In practice

If you are looking for ways to introduce the concept and practice of expressive change into your organization, check out these “conversation deepeners”. They are the first in a collection of self-guided learning materials that we’re developing. They are designed for a small group of people within the same organization to do together and can be done in any order.

Wanted/Recherche: Two Montreal-area learning partners

Organization Unbound is seeking to enter into a learning partnership with two Montreal-area organizations to better understand the experiences organizations have as they begin to engage with the practice of Expressive Change. What we learn from these learning partnerships will feed the development of a self-guided curriculum on Expressive change. Interested/Intéressé?

The experience of school

Critics of modern schooling like John Taylor Gatto and Ivan Illich have recognized that the fundamental curriculum that schools teach us is school itself. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately since moving to South Africa, where school reform has become a nation-wide calling. The initiatives that feel most promising to me are the ones that are digging under the layers a bit- looking at ways of transforming […]

How we gather

At Kufunda Learning Village we had fallen into the rut of our weekly meetings having become very task oriented. They were the least inspired place of our village (mostly), and several issues were being discussed with only a few voices repeating themselves. There was little collective wisdom at play, and oftentimes we left our weekly Village Circle feeling drained and tired, although we might have managed to tick off many items on our to-do list. One day – after one too many such meetings – I decided, no more […]

Seeking beta-testers

Over the past several months, we’ve started to see our vision for a self-guided curriculum on expressive change come to life. A number of people have volunteered to beta-test the sessions we’ve developed so far, and the testimonials have been so encouraging that we’ve decided to expand our pool of beta-testers to […]

The form trap

Check out this talk that Warren gave at Tedx Cape Town on an idea we feel is worth spreading!

The biggest challenge the world is facing is not how to create change but how to sustain change, and if we want to sustain change we are mostly paying attention to the wrong things, particularly inside our social purpose organizations and social movements…

Podcast: Dancing the talk

In this podcast, we speak to Kiran Gulrajani, who challenges us to take a lighter and more exploratory approach to living out our values in our work. We had the pleasure of hosting him and his CoEvolve colleague Rohit Sasvehalli at our home during their recent visit to South Africa. Our intention was to […]

Ending the year on an exciting note

You might have noticed that we’ve been a little less talkative at Organization Unbound lately. It’s not because we’re scared speechless that the world is about to end, but because we’ve been hard at work on a new project: A self-guided curriculum to deepen and spread the practice of expressive change.

In praise of dreams and magic

Time is ticking. There is less than half an hour until my teaching starts at Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia. I am in my office trying to focus and prepare for my afternoon lecture of “Management Skills and Personal Development” course for about 200 students. I feel terrified. […]

Gross organizational happiness

Over the past several years, there has been a great deal of international focus on the notion of happiness. While there are many definitions of happiness, here is a composite of my favorites: “emotions experienced when in a state of well-being that range from contentment to intense joy.” This is not a new notion. Thinkers from Aristotle to Alice Walker to the Dalai Lama have written much about […]