All social change begins with a conversation.

Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

To make a system stronger, we need to make stronger relationships.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions

Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed

Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.