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Vovo’s Kindergarten
for Uncanny Children
Kindergarten is a collective dreaming and craft workshop for wild minds and soft hands. It’s where design thinking meets glitter, chaos becomes a method, and dragons teach us how to dream things into being.
WORKSHOP RECORDS
2021-2024
This is design as ritual, workshop as wonder, and creation as troublemaking. It's not about control—it's about letting go safely and making something real in the in-between.
Kindergarthen is a playful, inspiring, encouraging and meaningful method for assisting individuals and groups who seek to make their dreams come true.
We work on Dragon Dreaming with different ways in every workshop
Dreaming is all about getting things safely out of control.
The Design Process
Kindergarthen build upon a culture of a triple win-win-win.
,A win for ourselves personally, for the communities we live in and for the Earth as a whole.
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The pattern of the Dragon Dreaming Wheel is also found in ecological systems, in the formation of weather, in the Native American Medicine Wheel and even within our bodies; it is the structure which we carry in our brain.
One symbolic aspect amongst many is the analogy to the four seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn), as well as the four phases in the life of a human being (childhood, youth, middle age, old age). Also each day can be depicted by this wheel: Beginning with dreaming, the early morning planning, the doing and – if a person is wise – a celebration in the evening.
The pattern of the Dragon Dreaming Wheel is also found in ecological systems, in the formation of weather, in the Native American Medicine Wheel and even within our bodies; it is the structure which we carry in our brain.
One symbolic aspect amongst many is the analogy to the four seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn), as well as the four phases in the life of a human being (childhood, youth, middle age, old age). Also each day can be depicted by this wheel: Beginning with dreaming, the early morning planning, the doing and – if a person is wise – a celebration in the evening.
DREAMING
Every project starts as the Dream of a single individual, but daily experience teaches 90% of our dreams get blocked in the dreaming stage, and this usually happens because we do not share our dreams.
How then do we make our dreams come true?
The first step is to share your dream and build a team around your dream that assists in making the dream come true.
PLANINING
The second stage is to build a plan: people do not plan to fail, they only fail to plan. Again experience teaches us that 90% of projects do not work according to plan.
This is because the “planners” are seen as the “head” of the organisation, and they blame the “body” of the organisation for not following the plan, whilst the “body” blames the “head” for being out of touch with reality.
DOING
The third stage is where much of the work occurs. This is the doing stage of the project, and international figures show that some 90% of business ideas, start-ups or non government community initiatives fail to last longer than 3 years.
This often happens through “burnout” on the part of the initiators, and the lack of effective succession planning. People feel tired and exhausted, because they have not refueled themselves with the fourth step.
Out beyond ideas of
wrong doing and right doing,
there is a field
– I’ll meet you there.
Rumi
Crossing The Thresholds
Interfaces of Communication
The interfaces are organs of communication, not rigid axis of separation. And they can move depending on the stage and/or group doing a project. Someti- mes one side will dominate, sometimes the other. Projects are of a fractal nature. This means that in each of the four qua- drants the dreaming, planning, doing, celebrating can be found.
Dragon Dreaming projects can only be sustainable when we process through each of these stages in each quadrant. So each quadrant starts with a dreaming stage, moves on to planning, then has a doing stage and then, at the threshold from one quadrant to the next, there is celebration.
Many of these thresholds may scare us: The crossing from dreaming into planning takes courage and a lot of energy. Especially the crossing from pl- anning into doing can be very difficult indeed, because it demands real com- mitment from everyone involved. If a project comes into a difficult phase, it is advisable to ask oneself whether the project might be at a threshold to the next stage.
Celebration is an important step of crossing the various thresholds between the quadrants. In other words: every threshold from one quadrant to the next (for example from the planning to the doing) is also a step from the celebrati- on of one quadrant to the dreaming oft the next one, and thus a step out of our comfort zone. Also burnout can be pre- vented by celebrating a lot and at the right moment. Celebration is the mo- ment when we receive energy to nurture our ongoing process. This is what makes the project sustainable...
