Dec/10/09//Curtis Ogden//Collaboration
In the abyss I saw how love held bound
Into one volume all the lives whose flight
Is scattered through the universe around.
-Dante Alighieri, from The Divine Comedy
“What’s love got to do with it?” This is a question that gets raised with increasing frequency in our work at IISC. Recently, while training a group of health care reformers from around the state of Maine, I presented what we call our “Profile of a Collaborative Change Agent,” which outlines the core attributes of those who, in our experience, are able to maintain a win-win outlook even in the most trying of circumstances. Sitting conspicuously at the heart of the Profile (see below) is “the L word.” Nodding heads and knowing smiles, in Maine and elsewhere, are an indication of the growing willingness to seriously consider the role of love in social change work.
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Dec/08/09//Gibrán Rivera//Race, Class, Power
Part 2 of Three Lenses for Collaboration
Last week I started writing about the Interaction Institute for Social Change and our three lenses of collaboration. We are talking about the sort of collaboration that is needed if we are to address the evolutionary challenges that define this historical moment. We are talking about collaboration that catalyzes our collective wisdom and capacity to think new thoughts, the sort of collaboration that allows us to maximize our shared resources while inviting us to live ourselves into the world we are trying to build. This is why I call this the lens of democracy, because it is the lens through which we define the best possible ways of being-with. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dec/07/09//Marianne Hughes//Inspiration
It is our tradition at IISC at the beginning of every year to send out one of our “classic” postcards to all of our constituents reflecting on the year past and the year to come as well as to announce our upcoming training schedule. As I was writing the introductory paragraph for this years’ I happened to stumble across what I had written last year. With the exception of last years’ reference to “renewed hope for reinvigorating civil society” (this was before the inauguration), I was struck by the similarities and the focus on the ultimate paradox. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dec/04/09//Melinda Weekes//Inspiration
Fatigued?
Delighted yet dazed by 68 degrees in December… in New England?
Feeling a sense of a long stretch until year’s end?
Counting the days before another holiday break? Read the rest of this entry »
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