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ReGenerOsa Six Convesations. A Witnessing Story.

Part 2 - ReGenerOsa Six Convesations. A Witnessing Story

As part of my 2.5% gift to support ReGenerOsa I am very excited to share Part Two of my Witnessing Story for the Six Conversation journey the group has embarked on. If you are keen to dive into the first 4 conversations - from Invitation to Dissent - please check out

Part 1 here⁠

Part Two of the Witnessing Story will take us into the second leg of the conversation journey; the Commitment conversation and Gifts conversation.

Brought into existence by

Peter Block⁠

, these community-building conversations give meaningful space to explore accountability and commitment to one-self and the collective. The Six Conversations are:

Invitation conversation

Possibility conversation

Ownership conversation

Dissent conversation

Commitment conversation

Gifts conversation

I have harvested all 6 conversations in this ‘extended movie length’

Video Story⁠

(2 hours 25 min). You can use the sections to navigate the story to only dive into certain parts of the conversation series. 👣

🧍🏼Standing in Commitment

Ben lovingly opened the conversation with Poem ‘

Ritual to Read to Each Other⁠

’ by William Stafford.

When we converse about commitment, it is about making promises to peers that come from a place of generosity, where we give something for free and have the willingness to make something that is independent from any expectations of return. It is a promise for the sake of a larger purpose, not for personal return, or approval from others or oneself. It is coming from the sense of this is what I am inspired to do and this is my commitment. Our promise is not contingent on the actions of others. It allows us to stand in one’s own agency and bring one’s own possibility, and love to a community. The action around making a promise invokes the action and the change.

For closing the Commitment conversation the group brought a collective story into existence through emerging storytelling (

6 min Video Highlight⁠

There was this beautiful process called six conversations that brings community together.

And two people who had spent many years facilitating and being in them would love to offer them as a gift.

They gave time, energy and love. A commitment to help people from another part of the world.

And they discovered friendship. And love and commitment to each other. And the language didn't really matter. Words didn't really matter that much. It was the frequency of what they were bathing in together.

And we carry these gifts like a candle, wherever we go, the groups we meet and share the light and bring it back, whenever we meet again in this community.

And these gifts were received with open hands, open hearts, and open minds.

And all of us to step into this beautiful dream for a better future for the Osa Peninsula. Building collaboration that is deeply rooted in the generosity that the place is offering.

The generosity of the land and of the people coming together. And the passion that is palpable, makes even the hardest work something that we want to do, and it becomes something beautiful.

And then the small candle marched through this beautiful land with all these gifts and sparked more candles and more people came in joining the cause towards the regeneration of this beautiful land.

The End

You can witness the group standing in commitment in this

45 min Video Story⁠

🌺 Tending the Garden of Gifts

For this last conversation on this journey the group was welcomed with the song

We Can Work it Out⁠

by The 4 Seasons and/or The Beatles. They started with tending the garden of gifts, convened possibilities in small groups, and circled into new beginnings by tuning into what an invitation conversation could look and feel like.

With the beautiful poem ‘

Los Gansos Salvajes Wild Geese⁠

’ by Mary Oliver, Ben invited the group into the Gift Conversation, lovingly translated by Allison.

What gifts have you received from participating in this process?

While there were many heartfelt gifts being received and shared, this metaphor of appreciation by Pamela evoked a deep resonance in me.

An image of a narrowing in a creek comes up, when suddenly this expansive thing is going through a narrowing and the water rushes, and it's not like it's being forced but it's being concentrated and so there was all of this energy that happens, and it seems like the six conversations kind of produce the conditions for this kind of energetic exchange to take place while we're going through this place and tumbling over the rocks and tumbling around together and mixing up. And it just allows for possibilities of understanding of exchange that you get to in a lot of these other spaces in Earth Regenerators anyway, but what a gentle and impactful thing that concentrated space gives rise to.

Knowing that water resonates with the environment it flows through, we need to find deep compassion in our hearts, and share our love and gratitude with the water. 💙

After listening to the gifts received, Ben invited the group to sit with the Possibility question ‘What possibilities are alive for you at this moment?’ in silence before heading into small group circles.

With all these gifts and possibilities shared, the group closed this circle of conversations. The end is the beginning, and so Ben shared more insights of how a potential new invitation conversation could be formulated from Peter Block’s book Community: The Structure of Belonging.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together. It is also a fundamental way of being in community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that the future can be created without having to force it or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self‑interest.

Please immerse yourself in the many gifts shared and received by everyone in this

1 hour 7 min Video Story⁠

Special thanks to Dita and Ben for facilitating, Alison and Dita for their beautiful gift of translating English into Spanish, and Tricia for her courage to bring this wonderful conversation series into existence. Witnessing the unfolding of this beautiful process from afar, and allowing me to sit with the questions for self-inquiry has provoked a new sense of awareness in me around what truly matters when being in community.

With love and gratitude to you all.

Kath 💚

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August 15, 2022

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