My friend Jeff Aitken has been a strangely influential person in my life. He has been an interesting guide across intercultural spaces, helping me to frame and see my own journey as a person of mixed ancestry facilitating cross-cultural groups and helping to find the creative spark in the space that are created when we all claim our centres and show up whole. Jeff and I met in 2001 and have had a few conversations over the years, but I’ve always felt very close to him. Now at his blog rio grand-i-o, he is posting his doctoral thesis …
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A new blog from my friend Dustin Rivers about the elder Harriet Nahanee who was aressted for protesting the destruction of Eagle Ridge Bluffs across the water from my place here on Bowen Island. These bluffs, a rare dry cliff with a huge arbutus grove, were razed for a bypass in the service of the 2010 Winter Olympics over much opposition. She was sentenced to 14 days in prison for an act of civil disobedience. In prison she contracted an illness and died a few weeks ago. There is a movement to have her death investigated, and you can follow …
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Horseshoe Bay, BC This has been a most interesting day. On the one hand it has been the worst day of travel I think I have ever had, trying to returnt to BC from Ottawa by way of Toronto through a terrible winter storm. Bu the way Air Canada got me home was absolutely superb. I was impressed beyond belief at the efficiency of things today. It meant that truly the only thing that wasn’t cooperating was just the weather. So my day began early as a storm rolled into Ottawa, winds coming up the Valley …
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Ottawa, Ont. I’m here in Ottawa at the National Aboriginal Forestry Association meeting threading some World Cafe work into their annual conference. This is a real time harvest of the work we are doing. This conference is bringing together about 130 people to dust off recommendations that were made by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ten years ago. We are looking specifically at about a dozen recommendations relating to forestry. Certainly much has changed in the past ten years, but there are some essential things that would allow First Nations to take over much more control of their resources …
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Back in the fall I published The Tao of Holding Space (.pdf), a small ebook I had been working on for a number of years. It seemed to get the attention of Lyn Hartley from Fieldnotes, the online journal of the Shambhala Institute. She ran a little interview with me, and this month it appeared in the most recent issue. The interview covers the origins of the book and then we get into some detail about my facilitation practice and the underlying foundation for the way I work. Thanks to Lyn for the interest in my work.