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mind@work staat zowel voor Concrete ervaring uit honderden sessies en workshops Betrokkenheid bij mensen, bij faciliteren van workshops, vergaderingen en meetings Gestructureerde methode voor intake, ontwerp, uitvoering en rapportage Metafoor voor de werking van de (menselijke) geest Die laatste onderbouwt … Continue reading →

An afternoon on facilitating diversity with Isabelle Min (South-Korea) and Jan Lelie CPF (De workshop is in het Engels. Ik heb verderop een Nederlandstalige toelichting toegevoegd). Last year, I met Isabelle at the IAF-conference in Seoul and we established a … Continue reading →

Ashby’s law – complexity begets complexity – is a natural law, like gravity, and cannot be escaped. ALL organizations run into trouble. Either they get stuck, bogged down in rules, systems, meetings and disillusion. Or they try to get “free”, … Continue reading →

The Law of the Requisite Variety, Ashby’s Law, “Variety begets variety“, governs us all. This law also enforces itself. She self-refers. Complexity, diversity, variety, differences can not be reduced. Reducing means terminating, getting rid of, killing a part of the … Continue reading →

Recently I was asked: “What evidence can I produce to answer the challenge of the CEO, community leader, politician, etc. who questions the value of taking a participatory approach at all, who sees it only as a more expensive, more … Continue reading →

Global4cast.org is one of the most interesting I’m following. I think it is connected with Antifragility by Nassim Taleb and Homo Deus by Harari. One of its latest post https://global4cast.org/2017/07/11/to-survive-we-must-be-all-inclusive/. I’ve added these comments. All laws of physics emerge from … Continue reading →

On Quora there was this question: What is the link between mind, brain and consciousness? Here is my answer, with some additions between []. You. You are. You are the (missing) link. And “we” are, that is to say, the … Continue reading →

I’ve volunteered to do a workshop at the First Global Conference on Positive Change. Here is the approach. How to change positively? Everything is energy and energy is always conserved. So, systems, by necessity, tend to settle in the lowest … Continue reading →

Life is inherently paradoxical, among others. Specifically amongst others. Change is the only outcome of paradox and paradoxically change is a paradox too. What we can see, is people trying to “solve” paradoxes, paradoxes like I and other (“individuality, identity, … Continue reading →