This week when I popped into the grocery store I found a crowd got there before me. The lines were so long for the self check out that I joined one of the ordinary checkout lines.
We inched along and I finally saw why. The cashier was a much older man, but obviously new at the job. He was turning e...
At the beginning of November I was a guest at the Rotterdam Change Days. Started as the Berlin Change Days about 15 years ago, this event is now moving from place to place and also happening online.
This year's theme was "At Work in the Ruins," taken from the book of the same title by Dougald Hine,...
During the Art of Hosting training in Innsbruck last week, someone posted a session in Open Space that really caught my eye -- What does potential need to become visible?
You might also ask it like this: What is needed in me/us to be able to notice the potential that is hidden in every moment, e...
Where are your places of practice? Who is your community?
Back in 2008 I was part of a conference hosting team in Takayama, Japan. We were invited by the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), the forerunner of the International Association of Facilitators, to host the different parts of the then UN ...
They say that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I've also learned that if the inquiry is sincere, the opportunity arises...
Since the beginning of the year I have been journeying with the question: "What is life helping me see about my journey into eldership and stewarding?" So I shou...
On Monday I celebrated my birthday in Tisvilde, a small town I like very much on the Northern coast of Denmark. At the intersection of forest and ocean there's a stillness and a slowness that feels like a blessing.
Last night I sat on a rock talking with a friend on Facetime, showing her the house ...
Interested in the real reason leaders don't use participatory practice with their people?
Just before I left for Sweden at the end of May to co-host an in-house Art of Host training, I interviewed my friend and long-time CEO Phil Cass. I wanted to know both how he had come to participatory practice a...
One of the great joys of my work is the opportunity to peek behind the scenes in organisations and teams to help them find their courageous stories and host them to life.
I spent all last week in Malmö, Sweden alongside a team hosting a team into being through what we called "The Art of Leading Toget...
If you listen more deeply to the conversations around you, what are the themes you're hearing? Yesterday I was in conversation with David Hutchens, who told me he's been thinking a lot about the conversations he's been part of and how he's beginning to muse on love as a leadership capacity.
I remem...
I've been in some good learning over the past weeks. Most of it was amazingly generative and connecting. Some of it was disturbing. A bit of it happened solo with my eyes closed. And all of it points to the unique choices we are making now.
In the dojo
At the end of May I headed to a "Dojo for Doj...