The future will increasingly emerge from our capacity to connect.

It will be less doing things for people and more establishing the spaces in which the future can emerge.

Of course, some will take the lead and form these spaces, but they will be careful not to direct what then happens – when people bring their best to one another out of a wholeness which includes their brokenness.*

Some will want to control this, but their time is passing.

‘In and through community lies the salvation of the world.’**

(*In The Different Drum, Scott Pecks tells of how he’d be criticised by people in his community building events: “We deserve more direction than you’ve been giving us, Scotty.”  Peck’s response is: ‘The chaos could easily be circumvented by an authoritarian leader … . The only problem is that a group led by a dictator is not, and never can be, a community.  Community and totalitarianism are incompatible.’)
(**From Scott Peck’s The Different Drum.)