by Amy Lenzo | Nov 9, 2007 | Stories
We co-hosted an informal pre-dinner reception this evening with our friends and colleagues at Berkana Institute and Art of Hosting. The room was bursting with the energy of the conference (Van Jones had just spoken) and the sense of friendship and collaboration. In...
by Amy Lenzo | Nov 9, 2007 | Stories
Coming into the afternoon session of day two, the weaving between Tom Hurley and Sharon Eakes started to thread together the themes of emerging patterns. Tom talked about the challenge of holding the moment of stillness – presencing – in a reality that is...
by Amy Lenzo | Nov 9, 2007 | Stories
The Conversation Space was jumping as the group began to integrate some of the powerful concepts from Otto Scharmer’s talk. Gabriel Shirley shared an insight he had about the moment of ‘now’ being not a quick blip in a continuum between past and future, as he had...
by Amy Lenzo | Nov 9, 2007 | Stories
Tom Hurley brought us into the second day with a moment of silence, imagining ourselves standing in front of the blank canvas of the day. “Listen to the room breathing”, he muses, a line in a poem by Lorca “there are spaces that ache in the uninhabited air”,...
by Amy Lenzo | Nov 9, 2007 | Stories
In the afternoon weaving Bard Hurley gave us a metaphor for what he sensed “in the field”, a beautiful image from James Mitchner about a slow accumulation, a melding of meaning like individual droplets of dew gathering together to create a river. We were invited to...
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