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a game of joyful buffoonery

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Dear Reader: This is Letter 1 of 6 in collaboration with
Jose Manuel Redondo Lopera
, 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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A guest post by
Jose Manuel Redondo Lopera
I’m a process and a conversation designer and help people to both unlock their superpowers and to solve complex problems by bringing them together, creating alignment and helping them to make decisions, so they can move forward and get things done.
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