coming home
well, yesterday i took a van to a boat to the airport, for two flights to a train and a bus. bowen island to chicago, via phoenix. many thanks to everyone on bowen island and in vancouver who made this last two months so full. special thanks to chris corrigan for yesterday’s posting in his bowen island journal…
Michael Herman has gone home. We had a fun two months, opening space, creating community dialogues, swimming in bioluminesence, working and playing together. He left his mark on Bowen Island, having inspired the mayor to write a column in The Undercurrent and hold weekly coffee chats. He helped us to understand the connections between power, vision and heart as they relate to municipal governance and communities and he taught a bunch of kids to do Horse Lips. Sad to see him go, but he knows he’s welcome to return.i’m still very much digesting the experience of being at home and away all at once, at work and at play. clearing the decks now, too, for most of october at the bairoling monastery in kathmandu, nepal. hoping to be back on bowen next spring. at least one open space conference and a couple of days of zapchen teaching are already in the works.
major themes percolating in me now are this new story of somatic organization, peter frost’s toxin handling and managerial compassion, and frithjof bergmann’s new work. i’m currently reading lynn mctaggart’s stories of what physicists have figured out about zero point field (the background energy that drives all matter everywhere), am currently thinking about how that new knowledge can inform how we make organizations and communities, and currently writing an invitation for an ongoing GlobalChicago PracticeCommunity.
on the calendar, another OpenSpaceTech PracticeWorkshop and a number of other relationships and projects will be getting going in november, december and january, as well.