Eeleven pieces of assorted linkage for you today. This stuff is good. Papers by Vivian Hutchinson on philanthropy, community governance and social entrepreneurs. Lessons from the Land: A cultural journey through the Northwest Territories via wood s lot A Case Study in the Construction of Place: Boundary Management as Theme and Strategy in Canadian Art and Life also via wood s lot A Time for Letting Go – on organizational consulting via Jon Husband at Wirearchy Good article on the launch of Maori TV and the preservation of Maori language in New Zealand The Machine in our Heads by Glenn …
Mikk Sarv I wonder what it would be like to live in Estonia? From Mikk Sarv, an Open Space facilitator living there, comes this interesting tidbit of news posted in response to Harrison’s invitation to describe more ways of opening space: Next week we are celibrating this day, 14th of April as Outdoor Learning Day. The day is opened by our Minister of Education and Minister of Environment. For the period from 14th of April till 14th of October all schools, kindergardens and universities try to run as much as possible of the curriculum outdoors. All buds, sprouting seeds, bird …
Photo courtesy of Harrison Owen My friend and mentor Harrison Owen has provided periodic doses of inspiration for me for years now. Today he posted something on the OSLIST that invited a long response from me. Harrison wrote: The morning newspaper comes with all sorts of stores about space closing. Israel is building a fence, the Marines have closed off Falujah, we in the US struggle with the Patriot Act, folks in Spain are wondering when the next terrorists will strike, and how to keep them out . . . It is getting pretty close. And the closer it gets …
Over the past three days I’ve been working with 15 Aboriginal youth from around British Columbia who gathered in Vancouver to work on a couple of projects. What is amazing about these youth is that today we started working on a foundation that will be the basis of support for emerging Aboriginal youth leadership in perpetuity. Ranging in age from 15-29, these young people are undaunted by the minutiae of setting up a foundation. “What we don’t know we can learn; what we can do, we will do.” That pretty much describes the energy. What gives me so much hope …