Experiment with creating with others in times of shared disaster. This may be a major life-threatening event for thousands of people, such as a hurricane, earthquake, forest fire, or volcanic eruption or it might be a serious event for relatively few, such as an auto, work, or play accident. Cooperating with others may be a stretch because it requires truly listening to others and having others truly listen to you. Cooperation is not merely volunteering and taking orders from those who are organizing a structured response to suffering. Whether it is regional, city-wide, or in your neighborhood, cooperation requires live, real-time, co-creative conversations between you and a friend or several friends about what might be done. This is an experiment to see if, in co-creation (which requires equality), you can arrive at some possible ways to assist that you might not have thought about or taken seriously if you had considered them by yourself.

You don’t have to wait for a natural disaster to practice. You can begin by looking for ways to interact with others that would potentially yield more benefit to all than any of you could provide individually. Perhaps sharing lawn mower ownership with a neighbor(s), car-pooling, or rotating shifts by a hospitalized friend’s bedside or cooking meals for her children. There are countless ways to cooperate. As you begin to experiment look for benefits that you will find in all of them – satisfaction, gratification, and fulfillment. Is the potential of creating these in your life worth some experimentation to you?

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