It has been a light week of blogging – I’m taking some time off. At any rate, here are a few notes I’ve collected.
- The Tällberg Forum: Every year all sorts of interesting people gathering in Sweden to ask questions like “How on Earth can we live together?” You can follow along with their conversations. (via The World Cafe blog)
- Photography of stones from Douglas Ledbetter and Ashley Cooper.
- Had some pieces of anarchy come through the filter this week. First, Rukavina on anarchist babysitting, next Pollard on possibility and third, “Anarchism in America” a great full length film. And then, a lightweight look at the legacy of anarchy (bottom up organizing, at any rate) in the corporate world as customers, and managers.
[tags]Tallberg Forum, photography, Douglas Ledbetter, Ashley Cooper, Peter Rukavina, Dave Pollard, anarchy, anarchism[/tags]
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Dave Pollard on learning, community and entrepreneurship
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Mark Blair stays up all night to market The Age of Conversation using all of the best web tools available.
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A beautiful visual and text post from Amanda, a woman whose experience of randomness is filtered through autism and her own way of communicating with the world.
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The Taoist classic of strategy, complete and online.
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A beautiful observation on the art of staying and being. A must read for cross-cultural communicators, and anyone non-native working in indigenous communities.
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Annette Clancy on the facilitator’s toolbox: “One of the things I do bring to the table is my ability to listen and more importantly, my ability to hear.”
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Na’cha’uaht on the real work in indigenous communities: “Political and legal efforts to achieve reconciliation are mostly disappointing and somewhat esoteric to average community members. In contrast Nicole Cross…believes that the consciousness and
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Moreisheba’s Tao
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Excellent article on what is being lost in karate
From a lecture by Phillip K. Dick called “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later”:
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
My partner Caitlin is a master of compassionate inquiry. For years she has been working with Byron Katie’s work, using it with herself, in her coaching practice and with our family. She was recently interviewed for Byron Katie’s next book on how the work has changed her parenting, and that interview appeared today on Katie’s website.
A bonus she has discovered in her new way of being is that her children involve her more in their processes. They trust her to be present and simply curious with them about whatever they’re dealing with. Together, they come up with ideas and create solutions to problems and conflicts. “They know I’m with them–present in the moment and not gone, lost in all those thoughts as I search for my Parenting Plan and Theory…In that clear place we can really hear each other and connect, and there are so many more options and possibilities.”
It’s what we try to do daily with our kids and also in working with clients.
[tags]Byron Katie, Caitlin Frost, parenting[/tags]