Zaq Mosher on the Colaboratori | Global Guts We decided to Hangout to catch up with our friend Zaq. He began a project with his roommates called the Colaboratori, a collaborative labratory spelled with an “I” because the “Y” was already taken. Also, Zaq likes the word’s similarity to “satori”. Glisten and I joined the Hangout from Australia. Dan: How digital is it? Zaq: Interesting question. He and his roommates Kaya and Josh urgently decided to get the project underway after their rental company began exerting pressure to attain a rental fee and threatened to kick them out. Zaq: … I realized that I’m not the only person suffering from this. I was reminded of the importance of starting where we are. We then discussed the rapid creation of the Colaboratori logo, a process that Zaq couldn’t find the word for until Glisten sparked “Netsourcing”. Alex summed up the three components Zaq described in his process: Where you’re going, where you want the world to be in a real sense, and what you have. Glisten: You can inspire them.
Leilani Henry - Training in creativity and organizational development Leilani Henry Leilani Rashida Henry is a leading-edge workplace architect influencing today's redesign of corporate learning experiences and environments. She has been an organization development (OD) consultant and trainer for nearly twenty years. Leilani Henry has implemented organizational and personal change practices at Honeywell, Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) and Jones Intercable. Leilani's Master's Degree in Education, Learning and Human Resource Development Technology, backed by her Cum Laude degree in Psychology from Spelman College, give her the skills to understand the obstacles and power in embracing change in a variety of settings.
What Do You Think? - integralMENTORS Series (updated) | Integral Without Borders 'What Do YouThink?' - is a series of brief papers presenting a number of ideas on Integral/AQAL theoria/praxis and asks you as a development practitioner your option! To follow at a later stage - 'Worlds of Action' - in collaboration with R2. Ideas and information in these papers are kept to one page inclusive of diagrams - presenting views for practitioners in a simple format following Albert Einstein “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” Treat them lightly and react @ www.facebook.com/integralmentors - add comments under the appropriate graphic. [The last file in the download list is a pdf containing all the papers listed below] 'What Do You Think!' 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Coming soon. 15. 16. 3:2:1 process in ID - Anna Cowen & John Ziniades [Paper 04x] 'Worlds of Praxis' - is a series of brief papers on using integral theory in practice. 1. 2. 'Worlds of Inclusion' - Series of papers from international development over the last decade.
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Positive Deviant - where difference matters! Integral Life | A global community of leaders, artists, and visionaries.... Fri, 06/15/2012 If half the American population is composed of people who believe that God created the world 10,000 years ago, how can climate scientists and activists persuade people to pay attention to human-caused climate change, given that such change is projected on the basis of complex scientific models? The poll raises questions for people interested in... Six Varieties of Christians and their Churches Sun, 06/10/2012 The pastor was at the door greeting people as they left the church service. A Caveat Regarding Spiritual Opening Wed, 06/06/2012 It is understatement in the extreme to say that spiritual opening is not necessarily a benign, nice, neat, or comfortable process. Tue, 05/29/2012 Thirty years ago, when I was in my mid-twenties, I was a serious spiritual seeker. Thu, 05/24/2012 Sex. From the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice Sun, 05/20/2012 The awesome force of sexuality and its power to create confusion in the human mind is enormous. Sun, 05/13/2012 Sun, 05/06/2012 Scene 11
Desiree Adaway — Global Service and Leadership Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. -Sam Ewing Work Hard. My mom taught me this lesson in a million ways. But these 4 words “Work hard. Work hard. KIPP, a national network of free public charter schools, share a core set of operating principles known as the Five Pillars. The smartest creatives aren’t the ones that sit alone, creating the perfect product. They SHIP constantly. Are you willing to ship something 10,000 times before you get it right? Strength of character helps make this happen. So the importance of hard work is pretty obvious. Being positive and upbeat can influence everyone around you, and so can being negative. While you may not be able to help it if you are having a bad day or if you don’t like doing a particular task, changing your attitude changes everything. No one – no matter how much talent you have. Being a pleasant person helps every day. Work hard.
Conversations on Complexity: A Tribute to Elinor Ostrom Many people around the world were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Elinor Ostrom in June this year. By way of a tribute, this extended piece brings together some of her ideas on the implications of complexity science for development aid. It draws on material from a series of interviews I conducted with Professor Ostrom between 2009-2012 for use in my forthcoming book, and has been approved for publication by her colleagues at The Workshop, Indiana University. When Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in 2009, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences made the following statement: [she] has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized. Challenging standard theories was a running theme Professor Ostrom’s work. We should continue to use simple models where they capture enough of the core underlying structure and incentives that they usefully predict outcomes. Elinor Ostrom, 1933-2012 Like this:
Give it away now! I get asked a lot to do many things for free. All the time. And I find I sit in a tension between advocacy for the content of the work – give that away to promote the work – AND that my work is a service process that I earn a living from. So people ask for me to help put together events, curate things, or advise on their projects. But I also make a living facilitating events, curating and managing projects, and consulting. So when do I say yes to the free services they ask me for and when do I say, “yes, and that costs money.” I can sense by gut when the opportunity doesn’t seem to be reciprocal. photo credit: askingdave Is it worth it to do for free? Events: A major conference in one of my fields has historically given me a free pass to be an energizing presence in the space. Consulting: Someone designing a values-driven community asks to pick my brain for an hour. How do you decide what to give away?