“Synchronicity is being open to what wants to happen.”*

Steven Sasson is the guy who came up with the first digital camera.  He was a prophet of the future in the kingdom of Kodak, but the company struggled to ask the really important questions about the technology.  If it had, maybe it would have imagined the exponential possibilities for this new way of taking pictures.

Kodak is representative of so many organisations and institutions, which have become detached from their raison d’être and ended up preserving the past when threatened by the new and imaginative.

Something wants to happen, though, wants to emerge, and there are prophets who want to tell us about what it is.  They come in all shapes and sizes with all manner of messages.**  They do this in almost playful and imaginative ways for good reason:

‘Hope is a tenacious act of imagination given in a dream, oracle, narrative, and song, rooted in absolute authority … . It is given in an imaginative way, because it is out beyond what we know.’^

Synchronicity seems to occur more often when we prepare ourselves through the playfulness of sensing (acknowledging what is), presencing (gathering the things which are of greatest significance and resonance to us), crystallising and realising (identifying what it is we must do and expanding this to others).^^

Bring a group of people into a playful space and something will happen.

(*David Morsing, quoted in Peter Senge, Otto Scahrmer, Jospeh Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers’s Presence.)
(**As I think about what this means for me, I keep returning to the importance of people’s potential, the need to be a prophet of talent.)
(^From Walter Brueggemann’s Reality Grief Hope.)
(^^A combination of Theory U: sensing, presencing, crystallising, and realising, and, Mindfulness: acknowledging, gathering, and expanding.)