Musings on facilitating effective meetings, public engagement, dialogue, and conversations that foster wholeness and collective learning for more collaborative, sustainable, and innovative outcomes.
I have been remiss adding to my blog since January with my focus taken up with many new ventures, including learning how to paint. Here is a picture of me beside an acrylic painting I submitted as part of the Poets and Painters art show at the South Delta Arts Gallery - it is called Old Light (on the right) and is of an old growth stand backlit through a sunny clearing.
I help clients save time and money with custom-designed and masterfully facilitated meetings, for size, group composition, setting and diversity. The high involvement, participatory, and whole system processes I use will dramatically enhance alignment, ownership, support and implementation success for any situation requiring collaboration.
Co-creative power is the ability of members of a community to act collectively to address common issues, needs and goals. It is collective energy, strength and capacity. Co-creative power is generated by tapping the collective intelligence, knowledge, creativity, and wisdom inherent in human communities. The process of co-creation involves collective learning and collaborative creativity by the interconnected members in a system or community. More: http://www.breakthroughsunlimited.com/co-creative-power.PDF
What are the leverage points for positively transforming and evolving our organizations, communities, and global society?
How can we best tap collective intelligence and generate co-creative power for a more positive and sustainable future?
How can diverse stakeholders collaborate across boundaries (organizational, cultural, political, geographic….) to address the pressing, complex, messy issues and needs of our world?
Books
A Simpler Way, Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers
Artful Work: Awakening Joy, Meaning & Commitment in the Workplace, Richards
Community: The Structure of Belonging, Peter Block
Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, Barbara Marx Hubbard:
Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation, Ellinor and Gerard
Einstein’s Business: Engaging Soul, Imagination and Excellence in the Workplace, Associate Editor – Isabelle St-Jean
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Kaner, et.al.
Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed, Frances Westley
Global Mind Change, Willis Harman
Leadership and the New Science, Wheatley
Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer
Picking Up the Pieces: Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer, Sherri Magee & Kathy Scalzo
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, Flowers
Societal Learning and Change, Steve Waddell
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, Jawarski
The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems, Holman, Devane and Cady
The Turning Point, Fritjof Capra
The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra
Theory U: Leading from the Future As It Emerges, Otto Scharmer
Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future, Margeret Wheatley
Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change, Peter Russell
Winning Through Participation, ICA Methods, Spencer