Creative collaboration for championing sustainability
On February 8th we hosted our second Championing Sustainability creative forum. A dynamic and diverse group of 50 participants came and engaged with opennes and passion in the creative exploration of what sustainability means to them. Through this process they sought to design strategies that would translate their personal and shared visions into action. Bringing people together not only to learn what we already know (what is) but also to create new knowledge and insights about possibilities yet to be created (what could be) is a core aspect of what we do at Syntony Quest. Ours is a work of gardening: we seek to provide fertile ground, sunlight, air but participants bring the seeds... which we water and help grow together with them.
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Learning by teaching, learning by doing
A week ago we had a teaching weekend at Presidio School of Management. This residency was held at the Marin Headlands Institute in Sausalito — where we also conduct some of our public workshops like the Evolutionary Leadership for Sustainability. The weather was amazingly beautiful and the views of hills and ocean were the perfect background for engaging with MBA students in Sustainable Management who are so passionate about integrating social and environmental considerations into business practices.
Wisdom in evolutionary leadership
This past Saturday we concluded another Evolutionary Leadership for Sustainability public workshop. Manuel, Alexander and I celebrated our first year of collaboration offering this leadership development program. Since October of 2006 we have trained more than 200 individuals committed to be leaders of change in their organizations and communities and we have offered the course in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chile and Mexico. What is unique about Evolutionary Leadership for Sustainability is the connection between authentic leadership -- emerging from who we are and what we care about -- with the commitment to contribute at the level of the interconnected global problems.
Reflecting in the midst of turbulence: moving forward on the evolutionary leadership path
Life has been full and in the midst of incredibly amount of activity I am fortunate to be able to see how blessed I am for having so many opportunities to do meaningful work and to learn-by-doing how to move forward in the sustainability journey. The past months have been nothing less than turbulent. Pack full work schedules, international travels, family health concerns, and an increasing pace that makes the idea of a "balanced life" sound like utopia. Nevertheless, this chaos is incredibly fertile ground for the seeds of possibility that Alexander and I have been planting during the 15 years of our partnership.
