I am part of an Auroville
Task group that prepared governance goals for the recent Retreat. The group was
very dynamic for the first phase of its existence but now that it has entered
the next phase, that of fulfilling its post-Retreat responsibilities to
materialise these goals, it is finding it hard to revive that former energy and
commitment.
There are many possible explanations for this
but one thing that strikes me is that the energy required to initiate a project
is very different from the energy needed to sustain it. Initiators, for
example, tend to be one-pointed, focused on specific goals, and highly creative
in suggesting pathways towards it.
Sustainers are those skilled in keeping a group together or a project
running long past its initial ‘glamorous’ phase. Where initiators tend to be
creative in ideas, the creativity of sustainers lies in their interpersonal
skills, in finding ways of getting diverse individuals to work towards a common
goal.
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