Open to Novelty
We must have light.
Day light, moonlight, phone light, candle lights, spotlights and the like. The lights that naturally occur and that we need change over the course of the day, and night. During a 24 hour period different light-types hand off to each other in a simple, seemlessly quiet collaboration making life possible.
And then there’s guiding lights. At different times for different purposes people come into our lives to teach, to guide and to collaborate to make it true: We must have light.
There’s a we-ness to life. Day becomes night, proving that a certain harmony of elements make it possible to live. When in balance, nature works wonders.
Collaboration is a 21st century skill. Really though, it’s an appeal for us humans to do what nature does, and that is find a way to work in harmony.
If we do not work together, we simply cannot work through all this complexity in the world.
Example: It will take all of us working together, if we are to live sustainably on planet Earth. Climate is clearly out of balance.
Not understanding, lack of clarity and ambiguity are a 21st century norm. Trust-building exercises teach that it’s ok if we are blinded. That’s why together is better, especially now. We need each other, as professionals, as humans.
Blind trust either works in our favor or it does not. It depends on the quality of the team. Will others help, step up, provide some guidance?
If we defer judgment, tolerate the ambiguities and lean into each other, there’s a much better chance of working together and having a better quality of life experience.
Blind trust - it’s not so much the blind leading the blind, where either no one takes action, or someone randomly takes an action. Actually, that might be part of the problem today. Rather, a blind trust, the kind that highlights confidence in each other, is what creates the opportunity for collaboration to occur.
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Just like every person, every light has a special purpose.
Tanya facilitates creative process for problem solving. She’s currently at Wings of Change, a vocational hospitality school and hotel the remote tropical island of Nosy Be, Madagascar.
Wings has the dual mission of lifting students out of poverty through education and impacting the community.
Since opening in 2021, two hundred students have graduated from the program with an 84% success rate of professional employment.
Clean up Nosy Be is a community project in problem and solution finding to plastics and waste in the environment. #sauvonslasplanete, #cleanupnb
www.wingsofchange.co
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