Two weeks ago, Simon from Hub Brussels posted a piece about Positive Mutiny and while I was riding the train back from Rotterdam to Berlin, yesterday, I connected it to Deep Democracy:
Hi Simon,
Am sitting on the train from Rotterdam back to Berlin coming from a Deep Democracy course at Hub Summer School. I have just read a few lines about Role Theory in Deep Democracy and then I turned to your article that has been open in my browser for a few days now.
Our attempts to practice positive mutiny last summer in Berlin was very present in my Deep Democracy experience in the past two days.
When I arrived in Rotterdam on Thursday evening, I borrowed two Deep Democracy (The Deep Democracy of Open Forums and The leader as martial artist) books from Moraan and flipped through them just before going to sleep and my burning question was all of a sudden very present for this course, again: how can become more democractic?
And this question again, is very much connected to what you write in this article and there is a connection to the practice of self-selected leadership (that I have experienced in Pioneers of Change, OpenSpaces, Art of Hosting) or rotating leadership (as you can experience in the circle practice). A paradigm shift is happening when system are transforming into self-organizing systems (living systems such as Pioneers of Change or the Art of Hosting community) or as Role Theory from process-oriented psychology and Deep Democracy is asking how can we make roles (in the Deep Democracy terminolgy, a role is: a view, an emotion, a sensation, an archetype) more fluid and how can a group by themselves avoid getting stuck in roles?











