Author Archives: Steve
The Peace of Wild Things ~ Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on … Continue reading
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Reflections on Chaordic Stepping Stones
The following are reflections in response to questions from a group of Indian practitioners. This group is in the early stages of co-creating and nurturing the development of a ‘Community of Practice’ (COP) among hosting practitioners in India. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of Hosting, chaordic, Chaordic Stepping Stones, Communities of Practice
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If You’ve Come to Help Me
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
~ Lila Watson
The Angel ~ Rilke
The Angel
With a slight tilt of his forehead he rejects
everything that hems in and obliges;
for the wide circles of the eternal Coming
move hugely erected through his heart.
The deep heavens stand before him full of shapes,
and each may call to him: … Continue reading
Disciple of Life ~ Tao Te Ching
Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard… Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.
~Tao Te Ching
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Play ~ Charles Eisenstein
Childhood play is practice in the exploration of limits, the loosening of inhibitions to creativity, the creative dialogue with the environment, the reimaging of the world presented us. Play is not enslaved to a preset end, but allows the end … Continue reading
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The Weight of My Carbon Footprint
I have been haunted for the past week by an interchange on Facebook in which I was accused of being a hypocrite because of the amount of air travel I do and the excessive contribution that this makes to atmospheric … Continue reading
Updated Map of Where I’ve Been
Grateful for the journey and the wonderful places I have experienced, the people that I have met and the meaningful ways that I have been allowed to contribute.
So many places left to visit. So much work yet to be done. … Continue reading
Self-Organisation, Open Source Learning and Participatory Leadership in Crisis
Here is a link to the article that I wrote about my experiences attempting to apply participatory leadership practices during the ‘refugee crisis’ in the Balkans in 2015. Gratitude to the Journal of the Association for Management Education and Development for publishing … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of Hosting, Balkans, learnings, Participatory Leadership, reflections, refugees
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Election Reflections 2016
What to say? How to make sense of the election results? I am still in shock at the end of the first long day of living with the reality of President Trump. And I am curious to observe myself and … Continue reading