The Gift of Failure

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner      John Gardner said a mouthful. There is something amazingly freeing about not pretending. About speaking truth, taking that huge exhale and letting...

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You Can’t Handle The Truth

Because knowing the TRUTH means we have to act. We work with real people with real challenges. This makes our work complex and messy and most days swimming in the “grey”. Projects that we think will take a year sometime take three. And knowing the facts, having that hard data at our fingertips mean we have to make hard choices.

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The Stories We Tell

The more closely aligned your storytelling is to your culture, truth and reality and the communities you serve, the more powerful your stories become to the listener.

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World-Mindedness

How will power be wielded in the future? Who will run our governments, craft policy, teach our children, and start new businesses?

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Land, Language and Identity

Even in developed countries, indigenous peoples consistently lag behind the non-indigenous population in terms of most indicators of well-being. They live shorter lives, have poorer health care and education and endure higher unemployment rates

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