Comments on: Everything you need is already there

By: What on Earth are we doing? / Calling is context | disruptive grace

What on Earth are we doing? / Calling is context | disruptive grace — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:22:38 +0000

[...] Now thinking on where I take this (particularly in a less personal way) next I read this today: ‘Everything you need is already there’. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:30:28 +0000

Elaine,
There does seem to be a lot of respected voices saying the same thing from multiple fields huh? My wife is reading a book called “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa”. I’m eager to read it. My hunch is that not only does “need” based thinking stifle organizations, but it has actually done great harm to entire countries and civilizations.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:24:04 +0000

This all so fits with the Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Deviance, John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) – Peter Block’s work – I think something shifts in us when we focus on what gifts are right in front of us – instead of focusing on what we don’t have.

It is scarcity thinking that keeps us from moving ahead – changing the status quo, waiting on the Experts to show up and tell us what to do.

What if we believed whoever shows up are the right people?

And that with the people who show up, we already have everything we need to bring about change?

We would be invincible!