Enter the Room Falling
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ENTER THE ROOM FALLING
When I was a little older than my daughter is now, a shy and developing pre-teen, a male elder often tripped me as we crossed the threshold into a restaurant. I would enter the room falling.
When engaging with certain personalities and progressing through transitions, I notice that this still happens. Despite efforts at inclusive communication and shared vision, I notice that at a pivotal moment of transition, something turns. An obstacle or interference springs up, from within the team.
Timing matters. Composition matters. Sometimes, communication falls on deaf ears, loving intentions are misunderstood, or ideas suddenly dismissed or co-opted. Despite our best intentions and hardest work, humans get distracted, greedy, or scared. Some of us wind up entering the room falling.
Oma, my grandmother Ruth, used to say, ‘Flow with the Skid.’
Flow with the Skid. Enter the Room Falling. Both seem to speak to how many transitions really go in a world still often complicated by fear. At this particular point in time, I believe this dynamic is very worth exploring.
As the Director of this project, I am a mother of two healthy children, a published writer, editor, and creative with work experience in education and mentorship, management, design, labor, and service. I recently earned my Master of Public Administration degree after seven years of gradual progress, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English years ago, both from the University of Montana. I presently work as a mother, writer and editor, and laborer. These roles all involve facilitating positive communication, curiosity, and empowerment, creating resourceful design and functionality, and setting the stage for shared warmth, nourishment, and joy. More background is available on my blog – www.celebratecreative.wordpress.com.
I am raising funds to support the six-month production of a short book, with a documentary-style short film as a second stage. Funding will support my writing, the editing and publishing of the book, and conceptual development of the documentary, through spring of 2017.
The initial sketch is for a book of roughly 200 pages, organized in three basic sections. It will be empowering, invigorating, and hopefully of good use in your own threshold-crossings in both personal and professional life. You might even laugh.
What do we need to do to heal broken teams, or once and for all let parts of them go? Do we understand what it really means for everyone involved to move forward, and embrace new methods? What can we do to adapt, and engage in ways that are reasonable, as we stumble through important thresholds?
These questions are at the heart of this project, as they are at the heart of plenty of unresolved conflicts in personal and public life. The time could not be better to really get to the heart of things.
Twenty percent of your investment in the project will go toward local Montana organizations supporting education, healing and family health, and natural resource conservation. As a donor, you will receive a copy of the book. For donations of $500 or more, I would really enjoy sharing ideas and engaged efforts in support of a project that you find important. Details can be discussed and arranged personally.
My fundraising goal for the first $5,000 is Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, 2016. My goal for the remaining $5,000 is Winter Solstice, December 21st, 2016.
Thank you for your interest in and support of this commitment and sharing. It has been a longtime coming, and I hope with its unfolding to continue regaining my stride and simultaneously share that process with you. Whether we regain our stride, laugh together as we hop, limp, shuffle, or skid, or feel a nice dance develop, my most strident hope is that we remember the enduring fact that we are all in this together. To thresholds – in crossing a variety of them both alone and together, may we discover the many ways that we can.
Alethea Schaus, Whitefish, MT
When I was a little older than my daughter is now, a shy and developing pre-teen, a male elder often tripped me as we crossed the threshold into a restaurant. I would enter the room falling.
When engaging with certain personalities and progressing through transitions, I notice that this still happens. Despite efforts at inclusive communication and shared vision, I notice that at a pivotal moment of transition, something turns. An obstacle or interference springs up, from within the team.
Timing matters. Composition matters. Sometimes, communication falls on deaf ears, loving intentions are misunderstood, or ideas suddenly dismissed or co-opted. Despite our best intentions and hardest work, humans get distracted, greedy, or scared. Some of us wind up entering the room falling.
Oma, my grandmother Ruth, used to say, ‘Flow with the Skid.’
Flow with the Skid. Enter the Room Falling. Both seem to speak to how many transitions really go in a world still often complicated by fear. At this particular point in time, I believe this dynamic is very worth exploring.
As the Director of this project, I am a mother of two healthy children, a published writer, editor, and creative with work experience in education and mentorship, management, design, labor, and service. I recently earned my Master of Public Administration degree after seven years of gradual progress, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English years ago, both from the University of Montana. I presently work as a mother, writer and editor, and laborer. These roles all involve facilitating positive communication, curiosity, and empowerment, creating resourceful design and functionality, and setting the stage for shared warmth, nourishment, and joy. More background is available on my blog – www.celebratecreative.wordpress.com.
I am raising funds to support the six-month production of a short book, with a documentary-style short film as a second stage. Funding will support my writing, the editing and publishing of the book, and conceptual development of the documentary, through spring of 2017.
The initial sketch is for a book of roughly 200 pages, organized in three basic sections. It will be empowering, invigorating, and hopefully of good use in your own threshold-crossings in both personal and professional life. You might even laugh.
What do we need to do to heal broken teams, or once and for all let parts of them go? Do we understand what it really means for everyone involved to move forward, and embrace new methods? What can we do to adapt, and engage in ways that are reasonable, as we stumble through important thresholds?
These questions are at the heart of this project, as they are at the heart of plenty of unresolved conflicts in personal and public life. The time could not be better to really get to the heart of things.
Twenty percent of your investment in the project will go toward local Montana organizations supporting education, healing and family health, and natural resource conservation. As a donor, you will receive a copy of the book. For donations of $500 or more, I would really enjoy sharing ideas and engaged efforts in support of a project that you find important. Details can be discussed and arranged personally.
My fundraising goal for the first $5,000 is Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, 2016. My goal for the remaining $5,000 is Winter Solstice, December 21st, 2016.
Thank you for your interest in and support of this commitment and sharing. It has been a longtime coming, and I hope with its unfolding to continue regaining my stride and simultaneously share that process with you. Whether we regain our stride, laugh together as we hop, limp, shuffle, or skid, or feel a nice dance develop, my most strident hope is that we remember the enduring fact that we are all in this together. To thresholds – in crossing a variety of them both alone and together, may we discover the many ways that we can.
Alethea Schaus, Whitefish, MT
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Alethea Schaus
Organizer
Whitefish, MT