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The Perception of Leadership on Group Relations
Listen to what is happening to you and to others and take action at the time that appears appropriate. If the listening is accurate and the time is precise, it is your action that will inspire the action of others….
On How Society Loves to Predict, but It’s All Invented
It is very easy to get caught in the idea that society can predict things that will happen. Stories we tell in…
Convergence and Contrast in Dialogue Conversations
From photography to music to dance, contrast seems to be a key component of the arts. When this was pointed out to…
Do Not Expand Your View. Instead, Pay Attention.
One of the books I enjoyed reading as a kid was Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Part because of the detective stories…
Imaginal Cells | The Caterpillar’s Job to Resist the Butterfly
When I told Elisabet Sahtouris that we were having a retreat program called Butterfly Connection in her native Greece in 2009, she wrote back saying “it is interesting that your message downloaded right after I wrote two emails on butterfly metamorphosis.” Good timing!…
Building Trust for a Sustainable Society
A sustainable society relies directly on our ability to re-generate social participation and spaces to create and sustain trust within our communities. Even if natural systems are good metaphors for designed social systems, they might be misleading….
Speak the World: Creating Ourselves as We Speak
Monologues don’t exist. But sometimes we speak to ourselves, don’t we? And thinking? Isn’t it a kind of monologue? Some other times…
Searching for What is Truth at this Time | A Lesson from Václav Havel
Václav Havel passed away today. There is a great story I heard from a good friend who had the pleasure to meet…
Why #Occupy? – Beyond Political Democracy and Anti-Capitalism
I am really isolated from the urban centres. All I have heard about #Occupy has been from friends and the media. I…
Framework Lock-up: Framed in Simplism
If your mind is on a framework, you have yourself in another place that is not here and in another time that is not now. Are You Framed in Simplism?…