I think I first met Kelvin Wong when I was doing some work with the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers a couple of years ago. At that time he was in Alberta, but now he’s over on Vancouver Island, studying CompSci and Software Engineering at the University of Victoria, and he has a weblog: Native Technology Blog. He’s posting sporadically at the moment, but hopefully he’ll pick it up. He already has some interesting links on accessibility and definitions of Native Technology. Nice to have another Aboriginal voice in the blogosphere.
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Just off of an amazing Skype conversation with Jack Ricchiuto who is the second person I’ve talked to about my suicide prevention project. We spoke about what an appreciative perspective might look like and what kinds of design questions might help to shape a community forum. Jack pointed me to his work on a process called DreamSpace whic is in his book on appreciative leadership. DreamSpace focusses on seven questions: What kind of pictures of our community 20 years from now would be attractive to us? Where are there alignments among our collective versions of the future? Where are there …
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I recently posted an invitation to help me design an appreciative summit and bits and pieces of a project designed to address Aboriginal youth suicide in north western BC. A small group of people have responded to that invitation from Ireland, India, the UK and right here in BC. Last night I had an amazing Skype conversation with Wendy Farmer-O’Neill from Gabriola Island, across the Strait of Georgia from Bowen Island, where I live. We spoke about ways to represent the voice of the community and the loss from suicide in policy discussions. We also spoke about ways to connect …
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Organizations, leaders, people – in short, sponsors – who decide to take responsibility for convening an Open Space meeting often wonder what their role can be afterwards. In working recently with a community I asked the question to gather perspectives and one answer stood out: Be good stewards of passionate enterprise That’s a lovely way to talk about holding space for learning, action or development. Technorati Tags: leadership, openspace
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On the OSLIST today, a question about success: If maintaining control means avoiding success…then what is the motivation for people maintaining that control? Is there another kind/aspect of success in play? Often people expect big things from organizational development “interventions.” They wouldn’t do so otherwise. Retreats, planning sessions, Open Space forums…all come with the expectation that doing something significant will change things significantly. In working with sponsors I do have conversations about what transformation really means and how willing people are to transform themselves to meet the new world they are wanting to be born. There is a real stretch …