Leading Comments / January-February 2015
Marilyn Hamilton
With this second wave of the Integral Leadership Review – Canada (ILR – C) issue, I imagine, the Rideau Canal lock system symbolizing the environment where our authors interact with the leaders and leadership insights that they have contributed to this special Canada issue.
In the heart of Ottawa, Canada’s national capital, the Rideau Canal provides year round service and engagement to Canadian citizens and society[i].
Leading World / January-February 2015
Brian and Mary Nattrass
In the following article Brian and Mary Nattrass (1999, 2002) (who have been organizational change strategists teaching and consulting using The Natural Step framework for sustainability for over 20 years) walk Leaders through a path that shows how to negotiate the resistant Old Story into the life-giving New Story of sustainability in our time. At the Evolutionary Crossroads where they explore, ILR Readers are encouraged to read with open hearts/minds that consider not just the content …
Leading Others / January-February 2015
Olen Gunnlaugson [i]
Engaging conversation directly from essence and source activates essential conditions for leaders to embody a creative perception and transformed way of being. This article[ii] is written to inspire new possibilities for how existing approaches to collective presencing and conversational leadership are experienced by introducing a process-method of conversation that is activated through source directed realization, embodiment and inquiry.
At some point for presencing practitioners, whether in solitude with nature or during an immersive weekend leadership retreat, …
Column / January-February 2015
Lisa Norton
Peter Jones is Associate Professor at Toronto’s OCAD University (Ontario College of Art and Design), an author and consultant in the emerging field of systemic design, and runs the innovation research firm Redesign Network. Peter spends his time balancing between teaching in the Strategic Foresight and Innovation graduate program in OCADU’s faculty of Design, pursuing collaborative research toward the redesign of social systems, and continues to redesign information services for medical and scientific clients.
Leveraging systems …
Announcements / January-February 2015
The Association of Leadership Educators (ALE) invites you to join us at our
25th annual professional conference in Washington, D.C. July 12-15, 2015.
This year’s conference theme, “The Courage to Lead” celebrates the courage
that our founding members had to create this organization, as well as the
courage that those who teach, practice and study leadership show today.
The 2015 conference Call for Proposals can be found at www.aleconference.com
[1] by clicking on the “Call for Proposals” …
Poetry Gallery / January-February 2015
Tim Merry
“we wakin’” up all the time
I’m wakin’ up as I sit here and rhyme,
when i get lost in the flow of a river
feel a cold shiver
notice the clouds gather on a stormy day
feel sadness as one I love passes away
see a huge vista from a mountain top
and stop and bing!
my heart begins to sing
and I know I’m here for a reason
to ignore this inner voice is my treason…
Poetry Gallery / January-February 2015
Tim Merry
I just read about the coming of the ice age
Earth’s rage
The mighty mother, the sage,
Turning another page
Of evolution
A natural solution
The vibration
Of creation
Melting ice caps into the gulf stream flows
The European heating system blows
Beyond repair
My mother, father, sister, brother live there
Stop, bear witness, take a long good stare
Digest our reality and start to care
The planet is movin’ on
We all be livin’ in the final …
Poetry Gallery / January-February 2015
Tim Merry
I feel that our divisions point to our unity
The pieces that we uniquely
Most search for in our lives
Are our path
Each of us seeking that which will heal us
Bring us back into wholeness
And that is different for everyone
Under the moon and the sun
That is why it has so many names
Labels and claims
In so many cultures and to so many people
The particular thirst we have for fulfillment is unique …
Poetry Gallery / January-February 2015
Tim Merry
Finding my feet
And already meeting
The slowness of this soil
This land
Which so much has passed over
A Blessing
No messin’
A Blessing
To have been bypassed
By the viral Rampage
Swallowing up my homelands
My Childhood lands
Which are wallowing in quicksands
Wild-life dissappearing
Wilderness becoming parks
Peoples wild side crushed – or called an illness
The digestion congestion
Of people, ideas, worlds
Trying to be controlled
Filling up a bottleneck
No room for breath …