Creative responses to events in Charlottesville
There are dozens of possible responses to the recent events in Charlottesville. Perhaps our greatest opportunity right now is to have truly …
A really good new book about dealing with differences
Greg Nees’ Connecting Hearts and Minds: Insights, Skills, and Best Practices for Dealing with Differences is exactly what it says it is. …
Imagine a country imagining its future together. It did!
Within a month of toppling its dictator, Tunisia’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution was bogged down with a struggling transition government and a …
Race, interconnectedness, and co-intelligence
Black lives matter. And we’re all connected. And we’re all co-creating what happens next. What would it be like to co-create cultures …
The meltdown of “jobs” – gloomy and bright
Automation is deleting jobs at an accelerating rate – and there are bright and gloomy implications for that. On the gloomy …
Sixteen Approaches to the Strategic Use of Conversation
It turns out there are many different ways to look at increasing our strategic leverage with conversational initiatives. In January a number …
Using conversations strategically for transformation
The social and global challenges we face arise from the ways our cultures and systems make us think (and behave) as if …
January opportunity #1: Can Conversations on Crises Change Civilization?
Powerful conversations have a track record of impacting individuals and systems in significant ways. Thus, for many of us who practice and …
Moving beyond systemic blocks to caring
The social systems we live in – cultural, economic, political, and the rest – often make it difficult to effectively care. Understanding …
Exploring many perspectives on the Newtown tragedy
There’s a lot of public conversation cropping up in response to the massacre in Newtown. Although not all of it is as creative as it could be, the health of democracy depends on us talking together and opening ourselves to many relevant perspectiv…