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Catalyzing the power of collaboration to grow personal, group, and community potential. Restoring bonds of kinship so communities can heal, create, and learn.

New England, USA
Joined March 2011
Ah spring - I had two work meetings as ‘walk and talks’ outside in the woods yesterday. The best!
This kind of listening is the opposite of control and domination in the interpersonal space. As we practiced, you could see how quickly this listening helped people relax and get insights on their situation. 2/2 #leadership #collaboration
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Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within. – Ruha Benjamin
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"If we want a change in culture, the work is to change the conversation. Or, more precisely, to have a conversation that we have not had before, one that has the power to create something new in the world.”- Peter Block, author of Community: The Structure of Belonging
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A simple way to think about #justice: if you didn't know which role or side you were on, would the situation feel just and fair? youtube.com/watch?v=A8GDEaJt…
Love this video of Santa rethinking what kids go through... youtube.com/watch?v=NOGnZHsJ…
we are learning together... Ah. so many beautiful phrases in this video poem via @NoraBateson Thank You! vimeo.com/476473157
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Best teams are ones where everyone can speak (quality of turn taking) and have high social sensitivity #collaboration #socent youtube.com/watch?v=_NqdKdaf…
"The tragedy we face today: most humans are alienated from their vital individuality- their souls- & humanity as a whole is largely alienated from the natural world that evolved us & sustains us." - Bill Plotkin
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“Be #1” or experience oneness. My culture trained me for the former, yet the latter is what I seek. Belonging, warm connection, solidarity.
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"God does not love us if we change; God loves us so that we can change. All mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning." —Richard Rohr
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The most stunning thing living systems can do is to change themselves utterly by creating whole new structures and behaviors…The ability to self-organize is the strongest form of system resilience, the ability to survive change by changing. – Donella Meadows
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