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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:17:17 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>The Path e-mission</title><subtitle>The Path e-mission</subtitle><id>http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/atom.xml"/><updated>2008-11-20T01:54:15Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Systems thinking and systems practice in Latin America</title><id>http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2008/11/13/systems-thinking-and-systems-practice-in-latin-america.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2008/11/13/systems-thinking-and-systems-practice-in-latin-america.html"/><author><name>Syntony Quest</name></author><published>2008-11-13T04:24:48Z</published><updated>2008-11-13T04:24:48Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[I had the honor to participate in two systems events in Latin America in the past 2 weeks. The first event at the end of October was the 4th Brazilian Systems Congress that took place in the city of Franca, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The second event in Mexico City, during first week of November, was the 3rd Regional Reunion of ALAS - the Association of Latin American Systems, where researchers from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba and Peru participated. My experience in these systems conferences is that they are very similar to family reunions: encounters of friends and colleagues in a warm and celebratory way.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Learning in Conversation</title><category>Reflections</category><category>learning</category><category>leadership</category><category>sustainability</category><category>dialogue</category><id>http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2008/10/22/learning-in-conversation.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2008/10/22/learning-in-conversation.html"/><author><name>Syntony Quest</name></author><published>2008-10-22T23:00:24Z</published><updated>2008-10-22T23:00:24Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[here is no doubt: I learn better through conversation. Dialogue means “thinking together,” so when I have the opportunity to be with people with diverse perspectives and experiences, that thinking together is incredibly productive.

That’s what I experienced again in our most recent learning conversation. The topic was “Evolutionary Leadership for Sustainability: a learning conversation among practitioners” hosted it at Saybrook Graduate School a week ago. We set it up as a space for organizational practitioners in the sustainability field – consultants, educators, change agents – to reflect together and share knowledge, insights and questions.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Creative collaboration for championing sustainability</title><category>Reflections</category><id>http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2008/2/23/creative-collaboration-for-championing-sustainability.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2008/2/23/creative-collaboration-for-championing-sustainability.html"/><author><name>Syntony Quest</name></author><published>2008-02-23T20:43:43Z</published><updated>2008-02-23T20:43:43Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Learning by teaching, learning by doing</title><category>Sustainable MBA</category><id>http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2007/10/29/learning-by-teaching-learning-by-doing.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2007/10/29/learning-by-teaching-learning-by-doing.html"/><author><name>Syntony Quest</name></author><published>2007-10-29T17:29:09Z</published><updated>2007-10-29T17:29:09Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Wisdom in evolutionary leadership</title><category>Reflections</category><id>http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2007/10/15/wisdom-in-evolutionary-leadership.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2007/10/15/wisdom-in-evolutionary-leadership.html"/><author><name>Syntony Quest</name></author><published>2007-10-15T07:39:21Z</published><updated>2007-10-15T07:39:21Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Reflecting in the midst of turbulence: moving forward on the evolutionary leadership path</title><category>Reflections</category><id>http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2007/9/15/reflecting-in-the-midst-of-turbulence-moving-forward-on-the-.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.syntonyquest.org/the-path/2007/9/15/reflecting-in-the-midst-of-turbulence-moving-forward-on-the-.html"/><author><name>Syntony Quest</name></author><published>2007-09-15T07:42:09Z</published><updated>2007-09-15T07:42:09Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[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.]]></summary></entry></feed>