10 03, 2015

Women Tell the Stories that Transform Old Story into New Story

By |2017-04-07T02:57:22+00:00March 10th, 2015|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, B. Individual Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, Ecosphere, Emergence, Inner, Lifecycle, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

It’s all a question of story. That is how Brian and May Nattrass start their exploration of where we stand on the path of waking up to our new global realities and responsibilities. http://www.noramusu.com/event/nora-musu-storytellers-truth-told-exhibit/ The stories we tell ourselves are always rooted in time. They explain the past. They comment on the present. [...]

26 07, 2012

Storytelling Quickens Cultural Intelligence

By |2017-04-07T02:57:32+00:00July 26th, 2012|Categories: Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

Last month I visited Leon Mexico where I met the Citizen's Observatory and together we all met the Mixteca indigenous peoples who have moved to the city. The Mixteca have created their own urban culture (beside the railway tracks) from the strength of the stories they bring from their traditional ways. Their stories of daily life, spiritual practice, making [...]

20 07, 2012

Cultural Intelligence Tells the Stories of the City Heart

By |2017-04-07T02:57:32+00:00July 20th, 2012|Categories: Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Cultural intelligence represents the “We” life of the city. It is the beating heart of the Human Hive.   This heart-based intelligence embraces the relationships in the city. These relationships transcend boundaries that both contain and separate families, groups, organizations and all the collectives of people in the city.  It includes the individual and the group [...]

6 03, 2012

Civility Cultivates Sustainability

By |2017-04-07T02:57:34+00:00March 6th, 2012|Categories: C. Collective Intelligences, Inquiry, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

The magic of building community starts with small wins. That is one of the secrets that Milenko Matanovic, Founder of Pomegranate Center, shares with everyone he can. Milenko, speaking at the Building Sustainable Communities Conference, was a gold nugget find!! He complemented my image of the human hive with engaging stories about practical actions that the Pomegranate Center [...]

12 01, 2011

10000 Gardens Within Multiply Stories on Shipboard Learning Lab

By |2017-04-07T02:57:41+00:00January 12th, 2011|Categories: Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: , , |3 Comments

Rumi said that "for every garden we tend without, we tend 10,000 gardens within". Such is the power of consciousness. It is our leverage beyond the material world into an imaginary/imagining world with infinite possibilities and directions for growth. I am always looking for the natural laboratories that show us how communities self-organize and emerge into [...]

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