Have you ever stopped to imagine what it was like for our ancestors, discovering new worlds? Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time not just thinking about it, but trying to feel it — trying to put myself in their shoes. What must those experiences have been like? Stepping into a new landscape, one they had to navigate to survive, with the hope that they might even thrive. There’s something profound in imagining how little they may have known — neither the dangers nor the opportunities fully revealed. Continue reading here

Way back in 1987, I was getting a Master’s Degree in Communication and was writing one of the many papers that formed a part of the education. Often I found myself in the library exploring stacks written about whatever subject I was researching. I loved going down those physical rabbit holes looking through card catalogs, and microfiche in dark corners of the university library, not knowing what I was going to find.

Awhile ago, a friend came to visit me. It was the first time in a long time that I’d hosted someone who hadn’t ever been to Amsterdam. During our walks around town I was able to see the city through her eyes enjoying the typical sites,

In a world that talks about efficiency and quickness, I can find no better way to work fast and be efficient than by slowing down to be able to reflect before jumping into action. Read More

Emergence of the new often happens on the outskirts of our awareness. The time between the Christmas holiday and the New Year is a good time to stop and look at what is happening at the margins. Read more.

As I look at the world these days, I remember the wise words that,“you can never go home again.” Even as we start going “back” to old habits like flying, going to an office, eating out with friends inside a restaurant, the reality of what we are going into remains unknown and volatile. We are still in the midst of an uncertain and highly unpredictable situation.

I love working on development processes with organizations. My approach is based on the belief that the key to healthy organizational development lies within the organization itself. It’s also based upon understanding that effective change must come from within the organization, and that when you look openly and honestly to what is really there, solutions will arise. continue reading

It is said that the only constant in life is change. If that is so, then it also holds true that if grief responses are constant.

All change means letting go of something, and all letting go brings with it some form of grief. Grief expresses itself in many ways. Learning to identify those ways and become familiar with your own and other' people’s grief responses allows grief to take its place as a “human superpower” to navigate through a changing world. Read more

How being told to “take my vitamins” gave a clue to sustainably working with constant change

What I have come to know working with and for organizations is that the advice of attending to health is a great asset for successfully navigating the complexities of change, important for organizations as a whole as well as for individuals

In this time when there is so much change I find it useful to remember an old Spanish saying hay que dar tiempo als tiempo” or give time to time. Learning to notice that each project has its own time dictated by something other than just one’s will helps to me to be able to stay focused and present even when I get impatience. Read more here

It’s almost redundant to write that 2020 has already been a year of great and rapid change on a global scale. There is so much to say about that, but over the past weeks my attention has been drawn to notice that we are in the midst of a global collective learning-intensive.