Our 2010 annual report from The Berkana Institute is now out: http://t.co/q7gp1Hg #Berkana # At 10:21pm ET the Toronto airport erupts in cheers. Canada loves it's hockey and Canada's rioting for the Canucks. # A quiet and still morning under a blanket of sea fog greets my return home from Virginia. # Round Bowen race http://post.ly/2C522 #
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The 2010 annual report for the Berkana Institute is out. In it you can get a snapshot of the work that is happening within our network, including the Art of Hosting offerings that we undertake in North America and the learning and illuminating of work happening all over the globe.
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Two dear friends, Ashley Cooper and Juanita Brown, are up to some world-changing mischief together in the mountains of North Carolina. They are going deep into hosting intergenerational conversations. Here’s why, from Juanita: I have always been fascinated by large-scale systems change and what might enable whole societies to shift into more life-affirming patterns. Over the years I had the great good fortune to have older corporate and community leaders take me under their professional and personal wings as I engaged with this work. I began to think abut the challenges we face at every level of system today. I …
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
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A beautiful morning. Off to Langley to share reflections with churches I've been working with on how their practice of community matters. # The alpenglow off the towers of downtown Calgary http://yfrog.com/gykhyhbj # The rarest gift of this place is the sweet and humid coastal air of a glorious spring morning. #