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“If I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied, it is hospitality.” - Ivan Illich

“How does voice move in groups?”   Facilitation inquiry •               What are you usually listening for as a facilitator? •               When do

“Listening back to the group composition” Resonance •               What started resonating between us? •               Which themes gained momentum?

First, AI systems afford offloading human tasks that demand wisdom and skill onto machines, which undermines and downgrades institutionally aggregated

Why Your AI Strategy Might Be Destroying Your Organization’s Future (And What to Do Instead)

2. Human–AI Symbiosis: Design for the Hyphen, Not the Divide What we’ve learned: The most resilient organizations don’t ask “AI or humans?”—they de

My go-to prompt is under 30 words: “I want to [task] to [success criteria]. Read my folder. Ask me questions using AskUserQuestion before you start.”

Pro tip: at the end of a Cowork session, prompt “Write a session-notes.md with the key decisions and next steps.” Next session, start with “Read sessi

Strategy as a small door that people recognize/find accessible that gives access to a bigger, that didn't necessarily know needed (sick as connection,

thanks so much for the next level facilitation at the OECD workshop. It was a massive education. Jo

To practice radical hospitality, then, is not to extend a temporary welcome within a violent system. It is to build an alternative system of relations

“To host is not only to extend care, but to take part in the re-making of the world itself.” - Amahra Spence on Radical Hospitality

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

Wilder Work: Connecting Teams with Nature and Restorative Work Experiences

Thomas Moore writes in Care of the Soul:“This assumption that beauty is an accessory, and dispensable, shows that we don’t understand the importance o

Beauty is an achieved state of both deep attention and self-forgetting: the self-forgetting of seeing, hearing, smelling or touching that erases our s

Beauty has its purposes, which, all our lives and at every season, it is our opportunity, and our joy, to divine.

“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words of the Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, A Beautiful Qu

When we celebrate our victories, we increase our sense of agency and our incentive to do more. When we feel empowered and impactful, we can be more ef

I had this hunch that the way we change is through relationships where we feel safe, and that we can only learn anything new because someone we trust

I think the key thing is not to create a movement not to give it a name but to start to do lots of small things and let them make a difference. Dave S

When we know what we want, when we hold a vision of the world we want to create, we inspire people.

Every single day you live you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make. — Jane Goodall

Too many of us believe in nothing, while chasing anything, in order to feel something.

The call of the artist is to follow the excitement. Where there’s excitement, there’s energy. And where there is energy, there is light. The best work

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou

To maximize performance during periods of change, leaders should establish realistic short-term objectives, reinforce individuals' previous accomplish

Human beings have an inherent need to feel a sense of belonging and connection to others. This need intensifies during times of uncertainty, making so

Communication is vital during times of change. Our brains crave information, and lack of communication triggers an "error alert." However, communicati

To navigate change successfully, it is crucial to understand the brain's craving for information and effectively communicate. This involves accepting

There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive?

our perspective has a surprising amount of influence over the body’s stress response. When we turn a threat into a challenge, our body responds very d

The researchers estimated that over the eight years they were tracking deaths, 192,000 Americans died prematurely, not from stress but from the belief

Every single day you live you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make. — Jane Goodall

learning must be reconceived as a multi-beneficiary infrastructure — one that generates value not through exclusivity or asymmetry, but through recipr

To build this kind of system, we must reject the dominant paradigm that equates learning with the codification of knowledge — with metrics, case studi

Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul’s journey. Art is not just for oneself, not jus

We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.

We need to do those things that sustain our spirit, that allow us to build, create and see an immediate result for our efforts.