October 17, 2020 – I’m fInishing up David Fleming’s book Surviving the Future, and buzzing with ideas and questions about the role of networks, network weaving and energy network science in these times of “systemic release” (see the adaptive cycle above, and more about...
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June 3, 2025 – “Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself,others by first do no harm or take no morethan you need. What if the mightiest word is love?Love beyond marital, filial, national,love that casts a widening pool of light,love with no need to pre-empt grievance.In...
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June 3, 2025 – In a world thick with fear and fragmentation, how do we stay grounded in purpose and possibility? Join us for a powerful, interactive webinar exploring network weaving as a vital practice of resistance, resilience, and reconnection. Featuring special guests and...
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March 10, 2025 – “Connections create value. The social era will reward those organizations that realize they don’t create value all by themselves. If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting people, ideas and things.” -Nilofer Merchant (entrepreneur,...
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November 4, 2024 – Over the past few months, three different networks IISC is helping to support have reached what we recognize is an opportunity to jump to the next level of engagement and “productivity.” I want to be clear that this latter term...
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February 7, 2024 – “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen … and keep your accounts...
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October 17, 2022 – * * * * * “We now know what each other is made of. We can start weaving this beautiful tapestry, this community.” “I don’t want to wait another 8 months until we are back in person!” “I want others...
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January 13, 2022 – “Culture is a verb.” – Rowen White, Seed Keeper, activist and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne “It’s all about how things are flowing.” – Gwen McClellan, acupressurist and holistic healer “A living body is not a fixed thing...
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January 5, 2022 – We just completed a third year of providing coaching support to a state-wide health equity network. We began our partnership before the pandemic and have spent the last couple of years checking in as life with the pandemic and intersecting...
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November 5, 2021 – Getting ready to host a session for the Connecticut Food System Alliance (CFSA) focused on “rethinking networks,” I am playing with a list of curated quotes from various people, which all have something to do with networks, connection and interrelatedness....
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July 22, 2021 – “i think of movements as intentional worlds, or perhaps more accurately as worlds designed by and for intentional people, those who are able to feel the world not as an unfolding accident of random occurrences, but rather as a massive...
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May 18, 2021 – “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.” — Zeno of Citium The other day I was reminded of the group working agreement “W.A.I.T.” (which stands for, “Why am I talking?”) as a...
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