Practice Continues

…see Jamyang Kitchen Manual and Open Space Practices for new progress in both. Added a few recipes to the Manual I’m developing for the Kitchen, and came to some new clarity yesterday on these OpenSpacePractices. The first practice, Opening, turns out to be essentially about resting, as in letting down one’s guard, welcoming, embracing. The …

Now That’s Practice!

I want to come back and say more about these four practices for embodying Open Space as leaders and organizations… opening/willingness, inviting/goodness, hosting/support, and grounding/sustaining. In the meantime, my sister the yogi sent this picture of herself today. She’s about 7.5 months pregnant. Could there be any better picture of these four practices?

Who Me?

When I am really paying attention, it’s really hard to tell who’s leading and who’s following. Johnnie Moore reminded me of this yesterday at lunch here in London. And that what any of us have to say to each other is likely not as important as our showing up in the first place. And that …

Happy Christmas

When people ask me if I’m a Buddhist, I usually shrug my shoulders and say I don’t know. I do some Buddhist sorts of practices and I’m currently working in a Tibetan Buddhist Centre, but most Buddhists wouldn’t recognize me as one of their own. Still, I don’t fit in very well anymore back in …

Does Size Matter?

The ripping and stripping continues here. Somethings definitely coming down and new things wanting to step to the fore. Some of those have nothing to do with computers, writing, even words. Now what? I notice that the four Main Ingredients listed in the side bar and last posting are not the only main ingredients. They’re …

Shift Happens

I talked with Phil Cubeta yesterday about the GivingMarket in what turned out to be a great lesson in blogging. I came to blogging as a writing practice, and certainly it can be that. What I am slowly coming to understand, or to understand how to practice, is blogging as listening and linking. He reminded …

ManyOne Network and Foundation

Originally posted to sCNN – the smallChangeNewsNetwork This looks an awful lot like some of the future that Julie Caldwell has been talking about… and for which she is now developing some proposal pages, connecting youth movement to new structures and practices for governance and ownership. Good fodder for the GivingMarket/PublicFoundation approach. The ManyOne Network …

The View From June

Things here moving very quickly now. I feel lucky to be working with some fantastic people, on what seem like important issues for all of us. Here are some of the peaks rising now on the horizon… The GivingConference gathering momentum, as a remarkable group of people are committing to join us that event in …

Gathering ChargeMany conversations this week have revolved around Power. Municipal decision-making, funding issues, the business case for compassion, and preparations for leading a Zapchen day here on Bowen Island tomorrow. This all has me sensing into Power, Movement, Base, Support. Noticing that pelvis isn’t the actual power, but rather holds a space for the power …

Purpose and PracticeAm in the middle of two months of being away from home, at work on several projects, immersed in local practice communities, and still wired to the world online, all at the same time. Purpose seems to clarify itself in such times. This morning I described my work as Inviting, Encouraging, Informing People …

Day Two, Bowen Island and Beyond Just finished another opening here on Bowen. Participants all out now in conversation. This is the second of two days on “How Can We Make Snug Cove an Inviting Place to Live Work and Play?” It’s mostly a new group of people today, and still we seem to be …

embodying happiness – ChrisCorrigan has been blogging Pentecost for the last week or so. Fascinating stuff (yawn) that I thought I’d quote here, but now it seems that I’ve already started my Pentecost blogging in a different way, yesterday, breathing peace. Amazing to me how the same ideas are running around the world just now …

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