One of the things I love about the connectivity of the Internet is that I end up finding people in my own backyard who are doing really interesting things. So today, here’s a link to Jessie Sutherland a Victoria BC woman who is pioneering some reconciliation strategies using a set of tools called worldviewing which help people to understand their own world views and those of others. Worldviewing entails three sets of skills: 1. Connecting parties to their fundamental worldview 2. Learning to engage across worldview difference 3. Regenerating Indigenous cultures and re-civilising Western cultures. Jessie is using these strategies …
Sunday I was pleased to sit on a panel on the practice of leadership for the current cohort of learners with the Leadership Vancouver organization. The other panelists were amazing people: Marguerite Ford, Pam Goldsmith-Jones, and Bar-Chya Lee. Each of us spoke for 10 or 15 minutes on practices of leadership, and then we answered questions from the participants. Pam talked about embracing the call to action, quoting from a sign above the bar at the Cactus Club in Vancouver: “The House of Yes.” Marguerite quoted Senator Nancy Heath and said that “a job worth doing is worth doing badly” …
The first view from the surface of another planet’s moon. The European Space Agency probe Huygens has arrived on Titan. This journey of human seeing began in 1655 whenChristiaan Huygens discovered the moon with a telescope. Since then, human beings have wondered more and more about Saturn’s biggest moon. It’s not that hard to see for yourself with a small telescope. In fact, the Saturn system is almost exactly at opposition right now, 750 million miles away from us and that’s as close as it will get this time around. Find someone with a telescope and go have a look …
Over at Wirearchy Jon is putting together a manifesto of his thinking on what interconnected technology means for the way we are with each other in organizations. Could this be the skelton on which the full fledged book on Wirearchy will hang? *hint hint*
Quality posts, head and shoulders above alot of his blogging seniors. Dan Oestreich gets my vote as the new blogger most likely to get me thinking with EVERY SINGLE POST. I’m tempted to advise him not to burn himself out so quickly, but then I wouldn’t have all this great stuff to read! G’wan…get over there and chew on the food he has laid out for us.