Sunday, November 15, 2009
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:
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.
"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.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Quote of the day
Larry Richards refers to Cybernetics as “a way of thinking about ways of thinking, of which it is one”.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Quote of the day
<cite>Systems Research Vol</cite>: "
... coming to see other human beings as 'one of us' rather than as 'them' is a matter of detailed description of what unfamiliar people are like and of redescription of what we ourselves are like. (Rorty, 1989,p. xvi)."
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Disclosing Sergio's Observer
I believe we are part of the most important transition humanity has ever known, and at this tipping point, breakdowns and breakthroughs are unavoidable. Research shows clear evidence of these phenomena, and this calls for a profound reflection on our relationship to the planet, to ourselves (in both being and doing) and to our ways of knowing and relating.
We have managed to flatten our inherent dynamic complexity, our way of being-in-the-world, mainly by way of the Cartesian ontology we have been born into (culture, family, education, work), and this has seriously limited our self-understanding as integral , complex and trans-leveled evolving systems in a continuous flux of change.
Having experienced the limits of a modern and even post-modern way of being, I believe that my accountability and response-hability (in self, culture and nature) cannot operate from an egocentric worldview, not even from an ethnocentric worldview, but require a worldcentric approach. As Einstein put it, humankind cannot solve our problems from the same place of consciousness in which we created them. In this context, I find it absolutely imperative to ask: What do I want to preserve, rather than change, in the current state of the world?
I have found a great and challenging opportunity to question my questions in my own personal conscious evolution . From there, I have shifted my own structure of interpretation through new distinctions, and these have expanded my observer into a more comprehensive and integral paradigm, allowing me to appear differently in the world.
Acknowledging our observer (values, beliefs, purpose and behavior) in the way we construct and organize knowledge and wisdom seems to be the major challenge in dealing with an increasingly complex and demanding globalized knowledge economy, as our mental and institutional structures continue to hold us back. I believe we must strive not to fragment knowledge, and use a systems, dialogic and circular loop paradigm as what Edgar Morin calls the “linking operator.” In this great emergence of possibilities, the challenge would be paying attention to the fundamental change of worldview that is occurring in science and society, the unfolding of a new vision of reality, and the social implications of this cultural transformation (Capra, 2002).
Some of the questions that lie at the heart of my work include: What type of leadership, organizations and institutions are required for personal and collective evolution? What type of thinking, values, maps, tools and competencies are required to operate from a worldcentric center of gravity? What are the relational dynamics between the ecologies of human beings, collectives and the environment? What are the visions, motivations, opportunities and strategies that will be available from this way of thinking? How do we purposefully tap into creativity from this new observer?
I feel most attracted to collaborate with individuals, organizations and institutions that are designing this new type of DNA, willing to challenge their own underlying assumptions about why, what for and how they do what they do.
In me you will find servant leadership along with openness, passion, curiosity and engagement.
As a historical and learning being, I offer my ability for co-creating the conditions for accessing our collective intelligence, and have a lot of fun while doing it, as well as my experiences and on-going actualizing structure of interpretation and self-observation.
We have managed to flatten our inherent dynamic complexity, our way of being-in-the-world, mainly by way of the Cartesian ontology we have been born into (culture, family, education, work), and this has seriously limited our self-understanding as integral , complex and trans-leveled evolving systems in a continuous flux of change.
Having experienced the limits of a modern and even post-modern way of being, I believe that my accountability and response-hability (in self, culture and nature) cannot operate from an egocentric worldview, not even from an ethnocentric worldview, but require a worldcentric approach. As Einstein put it, humankind cannot solve our problems from the same place of consciousness in which we created them. In this context, I find it absolutely imperative to ask: What do I want to preserve, rather than change, in the current state of the world?
I have found a great and challenging opportunity to question my questions in my own personal conscious evolution . From there, I have shifted my own structure of interpretation through new distinctions, and these have expanded my observer into a more comprehensive and integral paradigm, allowing me to appear differently in the world.
Acknowledging our observer (values, beliefs, purpose and behavior) in the way we construct and organize knowledge and wisdom seems to be the major challenge in dealing with an increasingly complex and demanding globalized knowledge economy, as our mental and institutional structures continue to hold us back. I believe we must strive not to fragment knowledge, and use a systems, dialogic and circular loop paradigm as what Edgar Morin calls the “linking operator.” In this great emergence of possibilities, the challenge would be paying attention to the fundamental change of worldview that is occurring in science and society, the unfolding of a new vision of reality, and the social implications of this cultural transformation (Capra, 2002).
Some of the questions that lie at the heart of my work include: What type of leadership, organizations and institutions are required for personal and collective evolution? What type of thinking, values, maps, tools and competencies are required to operate from a worldcentric center of gravity? What are the relational dynamics between the ecologies of human beings, collectives and the environment? What are the visions, motivations, opportunities and strategies that will be available from this way of thinking? How do we purposefully tap into creativity from this new observer?
I feel most attracted to collaborate with individuals, organizations and institutions that are designing this new type of DNA, willing to challenge their own underlying assumptions about why, what for and how they do what they do.
In me you will find servant leadership along with openness, passion, curiosity and engagement.
As a historical and learning being, I offer my ability for co-creating the conditions for accessing our collective intelligence, and have a lot of fun while doing it, as well as my experiences and on-going actualizing structure of interpretation and self-observation.
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