Tag Archive: conversation

May 31, 2011

Three Levels of Conversation

Julie Auger’s post to Rethinking Complexity speaks directly to our central concerns here at the Interaction Institute for Social Change . What do you think? How might this inform your organizational strategy? Read More

Black and Brown: Break it Down Agenda

by Gibrán Rivera

One of the coolest agendas we have designed, this one for our Black and Brown Break It Down convening.

Future Present

by Curtis Ogden

|Photo by Ben Heine|http://www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/3881905581|

“A bright green future begins when each of us, today, decides to live as if that future were already here.”

– Alex Steffen, World Changing

Many of us here at IISC were taken with Peter Block’s book, Community: The Structure of Belonging, and you have no doubt heard it referenced in other posts or ensuing conversations on our blog. At this point our couple of office copies have been through many hands, bookmarked, underlined, and are readily referenced in work with partners and clients. One of the most profound parts of the book for me is where Block makes the point that we often think of the future as this far off thing, and subsequently make our meetings and community gatherings all about planning for that eventuality. What we miss is the opportunity to manifest a piece of that future now.