Thursday, March 18, 2010

Copenhagen – The Human Face of Climate Change

December 13, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Current Events, Featured

Our learning village community is a beautiful thing. We are a circle of people from many countries and off all ages who have come together to play, learn, explore and deepen our understanding of who we are as human BEINGS on this planet so we can put a human face on climate change. What are [...]

Launching the Inner Climate Change conversation in Boston! Here we go!

December 6, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Cool Stuff I Recommend, Featured

Launching the Inner Climate Change conversation in Boston! Here we go!

Tomorrow I leave for Copenhagen to be part of the People’s Summit that is taking place at the same time as the UN Climate Change Summit! My colleagues and friends and I will be hosting conversations to inquire into the role our inner climate has on the outer reality of climate change.
I was thrilled to [...]

Relationship Economy

November 28, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Cool Stuff I Recommend, Featured

Relationship Economy

Five years ago I began hearing about the need for new forms of exchange. It was clear to the experts I was hearing that we were heading down an unsustainable road with things as they were. Now, there are a few different exchange economies popping up.
I am part of a Time Bank where I give [...]

Embodied Presencing Practice

November 22, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Cool Stuff I Recommend, Featured

Embodied Presencing Practice

I had heard of Arawana Hayashi and the Social Presencing Theater she does in collaboration with Otto Scharmer and Theory U. Everyone raved about the experience. Yesterday I finally got the chance to spend a day with Arawana in her intro class that she presented here in Boston.
I was fascinated by the simplicity of Arawana’s [...]

Inner Climate Learning Villages and CoP15

October 27, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Cool Stuff I Recommend, Featured, Gallery

Inner Climate Learning Villages and CoP15

Is there a topic hotter (no pun intended) than Climate Change? No. People across the planet are asking questions about what they can do to curtail the shifts in nature. We have let this go very far and we are feeling the effects in weather patterns and seeing them in the suffering around the world [...]

The need for community

October 25, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Featured, Our Possible Future

The need for community

More of us are awakening to our greater purpose and seeing that we live between worlds – an old way of operating and a new one that is emerging. This is a tricky place to be. It is easy to lose our balance. One way we can continually come back to center and refuel is [...]