Otto Scharmer’s keynote was yesterday evening and here is our harvest of that… Otto began by talking about The Blind Spot of Leadership…missing the deeper way we human beings relate to one another in the social field. What is missed here is the deeper dimension that is always there but usually not attended to. Why can’t we see this blind spot, that is the source of all of our doing? What can we do about being blind to this source? We are blind to this because we focus on results and process, and not the sources of these two things. …
I’ve been in this inquiry lately about the responsibility of love, by which I mean that the work of supporting open heartedness comes at a cost. It;s not that we need to stop supporting open heartedness, just that we have to do it with a degree of care and consciousness. Rob Paterson today posted a photo that captures this dilemma, along with a post about NGOs in a messy world.
Battle Creek, Michigan, USA I’m reading a marvellous little book called “Dispatches from the Global Village” by my friend Derek Evans. Derek is a remarkable individual, having most notable served two terms as the Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International. He now lives in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and is the spouse of my long time homeopath, Pat Deacon. What I really like about Derek is that he embodies a certain tempered optimism that the human species is capable of great things despite it also being capable of unimaginable acts. Derek has assembled a book out of a …
I’m back home after a long seven days of travelling to Alert Bay, Courtenay, Victoria, Seattle, Quinault and home again. I have been doing some fun work with great people, but I’m pretty tired now, and resting here in the warm heart space of home and reflecting on how lucky I am to get to do what I do. It brought to mind a quote from Aristotle that my mate Tim Merry has put into a recent Art of Hosting journal: Where the needs of the world meet our passion and gifts, there lies our vocation. I’m lucky …
Last week Dave Pollard, author of How to Save the World interviewed me for his first podcast. We had a lovely conversation about essential human capacities, Open Space, unschooling and leadership. Head over to Dave’s quite excellent and prolific blog and have a listen. You can also download the podcast here. And thanks to Dave for inviting me in.