When I am really paying attention, it’s really hard to tell who’s leading and who’s following. Johnnie Moore reminded me of this yesterday at lunch here in London. And that what any of us have to say to each other is likely not as important as our showing up in the first place. And that none of this is happening to any one of us. (It was a long lunch!)
So this was, I think, my first “we met first in the blogosphere” lunch. Then I came home and stayed up way too late tricking out the new Lumina Coaching blog for my old friend Karen Sella, me in London, her in Seattle. Six months ago, Karen and I had a milestone sort of mutuality conversation in Chicago. So of course she’d show up in my email on the same day as my mutuality chat with Johnnie.
I’m looking to connect this practice of mutuality, letting others be as real to me as I am to myself, with practices and premises that allow for commerce as well as conversation. Mutual conversation, mutual commerce. Not me consultant, you paying client. Not me coach keeping you company. Not me researcher, you sharing data and stories. But us in it together. If you’re in London and interested in mutual exploration, I want to meet.