Harrison Owen – new age guru!
To celebrate the New York Times’ inspired decision to finally open up it’s archives to the public for free, here is a link to a famous article from 1994 on Harrison Owen, Open Space and Rockport shoes.
And as a bonus, here’s another from 1988, on the work of “New Age consultant” Harrison Owen who helped Owens-Corning Fiberglass find some spirit. This man has been ahead of his time for 30 years.
[tags]openspacetech, harrison owen, rockport, owens-corning[/tags]
My friend Peter Rukavina is a pretty good traveller. He usually make a couple of trips a year to Europe, some with family in tow, and he offers this wonderful guide to travelling in the continent, RuK style.
Tom Hurley and George Por enjoy a laugh in Belgium
George Por is a friend and an occaisional co-conspirator and colleague. What I appreciate about George is that he has been in this game a long time. He has been ahead of the curve for years – decades in some cases – with respect to the web, social networking and evolutionary consciousness and as such he has an uncanny perspective on things.
For a few years now he has been working with a number of thinkers in looking at Otto Scharmer’s Presencing ideas. Today I read a long and interesting piece from George about one aspect of Presencing practice: social presencing theatre. It’s worth a read, if only to see what George is thinking about these days. He blogs far too infrequently for such a curious and delighted soul.
[tags]George por, presencing, social presencing theatre[/tags]
Carman Pirie with a nice bit of noticing:
The good folks at Facebook are facing a bit of a backlash after closing the account of at least one Canadian mother whose snaps of her nursing her child were deemed obscene.The Facebook group “Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” is gaining members as fast as Angelina Jolie’s fan club…. all of them rather put off by all of this.
The way I see it, the rules have changed. Just because you’ve built (and could sell for an incredible amount of cash) a social network like Facebook, doesn’t mean you own it. The users own it. Facebook can learn this now, or learn it later – but learn it they will.
My advice: take the same ingenuity used to create Facebook and build a self-governance framework for users. Human beings have a remarkable capacity for self-governance when the conditions are right.
This is pretty basic chaordic theory really…. determine the minimum amount of order required, then get out of the way. Control is not the answer.
[tags]facebook, chaordic[/tags]
From a collection of pictures made in 1910 in France about what life might be like in 2000. With thanks to AKMA for the link (who is another unschooling parent).
I didn’t champion the Great Canadian Homework Ban this year (although everything I wrote last year still stands) but my kids and I enjoyed a nice not-back-to-school week. My six year old son and I spent Thursday down at our local golf course hitting buckets of golf balls into an azure blue sky, while the smoky blue mountains of Vancouver Island shimmered in the distance. All the other kids were back at school and the adults were back at work and we had the whole place to ourselves. Enjoying September days like this is one of my favourite side benefits of having a life learning family.