Aha-Moments
Maximizing creativity
The moments when we discover something we did not know, are wonderful. Even more wondrous are the moments when we discover something of which we did not even know that we did not know it: so called Aha-moments. They generally arise when we have discovered or understood something new. They can also appear when we find new connections between things we already knew. In any case an Aha-Moment leads to a new perception of some aspect of the world. As a result we have become aware. Aha-moments are highly infectious. One person sharing their Aha-moments increase the chances that others too can discover something that they did not know what they did not know. Sharing »Aha’s« in a group can lead to creative solutions to common problems. As a Dragon Dreamer practice the skill of generative questioning, it will open up a new world for you. Different people have different experiences in gaining Aha-moments. Maximize you Aha-moments by:
» Being in touch with nature » Being in touch with different realities, people, contexts » Traveling into different cultures » Observing and reflecting » Listening deeply to the words of others » Seeking signs, visible and invisible » Connecting with your dreams, visions » Meditation » Focusing deeply on a problem and then doing something very different
As an Aboriginal proverb states, »We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home to country.« This means that everything is possible and that when working with the concept of Dream Time, we are wor- king with the side of ourselves which has access to the collective intelligence.
Dream Time
The Aboriginal concept of time
The modern world view is based upon the belief that time is collective and ob- jectively a linear process, traveling from past, through the present, to the future.
Within this view, dreaming is seen as a subjective individual process, devoid of reality. Amongst many indigenous cul- tures, including traditional Australian Aboriginal culture, dreaming is seen as a collective and objective experience. This prospective allows us access to in- terpersonal creativity and a deeper un- derstanding. In this view, nothing is se- parate: everything is a temporary node in a process of flow.
Pinakarri
About Deeper Listening
Pinakarri is the Aboriginal word for Deeper Listening. We have mostly lost the skill of empathically listening to each other and have developed a way of mainly listening to a little voice in the head which keeps making win-lose judgments. This voice is very distracting and makes us forget faster: most peo- ple are – for instance – able to concen- trate for approximately 20 minutes on conceptual theories, before the voice starts talking, making it difficult for us to truly listen. Pinakarri gently silences this little voice.
Every Dragon Dreaming participant can call for a Pinakarri at any given time. You can ring a bell or some other sort of signal which has been agreed upon. At the signal everyone will stop what they are saying or doing, and remain silent for a short while. It is up to the indivi- dual how deeply they will relax, but it is important that everyone remains silent for a moment. The purpose behind this practice is to overcome certain aspects of human behavior. On one hand Pina- karri helps people who are currently in conflict to overcome inner blockages. We tend to stick more and more with a point of view, the more someone else argues against it. And it often does not make any difference at all whether the other person might be right. By taking short breaks of Pinakarri we get the chance of »cooling down«.
Pinakarri is also helpful to double check what we really want. In silence we can listen to what is going on inside us and see whether this or that point is still important to us – or whether we have lost touch with the original dream, our wishes and needs in order to be right or not to lose face. To stand up for our wishes and needs is just as important as »cooling down«.
If we suppress our dreams and needs we will always have a feeling of deficiency. And that feeling will come back every now and again, and might be a real danger for our pro- ject. It prevents true diversity, which is a necessity for true learning and success.
The Win-Win-Games
The End of the Win-Lose-Culture
Civilization as we understand it is based upon a certain view of the world. Through our language of subjects (active) and objects (passive) we see the world as comprising things over which we believe we have power and control. This is a view that divides everything into separate categories: The ones have power over the others. This – in short – creates Win-Lose-Games and violent hierarchy, which we usually take for the only possible way of how things work. Engaging with the environment means we are engaging with a living world of which we too are a part. To believe we can take control of this world through »power over« is human myth, an egotism which will lead to frustration and heartbreak. We cannot control the process of flow of energy, matter, information and chaos or entropy in which we are embedded.
Aboriginal tradition suggests that nothing is separate too – and science is proving this over and over. However we can have power »with« these flows. That means that we can work with anything and anyone – always trying to figure out how to create WinWin-Games. In order to do that we need to make ourselves vulnerable – we need to try and always see the other side. The side of a resistor to our project, the side of a situation that we have presumptions and prejudice around. By practicing this new sort of game, we open up endless possibilities that were not there before. Win-Lose-Games are unsustainable. If we truly seek a sustaining culture, WinWin-Games become essential.
The 11th hour – Prophecy of a hopi Elder
You have been telling the people that this is the
Eleventh Hour, now you must go back
and tell the people that this is the Hour.
And there are things to be considered.
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time.
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift, that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say, we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river,
keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally.
Least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the people we have been waiting for!
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