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The Global Sufficiency Summit

November 22, 2008

The Global Sufficiency Summit With keynote by Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money and co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance.

Carol Mase will be doing a presentation of the Cairn of Circles that was powerfully delivered to a group in New Hampshire this summer. We are honored to have Lynne Twist as a keynote speaker and contributor to the whole day. Register online at www.bostonsufficiency.org

The purpose of our website is to introduce you to the ideas contained in the concept of Organizations as Organisms. We imagine organizations as living systems that take in and process energy and information, made up of individuals that act together as an ecosystem; connected to and dependent upon their environment and forming a network of relationships that create culture, norms, and governance. READ MORE ->>

For individuals and organizations, transformation takes hard work and being willing to confront the mental models that drive or limit growth. Like their biological metaphor, people and organizations can leverage the process of transformation through Imagination.
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NeuroIntegrated^TM Coaching
The human brain, mind, emotions, and feelings are shaped by the interpersonal activity we call “work”. How you interact at work is part of the process of who you are neurologically becoming.

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Emergent Teams
Successful teams have been redefined by 21st Century organizational pressures. Teams emerge when a group of individuals consciously decide to work together in the creative tension of the ME-WE continuum.

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Metamorphic Change
Turbulence has become the way of the world and, for organizations, the way of the marketplace. Living organizations harness turbulence, using its energy to adapt to environmental challenges.

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Situational Thinking
Ever wonder why finance, sales, marketing, and R&D struggle to communicate? Collaborative work requires collective thinking that works with, not against, the conversational dynamics of organizations.

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4Quadrant^TM Management
Living systems operate simultaneously on multiple levels of complex self-organization. Living organizations operate on four – ME, WE, CULTURE, COMMUNITY. These create the reality we call “work”.

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"There are no recipes or formulae, no checklists, or advice that describes "reality". There is only what we create through our engagement with others and with events. ..everything is always new and different and unique to each of us [individuals and organizations]."

-MARGARET WHEATLEY,
LEADERSHIP AND THE NEW SCIENCE

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