From last year’s gathering at Rivendell here on Bowen Island, Finn Voldtofte on four good life practices: Stay in inquiry, or stay in the ambition to stay in inquiry Stretch beyond what you know Do what you do for the sake of the whole Speak what you see and feel and allow yourself to be corrected by the field As I reflect on the results of that gathering, including the committment I made to be in inquiry around conscious evolution, I realize that Finn’s words have deeply informed my approach to hosting, to leading from within the field. I was …
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Seattle, Washington Here at the Systems Thinking in Action conference doing a variety of things, including playing with my friends Teresa POsakony, Tenneson Woolf, Peggy Holman, Gabriel Shirley, Nancy White, Amy Lenzo and Anne Stadler. We are together co-hosting a conversation space here at the conference which is a place for amplifying the questions and insights that re flowing from the plenary and breakout sessions. This morning, Teresa, Tenneson, Gabriel and I practiced a new form of keynote harvesting. Debra Meyerson, author of “Tempered Radicals” was speaking on her work and we passed around a laptop and recorded …
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Photo by Jeremy I was out surfing this week… Integral strategies – a site in evolution Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men: “Does he finish what he starts? Geniuses almost never do.” Ouch. The new basis of power suits? Shirts that generate electricity. Chaos and fractals – a collection of links Walkabout as pedagogy – Aboriginal unschooling Peer to peer governance RSS feeds explained (thanks Viv) Also from Viv…Pangea Day, a day for viewing the world through it’s own eyes. Richard Oliver on Kairos and Kronos pointe to this article on the same (and his lovely manifesto on Purposive Drift) …
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I have been absorbed lately in a series of photographs about China form an online exhibit called “Humanizing China.” The exhibit is divided into three subject areas: Survival, Relationships and Desires. I have all three loaded into permanenty open tabs in my browser and I spend a few minutes at a time reflecting on these photos. It is like a little mindfulness meditation and a good practice of seeing to just be with these images and reflect on the multitude of untold stories that lie beneath these moments captured with light.
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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 …