Reflections on Inner Development Goals (IDGs)
The moment I first learned about the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) from my colleague Kayta, I felt an immediate connection. My resonance sustainability led me to complete a two-year program on Sustainable Resource Management during my post graduate studies. This is...
The Stance of the Systemic Coach: The Orders of Helping
This article is a summary of Bert Hellinger's speech and article on systemic coaching, published first on The Whole Partnership “Love = Seeing plus distance minus judgement”. Bert Hellinger These ‘orders’ were first described by Bert Hellinger in the context...
Systemic Approach to Organizational Change- TED talk
I’ve probably shared this Ted talk a few years back. Recently its insights triggered rich reflections in my team at highly #complex and hashtag#adaptive environments. So let me reshare it here to spark more wisdom 🤩 This talk reminded me of non-linear dynamics of...
The nature of consciousness via a buddhist introspective method
This is my takeaway notes: 14th Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics 2022 topic is Rethinking Consciousness and the Mind. Thupten Jinpa Langri The nature of consciousness via a buddhist introspective method How can science, whose method of inquiry is...
Applying Systemic Approaches in Large Organizations: Personal Reflections
Inspired by a post by Joan Lurie on systemic organizational paradigm shifts, I’d like to share a few reflections on my experience of applying a systemic approach in a large organization’s transformation efforts. In today’s organizations, it’s been assumed that...
Some reflections about death and the dying process
Norbert, my father in-law, passed away during Christmas time in 2022. His dying process has brought rich reflections in me, and I was deeply touched by the peace, compassion and contentment of this process. Thanks to his faith and spirituality, in the last 2 hours of...
Whole Brain Living
This is my takeaway notes: 14th Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics 2022 topic is Rethinking Consciousness and the Mind. The first talk was given by Dr JILL BOLTE TAYLOR, she was a Harvard neuroscience researcher when she had a stroke in her left brain...
Journey to cultivate awareness through meditation
Recently I’m invited by an informal learning group to share experiences on meditation and using mindfulness in the workplace. This invitation triggered some reflection of my own journey, which made me realize how fortunate I am to taste the flavors of mind training in...
Collaborative Overload – tackling it with systemic interventions
In recent discussions with leaders in various countries, I realized once again how important it is to bring awareness to collaborative overload. Hence, sharing this HBR article on the topic. According to the research, in most cases, 20 to 35% of value-added...
Essentialism and Effortless
Today a colleague shared a podcast with Greg McKeown, author of the book <Essentialism> and <Effortless>. This theme touches so many aspects of my work currently, in the context of complex human system transformation, as well as challenges and aspirations...
Happy holidays
If I could wish anything for the world it would be for all of us to have a deeper, more vibrant experience of being alive.Ultimately the most important thing we have going for us is our capacity to experience. Anything that enables us to experience more fully, more...
让每一个伤口都开出菩提之花
我读这篇文章实在太有共鸣，不愿让它消失在网络暗处，所以转发保留。 希望你能坚强的走下去 作者：丹增卓玛 无常是修行人的密友，它时刻提示我们保持警醒，并且给我们以鼓励和希望。无常意味着凡事都有改变的可能。 ——《次第花开》 在圣洁的高原之地，没有雨的日子，天空常常是湛蓝而澄澈，抬头你总能看见苍鹰和秃鹫，张开翅膀，自在的翱翔于天空之中，悠然而洒脱，那硕大的翅膀在天空中轻轻划过，未曾留下一丝痕迹，空中的风也只不过是吹动它翅尖的羽毛，它俯视地上的一切，似乎是天空中的王者。...
Learning nuggets from complex system transformation work (No. 2) – on holistic well-being
Following the last pieces of nugget, continuing my work in complex adaptive changes, in a system that aspires to operate in a fluid and networked way, I’m not short of learning sparks. This piece of nugget is about people’s holistic well-being when experiencing...
A Teal-like experience of a self organized volunteering group
As I’m very much involved in transformation work that is promoting Teal self-organization in a large organizational setting, today it occurred to me that my on-going volunteer experience perhaps could trigger some wisdom from the naturally evolving Teal-like...
Learning nuggets from complex system transformation work (No. 1)
I really like the word learning nuggets, after all, what’s better than learning from all the interactions and drawing sparks of insights? I’ll pick up this blog seris, which will also serve as my own learning journal. During the recent transformation work that...
Here’s to the crazy ones
Today I experienced an emotionally intense retro with one of the pioneering agile teams in China. What I experienced in the retro reminds me once again about this phrase “touch base”, especially during challenging times, for me it is so important to touch base, to...
Elements of neuroscience in organizational transformation
Today I joined a webinar by Mingyur Rinpoche and Dr. Richard Davidson on Meditation and the Science of Human Flourishing. Aside from many mindfulness elements that will benefit my personal practice, the insights also sparked some connections for the work in...
The ball and the flatland – my reflections from a beautiful U journey
This week I co-facilitated a beautiful U journey with three countries’ leadership teams. When I reflected a bit on my experience during this journey, the analogy of the ball and the flatland came to mind. For me it is a nice way to represent perhaps the biggest...
Presencing in a complex system – the most stark Mindfulness homework
Throughout my whole career, never before have I felt such great importance of being mindful and presencing in my day-to-day. In my current role as an Enterprise Agile Coach, I feel that I’m spending most of my day in a heightened state of presencing. The word...
The Cult of Done Manifesto
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. There is no editing stage. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you...