Living in the Gift
Personal and collective transition from an age of scarcity and separation, to an age of abundance, community, and gift.
Course Content
Session 7: Motivations
In this session and the next we launch our exploration of working in the gift, by which I mean applying the lens of gift to our economic life, of business and work. We begin with what to me has been a very fruitful question: “Why do you even want to do that?” Part 1 explores some of the problematic “shadow” motives, and Part 2 some of the more honest motives for wanting to make this transition. I hope the material will be useful even if this particular issue is not up for you.
Session 7.1: Problematic Motivations
Session 7.2: Positive Motivations
Session Transcripts
Many thanks to Grimm Culhane, Vicki Bright, and Tyler Ehrlich for transcribing theses sessions!
Session 7.1 – Problematic Motivations (transcript)
Session 7.2 – Positive Motivations (transcript)
Optional NAAS Subscription
This course has run as a DIY course, and you are welcome to do it that way. However, for many people it is more powerful to work the material with a group. My business partner and former wife Patsy and I host a network community called A New and Ancient Story (short for NAAS). It is an online network dedicated to reverence in communication. If you would like to participate in it in conjunction with this course, go to the community landing page and read the introduction and posting guidelines. If you feel resonant, you can join through additional subscription. Once you are a member, you will find archives of discussions on course forums on the left menu as well as participating in many features NAAS offers