Category: Inspiration
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Retrospective 2024-49
This is a retrospective of week 49, 2024 (2024-12-02–2024-12-08). This week I’ve started reading Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown and The Dreaming Way by Toko-Pa Turner. Learning takes place not just in the head but in the heart (Macy & Brown) through dreaming (Turner). Trust your own experience, discernment, and…
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Jon Young on Deep Connection
The following is from a conversation with Jon Young on Nature Connection and How to Prepare for the Future on March 15, 2020. Jon Young said: We can all go sit in nature and remember what it feels like to be connected to it. …and then remember we’re part of this living earth, and that it…
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Återkoppling på min tioårssammanfattning
Återkoppling på min sammanfattning av vad jag har lärt mig sedan jag startade min blogg för tio år sedan (2012-09-26).
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Organizing reflection 21
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject.…
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Organizing reflection 19
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject.…
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Organizing principles that embody living wholeness
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore what Charles Tolman has written about organizing principles on his blog Reflections, Ramblings and Rumblings: People, Technology, Gliding. Organizing principles Here is a post where Charles Tolman tries to explain the…
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Michelle Holliday on thrivability
I tweet quotes from the books I read from my twitter account @janhoglund. Here is a compilation of the most retweeted and liked quotes from Michelle Holliday’s upcoming book The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World (in italics): … thrivability – the intention and practice of enabling life to thrive…
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Book Review: The Age of Thrivability
The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World by Michelle Holliday is a new book which will be released this fall. Michelle Holliday is a facilitator, consultant, researcher, presenter, and writer. Her work centers around “thrivability,” which is based on a view of organizations and communities as living systems. It’s this view…
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There is another way
Here’s an excerpt (my emphasis in bold) from Russel Means’s most famous speech in 1980.1 There’s something deeper than just a rejection of Marxism from this radical. He has an entirely different worldview compared to all “isms”: “… Newton … “revolutionized” physics and the so-called natural sciences … Descartes did the same thing with culture.…
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The fine art of shutting up
“If people do not wish to be helped, leave them alone.“ 1 “The most important thing is passion. … The passion that the person has for her own growth is the most important thing.“ 2 “Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.“ 3 “We have discovered that the miracle of the intelligence of local…