Just back from an amazing Art of Hosting in rural Pennsylvania. Found this in my email box upon my return, send to me by my friend Toke: Not just any talk is conversation Not any talk raises consciousness good conversation has an edge It opens your eyes to something It quickens your ears And good conversation reverberates It keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; The next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said The reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness Your mind and heart have been moved Your are at …
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Photo by Hamid Masoumi This question of the responsibility of love continues to live in me. I wrote a comment at Dave Pollard’s blog that captures another facet of it: Love IS a social issue and engaging in the world with love is a bit of a trick. It not only accelerates innovation and “better”, it is a double edged sword too. I think there is such a thing as “the responsibility of love” which refers to the way we wield the weapons of the heart in the world when we are working in the territory of open heartedness. When …
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Otto Scharmer’s keynote was yesterday evening and here is our harvest of that… Otto began by talking about The Blind Spot of Leadership…missing the deeper way we human beings relate to one another in the social field. What is missed here is the deeper dimension that is always there but usually not attended to. Why can’t we see this blind spot, that is the source of all of our doing? What can we do about being blind to this source? We are blind to this because we focus on results and process, and not the sources of these two things. …
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I’ve been in this inquiry lately about the responsibility of love, by which I mean that the work of supporting open heartedness comes at a cost. It;s not that we need to stop supporting open heartedness, just that we have to do it with a degree of care and consciousness. Rob Paterson today posted a photo that captures this dilemma, along with a post about NGOs in a messy world.
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Battle Creek, Michigan, USA I’m reading a marvellous little book called “Dispatches from the Global Village” by my friend Derek Evans. Derek is a remarkable individual, having most notable served two terms as the Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International. He now lives in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and is the spouse of my long time homeopath, Pat Deacon. What I really like about Derek is that he embodies a certain tempered optimism that the human species is capable of great things despite it also being capable of unimaginable acts. Derek has assembled a book out of a …