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Practicing active reciprocity

November 29, 2022 By Featured, First Nations, Philanthropy One Comment

It’s Giving Tuesday and if you are in Canada and looking for places to donate money, I encourage you to head over to a new website launched and hosted by The Circle on Philanthropy which connects Indigenous communities and funders, foundations and donors. The new website is called The Feast House and it is a place where you can donate directly, abundantly and without restriction to Indigenous-led organizations and projects across the country. It also contains links to articles, podcasts and videos to hep you learn more about giving and philanthropy in an Indigenous context Donating money to Indigenous-led work …

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How we have hidden women’s soccer from Canadians

November 27, 2022 By Featured, Football No Comments

Christine Sinclair, photo by Ray Terrill, CC AT-SA 2.0 I have been loving watching Canada back in the men’s World Cup for the first time since 1986. And while this has been going on on social media and in the broadcasts, a number of people have been insisting that we remember that this is the Men’s World Cup and that Canada has been long known as a dominant force in international soccer on the women’s side. There are two FIFA run World Cups for senior teams. And it’s mind boggling how invisible our achievements on the global stage have been …

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A Sunday in transition

November 27, 2022 By Being, Bowen, Featured, Football One Comment

It feels like a day of transitions. The weather is clear today, and a strong westerly pummeled Vancouver overnight. It is sunny now, but the cold air and sea level snow that is a hallmark of an El Niña winter is upon us for later in the week. So time to chop some more wood and harvest the last of my salad greens from the garden. Canada’s men’s national soccer team lost to Croatia this morning our Alphonso Davies scored the first goal for Canada’s men’s team in world cup history and it was a beauty. The above photo is …

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The theology of the Art of Hosting

November 24, 2022 By Art of Hosting, Being, Collaboration, Community, Complexity, Emergence, Featured, Flow, Learning, Podcast, Practice 2 Comments

In the Art of Hosting world we have a few shared core teachings that show up in nearly all the learning workshops that happen. At some point we talk about complexity – we usually explore the Chaordic Path as a simple introduction into complexity – and we always touch on the Four Fold Practice of the Art of Hosting. Back in 2014 I was doing a project with the United Church of Canada looking at the different levels of their structure in British Columbia and imagining what they could also be. If there is one thing that Churches have consistently …

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Joel Waterman, Canada’s soccer teams, supporter culture, and a community of dreams.

November 22, 2022 By Featured, Football No Comments

Canada National Team player Joel Waterman, playing in 2017 for TSS Rovers, the club I co-own with more than 300 community owners. I want to tell about how I came to own part of a semi-pro soccer team, and how one of the men’s team players who played for us in 2017 is about to step on the field for Canada in the men’s World Cup. Tonight somewhere in Qatar, a young man from Aldergrove BC is lying down in his bed and hoping he can get some sleep. Joel Waterman was named to the 26 player Canada National Men’s …

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