THE ART AND SCIENCE OF INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMANITY  

Getting to Mutuality is:

An experience, not an idea.

Usually not the result of a process.

Best considered part of the science of how you are being, treating others.

The experience of just what it’s like for me to be with you, you with me, and for each of us when we are with each other.

“Mutuality” happens not just in me or in you, but in the space between us.

If I want it to feel like “us” I need to be paying attention to the nature, the feeling of the space between us.

To create the experience of “Mutuality” is to ask, “Are we in this together?”

I grew up in a ghetto in Dorchester, Massachusetts where there was little experience of mutuality. Everyone had the same religion and somehow knew they were better than other people. My grandfather taught me that men were better than women. America was better than other countries, no questions asked. Over time, it was clear in our family business that money was more important than people. Traveling outside our neighborhood was dangerous.  My world was full of poisoned berries and if I did not avoid the electric fences, the Nazi’s were always at the door.

My colleague in Israel, Shlomo Yishai, introduced me to the importance of Human Mutuality. In conversations, his articles, and book ⁽⁷⁾ he showed that until economic systems are rooted in human mutuality, there will be wars, injustice, unnecessary bureaucracy and racial discrimination.  I also met and continue to learn from Alexander Berlonghi, a friend, leader, teacher, and consultant in the field of Ontology — the Art and Science of human relationships.  His profound global practice ⁽⁸⁾ has to do with how people are being with each other.

Over many years, my life became a search for people and places that were kind, not cruel, willing to be intimate without fear, and peace with justice was a noble purpose. Mutuality and experience of “Us” became a Singularity, a way to bring unity out of diversity, a place to belong and to create where I could. Relationship Became the Foundation of Accomplishment.

I’m Not Giving Up My Shot

“I’m not giving up my shot“ is a theme from Lin Manuel Miranda’s amazing play, Hamilton, the story about how to live a life of significance and meaning. Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was a Founding Father of the United States, a statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist.  He was an influential interpreter,  first secretary of the treasury, created the nation’s financial system and the Federalist Party.

My shot is expanding human energy — my own and others’.  It’s All Energy and It’s All You.

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