Reinventing Ourselves

Guest Contributor: Michael Lipp
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Every once in a while our group gets stagnant... Whatever we had stops working. So we basically call a halt. There is no designated halter. But whoever calls it somehow wakes up the rest of us and we begin to question ourselves and then reinvent ourselves and rejuvenate ourselves.

We have periodically lapsed into conversations that seemed to involve basic philosophies. So we modified our current format in the following way: Each of us had a few minutes to express our basic philosophy: our religiosity, our spirituality. Then each of us had 2 minutes to comment. (Given that there are now 7 of us, this will take more than one session.) Fascinating session. We all learned something, probably from each one of us. Certainly we all had formed opinions about each other, but then heard each of our own self evaluations.

The fascinating thing was matching our weekly actions against who we said we were, what our opinions were and so on. We haven't completed our first round, we only went through five of us. Then we'll reinvent a new weekly process. What's clear is that we've all discovered (or rediscovered) that we love one another and cherish the Mastermind.