Super nice 🌿 climate change can get simpler in a way I find when we come back to the body and the inner work. Great place to work from to create lasting positive change individually and collectively.
A beautiful read. Here on the prairies of Western Canada, we are still waiting for the seventies to show their Spring warmth and regenerative breath. How true that clarity arrives when we step away or change the angle of our lens. I saw life more fully when I stepped into a (Buckminster) Fuller perspective as a young social worker in the 70s. I experienced the transformation from triad to tetrad frameworks; from a stable 3 to a wholistic 4. I experienced the simple pulse of 3 angles going to a minimum whole pattern of 6 interconnected relationship angles. I started with 3 dimensions in my '60s study of social work, introductions to systems theory, defined then as a set of interacting parts, and the triad framework: person-interaction-environment, known in social work circles as PIE. This framework was with me for the first decade of my career. However, I was perplexed by an unanswered question of how many interacting parts are needed to make a system. The answers were wide-ranging and mostly equivocal. Nothing definite other than at least 2. My 1st definitive answer came in the '70s after reading (or at least trying to read and comprehend) Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics. His answer was unequivocal. A minimum of 4 ...the geometric tetrahedron ... the molecular structure of the carbon atom ...the essence of life. If Fuller was right, what was the missing 4th in my triad framework? It was not a quick revelation, but when it came, the missing 4th in social work's PIE triad was "validators" (beliefs, norms, attitudes) that interact with and (often) govern the other 3, positively and/or negatively. It was also a missing 4th in the triads of our personal lives. It would be interesting to see what might be added to your stable triad frameworks for them to also be holistic tetrads. What changes, additional clarity might surface if there was a holistic 4th in Sex, God, Money & ?, a 12-week journey into the relationship patterns and embedded beliefs in, around, and between them.
I absolutely love all of this. Thank you for giving us a glimpse of such a beautiful weekend. I've been thinking about you since you headed south on Wednesday. I am loving how this is all unfolding and can't wait to hear more.
Now to decide which quote to pull for the restack. There are some real gems here, love 🥰