Ideas
Resilience
We lose resilience when we become fractured, fragmented, when the parts lose awareness of the whole. Read the article →
Stories
Natural Leadership
Peter was braced against the side of the boat to keep steady, thrilled and focused. Read the article →
Practices
Finding Our Way Back from Exile
Day-to-day, most of us live like birds with clipped wings. We lose contact with our center. We forget who we really are. Read the article →
Partner News
Human Systems Dynamics Professional Certification with Glenda Eoyang will be offered in 2012-2013 in Minnesota, Oregon, and London
New book by ALIA Press. Keep Your People in the Boat: Workforce Engagement Lessons from the Sea by Crane Stookey
ThinkHalifax is raising the bar on public engagement. Workshops offered this spring by ALIA friends Tim Merry, Sera Thompson, Marguerite Drescher, Rachel Caroline Derrah
Restoring Japan. A March 11 live streaming dialog between young social leaders in Japan and the United States will focus on the re-imagination of Japan’s future in the wake of the 2011 triple disaster
Pattern Language of Group Process. A new resource for facilitators includes a deck of 91 cards
Recent Articles
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Social Innovation Is Code for…
It may sound promising and exciting, or it may sound vague and trendy, but if you tune in to the right channel, the phrase social innovation starts to make a… Read the article →
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Finding Balance in the Space Between
I am six years old. Beaver Lake in Stanley Park is frozen solid and my thin legs stand rigid for the first time in unforgiving, gleaming white skates. The ice… Read the article →
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The Lotus and The Weave
Beautifully integrated and presented, these new guidebooks document leadership practices (The Lotus) and process templates (The Weave) for sustainability practitioners. They were developed by master’s students in the Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability program… Read the article →
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Public Sector Innovation: Driving Forces and Barriers
Continuous organisational change has become the order of the day in many parts of the public sector, driven by shifting political agendas and desire for action. The global financial and… Read the article →
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Trauma in Our Systems (4)
By Zaid Hassan
On both a personal and an institutional level, people are petrified of empty space. It’s like, fill the space, fill the space. There’s a quote from Jung. Someone asked him, “Do you think we’ll make it?” His answer was always the same: “We will if we do our inner work.” Read the article →
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The Power of Pause in a High Tech World (2)
By Barry Boyce
Wisdom 2.0—the book, the conference, the movement—explores how
mindfulness keeps employees curious and sane in the nonstop sprint of
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Letting Go of Pretense (1)
Behind all the ways we try to appear competent, confident, spiritual, or authentic is an ordinary and naked way of being. In a new ALIA video, Alan Sloan talks about how mindfulness keeps us honest—even to ourselves. Read the article →
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Inviting Silent Voices in Japan
By Bob Stilger
A week ago we gathered nearly 60 people from across Japan About three quarters of those who came were in their 20s. The youngest was not quite two and the… Read the article →
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Wiser Together: Partnering Across Generations (12)
By Juanita Brown & Ashley Cooper
“I felt completely embraced by the love and care that my mom and dad
had invested here. In that moment, I realized that we could never sell
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Platforms for Transformation
Peter [Senge] concluded his story-telling this way: “The changes that are needed are happening. They are emerging all around us. For me personally, now is the time to watch what’s emerging, to leverage it, and disseminate it.” Read the article →
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Accessing Wisdom through Social Presencing Theater
Social Presencing Theater taps into a spring of ever-present, intuitive knowledge that is often obscured by our linear, problem-solving mind. Paying attention to our bodies and creative impulses brings balance, simplicity, and full resourcefulness back into our work and life. Read the article →
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Hierarchy & Collaboration: Choice or Paradox?
By the "Leading Transformation" participants, ALIA Europe 2011
We often hear that enlightened organizations and networks replace top-down leadership with a style that is more participatory, distributed, and collaborative. In this session, Phis Cass, Toke Moeller, Monica Nissen… Read the article →
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Accidental Mindfulness (1)
My mind and body co-operated to give me a good chance of survival, thanks also to the fact that the car did what it should and crumpled, protecting me. I attribute my experience to quickly accepting that my analytical, problem-solving brain had run out of options; in being able to let go, I created space for wisdom mind. Read the article →
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Resilience in Japan
By Bob Stilger
When disaster hit in Japan, basic human goodness rose quickly to the surface. A retreat center and inn throws open its doors to offer housing and food to homeless people from the Tohoku Region. Companies start working with government to convert their training rooms into temporary housing for the homeless. Read the article →
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The Organization is Alive (5)
By Art Kleiner
The primary organizational challenge facing any business leader is much like the challenge facing a parent: to understand this living entity, placed partly in your care, well enough that the moves you make will lead to productive growth and change. And although there is a body of theoretical work on living systems to draw on, those writings have little to do with the day-to-day realities of a product launch or a project team. Read the article →
