Companions

I have been blessed on my journey by many wise teachers and good friends who have been my companions in learning and work.  These individuals and organizations offer a rich variety of high quality services that I personally recommend.

ALIA Institute (Authentic Leadership In Action) is a resource for leaders  creating  the conditions for deep learning and sustained impact by integrating skill-building with mindfulness, creative process, and dialogue.

Animus Valley Institute offers a synergistic set of nature-based practices including Vision Questing designed to evoke the life-shifting experience of soul encounter.

Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter is a global community of practitioners using integrated participative change processes, methods, maps, and planning tools to engage groups and teams in meaningful conversation, deliberate collaboration, and group-supported action for the common good

Axladitsa Avatakia is a learning center, a place for Living Wholeness on an olive farm in Greece.   Home of Maria Scordialos and Sarah Whiteley.

Berkana Institute connects and supports pioneering, life-affirming leaders around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in its people, traditions and environment. The Berkana Institute serves people globally who are giving birth to the new forms, processes and leadership that will restore hope to the future.

Center for Human Development

Centre for Creative Change creates a safe, bold, and structured means to explore the challenges facing all of us as individuals and organisations. From this basis we bring deep levels of supported learning and change – breaking beyond habitual frames of reference.

Chris Corrigan is a process artist, a teacher and a facilitator of social technologies for face to face conversation in the service of emergence.

Elisabet Sahtouris is an evolutionary biologist, futurist, author and consultant.

Flow Game is a game with the purpose of grounding, strengthening and bringing clarity and flow to human beings, their life, leadership and actions.

Green Bug Adventures is an eco-tourism company serving the ethical traveler with tours, adventures, travel guides and information about the best Eco-destinations on the continent of Africa.

Institute of Heart Math is dedicated to helping people establish heart-based living and global coherence

Helen Tichen-Beeth is a woman returning to the wild. Cunning linguist, mother of twins, evolutionary wooden-spoon wielder, panpsychist, host, harvester, apprentice homesteader, wannabe holon in the forthcoming collective buddha, holder of space for the emergent Aquarian age, self-mitigating carbon footprint … and prolific blogger:  Integral Yeshe, Dorpsstraat, Aquarian Conversations.

InterChange purpose is to host  sustainable development and transformation for individuals, leaders, organizations, as well as for ourselves, through meaningful conversations that lead to wiser collective actions for the common good.

Holacracy™ is a comprehensive practice for structuring, governing, and running an organization. It is a new “operating system” that facilitates rapid evolution in light of emerging reality by harnessing self-organization in a fractal structure.

Joanna Macy is an eco-philosopher and a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology.  She is the primary source and root teacher of the Work That Reconnects.

Kufunda Village is an inspired community living in a village on the outskirts of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Kufunda’s mission is to inspire the co-creation of strong life affirming communities in Zimbabwe and beyond by demonstrating and sharing the necessary ideas, skills and practices that are required for community sustainability and nourishment.

Margaret Wheatley, author, speaker and founder of Berkana Institute has been exploring the question: “How might we organize differently if we understood how Life organizes?”

Natural Innovation is an interdisciplinary platform for learning and collaboration around the pressing issues of our time and the new human capacities needed to tackle them. Our work focuses on process design & facilitation, initiating collaborative projects that support social innovation and capacity development. Based in Belgium.

Newfield Network offers coach training and leadership development using ontological approaches to learning.

Open Space Technology is a simple way to run productive meetings, for five to 2000+ people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization, in everyday practice and extraordinary change.

PeerSpirit teaches and utilizes the PeerSpirit Circle Process. When leadership rotates, responsibility is shared.

Pioneers of Change fosters understanding, capacities and relationships needed by younger practitioners committed to stepping forward and creating the change they want to see in the world. Pioneers of Change is a global learning network supporting practitioners in their mid-20s to mid-30s.

Tenneson Woolf provides leadership and community development – hosting spaces for co-created insight and solutions with a focus on helping teams and communities awaken to the soul of the work and the simple, wise choices of action that grow from there.

The Center for Human Development is a private not-for-profit organization located in La Grande, Oregon providing alcohol and drug, environmental health, mental health, public health, developmental disabilities, prevention and veterans services.

The Hub is a global community of people from every profession, background and culture working at ‘new frontiers’ to tackle the world’s most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges through social innovation. It is social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world.

The World Café is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future.

Warriors of the Heart presents seminars and experiential trainings- developing the capacity for centered and wise actions in dynamic times and leads people into practices that increase their personal capacity for clarity and vigor, abilities that are required to not only succeed but to thrive even in the most difficult situations.

 

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