Author: Tenneson Woolf

It’s my friend Roq that brought me to story,
so as to make meaning beneath the surface of things.
Well, Roq, and Robert Bly. And Michael Meade.
And all the others that encourage the mythopoetic.

Today, as part of Wander School, I’ll offer a story to those participating.
Three Feathers — rooted in a Grimm’s fairy tale.
There’s a few things I’ll share as context for this group of good folk
to get us started.

1. Encouragement to think of us as learning village.
For these 90 minutes, this is so much what we are, the six of us.

2. Invitation to place ourselves in a story, the tale.
With its context, it’s morals, it’s dangers, it’s surprises.

3. Nudging to notices ourselves in our stories.
Yes, the circumstances of known or not yet known relevance in waking life
that are sparked by the tale.

4. Reminder that “Circle is our friend.”
It’s how we listen with one another, rather than over top of one another.
It’s how we listen to Life moving

5. Loop it all back — “Learning Village is our friend.”
People in open wonder together is balm.

Jump in. As inspired. For the village. For the friendship.

It’s art that isn’t about the art.
It’s thinking in a different way.
It’s feeling.
It’s welcoming something that isn’t just words.

And that makes a difference.
Laughter comes. Joy too.
Connection comes.
Openness comes.

My friend Glen hosted.
“Please make a map of what leadership is to you.”
Becoming multi expressive and multi sensorial.
Nice.

And we continue. Today, Day 3. Presentations of learning. And recommendations for projects that matter. To a team of senior executives.

One of the reasons,
I’m so drawn to random resources,
isn’t because of the search for a perfect resource.

Rather,
I like putting myself in relationship
with the resource,
through a “no wrong answers” approach.

In fact,
it’s not about answers at all.
It is
about a widened,
wiser
view.

That poem you share.
It’s not about it being the best poem.
It’s about inviting relating to its content or imagery,
an associative freedom.

That sky in that picture you share is vibrant blue.
What is an example, or a story, of when you have felt vibrant?
Good.
Just wander with it.

And at some point,
quite naturally I bet,
you will start wanting to make the connection
to current and waking life.

What does that vibrancy example and story,
help to make clear
with what we are up to now?

No wrong answers.
Plenty of helpful insights
to steer and guide the next need.