Hosting an Open Space gathering in Kamloops today with about 40 people who work hard around issues of child and youth health. We are exploring ways to connect differently and do our work at the next level. The conversations have started and the topics are rich. I thought I would put the list here and see if any of you readers in blog land have resources to offer that we can forward to the folks meeting here today. And if you are in Kamloops and do this work, come on up to Thompson Rivers University and join the conversation. Session …
My friend Dustin Rivers is an inspiration. He’s an autodidact, an artist, a catalyst in his community. I’ve known him for about six years, since he was a young teenager. He has always had a remarkable presence and a strong voice and a deep commitment to the thriving resiliance of Skwxwu7mesh culture and language. Over the years he has been developing a number of his skills, including hosting skills so that he could lead community development efforts. He recently hooked up with Evan and Willem from Where Are Your Keys? a language fluency game that builds skills using sign language …
For International Women’s Day this year, Lianne Raymond published a labour of love. What is Dying to be Born is a collection of short pieces of writing and small pieces of art from 30 women. Each little piece is a reflection on a theme, like goodness and compassion and renewal. My favourite piece I think is the one from Danielle LaPorte on the theme of “Genius Heart.” In it she offers a little prose poem that includes these lines: Thee beauty of our DNA is dying to be born: an acceptance of the order of chaos; the reverence of High …
Phil Cubeta poses a set of very good questions about the language we use to think about organizational worlds. He challenges us to see the living systems view with these questions: Questions When we adopt the language of social enterprise, or social investing, or a social capital markets do we embrace metaphors more sterile than those of the fox, loam, carrion, the crop, and the harvest? What is lost when our master metaphors are commercial? Can we engineer solutions to our ills, or can we only be cured? Might the cure be organic, from within, from sources that lie deep …
Chewing on these: Performing the world is a conference in New York this fall. Teaching social media to environmental activists. Lianne Raymond gives the gift of words for International Women’s Day. Rob Paterson on new careers in sustainability. Andre Hardin posts an outstanding video of a Rube Goldberg machine from the band OK Go. Jordon Cooper with a nice find: a video about the photographer BlueJake of New York City.