Today I am celebrating Martín Carcasson, awesome professor of communication at Colorado State University and director of the Center for Public Deliberation at CSU. He recently wrote a post on Linked In wondering about the relationship between “openness” and “judgment”… which is what prompted this blog post. In his post, he writes, “Democracy needs more […]
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I was recently blown away by a deeply powerful post on Linked In. Strategic leadership coach David Hutchens quotes Chilean bioethicist Humberto Maturana, who wrote: “Love is the only emotion that can increase the intelligence of the system.” Then David follows up on this by asking us, “Does that stop you in your tracks like […]
Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a Council on the Uncertain Human Future. It was an extremely rich and rewarding experience, contemplating the existential implications of climate change, in the context of deep community — and I am still planning to write a full-length post about it, soon. However, I got a bit […]
I’ve been wanting to write for a while, on how I see the relationship between listening and social change. As much as I love dialogue… and as passionate as I am about mediation / facilitation (especially the transformative, non-linear, emergent varieties thereof…) I also think it’s key to acknowledge that, on its own, facilitation is […]