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Trance of Scarcity
	The very last session I dropped in on today was on the topic of the Trance of Scarcity. Victoria Castle is referring to the way in which the paradigm of "not enough" (money, time, love, whatever) rules us. I have seen enough of this in organizations to be particularly impressed with her choice of the word "trance" to describe the phenomenon. Disturbingly accurate. Posted: 5/12/06; 6:50:34 PM #

Identity Woman

Kaliya Halman gave a lecture this afternoon on Networks in the Noosphere (using Teilhard de Chardin's term), in which she carefully laid out the connections between living networks, the Internet, and human networks, while emphasizing the importance of openness (of both source code and standards) as support structures for community. She blogs at Identity Woman and at the end of her session it was clear that the difficult concept of online "identity" was central to the entire discussion. Posted: 5/12/06; 6:44:42 PM #

Peggy Holman of the Open Circle Company

One of the great pleasures of conferences is to discover all of the many ways in which people are working to heal the world. One of the presenters at a session on "Engaging Common Wisdom" was Peggy Holman of the Open Circle Company, which focuses on empowering models of group work. She has a nice collection of papers online, including a good introduction to Appreciative Inquiry and another on the concept of emergence. Posted: 5/12/06; 11:38:40 AM #

Social Artistry

I am attending the Sacred Activism conference, where the opening speaker today was Jean Houston. She was eloquent, as always, and spoke, as she has been doing recently, on the topic of Social Artistry. Social artistry is her brand for the kind of creative leadership that is needed today, a leadership that bridges the gap between the mythic and the practical. Needless to say, she is a marvelous speaker. Posted: 5/12/06; 11:05:13 AM #