these taken-for-granted beliefs and ideas keep life predictable and do not produce anything new.

Thin descriptions of our conventional stories are very powerful, because they lure us into believing that they are the truth and that their roots or their influence on us are not up for questioning. Thin descriptions throw us into a simplistic right–left and a conservative–liberal way of speaking that creates an us-and-them and winner-and-loser

how these ideas and beliefs locate the problem within people and label them from this knowing about them; in the same breath it renders blind the economic and class systems that create the conditions that sometimes make it impossible for people to move beyond.

Thin descriptions drive us apart as people, and leave no room for the other.

What are the common themes of gifts/competencies and skills found in this community? • As we look at the collective (all the trees/kites put together) what do we see when we look at this community?

In this alternative story of leadership the so-called ordinary people are invited into the conversation as knowledgeable and as able to equally contribute. As a result, the distinctions between leaders and ordinary people fade and blur into emergence.

The task of the listener is to treat these insider knowledges as something worth giving attention to, asking about and listening to. As a result it challenges the idea that only certain people know, can talk and therefore have power in the speaking.

Where does everything come together for you? (What anchors you as a community?) • Grounded in the histories (What is the history of this community?): • People and places • Memories, stories, songs, cultural practices.

Scarcity thinking destroys community. The