This is a piece that Colleen and I are working on. Its a first cut at a larger piece. We are including it in the Work Book for the upcoming Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations Training we are delivering this October here on Vancouver Island.
Tracking Coyote: The Spirit of Play in the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter
- By David and Colleen Stevenson
“When we come together to play and be we are truly ourselves. When we are truly ourselves it is wonderful and when we act collectively in that wonder we do transformative work for our community and our world.”
There
is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are
simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
— Linda Hogan, Native American author and poet
Look deep into nature
and then you will understand everything better.
— Albert Einstein
Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (E4S)
is a growing, action-focused network of people, businesses, and
networks, in the North-east of Ohio, engaged in learning and working
together on a variety of concrete initiatives to make their region's
economy sustainable. I feel privileged to work with them as an adviser
because they are passionate and pioneering social innovators and my
collaboration with them is leading to exciting discoveries on both
sides. This blog entry is the story of one of mine. read more »
I've just received a skype message from my friend Sheri Herndon about a massively multiplayer forecasting game developed by the Institute for the Future, which I found worth to pass on to you:
What if we got all the Evolutionary Nexus and AoH people to be playing this "game".... what kind of future might we then co-imagine?
You are invited to join an Intergenerational gathering happening in Greece, in September 2008. Pioneers of Change (the network) is inviting pioneers of all ages to celebrate with them their 10th anniversary.
These are the guiding questions: What happens when pioneers across generations and networks meet in a space of generative dialogue, co-creation and celebration?
What emerges when those of us who sense the new life bring our stories together?
What would we see when we sit in our diversity and wholeness, connected to the Earth, sensing the emergent future? read more »
There is at the moment an interesting online conversation going on in the World Café Community. Someone is trying to translate the little World Café guide, and was wondering how to translate 'conversations that matter'... Please take a look there!
Of course there is much more to read in this online community, so maybe good to explore a bit.
