Here in the mid latitudes of the norther hemisphere, there are a few days around the solstice when there is technically no night time. This image, from TimeAndDate.com shows that the sky remains in twilight at midnight for another few days. Further north of course it’s light and in the Arctic, the sun doesn’t set at all. Here on Bowen Island, it’s still a dark night, and the moon has just risen around 12:30am or so, but we are treated to a very special time when there is no actually, technical night. I’m not sure so many folks in this …
When we are teaching dialogue practice and participatory meeting design, I often draw on the example of organizational and team staff meetings. Every organization I’ve worked with has these meetings and they ae almost nearly the same: an endless re-iteration of what people are doing, and rarely nothing more compelling that an email wouldn’t take care of. There is rarely even time for discussion becasue you have to get through everyone’s update in the 30 minutes assigned for the meeting. So I often advise folks who want to bring more participatory culture to their organizations to focus on staff meetings. …