LifeSprings

Prezi is an alternative to the linear creation and presentation of slides using Powerpoint or similar software. In Prezi one creates only one "slide" (though to call it a slide is a misnormer) that contains everything and then one zooms in and out and around to show the informational elements in a narrative, linear fashion.

It permits improved display of the whole presentation in relationship to the parts and relationships between the parts over standard linear approaches like PP. The unstrucutred creation pallete on which one develops the presentation also seems to facilitate brainstorming presentation ideas since one isn't contstrained by a set of sequential, lockstep slide templates and can easily add or then organize ideas as they arise. In addition, Prezi was designed to be used as a visual tool to suuport the speakers verbalizations and who is the focus of the presentation - the inverse is typical with most PP focused presentation.

This presentaton to LifeSprings is a first venture with Prezi for me. It was fairly easy to learn, I created the prezi below in about 2 hours, but it did require a different mode of thinking (non-linear) in its creation vs. the standard approach. I'm looking forward to trying it with other material and presentation requirements.

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On my return from a week of retreat and enrichment in the principles and practice of contemplative servant leadership, I reviewed my notes and slides from the presentations. It was a challenge to fully appreciate them in relationship to each other and their gestalt when they were being presented sequentially at the retreat.

In order to provide an overview of the concepts in a singular view to myself, to explore some of the relationships between the concepts, and in general to better understand the material, I created the concept map below - a work-in-progress.

As some concepts seemed to me more related to groups as a point of focus and others seemed more focused on describing individuals, I divided the concepts accordingly (others mileage would surely vary in such an exercise). The division is somewhat artifical however, as are conceptual maps in general and as observed in both General Semantics ( "the map is not the territory") and Zen ("the finger pointing to the moon is not the moon"). Contemplative servant leadership takes place within an integrated process where God-Spirit, the group and the individual ideally co-evolve through discernment, the discovery of consensus and follow-through to manifestation and outer expression - and contemplation by its nature is of course nonconceptual in character.

The map below is best viewed in Fullscreen mode, Slide view, then Zoom in (or you can download the PDF file).

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concept mapping pdf.pdf (94 KB)

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I received, after considerable begging, an invite for the private beta test of Google's new communication platform Google Wave a week ago. Its Saturday and I've just now had a chance to start learning it. Here's a cute 2 minute description of Google Wave by someone is still begging for an invite (but given his creativity he likely has one by now).

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This 9 minute, unscripted conversation, recorded with a hand-held iPhone, took place at a Contemplative Outreach retreat on deepening the contemplative dimension of servant leadership near St. Louis MO during November 2009. Its recommended that you increase the volume on both your computer and the video itself to maximum. If you have earphones so much the better.

Note: recorded for distribution on Twitter @centeringprayer.

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These pics are of the closing session.

       

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Day_5_Contemplative_Leadership.zip (503 KB)

Sent from Ron's iPhone

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This 11 minute, unscripted conversation, recorded with a hand-held iPhone, took place at a Contemplative Outreach retreat on deepening the contemplative dimension of servant leadership near St. Louis MO during November 2009. I very much appreciate Sr. Maria's willingness to share on short notice and "rolling" with the questions and spontaneous conversation that developed.

Note: recorded for distribution on Twitter @centeringprayer.

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Day_l_Contemplative_Leadership.zip (670 KB)

Sent from Ron's iPhone

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