One of my favourite cards in the Group Works Pattern Deck is Reflection Action Cycle – both for working with groups as well as my own personal practice. Each New Year I pause to look back at the previous year to reflect and learn, and then dream about the coming year. This year I used a combination […]
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Long Walk to Freedom
I read Nelson Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom last year. It was one of my favourite books of the year. Here are a few excerpts: I had been reading my speech, and at this point I placed my papers on the defense table, and turned to face the judge. The courtroom became extremely quiet. […]
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Be a Yuletide Storycatcher
After receiving a set of Joanna Powell Colbert’s Gaian Tarot I’ve enjoyed her occasional newsletters that arrive in my inbox. Today’s led me to a post of her’s from last year about hosting a winter solstice story circle. In it she has one of my favourite quotes about the power of story from Christina Baldwin: Story […]
Sometimes, there are gatherings where next steps and action plans are important and necessary and are the reason why we are gathering. But always? No. ~ Chris Corrigan This post shares a compilation of insights from various thought leaders in the participatory process facilitation world to help shed light on when action planning could be […]
I adore this website – I laugh, almost-cry, gasp, and awe (ahhh!) at humanity. It captures our craziness, our thoughtfulness, our capacity to endure; a little bit of storycatching happening on the interwebs. Each post has a picture and a little write up that goes along with each photo. Sometimes profound. Sometimes silly. Check it out […]
Sharing this post I wrote for the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance for their Making A Scene Conference 2012: Cultivating Change Through Conversation at Making A Scene 2012 Margaret Wheatley wrote, “Human conversation is the most ancient and easiest way to cultivate the conditions for change – personal change, community and organizational change, planetary change. […]
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Being Free
Thinking about this piece from Starhawk (Dreaming the Dark) after meeting up with some Art of Hosting mates tonight: Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, […]
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Sitting in Stillness
Searching back through archives for some process design ideas and came across this reminder of the value of inviting people to sit in the silence, the stillness. From Stephen Mitchell’s 2006 translation of the Tao de Ching, Chapter 15: Tao Te Ching #15 The ancient Masters were profound and subtle. Their wisdom was unfathomable. There is […]
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What Must You Lose?
These are good words for me. It reminds me of a shadowy part of me that is afraid of not doing things right. So for me, to live a creative life I must lose my fear of not doing it right. Yes.
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On Power and Love
“To be able to break down the barrier of space between self and other, yet at the same time to be able to maintain it, this seems to be the paradox of creativity.” ~ from The Forms of Things Unknown Coming across this quote prompted me to go back and explore the notes I took […]