It seems almost intuitive that there should be a connection between seeing and vision. Certainly in the physiological processes, seeing is what you do and vision is what you have. You can still see if you have bad vision, but you can’t see well. I have been reading Presence by Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworsky and Betty Sue Flowers very slowly now for a few months and it’s time to start posting from it. The book is really about the evolution of Otto Scharmer’s Theory U, which is a map for looking at how people reach down into their …
I’m an Open Space Technology guy, but that doesn’t cloud my eyes to other forms of self-organizing tools. From the ever interesting Designing for Civil Society comes a report from David Wilcox on a speed dating process to form communities of practice. In 35 minutes.
Lately I’ve been using this saying a lot: The scary part about the lunatics taking over the asylum is that they tend to lock themselves back in their cells. How many times have we seen that, eh? People get control of something, find “liberation” only to lock themselves back into the very cells from which they freed themselves. It happens in organizations, families, communities, and even in the relatively geological timescales of countries that begin in revolution against despotism only to end up back there again as much as, say, 200 odd years later.
Just flying between facilitation gigs. Vancouver Island one day, Ottawa the next with just a breath to catch at home. While I’m here I caught some changes to Michael Herman’s project at the Giving Market. He has created sCNN – The small Change News Network: “The small Change News Network is for connecting all kinds of small gifts and donations, news of small successes, plans for small improvements, and Little Individual doers in ways that can make a big difference. sCNN invites Active Citizens to share their personal passion, unique gifts, spare time, financial resources, community connections, life skills and …