Editorial by George Pór, July 2017
You can read the entire July 2017 EE Magazine Highlights here.
Maybe because it’s Summer time in the Northern hemisphere where I live, maybe because what I hear the field of personal/organizational transformations crying for, what is most alive in my heart in this moment of writing this message to you is the feeling illustrated by following quote.
“Creation does not take place
where there is a scattering and dissipation of energies.
Creation requires a gathering together and focusing
of your power within a circle of commitment —
like a seed and egg, a womb or a marriage.
Consider wisely the ways in which you would
use your power, and then around those ways
draw the sacred circle of commitment.
In the warm atmosphere of that circle, the power
of love builds like a storm above the wet summer
prairie until suddenly the circle can hold no more
and explodes in the conception of the new.
~ said White Buffalo Woman, in The Return of the Bird Tribe, by Ken Carey
Whether it is the longing of the soul for the profound peace that only reconnecting with nature can give, or it is simply our vacation habits, as we are heading to the beach, the mountain, or a remote island, let’s remember the birth of the commitment that White Buffalo Woman spoke.
No, I don’t want to spoil our fun with some serious stuff, only invite us to expand what “fun” can be, by taking a fresh look at how we can re-invigorate our participation in the best game on Earth: liberation of human heart and mind from anything that enslaves it, including undemocratic workplace structures and processes.
To support us in that re-looking, this cycle of EE Magazine brings us a video of the conversation between Frederic Laloux and Aftab Omer, where Omer sets the context by contrasting the recent bombings that extinguished many lives with the very encouraging developments in organizational life that Laloux wrote about in Reinventing Organizations.
The current issue of the EE Magazine Highlights brings us also the first Special Edition on Education
with an abundance of writings dedicated to reinventing education, thanks to inspired and inspiring work of Guest Editor Jean-Paul Munsch, Lia Aurami of Enlivening Edge, and the many authors who contributed their experience and wisdom.
With the completion of this bi-monthly cycle, EE Magazine is also celebrating the beginning of its 3rd year. We are just about entering into kindergarten, and excited about the learning, playing, growing, and transforming that the new year will bring.
Our major project of the new year is our “Reinventing EE” journey that has already energized the team in the phase of co-creating a deliberate design for the next stage of Enlivening Edge’s organizational identity. The reinvention might include the formation of an Enlivening Edge Association (a kind “Friends of EE”), the establishment of an EE legal entity, and a radical rethinking of how we can better serve our readers. Stay tuned for the news!
There are two other projects worth mentioning that we are pursuing. We are co-organizing the 3rd international Next-Stage World gathering of organization reinventors on Rhodes, October 16-20, and we are building the team for TOM, our Teal Organizations Mapping project. If interested in the latter, read Mapping Our Way to the Tipping Point and if you want to participate, contact Mieke Byerley.
The theme of our next bi-monthly Magazine cycle starting now is “Managing Complexity”.
Whether the various strands of the movement for next stage organizations will be able to prove their evolutionary advantage (over the presently dominant model of command-and-control organizing) will largely depend on whether they can learn managing complexity just as well and even better than today’s big bureaucracies manage complexity. Do you have some thoughts about it? Why not turn them into an article for EE Magazine by August 10, following our Writer’s Guidelines.
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