Open Field Awakening

10/31/2016

Friends,

There is a field of work in the world today around recognizing, understanding, and encouraging the next wave in the evolution of the way we collaborate and organize to get things done. I'm not talking about the simple "better to do list", as much as I'm speaking to the creative ways people are coming together to create entirely new business, educational, and other organizational structures.

Some of the big names in the field include:

• The book titled "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederick Laloux (http://www.reinventingorganizations.com) which has spawned a global dialogue on the subject by identifying and describing organizations from a variety of sectors around the world embodying new ways of organizing.
• The organization HolacracyOne – who offers a unique model of eliminating "a management class" and the inefficiencies inherent to that (http://www.holacracy.org) (Zappos online retailer has recently implemented that style of organizing (https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/07/the-zappos-holacracy-experiment.html).)

An emerging organization, encode.org (http://www.encode.org), now offers to explore how we can create new legal structures of organizing to create work that meets our individual and collective senses of purposeful living and engagement for fun and profit.

I'm writing to inquire to discover what interest you or your group might have in attending a workshop put on here in San Diego by our friends encode.org. Please feel free to explore some of the references below and get back to me with your interest, either on this channel, or directly by email to [email protected].

Thank you and warmest regards,

Kabir

https://medium.com/encode-org
http://slicingpie.com/learn-slicing-pie-model/
http://dojo.nearsoft.com/episodes/tom_thomison/

Based on three years of research, the book Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run businesses and non-profits, schools and hospitals.

10/15/2015

Gearing up! Only 6 more days until we journey into the StAGES Periodic Table of Consciousness with Dr. Terri O'Fallon and Kim Barta M.A! And we may have discovered a new addition to the table of elements!

10/14/2015

The Planetary Collective created a short-film documenting astronaut's life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.

Buy the feature film PLANETARY: http://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/planetary For more info about PLANETARY and Planetary Collective visit...

09/24/2015

An important voice of wise counsel, this is just a teaser – we encourage you to look further into the magnificent work of Hans Rosling and Gapminder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JiYcV_mg6A

15 years from now, nobody will still be living in extreme poverty anywhere in the world – that’s the pledge being made by President Obama and the Pope. Eradi...

09/19/2015

We deeply appreciate the opportunity to see our work, not unique to us, but rather as a part of an evolutionary movement towards a more integrated, more life-affirming, more grateful effacement to the majesty of existence. This video just came to us from my mom, apparently this man was one of my father's teachers many years ago. Beautiful to feel part of something so long and deep and profoundly resonant with my own heart.

What do you do when you find yourself feeling empty and unfulfilled at work? John Scherer talks to TEDxKrakow about how to go from unhappiness at work to cre...

09/18/2015

Leading the field in pioneering new ways of creative collaboration (recently known as "doing business"), our friends at HolacracyOne have many opportunities to join this important evolution.

Is your organization agile and adaptive to its environment - even as it scales? Are the functions and roles within your organization clear, yet also continually evolving, and driven by those doing the work?

09/09/2015

Our friends at the local Center for Integrative Psychology are offering a rich review of the subject of bioethics – we definitely encourage attendance, they are rich source of both good information and robust community.

Center for Integral Psychology - Discovery, Community Collaboration and Social Action

08/24/2015

StAGES with Terri O'Fallon and Kim Barta is coming to San Diego October 21st- October 25th 2015! Brought to you by Open Field Awakening and Soulstice, this four and a half day workshop is designed to be of significant benefit to psychotherapists, counselors, coaches, spiritual directors, and others. Register early for discounted pricing!

http://www.openfieldawakening.com/

StAGES — the Periodic Table of Consciousness: Psychological and spiritual implications and implementation A four and a half day training with Terri O’Fallon and Kim Barta in groundbreaking understandings of consciousness through lecture, demonstration, detailed descriptions, embodied exercises, and…

08/24/2015

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense.

mevlana jelaluddin rumi - 13th century

07/30/2015

A welcomed reminder of the waves that ripple from Humility.

"Today I'd like to surface an unpopular virtue. One that's fallen out of favor in a time of selfies and relentless status updates..." In this recent keynote that took his audience by storm, the founder of ServiceSpace makes a compelling case for -- humility. Rich with insight and studded with storie…