mistake celebration
a game of joyful buffoonery
Dear Reader: This is Letter 1 of 6 in collaboration with , who shares my passion for facilitation. José and I chose the category ‘Games for Personal Development’ as an exchange to enliven each other’s practice, and hopefully nourish meaningful moments in your life.
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Dear José - my exuberant facilitation colleague,
Most people don’t know I have a life motto, but I do. It’s a Japanese expression tucked in a book of the Shōbōgenzō and in non-kanji form it reads as shoshaku jushaku: one continuous mistake.
I adopted this expression as the motto of my life not only because it startles and confounds the Western mind (a mind I also have) but because I’ve lived purposeful mistake-making for many moons now. This isn’t because I was born with a penchant for blithe spontaneity. Not at all. Like most of us with colonized minds I’m a recovering perfectionist, but I got baptized into the art of one continuous mistake because ALL of my career paths - graphic recording, gam…
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