What are the “real communities” that will embody and drive the word change we feel is upon us in such a way that we’ll come through wiser, healthier and thriving Read more
The Challenges of Changing the World
August 31st, 2009 | Posted by in community | community building | Copenhagen | leadership | Millennium Development Goals | transformation | vision - (9 Comments)Challenges of Community and Collaboration
March 9th, 2009 | Posted by in challenge | collaboration | community | Community & Collaboration | emergence | leadership - (0 Comments)Being an aficionado for collaboration, so much so that I’ve created a job for me being a Collaboration Ecologist, recently more often than not I’ve come to inquire into the question, “If, as seems to be the case, many if not most people and organisations in the world seek collaboration and want to become communities … Read more
Community Development Professional’s Principles
January 2nd, 2008 | Posted by in alignment | autopoiesis | collaboration | collective intelligence | emergence | experiment | fair share | leadership | mutual apprenticeship | principles | purpose | self-organization | synergy | win-win - (0 Comments)What is possible cannot be determined by opinions, but only by attempt. And we were determined to make the attempt. – Dee Hock 1. Everybody is a leader ¨ Leading by being Community Development professionals (CDPs) are the change they wish to see. CDPs provide relational and situational information and knowledge to members, who are … Read more
On being Audacious
October 25th, 2007 | Posted by in cooperative spirituality | evolution | Joe Laur | leadership | real priorities | video - (0 Comments)Originally posted by White Rhino this is an inspiring story by Joe Laur from SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, friend and systems thinker was recently at 7th Generation with the SoL Sustainability Consortium. SoL’s soul purpose is to build the capacity in organizations and society to achieve economic, ecological and social sustainability so that … Read more

