We invite you to participate in the 2020 New England Gathering, a circle of renewal, reflection, and inspiration in the company of fellow seasoned complexity practitioners and organizational stewards.
If you see yourself in our intentions and concerns, we hope you will join us October 6-9, 2020 in Camden, Maine, USA. An informal, optional evening dinner will take place on Monday the 5th. <Eventbrite link>
Our Intentions:
We carry a longing to connect with a sensed presence that is yet to fully emerge into the world about how human beings lead and organize together. Language to describe it is elusive, though it’s a persistent calling that doesn’t quite go away. We are seekers and stewards of this, and in our journey we wish to find fellow seekers and stewards.
We are interested in a conversation between global senior practitioners experienced operating in high-complexity. We wish to be enriched personally, and also create space for the emergence of something tangible in the world.
We are interested not only in what you know, though how you know it and who you are in that knowledge.
We are interested in having a conversation without public personas, a conversation between our imperfect selves. We are interested in the self that remains when it is just you in solitude.
We are curious and inquisitive. We wish to learn together from both our knowledge and our presence.
We are fun-loving. We wish to create joy and mirth, to be at ease with each other. To share relaxing evenings and the lighter (at times silly!) conversations that come forth.
We take our work seriously, and at times are stressed by it. We wish to renew together, to rejuvenate and replenish.
The New England Gathering is a conversation together that seeks to create space for all of this.
Our Concerns:
We are concerned about scale, and seek to keep the Gathering participation capped at 30 participants for 2020. We will utilize Open Space over the course of the days to enable you to find the conversations you most wish to participate in.
We are concerned about the Gathering thriving over time, and are wary of the fates we have witnessed of passion-driven organizations strained or being undone by conflict of powerful personalities.
We wish these conversations to be a beginning, to bring something tangible, real, and meaningful into the world. We are concerned that instead, the experience will simply fade when the Gathering ends.
In Closing:
We hope you see yourself in this invitation, both the light and the shadows. We hope you are inspired to join us, and are excited to experience the potential of what might happen unfold, together.