CoP15

The UN Climate Summit is happening here in Copenhagen. The big march was yesterday and although I was not in it personally, I know from friends who were there, that, except for 300 people who came as a group to stir up trouble, it was peaceful for the most part. That says a lot for [...]

Copenhagen – The Human Face of Climate Change

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!

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 [...]

A Question to Stimulate the World

In preparation for the Inner Climate Learning Villages – we are looking for a question that will Stimulate the World!
So I put out a request to the Art of Hosting community. Such rich inquiries came back. Here are a few:
a question that was once offered by Vaclav Havel:
“How do we prepare ourselves inwardly to live [...]

Indigenous Voices on Climate Change

I recently met Nick Lunch of Insight Share – an organization using participatory video as a tool to empower individuals and communities. Here is some of what Insight Share says on their site:
“Insight’s Participatory Video methods value local knowledge, build bridges between communities and decision-makers and enable people to develop greater control over their own [...]

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 [...]