I was on a Skype call this morning with my friend Peggy Holman and we were noodling through the agenda for the summit I’m doing in May. Peggy and I are NOT linear conversationalists, and so whenever we talk we get into really delightful eddies and currents that do nothing to enhance our current productivity but which do make us better friends… At any rate, we got talking about how the emergent process we use, like Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space and so on work well because they are based on how we human beings actually relate to and work …
Everyday I troll a bunch of the blogs to the left and there is so much good stuff that I want to share and log here for later, that I’m just going to start publishing these excerpts, if you don’t mind. I realize that this may be a little redundant, republishing links and quotes without adding anything, but this stuff stands on it’s own, and besides, I might just come back to it at some point. So here you are with the latest batch: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Revolution: “The last class I took before I went out on …
The work continues apace on the design of the community summit on youth suicide. I have completed a sketch of the summit agenda which will bear much more fleshing out, but it has been a terrific challenge trying to work with all the ideas of all my conversational partners at the global water cooler and fit these into a short day. At any rate, here’s what I’ve got so far (.doc). If you’re still interested in contributing thinking to this, I’m looking for some really good questions (I have a few in mind which I’ll post soon) and also how …
Prompted by posts by Johnnie Moore Ton Zylstra and David Wilcox, I’ve been thinking about how we might improve conferences. As a facilitator of Open Space Technology and other large group processes, I offer clients ways of radically transforming conferences to make them highly productive. But these meetings require changes in expectations and frames of reference that are sometimes too much for a client to go on. When you are convening an international conference on business and the environment, putting everyone in a circle and placing paper and markers at the centre of the room can sometimes seem too much …
It has happened again. THis time in Kyrgyzstan.