This is the second slide presentation in a series of community discussions moderated by Hunter Hartley, exploring the issue of "food security" in Roanoke, Virginia. Like others preceding it, the small group conversation adopted the U.Lab's "case clinic" format.

1. Toward Roanoke
Food Security
Co-sensing: opening up and
becoming one with the world
outside
Hunter Hartley - Presenter

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"Co-Sensing" and the “U” Journey

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"Toward Roanoke Food Security" - Co-sensing (an overview)
• My "intention statement":
• Current situation: What key challenge or question is the group facing?
• Stakeholders: How might others view this situation?
• Intention: What future are we trying to create?
• Learning threshold: What do we need to let-go of? What do we need to learn?
• Help: "Where" or in "what" do we need input or help?
• Stillness
• Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart), Gestures
(Open Will)
• Generative dialogue
• Closing remarks
• Individual journaling to capture the learning points

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My "intention statement" - The Current Situation
What key challenge or question is the
group facing?
Understanding and coordinating efforts to effectively address food
security involves having an appreciation for systems thinking
interwoven in our approach.
Without such an appreciation even one's best efforts will be limited to
addressing symptoms arising as systemic issues related to food
insecurity.
In this same regard, the quality of interpersonal relationships in relation
to systems thinking is often overlooked. Specifically, how does the
mode of communication a group chooses to adopt going to influence
the quality of that group's efforts? Without a continuing effort to address
the quality of collective attention, outcomes merely reflect a
perpetuation of failures/blind spots unconsciously embedded within the
individual(s)/group.

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My "intention statement" - Stakeholders
How might others view this situation?
The quality of mindfulness from which this group acts is subsequently reflected in our
respective efforts and visible in the interpersonal relations we sustain with the community.
In respect to our efforts to address food security, others will view the efficacy of our work as
it addresses the underlying systemic issues. Does our collaboration represent an effective,
high quality effort to address not just one or two aspects of food security, but all interrelated
issues from which Roanoke's food insecurity arises?

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My "intention statement" - Intention
What future are we trying to create?
We’re aspiring to create a future in which Roanoke’s overall design functions as a
resilient "ecosystem”, capable of adaptively responding to “outside” influences
typically occurring beyond the scope or realm of managerial control.

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My "intention statement" - Learning threshold
What do we need to let go of and learn?
Because this is not easy work and the reflective process itself appropriates the questions,
“Who is my Self” and “What is my Work”, we must be open and willing to acknowledge
possible deficits in what we think we “know” in order to better address relational “gaps” in
the broader (communal) context. For these reasons, we subsequently enlist this exercise as
a means of better informing our collective experience with an emerging future.

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My "intention statement" - Help
"Where" or in "what" do we need help?
We need help in understanding the quality of our efforts. We have the
appropriate tools available to help us become a highly functional group
capable of mindfully addressing the interrelated aspects of food
security. We must however, recognize the needfulness for this higher
quality engagement and subsequently practice this form of meaning-
making in our relational interactions.

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● Listen to your heart: Connect with your heart
to what you're hearing.
● Listen to what resonates: What images,
metaphors, feelings and gestures come up for
you that capture the essence of what you
heard?
Stillness

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● Each coach shares the images/ metaphors,
feelings and gestures that came up.
● Having listened to all coaches, the moderator
reflects back on what s/he heard.
Mirroring: Images (Open Mind), Feelings (Open Heart),
Gestures (Open Will)

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● All reflect on the moderator’s remarks and
move into a generative dialogue on how these
observations can offer new perspectives for
better serving the group’s situation and
journey.
● Go with the flow of the dialogue. Build on each
others ideas.
Generative Dialogue

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● By Coaches:
● By Moderator: How do I now see our situation
and way forward?
● Thank you: An expression of genuine
appreciation to each other.
Closing Remarks

20. Toward Roanoke
Food Security
Co-sensing: opening up and
becoming one with the world
outside
Hunter Hartley - Presenter