Distilled thoughts bubble to the surface during our meetings. We meet weekly at 8 am on WebEx to share ideas, move project planning along, and discuss whatever arises. Everybody is welcome: faculty, students, staff, and community members across disciplines.
Below are some thoughts that have risen to the surface, in the form of bubbles or ‘eddy haiku…’
October 27, 2021
Rather than a bbq…
bring something
that was made…
Comfort atmosphere
magnetism
deep listening
to go a step deeper
holding a container
this.
October 21, 2021
I am the color
on your canvas
October 13, 2021
Create the conditions for flow
at a time when existing structures
start crumbling
October 6, 2021
co-create spaces of
co-struggleship where harm
is reduced in the creation of a new
September 22, 2021
Naive (see with fresh eyes)
and Beautiful (ambitious yet actionable)
September 15, 2021 Sojourner Truth Statue Letter
Truth and justice seeking
Reclaiming voice and narrative
Protesting erasure
Inclusion lacking
Exclusion exhibits harm
Healing takes new paths
September 9, 2021 ULAB
Clarifying our roles
Inviting stakeholders in
To co-create change
Preparing our space
Circling in community
Seeding intentions
June 10, 2021
Seeking deeper bonds
Between students and teachers
Cultivating care
Imagining futures
Collaborative building
Transdisciplinary
April 6, 2021
A bit tired, intimidated
isolated farm animals
tightly controlled
Ingest some wild spirit
a group of gazelles
March 30, 2021
A sensing journey experience with a student
Nobody had asked her anything about herself…
anonymous… lost
Collaborative, community
big groups, small groups
sit together
Plans, veggy garden
native plants, pollinator plants
shade
Van Gogh’s birthday today
The sky in starry night
is an eddy
March 16, 2021 ULAB
Learn from students
Start from students
Heart and core
Destructive quality of first model
Understand things as a continuum
not polarized
Powerful shift
when we see ourselves as learners
not customers
Flow with students’ interest
Students were not thinking about hierarchy
Learn with us
Interview, listen!!!
In groups, sense where the tensions there are
Be a holding place…for what is going on.
So many we don’t know,
what they care about
we need to capture these resonances
Labyrinth. To go be quiet.
Fire pits for campus!
Game places.
Re-imagine space between buildings.
Terraced. Labyrinth. Zen garden.
Ping pong table
Circular seating area
March 2, 2021 ULAB
Our community, shackled
a beautiful dragon
eyes down
If that being could talk: what would it say (to us)?
Take those shackles off
look at me
let me dance
February 18, 2021
Eddy is a metaphor
For a new instutition
A belonging place (not container)
Showcase community
Build community
Feel it
Write with walnut ink
Slow down and disrupt daily routines
Power of a daily gesture
February 16, 2021
Empathize with students
Stakeholder interviews
Sensing Journeys
February 2, 2021
Slowing into stillness
Dropping into our hearts
Envisioning futures
Asking critical questions
To guide our co-creation
Of just systems of care
January 26, 2021
Slowing to listen deeply
Sensing emerging futures
Seeding justice and care
Prototyping new systems
Grounded in awareness
Of interconnection
January 15, 2021 ULAB
Seeking to uplift
All voices in this place
Cultivating care
Imagining systems
That empower and include
Just transformations
January 10, 2021
Seeking shared vision
Community building spaces
Nurturing connections
Emerging synergy
Between sustainability
And social justice
January 5, 2021 ULAB
Seeking authentic voices
Listening deeply to emerge
Co-creating care
Crystallizing values
Envisioning just futures
Prototyping ideas
December 29, 2020 ULAB
Seeking deeper bonds
Cultivating care and trust
Envisioning change
Generative listening
Crystallizing intentions
Prototyping futures
December 22, 2020 ULAB
Seeking authentic trust
Presencing emerging futures
Seeding our Eddy
Listening deeply
Crystallizing intentions
Prototyping systems
December 14, 2020
Chaos into order
Eddies swirling, embracing
Disrupting the flow
Learning adventure
Outside the boxes and norms
Cultivating care
September 30, 2020
Seeking shared vision
Community building spaces
Nurturing connections
Emerging synergy
Between sustainability
And social justice
September 5, 2020
Police need changing
Black studies calls for justice
Unity in activism
Seeking true justice
Through scholarship and teaching
Creating new visions