Category: Personal Reflections

  Phew! I got so much momentum going in December, that it unexpectedly took me ’til New Year’s day to wind down! Now, I am finally getting the creative...

Ready for an experiment? Fold a single sheet into a one-week gratitude journal for a friend or for yourself!

During a working session on values, my business partner Steve Holyer introduced me to this delight from his childhood home: lagniappe, a Cajun word for an "unexpected something extra;"...

I've been looking for a Values exercise to share with you. I thought I'd found it with the Kouzes and Posner card deck... but was disappointed to find many...

"A circle of chairs" does not an Open Space make! I have experienced a number of formats that mix together Open Space and traditional conference practices. Does it matter?...

… but I didn’t know just how Canadian ’til I emigrated to Germany. It’s been 4 years, and when people ask me

TBD is a commonly-seen English acronym, a place holder for what is to come: To Be Determined. I think it summarizes beautifully the emergent nature of the Stoos Network,...

For change agents with technical or expert backgrounds, this new feeling of "the empty toolkit" can be scary. And so we fake it. Problem solved - for the moment....

“Why am I blogging this drawing of my cat?” I asked myself, because somehow it seemed both odd and important. I have thought about it all week, and this...

This spring I decided to grow my new garden from *seed* for the first time! I read, and researched instructions for germinating lupins, petunias, sunflowers and geraniums. I finally...

I had two great, short phone calls with US colleagues last night. Hearing their voices (rather than reading their tweets) had an unexpected effect: I felt more "in community"...