Over the past few years, I have enjoyed watching Otto Scharmer’s practice develop as he moves between the world of high level systems thinking and grounded facilitation practice. The first book he helped write, Presence, was a lovely distillation of his reasearch and I have been working a lot with his new book, Theory U, with its grounding in practice, to work with networks and communities who are trying to access the source of their collective futures. I have also appreciated his willingness to openly share the tools he and the presencing community have been developing at the Presencing Institute …
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Last summer at The Shire, in Nova Scotia, Jon Guilbert and Dianna Dunham from Gandy Dancer Productions brought a camera and filmed us in our work and retreat as we discussed and considered the Art of Hosting community of practice and what it was offering to the world.. The resulting six minute film is a beautiful capture of some of my closest professional friends at a sweet time in our working relationships with one another. It reminds me of the deep gratitude I hold for them and the love and respect that we share with one another. It …
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Apropos of the fact that Tim Merry, Monica Nissen and I are hosting a module on the Art of Intergernational Hosting at this year’s Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership in Action, comes this quote from Jack Ricchiuto: Every aging generation questions whether the generation coming of age has what it takes to learn into maturity as defined by the aging generation. Easy for each to think it knows better than the other. The fact is that they will always know more together than they could in isolation or competition. Hierarchy has the relevance of fossils. In an age of wisdom, …
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From our Art of Hosting gathering that concluded here on Bowen Island today comes a great line from my friend Christie Diamond: “Conversation begins before it starts, continues after it ends and doesn’t always involve words.” Brilliant, because once you understand THAT, you embark on the path of mastery. Update: Dave Pollard has posted a nice harvest of his learning at our gathering.
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One of the great things about working with Tenneson Woolf is that he is a pretty careful note taker. He usually has a good blog post tucked away before I even get home, and the same is true today. Have a read of what he noticed in our work together with the Canadian Union of Public Employees this past week, working with union developers and educators – a marvelous group of people, full of heart and life and love and solidarity. The very best of what we are.