Calling Circle (February)
Dr. Will Varey 
Report on our monthly humanity inquiry call ...
We held the eighth in our series of monthly humanity-inquiry calls on 16 February 2024. The intrigue and beauty continues ...
In this month's inquiry we moved (once again) beyond the scope of personal accomplishment in remarkableness into the recommencement of humility in sacred service as ever-receptive vessels.
Professionally, I have known many great project leaders and inspirational speakers. At the top of their game they are beacons in key locations, holders of pockets of sanity, as the movers of mountains. Sometimes, when their time in the sun is done, they are replaced by the next seeker of prominence. More often, there is a reversion back to the centrum of the actual capacity in the existing continuum.
Systems of thought are like that. They can be held beyond their capacity, but not sustained indefinitely.
In the seeding practice for this month's inquiry we looked at the pinnacle exemplars of President Obama's speeches at COP15 and in acceptance of the (controversial) 2009 Nobel Prize.
Reflecting on such timely accomplishments of solitary inspiration provides a perspective on the greater legacy of collective enablement.
If only speaking it, would make it so ... and in Obama's words:
"... it is better for us to act than to talk; it’s better for us to choose action over inaction; the future over the past -- and with courage and faith, I believe that we can meet our responsibility to our people, and the future of our planet." (COP15)
However, from those who are simply coping ...
"Let us live by their example. We can acknowledge that oppression will always be with us, and still strive for justice. We can admit the intractability of depravation, and still strive for dignity. Clear-eyed, we can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace. We can do that – for that is the story of human progress; that’s the hope of all the world; and at this moment of challenge, that must be our work here on Earth." (Obama, Nobel Speech 2009)
Enactment, when it is more than envisaging transitions, requires inquiry with humility into the dynamics of enablement.
Think about this inspiration from a 2015 vision and the stark reality of its contrast to our present day situation in 2024:
“Let that be the common purpose here in Paris. A world that is worthy of our children. A world that is marked not by conflict, but by cooperation; and not by human suffering, but by human progress. A world that’s safer, and more prosperous, and more secure, and more free than the one that we inherited.” B. Obama, COP21 (Paris) – Nov 30 2015
The distinction between hope and enablement is not a preference, more linked stages within ripples of ever greater unfoldments, in the patterns of humanity accomplishments.
Dr. Will Varey
Apitholo - The Centre for Humanity Learning
"Pathways for the Humanity Contributive"
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