Ten pieces of interesting linkage for you collected over the last couple of weeks: An Interview with Martin Prechtel on indigenous soul indirectly via Jeff Aitken Very interesting work on measuring social capital in Northern Ireland Collaborative policy making resources from the Centre for Collaborative Policy via Happenings Youth as e-Citizens, a groundbreaking study on engaging youth activism online via Happenings Bruce Elkin’s resources to support coaching and personal, organizational and community success, including his book Simplicity and Success Nurturing a Faint Call in the Blood: A Linguist Encounters Languages of Ancient America via Jeff Aitken I’ve just spent the …
Great. I wrote a couple of days ago about how hard it is to facilitate in Canada during the hockey playoffs. Tomorrow I’m working with a group and tonight the Vancouver Canucks suffered a spectacular playoff-ending overtime defeat.
I was truly honoured yesterday to sit with 15,000 other people and listen to the Dalai Lame give a talk on Universal Responsibility yesterday in Vancouver. (You can view the video of the talk online) The Dalai Lama was introduced by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in a way that made it feel as if he was introducing a good friend to an audience of good friends. It was a wonderful afternoon. There were many parts of the teaching that resonated, and it will take me a while to process the entire experience. Just being in the presence of these two great …
Elder Sonny Diabo, (Mohawk, Kahnawake)The group I was working with in Montreal this week is assisted by the man pictured above, Sonny Diabo, an Elder from Kahnewake, a First Nation across the river from Montreal. Sonny is a marvelous and generous teacher, and is invaluable to the group. In the contemporary world, we don’t always get time to spend with Elders and so when I have the opportunity, I try to take advantage of it by asking about teachings in certain areas of my life that I am currently thinking about. Recently as evidenced here at the Parking Lot weblog, …
Montreal, Quebec Lucky me, blogging from downton Montreal, where I have been working with a joint working group of First Nations and Inuit organizations and government. I love this city, which is not something you hear every native born Torontonian say. This place is a treasure, a unique incubator of culture and difference that adds heaps of energy to this otherwise homogenous continent. It allows North America to hang around with Europe and African and Asia at all the parties for the cool continents. Without Montreal (and Quebec), NA is the neighbourhood geek with too much money and too much …