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Finding Ground
“Ground is the place to go when overwhelmed with thoughts and fears. It can hold our confusion with unwavering presence. We can source the earth’s
Cléo Burke
April 9, 2020
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Insights From the Field
by Ten Directions
Insights, essays, perspectives, and lessons learned while working in the field of facilitative leadership. Authors include our staff, as well as guest contributors.
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Innovation, Freefall and Not-Knowing
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” ~Chögyam Trungpa
Alana Felt
May 14, 2019
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Command, Control, or Consensus: How to Decide?
Lately, I have been listening to the audio biographies of some of the U.S. Civil War generals—Ulysses Grant, Robert. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, to name
Diane Musho Hamilton
January 15, 2015
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agility
Availability—Inviting the “bigness” of you
“When you can relate to the present moment, make choices and distinctions, and bring those into the collective—that is where the facilitative and the leadership
Lauren Tenney
January 9, 2015
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facilitative leadership
You Can’t Facilitate What You Don’t Know
My Zen teacher, Genpo Roshi, once told me a long time ago, “You can’t work with a voice that comes up in the room if
Diane Musho Hamilton
December 10, 2014
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adaptive leadership
Facilitative Leadership: Inner Evolution for Social Revolution
“The opposite of Love is not Hate; it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel Last month, I wrote about The Awakened Takeover. Which is another way of
Rebecca Colwell
November 14, 2014
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Conversation
The Integral Facilitator’s Nightmare (oops) Challenge
I took an interest in the clip that was all over the internet last week of an episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher,
Diane Musho Hamilton
October 17, 2014
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authentic leadership
The Awakened Takeover: A Manifesto
If what you do every day is somehow trying to close the gap between the human condition and human potential, then you are already participating.
Rebecca Colwell
September 30, 2014
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Conversation
Talking About Events in Ferguson? Some Useful Distinctions
There are all kinds of conversations going on right now about the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, another young African-American male in Ferguson, Missouri last
Diane Musho Hamilton
August 25, 2014
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adaptive leadership
What does Adaptive Leadership have to do with avoiding a T-Rex?
Last night I learned something I didn’t expect to learn about leadership from watching The Lost World: Jurassic Park. This lesson comes from an old
Rebecca Colwell
July 30, 2014
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Inquiry
On Cultivating Open Space
A question came to me recently from a student in the Integral Facilitator® program who is facilitating a conversation among members of a classical music
Diane Musho Hamilton
July 18, 2014
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Collaboration
The mindset of collaboration: The one thing you can’t fit in a wagon
Like most kids, when I was a little girl I eagerly anticipated the transition from school to the freedom of summer. But the real highlight
Rebecca Colwell
July 3, 2014
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Next Stage Facilitation
What Makes a Training Transformative?
As an experienced leadership developer, I thought myself quite the expert at developing capacity in groups and helping leaders master new competencies, and over decades
Rebecca Colwell
May 8, 2014
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