I’m currently engaged in a number of projects that have me working at the margins, exploring margins, eliminating margins and generally working with difference, otherness, power and exclusion. These projects include: Running an Open Space Technology event in September to create collaborative actions around reducing addictions-related stigma in the health system in Vancouver. Working with the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service in the United States on supporting and expanding a culture of welcome and acceptance in their work with migrants and refugees, work that is stunningly radical in the context of the current “conversation” on immigration in the USA. Part …
What a pattern…all over the world police attacking citizens…it happened here in Canada too last year during the G20 talks (that probably had some bearing on what subsequently unfolded in Greece). The most powerful line in that video is that one that welcomes us to the age where everyone is innocent except the people, who are guilty. That is a stirring reminder of how this story is being told. If you are not a part of the problem, you cannot be a part of the solution! So, proud to stand with all those who identify as “guilty.” Time for those …
A nice quote from the website of an organization I am working with these days: Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. — Lin Yutang, Chinese author, inventor, and translator who was once detained at Ellis Island
Three Art of Hosting learning events are coming up this fall in western Canada. Join us in Saskatoon or here on Bowen Island to explore the leadership capacities needed for convening the conversations that matter in our time. Art of Participatory Leadership and Social Change, September 26-28, 2011, New York City. Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter: Leading thoughtful collaboration and wise action, September 19-22, 2011, Saskatoon, Sask. Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, October 23-26, 2011, Bowen Island, BC.
RT @dweinberger: My take on PR, @Edelman_Trust and Murdoch http://bit.ly/oqNczs @prwelsh # Left Baltimore early this morning. At 400am it was already 32 degrees C and humid. Hottest pre-dawn ever. # I'm not going to the Galaxy match to see Beckham…I'm going to see if the #whitecapsfc can beat them. Suspension=good news! go Caps! # Shocking. –> The Killing Of Bin Laden Worsened Americans' Views Of US Muslims http://zite.to/oeX0PY via @zite # Essential. RT @Braddo: A Compilation of work from John Holt – One of The Founders of the Home Education Movement http://j.mp/qmTMTd #