Sensing Change, continued
Sensing Change continued I asked in my last weekly email and on social media how we know that living systems (societies, organisations, ecosystems) are...
Sensing change
Sensing change Last week I posted the following questions on LinkedIn and Twitter: How can we know that living systems (societies, organisations, ecosystems)...
On the outsider
On the outsider I just spent some time in Georgia, talking with people in two municipalities to initiate a pilot Local Economic Development (LED) process. My...
On intentionality, continued
On intentionality, continued I got good feedback on my email last week about intention so I decided to stick with the topic for this week. Of course my...
On intentionality
On intentionality I recently said: Everything we do with intention is not systemic. I can’t really remember in what context I said it but I remember that I...
Two Haikus
Two Haikus Something short this week. I spent most of the week in my second five-day retreat with Philip Shepherd for the 'the embodied present process'...
Ruminations on imagination
Ruminations on imagination Just a few ruminations on imagination this week. It has come up a couple of times recently and I haven’t really made up my mind on...
Finding closure with purpose
Finding closure with purpose I was given this little book by Simon Sinek called Together is Better (Sinek 2016) and asked to choose a quote from the book....
Why systems work feels counter-intuitive
Why systems work feels counter-intuitive Some people told me that my last email I sent last week did end up in their Junk mail folder or did not arrive at...
On knowing and understanding
On knowing and understanding I have read a very interesting article recently on a concept called Tamkeen that is practised in Marokko. The article is called...
What if ...?
What if ...? I am spending this week with Philip Shepherd at a deep dive into his Embodied Present Process. I am enjoying the embodiment work that I started...
On being right
On being right What does it mean to be right? And what right does it give us over others if we think we are right? Is there a right? I have just been mulling...
Can we play?
Can we play? I realised that I am not a very playful person. Particularly, I find it hard to be playful in seemingly serious situations, like in workshops I...
Thinking about purpose
Thinking about purpose During a discussion with some Warm Data folks today I was exploring the idea of purpose as a constraint versus purpose as an attractor...
Can we just go on?
Can we just go on? Last week I was in a meeting with a high-ranking official of the Georgian government. We talked about local economic development (LED)....
Where is the change?
Where is the change? Where is the change? I have stumbled over this question when I was thinking about monitoring and evaluation recently. How to evaluate...
On learning
On learning I have been thinking about learning quite a bit recently, partly because it is a constant presence in my own thinking and being, partly because I...
On being present
On being present Being present in the moment is a topic that has been on my mind recently. In a way, it is connected to the question of how I can be happy in...
Being part of a collective transformation process
Being part of a wider evolution I am acutely aware that I have not yet written this week. I’m going through an intense time at work, which is really...
Rewilding for new vitality
Rewilding for new vitality Who am I these days? Wandering in thought all day rather than go out. Wondering 'bout life, 'bout meaning and doing right with...