Three little words to bear in mind. Tuesday Ryan-Hart and I recorded this little video as part of a series for the ALIA Summer Institute faculty. We were asked to reflect on what three words were important in thinking about what change for good really takes. This was our contribution.
I am here in the Morton Arboretum in Chicago where we are at the end of the first day of an Art of Hosting with our friends in the Illinois community of practice. We have just been harvesting out of a World Cafe that was held on the question of “What time it is in the world?” We used a design I have been using with teams and communities that are needing to do deep sensing. We went for three rounds on the same question and had the hosts at each table go and deeper into the conversations that were …
#WhitecapsFC supporters: no one said this year would be easy. Stay with this team! Let's be SUPPORTERS, not mere fans. Scarves up vs TFC! # Watch the season, miss the blossoms. Watch the blossoms, miss the season. Watch how they are connected, experience the reason. # Spurs did the double over #Liverpoolfc #coys http://yfrog.com/h3vyfqbj # Untitled http://post.ly/22oUs # Full moon. Flat sea. Swelling flood tide. # http://yfrog.com/h0ncxqrj at Playland with the kids on a "science" field trip. Lol. # I just went to look for a book I misplaced and craved a Google for real life things. #thingsarechanging # BowFeast …
Nineteen years ago today I set off on a short walk on a beautiful Ottawa spring morning traveling about eight blocks from our apartment on Frank Street to my office on Cooper Street. For me it was the first day of work at the National Association of Friendship Centres and the first real salaried job I had since leaving university in August 1991. I remember the walk well, remember the warm morning, and the feeling that I was lucky to have landed a job with a great organization, especially after a winter of living on meager UI benefits. I knew …
Yesterday I had a chance to grab lunch with Dave Pollard in our local coffee shop on Bowen Island. One of the things we talked about was the supremacy of analysis in the world and why that is a problem when it comes to operating in complex domains. I have been intentionally working a lot lately with Dave Snowdon et. al.’s Cynefin framework to support decision making in various domains. It is immensely helpful in making sense of the messy reality of context and exercises like anecdote circles and butterfly stamping are very powerful, portable and low tech processes. Cynefin …