Been thinking about patterns and stories and…thought I would post these quotes to tag to some of the links / people that come up "A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each [...]

Today and the last week’s AND has been a thinking about Caterpillar AND Butterfly. Background: I have been playing with the word "AND" for almost a year now. It seems to be the nicest (re-)addition to my vocaluarly, where possible replacing But. For example, what if we centralized AND decentralized the banking sector? That is [...]

please be aware this may not make sense yet – as I am still making sense of my day and lessons, but I wanted to post what was emerging… Today has been a VERY long day. And I haven’t been awake for more than 11hours yet! It should, by all accounts, be a bad day. [...]

Overview Below please find a musing on the gift of silence, and a lesson learnt through conversation, and some tools and resources. Or perhaps, simply take this as an invitation to enjoy a moment of silence and enjoy that?             I (and other readers) would be interested in hearing your own experiences [...]

What happens to you when you are giving / watching a presentation? How does that differ from how you feel, think and act when you are part of a conversation? Summary: Next time you are considering giving a presentation, why not look at facilitating a conversation instead? More indepth: A story/example: I was invited to a "dialogue" - [...]

Please note: This is version 1.0 in an evolving story. Please add comments about what worked/not for you. If you had the answer to the cure for cancer because of your particular way of thinking about things, would you keep it secret? What if everything you are carrying is as significant to someone else’s world, and the world at large, as [...]

"Life is too precious to take it seriously…" There is joy and laughter in everything! Special thank you’s to the beautiful people I met over the last weekend at the "edge of emergence" dialogue and retreat! It was a privilege to meet you and be part of the changes together..and to find myself and joy again…and to dance! [...]

"What is the future vision we are climbing towards? - What is a future outcome I would like to be part of?" *** A rabbi is watching a group of young boys attempt to climb a very flimsy ladder to the top of a tree. Each boy takes his turn and each, at some point, falls back to the [...]

Keeping in line with the questions theme this week I would like to add a question I heard at a strength based culture change summit I worked on this week: I make a commitment to move from "this is  not how we do that" to "is there a better way to do that?" "is this [...]

"Asking questions is fundamental to the practice of dropping knowledge. There is no better way to initiate a dialog than with a question, no better way to challenge conventional thinking, discover new viewpoints and stimulate fresh ideas…" I have been meaning to post on this ever since a kindly reader of this blog whom I [...]