I have been involved in some incredibly draining work of late, the most recent of which required me to be substantially bigger than I normally have been

For those of you that read in newsfeeders you won’t have noticed that I changed the template of the blog again.

It is to be both committed to the action and invisible enough that the outcome arises collectively, without personal baggage attached

At any rate, light blogging this month. I was holding space for a day long circle dialogue on Aboriginal child welfare in British Columbia. It was a full day with many important people from throughout the system who came together to look at how we might work at changing the deepest assumptions about the child welfare system to focus on interdependence. A very rewarding day, and a few reports are forthcoming, but I found myself deeply tired after this event. On reflection, I think it was largely a result of holding myself in solid purpose, and deeply committed to facilitating a process that took a conversation to a place none of us could have guessed. It was, in the words of Donald Rothberg, committed action with nonnattachment to outcome.Seguir leyendo