This workshop debuted at Australasian Change Days in Sept 2021. — Complexity is one attribute of the renowned fearsome foursome of VUCA, and it alone can easily generate the other three: volatility, uncertainty and ambiguity. Typically we have a deep desire to find a single solution to a problem, an answer we can ‘take to […]
Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity – Workshop Read More »
Yesterday evening I attended my course on Pollinator Stewardship (which I’m attending as part of a grant to create an educational pollinator garden through PollinateTO, Project Swallowtail, LiveGreen & the City of Toronto) (check out our garden here!). This week was focused on the perspective of Indigenous peoples on pollinators which was pretty fabulous. Some
Miijmaakijige: ‘bait’ and co-evolution in indigenous natural culture Read More »
Using musical structures and techniques, stories and exercises we’ll explore ‘home/safety’, disruptive change, curiosity and courage.
NOT IN KANSAS: CURIOSITY, DISRUPTIVE CHANGE & THE BLUES’ – Workshop Read More »
On Saturday I had the great pleasure of giving a workshop at Berlin Change Days 2020. The theme of this year’s event (happening simultaneously with Toronto Change Days – BCD & TCD were all together for a while!) was ‘Building Bridges’ and I gave a workshop which reflected on a poem I had written about
Transcontext, Unknowing, and a Perilous Suspension Bridge Read More »
I took this photo of a tree branch pinioned into a piece of metal fence.It was left on the floor of a house I was doing construction in, and I obviously found it very striking. The branch appears to have been pierced – as if on a torture rack – by the metal. It looks
Disruptive situations, which break us out of ‘Who We Are’ – our normal routines, our normal ways of relating, our webs of significance and commitments – can create an opportunity for increasing connectedness.
How Disruption Can Open Possibilities for Curiosity, Creativity & Connection – Workshop Read More »
The Poetry of Perilous Passages is a poetic insight journey into bridges and crossings, and the potential of building resilience in suspense and uncertainty.
The Poetry of Perilous Passages – Workshop Read More »
Covid-19 is a virulent disruption and a crisis with already tragic consequences. Disruption and crisis strike to the core of an identity, a paradigm, requiring a structural, systemic, transformative adaptation. In the midst of the crisis the direction of that adaptation is uncertain: there is possibility, and there is peril.
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We sow seeds of wild chaos across
your rows of ordered symmetry.
We rewrite blind rites
tying them to meaning.
We reroute ruts so they reach streams,
and dig down deep
so your source
bursts forth.
TABOO Taboos surround wounds like highway hazard signs: Avalanche Area,Beware of Falling Rocks,Wildlife Corridor,Deer Crossing. Severe Storm Area,Rumble Strips,Steep Hill,No Pedestrians. Fog Area,Road Slippery When Wet,Icy, Hairpin Curve,Circular Intersection. Give Way,Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers: State Prison. One Lane Bridge,No Shoulder,No Left Turn, No Right Turn, No U Turn. Yield,Stop,No Entry,Dead End. Behind and beyond