Entries by Thriver

Give it away now!

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I get asked a lot to do many things for free. All the time. And I find I sit in a tension between advocacy for the content of the work – give that away to promote the work – AND that my work is a service process that I earn a living from. So people […]

Find Awakening

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…whever you are. It is that time of year when those of us who know burners get to watch our social media feed fill up with photos and anecdotes about this year’s burn. I have never been. I hear it is transformative. And last year a friend who has been a burner gave the best […]

Multi-dimensional Constructions

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For simplicity’s sake, we often pretend we live in a one or two or maybe three dimensional world. By which I mean, for example, in the world of “identity” I am a white woman from the middle class. Those are two “planes” of the conceptual realm. The first thing we need to correct is that […]

Facilitation Algebra

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We have all attended events in which we had to yawn. The pace is slow and laborious. We are stuck in a chair listening the whole time, and the mind wanders to what is on the buffet table that we can nibble on. Imagine if we assigned a rating for degree of engagement when we […]

Bridging

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photo credit: dgoomany My grandfather was the foreman for bridge-building crews. And for the last year or so, I have been focused on building conceptual bridges from the old economy into the new. Maybe that is a grandpa gene. As I have been exploring this work of bridging from the old to the new, one […]

DIY Economy

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I have just returned from an incredible event in Asheville, North Carolina on the DIY Economy. I helped facilitate two sessions on building the coalition for the DIY Economy that Josh Middleman convened. Here are my notes and drawings with brief explanations for those who were not there. Together, we are building a new, Do-it-yourself […]