I really miss my time writing here and making comments on your blog! Fortunately, I am still reading all my favourite blogs and websites on my iphone via Google Reader when I get a few moments. But … I have realised that the big Ah!Ha moments I get from reading ‘other people’s blogs’ don’t seem to have the same impact if I don’t turn what I read/watch/hear into my own. In other words, I don’t really learn until I’ve written and reflected about it. Tomorrow, I’ll be sanding and oiling 34 sheets of 2.4m x 12m eco-plywood for my office …

Some of friends over at Envrionment Victoria have set themselves a big, hairy & audacious goal … “We are mobilising 5 million people to take Green Action” Environment Victoria Another example of how to ‘incite a movement’ and connect people. Again, the use of ‘social media’ is at the center here.  Here’s their video to help promote the cause … Are You In? from Vicki Kyriakakis on Vimeo. I’m in … how about you? Geoff

Last week I facilitated a workshop with a group of people whose work is diverse and complex and our topic was Floodplain Management. An interesting thing happened … After making a point that the large circular board room table may be of great use to the group later on, my client started with a short ‘chalk&talk’ presentation to set the scene and context for the day. We identified the key questions to draw out the group wisdom and we ran a structured group process to tackle the first question. Pretty simple so far, then … We had no plan for …

Here’s the stuff worth spreading … Viv McWaters on Ways of Knowing Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) launches WhoOnEarthCares campaign The Anecdote Team analyse Dan Pink’s TED09 presentation on Motivation From Blogx comes the best You Tube video I’ve seen since Free Hugs (hat tip to Chris Corrigan for this one) Dave Pollard‘s links and tips of the week often keep me going for hours! Zen Habits writes How to be Childlike Dave Snowden on Drivers and Modulators Euan Semple unearths a video of Moments that is superb

After 5 years of working for myself, planets have really started to line up. Once fragmented pieces of work, and the networks of people, are connecting. The 2 pieces of work I refer to are ‘facilitation’ and ‘behaviour change’ (in the context of people and communities tackling climate change). For the part of my consulting work that we habitually label “behaviour change”, whole conferences are being planned right now to better understand it and measure it! For my part, I hope we can coin a new term that better reflects a broader social context. Mark Earls, author of Herd and …