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Acceptance of Fallibility

Friends & Neighbors

Freeing Yourself from the Consumer Culture

Peter Block -
In this wide-ranging interview Peter talks with Eric Zimmer, host and producer of The One You Feed, named one of the Best Health Podcasts of All Time by The Huffington Post. Peter discusses some of the big questions he is tackling lately,...
Friends & Neighbors

Organizational Culture of Fear: The Shadow Side of US Culture

Peter Block -
CJ Liu's interview with Peter on her popular YouTube show "Fire It Up with CJ" was supposed to be about his book Flawless Consulting. Instead, in their intimate, touching, funny and profound conversation they light on topics ranging from personal...
Conversations

Who Has the Skills to Build Community? We All Do

Sarah van Gelder -
About every six weeks, for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their September 12, 2017 dialog they invited YES! Magazine co-founder Sarah van Gelder to share the stories...
Stories

I Saw the Revolution in So Many of the Small Places We Call Home

Sarah van Gelder -
The following is an excerpt from The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America. The real change we need to stop the social and ecological unraveling can be found in the neighborhoods and cities,...
Conversations

How Community Animators Work Around the World

Cormac Russell -
About every six weeks, for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their July 25, 2017 dialog they invited Cormac Russell to share his experiences in...
Conversations

How Community Action Shapes Health

Deborah Puntenney -
About every six weeks, for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their June 6, 2017 dialog they invited Deborah Puntenney to share her experiences in...
Friends & Neighbors

Forget Your Perfect Offering

Al Etmanski -
Forget your perfect offering, advised Leonard Cohen. There will always be another shiny concept or tool so much better than the ones you currently use. And consultants, who describe a perfect world within reach should you decide to hire them. And fundraisers,...
Friends & Neighbors

Withering into the Truth

Parker J. Palmer -
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun, Now may I wither into the truth. — William Butler Yeats In a few days, I’ll turn 78. When friends...
Friends & Neighbors

Tough Love

Al Etmanski -
Here’s a little Valentine’s essay for all the caring change-makers out there, especially those whose efforts are ignored or misunderstood. ~ Al Marrying love with justice isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes an open heart to fall in love...
Friends & Neighbors

Are We There Yet?

Sarah Arthurs -
In a recent interview in preparation for NewScoop's conversation on An Other Kingdom, John explored the questions How will we know when we have departed the consumer culture? and How will we know we have arrived?  John believes that as we see three particular...
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The Biggest Question You Can Ask in Life

A Buddhist teacher once nudged me along the path by rephrasing a question my mind kept posing to itself....
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