Hi folks: I’m getting myself prepared for OSonOS and, like every learning journey, I am preparing a couple of questions for myself. I’m specifically interested in these two issues at the moment: How can we move work from an Open Space event back into the organization’s “business as usual” setting while maintaining the spirit and invitation to transform that OST offers? I’m thinking here specifically of strategy work and an integral approach to strategy. I’m learning about Spiral Dynamics at the moment, and have used Ken Wilber’s integral thinking as a map for my work for years now. So this …
Rob Paterson points to a great article on the amazing evolution of the Wikipedia page on the London bombings. It’s a fascinating example of real time collaboration on design, content and truth.
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Nanaimo, BC The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson For the past little while I have been engaging in a practice I’ve called “making do.” I can’t remember where I stumbled upon this idea, but it has deepend and grown in me as a response to materialist impulses. Materialism and the acquistion of stuff infects so much of our lives, and goes way beyond simply acquiring material goods. We accumulate all kinds of other things too: practices, tools, ideas, paths, teachings. Sometimes, when we are most lost …
Port Alberni, BC I am on the road here, travelling around Vancouver Island hosting conversations with people about what seems like an impossible future. And as we move into discussions about the work we are doing, I find myself more and more focused on finding the questions that help us discern these two subtle presences: the seed of the emergent future crossing the abyss back to our present moment, and the place where our feet fall on the other side of that abyss, the place where we our hearts are all ready present in that desired future. I am facilitating …