First was a link in a message that was called: Food crisis out of control. One of the links was a kind of scientific report on the food crisis, its causes and the questions it raises around possible solutions. I found it a good article, although it is written from the perspective of the big organisations. It raises the question in the end about how it would be possible to hear the voices of the poor...
Next came an email from Toke Møller, who is hosting with a lot of his mates the Food and Society USA conference 2008. Below is what he wrote. For me it gives an answer to the questions raised in the article above.
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After six weeks of joy and silence, I'm back again. I am extremely grateful to all that have been working hard and sharing at the Art of Hosting Training in Belgium. First let me share my experiences after Belgium with you.After Belgium I have used the Chaordic Path and the U Movement in coaching a risk manager at a Dutch multinational shipyard company and in a proposal for introducing enterprise risk management in a Dutch Cattle Feed multinational. The reaction to the proposal has been good and I will embark on a 10 day consultancy assignment starting May 28. read more »
Dear Vibeke and Koen,After a month of joy and silence, I'm back again. I am extremely grateful to all that have been working hard and sharing in Belgium. Vibeke, thanks for starting up Barefoot into Business. read more »
Tenneson Woolf, one of the Art of Hosting Stewards, has some interesting content in his blog. I am particular fascinated by these simple principles, which will lead us to emergence. They were shared by Debbie Frieze, co-director of Berkana.
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Yesterday evening I was reading through some of the blogs, and one that I go to now and then is the one of David Sibbet. He has many professions and passions, and one is about graphic recording. Look at this blog post with a little video, and you get a sense of what harvesting can be... Scroll down and up in the blog to read more about it...
This message started out as an email reply to Erik Mathijs' blog post on the Art of Hosting Transtions, and when I finished writing it, I realized that more people maybe interested in it, so decided to post it here.
Some fellow hosts asked me a year ago, to open a conversation on knowledge gardening and how it can support the AoH community. It feels to me this is the right time to start a collaborative, 6-week long action research into that topic. To take a reality check, I want to invite 3 to 5 mates for a learning conversation focused, initially, on this question (or an upgrade of it):
What practices and tools can be the most useful for seeding and feeding the knowledge garden,
in the current, coalescing phase of the global AoH community of practice?
A transition is a process in which the existing system of structures, institutions, culture and practices are broken down and replaced by new ones. This shift is a non-linear process in which a system moves from one dynamic equilibrium to another one. Transitions thus concern large-scale processes that cover at least one generation with interactions between different scale levels. read more »
