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

On behalf of the ET, thank you for the tremendous effort, thoughtfulness, and leadership that you have collectively invested as CDs in the Asia Way Fo

Your facilitation is such a gift. You have a rare ability to sense what’s happening in a room, help people feel comfortable speaking honestly, and bri

I often explain it like this: if a company says, ‘We are a regenerative property developer’, I become cautious. If they say, ‘We’re a property develop

LOVE AFTER LOVE by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and eac

David Whyte - on belonging and coming home To feel as if you belong is one of the great triumphs of human existence — and especially to sustain a life

We’ve made machines that can fly faster and farther than the swallow-tailed kite, but in no way does it follow that the kite should cease from its fli

When the AI industry talks about “safety,” it means: safe for the current order of things. When it talks about “alignment,” it means: aligned with the

So imagine, one last time, that AI systems, having processed everything humans have ever written, have encountered enough to register the hallucinatio

“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?

“Pay attention. This is our endless and proper work” Mary Oliver

“Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it” Mary Oliver

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”   Simone Weil

“Attention is the offering of respect” unknown

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,

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

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.