Sometime about 30 years ago, maybe more, I had a dream, just a fragment, which I still remember vividly.There was a tiger in a coal mine,and it was trapped down there by a manic and harsh master,dressed like a circus lion tamer;skinny man in black coattails, a top hat, with a stick.That was it.Never forgot […]
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Download a PDF The way up is the way down.* Out at the edge of the worldtectonic plates,continental shelves,are cataclysmically shifting;colliding,grinding together,crushing and buckling and crumpling,breakingthe surface of the earthopenforcing whole oceans of stoneupwards into the sky,and downinto the sea of magma below,bursting forth in flaming lava conflagrations,mountainous volcanoes. The way up is the way
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‘Route, Rig & Reel’ are three very simple words representing three approaches to identity.
They are three ways of responding to the question, ‘Who are you?’.
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Fascinating and provocative explorations of the question ‘Where are you going?’ ‘rooted’ in the question ‘Who are you?’.
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View ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop description POISE to be balanced or suspended; to be ready, a state of readiness; equally weighted, weight bearing, good ‘bearing’. A migratory translibrium. ComplexityStructural complexity vs/and Perceptual complexityI’m approaching complexity as an ‘experience’ we have, rather than an ‘objective phenomena out-there’.“Complex systems are defined by entangled
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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
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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
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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.
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The Poetry of Perilous Passages is a poetic insight journey into bridges and crossings, and the potential of building resilience in suspense and uncertainty.
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