Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale
by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
"In spite of current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world."
Engaging the Powerful Stranger
by Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Q. Patton
"For the social innovator, mobilizing the power and resources to change things presents a paradox. Anyone who wishes to transform a system has to unlock resources claimed by the status quo. But the image of unlocking suggests someone standing outside the locked door - outside the system. And, as we have repeated many times, complexity theory leads us to recognize that we are part of the system we are trying to change."

Sustainability: Getting to the Root
 Conversation exerpts from the 2006 Authentic Leadership Program with Peter Senge and Hunter Lovins
"As a goal, being 'sustainable' isn't too evocative. But at its root the verb to sustain means "to hold." Just to hold. This seems like an appropriate image for all of us these days. How do we start to just hold things and not be driven one way or another, and not shut down our awareness?"
Preparing for Unknown Futures
 by Art Kleiner
"Facing a complex problem like climate change - or the security of a country, or the proper role of a business in a community, or many of the issues facing decision makers today - the biggest challenge is not making sense of the issue, but plotting one's own response.."
Profit for Life: How Capitalism Excels -- Case Studies in Living Asset Stewardship
 by Joseph H. Bragdon
"Living Asset Stewardship (LAS) is more -- much more -- than doing a few things right. Companies that practice LAS endeavor to respect life at every turn: in their relationships with employees, customers, host communities, supply net partners, and the environment. This is not an easy road to travel; but it is the only way to be credible, to win the hearts of employees and customers, and to create an atmosphere conducive to spontaneous innovation."
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 From the Field
The Tao of Holding Space
An Interview with Chris Corrigan
by Lyn Hartley
"I had a very strong sense that the ritual of preparing the room was just the right thing to do to invite a certain thing to happen. I had no clue what was going to happen, but I had a strong sense that whatever it was, it would be the right thing."
Pathfinding
 A letter from Sonali Ojha
"For perhaps the first time in so many years, I found a way to explain what I do, the experience that young people have through our work, and the leadership in youth workers that our work generates."



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Shambhala Insights
Softening the Heart in Times of War
 by Pema Chodron
"War and peace start in the hearts of individuals. Strangely enough, even though all beings would like to live in peace, our method for obtaining peace over the generations seems not to be very effective: we seek peace and happiness by going to war."
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Program Updates

2007 Authentic Leadership Summer Program, June 24-30, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

New module! Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of strategy+business magazine, will cultivate strategic thinking and "competitive foresight" in his module on Scenario Planning: Preparing for Unknown Futures. Special guest Napier Collyns, cofounder of Global Business Network, will join the first session of this module, to introduce the history and applications of scenario planning and the trends and driving forces for the case study, climate change.

Miha Pogacnik, virtuoso violinist and organizational capacity builder, will lead a session on June 28. More here.

Register by March 2 and be eligible for the discounted fee of CAD$2,695/ USD$2,400. Full price after March 2: CAD$2,990 / USD$2660.

Sustaining and Celebrating our Communities, Ourselves workshop will be held in Terrence Bay, Nova Scotia on February 19 and 20, 2007. Join us to explore new, more nourishing, sustainable, and effective approaches to engaging within and across our communities. Registration, overview, and directions to the venue are available here.

The 2007 Authentic Leadership Summer Program brochure is available on our website, for viewing and printing (5 MB).

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Announcements from friends and partners

Embodied Presence Practice: Cultivating Awareness of the Field facilitated by Arawana Hayashi, will be held April 12-15, 2007 at Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale, New York. Cost is $750 US, including meals and accommodations. For more information download the brochure. For all those who would like to use this innovative work in organizations or who would like to learn to facilitate EPP in Presencing courses in the future. Space limited to 15 participants.

Support for Kufunda Learning Village. Limited edition folding meditation benches made from western red cedar in the mountains of British Columbia, $50 CAD plus shipping. Hand-made queen size quilt made with hundreds of hours of loving care. $2500 CAD. All proceeds to support Kufunda Village. E-mail briansumner@rctvonline.net for photos and more details.

The SoL Forum on Business Innovation for Sustainability will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, March 27-30. The Forum is designed for leaders in diverse positions committed to developing and integrating more sustainable business practices for environmental and social prosperity as well as a means for spurring innovation, efficiency, and economic vitality. For more information, please visit www.solsustainability.org/forum2007.htm for more information.

Presencing: Collective Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change May 14-18, 2007; Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, Hancock, Massachusetts. This ground-breaking workshop based on the "U Process featured in the book Presences is facilitated by C. Otto Scharmer, Beth Jandernoa, and Arawana Hayashi. Visit http://www.solonline.org to find out how you can be a part.

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Join us February 19-20 in beautiful Terence Bay, Nova Scotia, for Sustaining and Celebrating our Communities, Ourselves.


"The Cathedral of Chartres is built entirely according to musical principles. Playing the macro-violin requires you to listen and to play from another place. You have to move your listening and playing from within to beyond yourself."
-Miha Pogacnik, as quoted by C. Otto Scharmer


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