A bench at Killarney Lake near my home on Bowen Island Recent cool stuff Pulse: a book on the coming age of machines inspired by living systems. The whole book is being published by RSS. The Evolutionary LIfe Newsletter. March edition. Life with Thomas: a two part video about sustainable living at the Dancing Rabbit ecovillage. World cafe image bank. Good quote from Viv: ““Knowledge is knowing you’re on a one-way street; wisdom is looking both ways anyway.” Why I let my 9 year old ride the subway alone. On fostering independence in children and bucking the American climate of …
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For years I have been using and extollng the virtue of wikis (and their cousin GoogleDocs) as collaborative tools. For some reason it seems hard for most people to take them up. Thanks to Euan I found this graphic at wikinomics, and it says it all to me. For best results, take it with this video. Now can we use wikis? Please?
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Photo of the rock wall at Window Rock, on the Navajo Nation, where I was visiting and working last month. Links that I have come across recently: A comprehensive list of theories about how we think, feel and behave. From Vision in Action, a long piece by Elisabet Sahtouris on a Tentative Model for a Living Universe – parts one and two. Thanks to Dave Pollard. Otto Scarmer on The Blind Spot of Leadership. Jordon Cooper prints his list of useful (and mostly free) tools for Windows machines. Peter Merry’s blog. This is my friend Tim’s brother. Helen Titchen-Beeth is …
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Navajo people call human beings “five-fingered” people. This refers to the way that Navajos relate their clan connections using the fingers of their hands. The thumb is “shay”, myself. And each one is imprinted with a unique spiral pattern. This spiral pattern is said to emerge when a child has spirit blown into it be the ye’i – the ancestors, who also produce the spiral of hair on the top of each person’s head. The spiral gives life. From there, each person can recite their clan heritage through the remaining four fingers, their father and mother, their father’s mother and …
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Last wekk I was working with some good friends – Kyra Mason, Thomas Ufer, Ruth Lyall, Jennifer Charlesworth and Nanette Taylor. Together we designed and delivered a one day workshop on what we called “Chaordic Leadership in Changing Times.” The focus of the workshop was collaborative leadership practice and we were asking questions about collaborating around a movement in the child and family services sector in British Columbia. Collaborative leadership practice has a couple of key capacities. First is the ability to be in and hold space for conversations that matter. The second is the practice of developing and holding …