TSG Global Newsletter – Autumn 2020

Hello,

Autumn. For some, the activity resumes, for others it intensifies and finally for some, it is still suspended. Isn’t it now time we organized in accordance with the seasons? Time… time, that very objective and totally subjective component that gives rhythm to our lives and orchestrates our ways of doing things. Ha! time… we take it, we give it to ourselves, it hangs, it slips through our fingers, it runs and we run after it, and sometimes we even kill it. It is in the air, precious, useful, ordinary, we win it or lose it, it pressures us, and at the same time it is nothing. Because in the end, this lockdown period is a very short period of time – it is urgent to revisit our relationship to this very cultural and personal notion of time. According to the scientific definition, time is a measure of the evolution of phenomena, the order in which causes and effects are linked. The notion of time is thus the corollary of the notion of movement. How do we wish to pursue our business? What rhythm do we want to give to our movement? Do we follow our inner voice? or do we let ourselves be carried along by the conditions of our environment? Do we have a linear, circular, cyclical consideration of time? Chronos, Kairos, Aiôn? Which cursor to place between the permanence of the cosmos and the fleeting nature  of Man? This is precisely the time to ask ourselves this question, as we move on through the second half of the year!

THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS

Annewiek Reijmer

The use of commons for natural resources dates back to European history. It involved shared farmland, meadows and forests, which over a period of several centuries were gradually claimed as private property for private use.

A SOCIOCRATIC MIND IS JOYFUL FOREVER

Pieter Van Der Meché

When my daughter was six years old she wanted to drive by bike to the nearest supermarket. This included crossing a road in which cars, a tramway and buses passed regularly. I did not like the idea of her going by herself. But she stood her ground and argued that she was well capable of doing so.

INTRODUCING SOCIOCRACY TO CHANGE THE WORLD

Caroline Davies

In Gerard Endenburg’s article, in the TSG Global Newsletter Summer 2020, he reminds us that when decision making takes place at every level of a business, organization or society, it is, “Essentially a kind of revolution with great social consequences” and he says, “When sociocracy influences the whole society, a social revolution takes place. We should think clearly about that.”

THE SOCIOCRATIC GARDEN

Sébastien Bart

When I look at these billions of years of evolution with the very specific and particular conditions that have been necessary for me to breathe, live and marvel at all of creation, I feel overwhelmed with gratitude and deep respect. 

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