Archive for April, 2011

Apr/29/11//IISC//Inspiration

Creating Forever


“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another”.- Toni Morrison


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Apr/28/11//Curtis Ogden//Inspiration

The Will to Meaning

Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor, author of Man’s Search for Meaning . . .



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Apr/27/11//Curtis Ogden//Collaboration

Taking Stakeholders Seriously

“Stakeholder” is a big word in our practice at IISC. When it comes to our collaborative change work, we take  stakeholder analysis very seriously, in certain situations spending a few days to complete this critical task. The aim is generally to surface the names of those groups and individuals who as a sum total will help to ensure that we have the system represented in the room. What this means is pushing people, at times, into uncomfortable places to consider typically unheard voices and those they have outright resisted inviting to the table but without whom they could not hope to make the kind of change to which they aspire.

Typically we engage in a conversation with our clients and partners that asks them identify, in the context of some given change effort, those whose stakes are defined in the following ways: Read the rest of this entry »

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Apr/26/11//IISC//Social Innovation

Laughter, Joy and Friendship

Photo By: Eletrificado

The following blog post was authored by Meg Campbell for the Huffington Post.  Meg is among the 2009 Class of Barr Fellows.  A remarkable educuator, Meg’s understanding of human connection in spaces of learning and transformation is consonant with our approach here at the Interaction Institute for Social Change. Read the rest of this entry »

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Apr/25/11//Gibrán Rivera//Inspiration

Experiment with Empathy

We are wired for connection.  You give us the internet and we turn it into the largest web of connections that has ever existed.  Each of us has mirror neurons, “neurons that mirror the behavior of  another, as though the observer were itself acting.”  Empathy is our highest capacity – the vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.  Our highest levels of development come with a heightened capacity to see and experience truth in other perspectives and at other levels. Read the rest of this entry »

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