Hannah du Plessis:

As difficult as it is to be unseen and unheard because of your difference, there is a greater danger, a greater difficulty. You may begin to question your own worth, to believe that you are somehow deficient. This is an easy conclusion to come to. “If I am repeatedly disrespected, then maybe I am not worthy of respect.”

A heartfelt and reaffirming message.

Euan Semple:

What if the thin veneer of civilisation is an unnecessary fiction? What if it is actually an artificial constraint on our better natures, a means of maintaining power and status through fear and perceived dependency? What if underneath it we are actually less afraid, less divided, less cruel and more kind than we have been conditioned to think we are?

I really enjoy Euan’s inquisitive musings like this one. More of us should be challenging the status quo and ask these sorts of questions.

Brandon Klein, writing for Fast Company:

As workplaces become less hierarchical and more reliant on interpersonal problem-solving, rather than just tactical execution, facilitation is becoming a job skill you’ll need to rely on more and more.

It’s great to see the importance of good facilitation being talked about in the mainstream media. No arguments from me.

Can we see a bigger picture? Can we think about the way that we think? Can we see the problem of linear thinking in a world made up of circles? Great questions posed by Nora Bateson in An Ecology of Mind — a daughter’s loving film portrait of anthropologist, biologist, and psychotherapist Gregory Bateson.  
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It’s Father’s Day, my 20th as a dad. Helping raise two beautiful young women who are compassionate, caring and generous is by far my greatest achievement. The world needs more people who arm themselves with love, wisdom and kindness. The world does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. — Dalai…  
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