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PURPOSE

Point-of-View (POV) is Live

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READ FIRST TO ORIENT. This is POINT-OF-VIEW (POV), a brand new publication site that I am starting as a channel for sharing my 50 years

PRACTICES

HOPE: Comfort, Crutch or Contagion?

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I had an experience of hope recently listening to a YouTube conversation between Paul Anleinter and Jordan Hall. I was attracted to the title The

A Future for Organization Development

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A recent communication from the Organizational Development Network that outlined a definition of the field and its core values led me to think about the

I'm In PERSISTENCE

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Coming back to the United States from a month in Europe has my head spinning. Gisela and I were working in Germany, Austria, Italy and

Allan Drexler: In Appreciation

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I was saddened to hear that my friend and colleague Allan Drexler passed away recently. He was 88. In the 1980s, he and I co-developed

Spider Politics and Trojan Mice

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Every so often an idea appears that won’t let my imagination be. Like an electromagnet, it keeps pulling in material. It happened this week

Choices: Ceremony or Family?

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For months I’d been looking forward to a special meeting in New Mexico at the Village of the Shining Stones near Abiquiu called the

Back in the Flows of the "Real" World

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This post shares a dream of the Four Flows of information that shape our world. I’m on the lip of change this week watching

Group Graphics Workshop Flier

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In 1980 I, David Sibbet along with Geoff Ball and Sandra Florstedt offered the first ever public workshop on Group Graphics®, The Group Graphics Intensive

PERSPECTIVES

Oil Crisis Regulations

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Several things came together and prompted this post about the oil crises we all are facing. The first was the war in Iran of course.

The Architecture of Silence

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A small organization in Sebastopol called SAND, for Science and Nonduality, recently organized a conversation called The Architecture of Silence in Spiritual Culture, Reckoning with Epstein, Deepak, and Systems of Denial.

The Black Hole of Narcissism

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THE BLACK HOLE OF NARCISSISM Einstein predicted them. Eventually scientists saw them. Their gravitational pull is so strong nothing escapes, not even light. X -rays

AGI#3: The Thinking Game

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I just finished watching the Thinking Game, a 2024 Tribeca Festival selection about Demis Hassabi, CEO of Deep Mind and Nobel winner for his work

Standing Up to The Sixth Extinction

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“Earth's creatures are on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, comparable to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. That's

A Future for Organization Development

· 6 min read

A recent communication from the Organizational Development Network that outlined a definition of the field and its core values led me to think about the

I'm In PERSISTENCE

· 3 min read

Coming back to the United States from a month in Europe has my head spinning. Gisela and I were working in Germany, Austria, Italy and

Allan Drexler: In Appreciation

· 4 min read

I was saddened to hear that my friend and colleague Allan Drexler passed away recently. He was 88. In the 1980s, he and I co-developed

Spider Politics and Trojan Mice

· 5 min read

Every so often an idea appears that won’t let my imagination be. Like an electromagnet, it keeps pulling in material. It happened this week

Choices: Ceremony or Family?

· 7 min read

For months I’d been looking forward to a special meeting in New Mexico at the Village of the Shining Stones near Abiquiu called the

PLACES

POEMS

The Black Hole of Narcissism

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THE BLACK HOLE OF NARCISSISM Einstein predicted them. Eventually scientists saw them. Their gravitational pull is so strong nothing escapes, not even light. X -rays