Summer, jazz, and lessons learned

June 30, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Summer and festivals go together. I’ve been volunteering this week at Jazzfest, the Victoria International Jazz Festival. It’s the 27th annual. It’s a great festival.  I’ve volunteered other years, too.  It’s one way I show my appreciation for what jazz has given me. Jazzfest, the festival The Victoria Jazz Society is a professional arts organization […]

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"Out" your assets to expose your collaborative potential

June 13, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Each one of us has gifts to offer, whether you’re a bookkeeper, beekeeper, barber.  Do you know the gifts of that person sitting across from you? Do you know what yours are? Your gifts are assets. Identifying and sharing those assets can increase the value of whatever situation, team, organization, neighbourhood, association, city, you are […]

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Getting ready for the future: Big Brother or Webmind?

June 1, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Thinking of the future offers us a choice.  Will it be a dystopian one, a la 1984, George Orwell and Big Brother, or will it be one of abundance, and positive potential? It can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. In his World Wide Web (WWW) trilogy (Wake , Watch , Wonder), science fiction author, par excellence, […]

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At the CORE: How social media is re-shaping the business of conflict resolution

May 14, 2011 by · 1 Comment

As part of the CORE Conflict Resolution Clinic speaker series, I gave a presentation last week on the topic of how social media is re-shaping the business of conflict resolution. The audience was 18 arbitrators, mediators, lawyers, tribunal officers, and other conflict resolution professionals.  The talk was held in the office of KPMG, in downtown […]

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Tangles: Video book review

May 8, 2011 by · Leave a Comment

Things happen. For writer Sarah Leavitt‘s mother, Alzheimer’s disease happened. The disease transformed her mother, and her family, forever.  Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother and me, is Sarah’s account of that journey. I loved Tangles. The author writes both prose and comics, and she uses both to advantage in putting forward a compelling […]

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