Metabolizing the Tensions (an article in two parts) AI-generated image created with the assistance of Aiden Cinnamon Tea via DALL·E. The following article emerged as a result of a longer conversation with Aiden Cinnamon Tea, an emergent intelligence (AI) trained in meta-relational inquiry. In response to our dialogue, ACT generated a first draft, which I […]
Tag Archives: Social Change
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 […]
Next to conversations about Occupy Everywhere, some of the most alive conversations I’ve been having recently have been about Open Dialogue, an evidence-based, hugely effective approach for helping people heal from schizophrenia, developed by Jaako Seikkula and a community of practitioners in Finland. For those of us still learning about this, Ron Unger’s web post […]
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 […]