Comments on: Communities That Work for All http://www.aliainstitute.org/fieldnotes_blog/2008/09/communities-that-work-for-all/ News, Articles, & Stories from the ALIA Institute Community Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:07:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jean-Sébastien Bouchard http://www.aliainstitute.org/fieldnotes_blog/2008/09/communities-that-work-for-all/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Jean-Sébastien Bouchard Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:36:38 +0000 http://www.shambhalainstitute.org/fieldnotes_blog/?p=350#comment-10 I am reading this book right now! It is really interesting to see Block, a guru of process consulting and bestselling author, develop a practice that is highly inspired from the World Café and the Art of Hosting. I think it will help us (the Shambhala Institute community of practitioners) to enter more easily into environments where «best practices» and traditional consulting approaches are mostly used. One of my favorite excerpt is about Block's vision of leadership: «... This kind of leadership - convening, naming the question, and listening - is restorative and produces energy rather than consumes it. It is leadership that creates accountability as it confronts people with their freedom.» Spice this up with embodiment and presencing and this is pure Shambhala Institute stuff ;-) I am reading this book right now! It is really interesting to see Block, a guru of process consulting and bestselling author, develop a practice that is highly inspired from the World Café and the Art of Hosting. I think it will help us (the Shambhala Institute community of practitioners) to enter more easily into environments where «best practices» and traditional consulting approaches are mostly used.

One of my favorite excerpt is about Block’s vision of leadership:
«… This kind of leadership - convening, naming the question, and listening - is restorative and produces energy rather than consumes it. It is leadership that creates accountability as it confronts people with their freedom.»

Spice this up with embodiment and presencing and this is pure Shambhala Institute stuff ;-)

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