
Category Archives: Collaboration
Beyond Horizontalism:
Increasing Collective Capacity for Visionary, Collaborative Leadership
Experiments with Truth
Grappling with Our Own Power
As Things Get Worse

For the last hundred years or so, significant portions of the population within so-called liberal democracies in the global north have known comfort, ease, and personal liberties that have been unprecedented since at least the patriarchal turn. It’s not a new phenomenon for some people within a stratified society to …
Flow, Decision-Making, and Conflict
Needs Choreography and Mutual Influencing: Decoding the Flow of Interdependence
Sharing Impact for Liberation: Integrating Power and Love in Moments of Distress (part two)
Sharing Impact for Liberation: Framing the Challenge (part one)

This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. The oppressors, who oppress, exploit, and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves. Only power that springs …
Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication – Part 2

In September of last year, I posted the first part of this piece in response to an article questioning the potential of personal practices like mindfulness to transform, or even challenge, the existing social and economic structures of our social world. I explored three deep questions I have about why …