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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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Collaboration
Meeting Complexity with Receptivity
Recently I have been facilitating a group of 22 leaders that is about to begin a major transformative process. A newly configured team, they are
Rebecca Colwell
March 28, 2015
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Collaboration
This idea should die
Is there an idea that you think should be taken out of circulation? A commonly held notion that’s holding us back, that’s outdated, or that
Lauren Tenney
March 21, 2015
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Coherence
Everything the Same, Everything Different
There is an old saying in Zen: Everything the same; everything different. This is a truth that is so obvious that it goes without saying.
Diane Musho Hamilton
February 26, 2015
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authentic leadership
Being a Tuning Fork for Collective Intelligence
An excerpt from “Will the Next Buddha be a Sangha? Responding to the Call to Influence the Future of Collaboration” published in Integral Leadership Review, January-February
Rebecca Colwell
February 18, 2015
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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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