Tim Merry has been blogging about that decision moment when we decide to respond to an invitation to bring ‘fringe’ practices and concepts into mainstream systems that we once  identified as ‘the problem’ or as the metaphor for what is wrong with this world.
​His blog makes me wonder about the risk in this decision and what it takes to remain a steward of life in large systems that are elegantly designed to colonized life.

Allen Frimpong and I offered a training about working in complexity for about 14 peers in social service, social justice, disability movement, harm reduction, art and faith communities.
We studied the Cynefin Framework and discussed what it takes to stay in inquiry rather than depending on what we already know.
The harvest from our conversation centered the importance of personal resolve and healthy relationships as a foundation for staying with ‘not knowing’ until emergence can happen.

Also published on Art of Hosting Beyond the Basics
I am packing my bag and traveling to Ohio from NYC with my friend Allen for Beyond the Basics because it’s irresistible. When I heard that my friends were doing this series of trainings I said yes immediately and to the first one in Ohio.

I am coming out of a Permaculture intensive with Adriana and Andrew at their Center for BioRegional Living in Ellenville, NY, on the Shawangunk Ridge.
The correlations between the ethics and principles of Art of Hosting and Permaculture are striking. One of my favorites is the permaculture motto ‘No Guru, No Method, No Teacher’, which was often espoused as our hosts offered their prolific teachings.

I posted the following blog on another site exactly one year ago when Occupy Wall Street was still holding strong to its original intention of creating a space for broad-based democracy. Much has changed since then…
Oct 24, 2011: What more is possible when racial and economic equity are fundamental to all of our movement building?

I have been talking with some new friends who I met last fall and winter as the Occupy and Decolonize movements dominated the news and changed the conversation.
We left the movement-building conversations that were happening downtown in the Occupy Wall Street organization because we became frustrated by the way that they limited our ability to find agreement and get to work.
The possibility of a global movement got us talking about what it would take to actually be the 99% working together and with our varied analysis, faiths, affiliations, identities and politics instead of in spite of them.
Please join a ​dialogue on Saturday, October 20th, 2012, at the A.M.E. Zion Church on the Hill in Washington Heights, NYC, where we will explore this question together!
Power & Love