PIECE 5 OF LIFE AS A MOSAIC: DIALOG AND POWER

Brigitte Deneck


I was struggling to find the topic for the fifth piece of Life as a Mosaic in Corona. 
An idea arose from a breakdown in our large group of 27 participants in the ‘Connecting Through Corona’ project. Write my piece about this, to dive into the problem and hope to come through to the other side? 
 
The issue was that communications had not been acknowledged: one saying the whatsapp group would exist to self-organise the project and another one to open it up as a forum for chatting. The impact was that the group was fragmented, issues  unresolved, and the likelihood of bringing the project to fruition unclear. 
 
My attempts at writing about this did not work. 
 
Did we participate just for socialising or for publishing? Didn’t we mean “connecting” and sharing about “connecting” as another human dimension? What could we do to bring in this connection?
 
What about dialog? Nobody could solve this alone.
 
Some of us had a meeting on the morning of New Year’s Eve. It became obvious that we held the solution. Just by each enquiring into what it meant to “connect”.
We saw that for each, it took giving up concerns, expectations, considerations, anger and fear, all from the past.
We inquired into “listening for gold”.
 
After an hour and a half, we were still inquiring. 
I loved the process and left the meeting with new hope.

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Brigitte has lived in London for more than 20 years and works as a Pneumaphonist
(Breath-Voice coach).
Her English translation of the bestselling book about Pneumaphonie is not published
yet, but the book is available in French


bdeneck@beyourvoice.co.uk

This blog post and its content is copyright of Brigitte Deneck 2020. (c) All rights reserved.

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