More Notes from "Radical Inclusivity"

Janine Harris sent me her notes from Jean Richardson's "Radical Inclusivity" session. She captured a bunch of things that I missed in my notes.

• Social Exploration a la Burning Man

• Expanding our minds beyond dualistic thinking

• Why care about consciousness?

• Collaboration leads to higher states of consciousness

• Within the tech community, there is consciousness hacking ("co-hacking")

• Meet ups in Palo, Alto, NYC, etc.

• Concepts been around since the 1920's

• Ken Wilber's "Integral Consciousness"

• Speculative realism

• Within the software industry

• Can do experiments around consciousness raising (Agile transformations)

• Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) - it's hard to see the whole system

• TED Talk by Jill Bolte Taylor "My Stroke of Insight"

• Poetry helps us deal with dualism by saturating [sic] with metaphor

• Metaphor can help teams move forward

• Bonding, collaboration

• We can access genius and talents when we let go of labels and roles

• People are not as separate as they think they are

• If people fear connection, they may not be connected themselves [internally]

• When "trying" it [achieving a higher state of consciousness] doesn't work

• Can trigger negativity in others when you dance around the edge of the wormhole

• Sometime people don't come "out" of the wormhole, the real world can be tough when "soft"

• "Re-entry" from Jim and Michele McCarthy's "Software for Your Head"

• Hacking consciousness

• Meditation is only one form of being on the "inside"

• Conscious hacking chapter in Portland

• Notice when it's not happening and try to correct it out of the system

• Practices that build more conscious software and developers

• Pairing, TDD, refactoring

• Mobbing (respect, kindness, consideration)

• These could be considered "crude" in a "primitive" sort of way

• Today, we have the raw materials

• We expect that these tools will evolve

• What could raise consciousness as a team?

• Assertive, respectful, deeply engaged in conflict, not avoiding conflict

• Books and other resources

• David Hawkins "The eye of the I"

• "Magical States of Consciousness"

• Move away from the simple truth to the complex truth

• "The Field" by MacTaggart

• "The Way of the Heart"

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David Whitlock
Adjunct Lecturer
Portland State University