Sunday, November 15, 2009

Quote of the day

‘If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.’ George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The aesthetics of possibilities...

This is a declaration to begin using this blog to share a bit of the way I observe, collaborate and create in the midst of my own personal evolution and play with many others. This is a space for creating beauty, holding conversations and exploring possibilities.

Since I am beginning to relate to this space I need a bit of patience from you: my converser. Most likely I will be jumping from time to time, event to event and hopefully there will be some type of coherence (or not) in the midst of this kitchen space.

So something that I wanted to share that I didn't was the Authentic Leadership in Action (ALiA) Shambhala Summer Program video harvest. This was put together by a dear friend a true magician Thomas Arthur. The entire experience was very rich for me, I was there as a co-host and co-facilitator for the first time, it was a challenging experience and it turn out to be a rich and energizing way of spending part of my summer. My colleague Mary Stacey from Context Consulting was there too, co-hosting one of the modules with Bill Torbert. It is quite amazing what happens in that space, there is a deep commitment and emotion of openness, curiosity and learning. I was part of the module called "Leader as coach" with James Flaherty and Sarita Chawla and enjoyed very much spending time with both of them and learning about the integration of their coaching offer, I found it particularly rich and powerful, and mostly I enjoyed being in conversations with them. Here is a the program agenda in case you are curious about who else was there playing :)

So here is the video, enjoy:

Shambhala Summer Institute 2009 from ALIA on Vimeo.

Quote's of the day

"Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer." Heinz Von Foerster

"We encounter the deep questions of design when we recognize that in designing tools we are designing ways of being."F. Flores & T. Winograd. Preface Understanding Computers and Cognition.