The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

If you believe that saying no will get you shot, well, what a fine way to go.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.