Tom Hurley and George Por enjoy a laugh in Belgium George Por is a friend and an occaisional co-conspirator and colleague. What I appreciate about George is that he has been in this game a long time. He has been ahead of the curve for years – decades in some cases – with respect to the web, social networking and evolutionary consciousness and as such he has an uncanny perspective on things. For a few years now he has been working with a number of thinkers in looking at Otto Scharmer’s Presencing ideas. Today I read a long and interesting …
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Carman Pirie with a nice bit of noticing: The good folks at Facebook are facing a bit of a backlash after closing the account of at least one Canadian mother whose snaps of her nursing her child were deemed obscene.The Facebook group “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” is gaining members as fast as Angelina Jolie’s fan club…. all of them rather put off by all of this. The way I see it, the rules have changed. Just because you’ve built (and could sell for an incredible amount of cash) a social network like Facebook, doesn’t mean you own it. …
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From a collection of pictures made in 1910 in France about what life might be like in 2000. With thanks to AKMA for the link (who is another unschooling parent). I didn’t champion the Great Canadian Homework Ban this year (although everything I wrote last year still stands) but my kids and I enjoyed a nice not-back-to-school week. My six year old son and I spent Thursday down at our local golf course hitting buckets of golf balls into an azure blue sky, while the smoky blue mountains of Vancouver Island shimmered in the distance. All the …
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One session in Camden last week that really grabbed my interest was hosted by my dear friend and colleague Father Brian Bainbridge from Australia. Brian is another remarkable man, generous, dry in his humour and open hearted. He has been working on a little book for a while about brining Open Space to parish life, which documents his stories of working with the parishoners of St. Scholastica’s in Melbourne. In a little over two years, Brian has been exploring the transformation that comes about from shifting from the managerial worldview to the open space worldview. What …
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Thanks to all who contacted me over the last couple of days to let me know my site was down. A little administrative oversight on my part, and to my great joy I discovered how many people near or far check in with what’s going on around here. So thanks to all…we’re back in business, and no worse for wear.