I was recently invited to join a school board and school district senior management team for a half-day session. The board experienced a big changeover after the recent election, going from a collective 91 years of service to six years, along with a new superintendent and other newer members of the senior management team. The […]
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One of the questions my friend, colleague and co-teacher Tenneson Woolf has held over the years is about why there are often few(er) men in Circle. I love that he is holding an intention to explore that and shift it. From Tenneson: I wrote this short article to be deliberate about inviting men and women to […]
Excited to share this video of me talking about hosting real conversation, the ancient practice of circle, hosting yourself, and using powerful questions. Gratitude to Ryan Mah & Mahyar Saeedi for their talented video production and editing, and for including me in the Designed to Speak series. If you are curious about learning about circle process, consider joining […]
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Why Circle is the Core
Two recent experiences I’ve been reflecting on about the power of learning “just a little bit of circle”. One was with a group of community peer ambassadors who will be engaging with families on literacy and wellness. The topic for their evening together was “Leadership and Facilitation” – a BIG topic for a two hour […]
Loving Chris Corrigan’s post on Interior Transformation. These two excerpts in particular (emphasis mine)…. I once had a very good friend and teacher, Bob Wing, point this out to me. We were together in a small Open Space, and we were in different conversations. In my conversation a small group of us cracked a vexing problem […]
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Leadership Leaps of Faith
We were about 50 people who gathered for a Vancouver Board of Trade Company of Young Professionals development night. Our invitation was framed as a unique opportunity for collective dialogue with The Vancouver Board of Trade’s new President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Iain Black. After a presentation from Mr. Black, “Leading Like I Know […]
I stopped in for two grande chai tea lattés this morning and it reminded me I had this post brewing (groan! groan!). After reading Pour Your Heart Into It a few years ago I’ve appreciated the story behind the ubiquitous white and green coffee shop and am thankful for the European experience we can find […]
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Nourishment for Leaders
A friend of mine emailed recently. She was looking for some blog feeds that would expose her leadership team to thought provoking leadership ideas, rants and provocative questions. She already had Seth Godin, Fistful of Talent, and Corner Office and wanted to add some other options. I peeked at my current feeds and here were […]
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Death by Reorganization
Clark Quinn wrote something back in November about the epidemic of continual reorganizations and what might be behind it: Really, if an organization is restructuring regularly, it’s probably a sign that it’s trying to adapt structurally to an environment that is increasingly chaotic. And that approach just isn’t going to work anymore. Organizations have to […]
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Art of Hosting – V. Seven
My scribbled notes and mind maps from my recent Art of Hosting experience are now harvested in the previous volumes. I’m left with a feeling that I have not done it justice – how can one truly harvest such an experience as we had on Bowen Island? I know I’ll look back on this in […]