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Inspiring thoughts for the nourishing of Communities of Practice.
Winter '97
Spring '97
Summer '97
1998
These quotations have been contributed by participants in our Workplace Communities conference. Workplace Communities is a free public service, a supportive space for people to explore the possibility of community in their workplace and what it might mean for themselves.
Like a storm above the wet summer prairie
"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, an 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 and 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"
- White Buffalo Calf Woman said.
"When you listen to somebody else,
whether you like it or not,
what they say becomes part of you ...
the common pool is created,
where people begin suspending their own opinions
and listening to other people's ...
At some point people begin recognising that
this common pool is more important than their separate pools"
David Bohm, physicist
"The fax machine brought down the Berlin Wall.
The World-Wide Web will help us bring down
all those walls and ceilings that keep us
insulated from our individual and collective genius,
locked up in 'command-and-control' thinking and structures."
Bill Veltrop, International Center for Organization Design
 | "There exists no force in this universe that is capable of resisting the
coherent and coordinated action of a group of people whose minds converge
toward a determined goal." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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