Articles

Experiencing the power of Art of Hosting as a foundation for Sustainable Communities

 

Invitation as basis for Self-organising Communities

Harvest from Walk your Talk 2007; an Open Space session

Changing the Game - Mille Bojer

"Changing the Game" is a booklet about what it means as a pioneer to be changing the rules of the game. It looks at the games we want to change, why these games are played, and some capacities and activities we neeed to develop as pioneers. The booklet contains a lead article by myself along with insightful comments from 11 pioneers.

Friday Night in London

Thoughts from a Londoner a day after the July 7 bombings.

Trusting Our Own Journey - Maria Glauser

A personal reflection on the experiences of learning, life as a journey and listening to ourselves in celebration of Walkouts Day (April 6).

Deep Democracy

Using the lessons of “deep democracy,” South African workers learned how to manage their company through a non-hierarchical system of self-directed teams - by Myrna Wajsman and Greg Lewis

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene - by Donella Meadows

By one of the pioneers of whole system thinking (at least in the West) this is a classic paper on "places to intervene" within a system.

MDGs Not Enough to End Poverty - Dumisani Nyoni

A Critique of the United Nation's MDG Campaign. Can the Millennium Development Goals really be achieved in any significant form in the next 10 years...?

Modern Science and the Eclipse of Tawhid - by William C. Chittick

An excellent paper on what knowledge in Islam means and how it contrasts to the forms of knowing prevalent in modern science. This paper provides a beautiful exposition on how Islamic thinking is different from mainstream Western thought.

The Paradoxical Theory of Change - by Arnold Beisser

A short and powerful introduction to the work of Gestalt Therapy founder Fritz Perls, this article outlines a personal theory of change. "...change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not."

The U: A Language of Regeneration - by Zaid Hassan

An article by Zaid Hassan about the U theory of Social Change based on his experience over the last few years.

The Container Principle: Resilience, Chaos and Trust

An illuminating article about creating containers for learning and self-discovery by Crane W. Stookey, Founder of The Nova Scotia Sea School, an experiential youth education and leadership progamme in Canada. Copyright by Crane Wood Stookey, 2003

Indigenous Knowledge - Maria Glauser

A short thought piece on how the understanding of traditional knowledge varies between indigenous and non-indigenous people. For the indigenous people, the traditional knowledge is much more than a body of knowledge to be studied and applied; it is a way of life, it is more about the actual living of life rather than being the knowledge of how to live.

Participation, Relationship and Dynamic Change

New thinking on evaluating the work of International Networks, By Madeline Church (2003)

Learning Journey Fieldbook

A Pioneers of Change “learning journey” is a physical journey, but is also a journey of the mind and soul. Find here a guide to create a learning journey for pioneers in your context.

Little booklet of self-organization

Learnings, impressions and thoughts from Zaid Hassan [hassan@generonconsulting.com] about the first 5-6 year's of Pioneers of Change