Where Will This Change Take Us?

Nov 15, 2016

Where Will This Change Take Us?

Nov 15, 2016h in Cognition & Communications, Collaboration Strategies, Community Building, Leadership, Leading Change, Mental Models by David Sibbet 0 Comments

trump_clinton_vote “This is what our democracy stands for, the smooth transition of power.” Obama’s words came in the deliberate, stately cadence that we’ve all heard so many times over the last eight years. “I’ve asked my team to do everything possible to ensure that the new President elect can hit the ground running” he said. “George Bush’s team did that for us when we took office.”

We are going to miss this intelligent, civilized man and his family. Riding waves of populist anger, the quintessential infotainment tongue surfer is our next President. And where will this take us all?

As a student and practitioner of change, I hold a few assumptions as I think about all this.

Aug 04, 2016

Preparing to Write—Visual Consulting

Aug 04, 2016h in Cognition & Communications, Graphic Facilitation, Leading Change, Organization Development, Visual Leadership books by David Sibbet 1 Comment

I am preparing to write a new book called Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change, potentially as a fourth in the Wiley visual leadership series. This one will be co-authored by The Grove’s VP of Global Learning, Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., an expert on personal and organizational transformation. It seems right that after so many changes in our own lives, that we focus now on our learning about change, and engage the exploding global network of visual practitioners about how to become skilled consultants with this orientation. Our leading of The Grove’s new Designing & Leading Change workshop the past two years is fueling this new project.

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Jun 07, 2016

The Sacred Life of Boxes

Jun 07, 2016h in Family, Leading Change, Personal Transformation by David Sibbet 3 Comments

For the past six months two seemingly different circumstances have been “working” me. The first is a commitment that Gisela Wendling, Holger Scholtz and I made last summer to organize a special retreat at his family farm, the Beuerhof (in the Vulcan Eifel region of Germany East of Cologne). We are calling it Leading as Sacred Practice. You can infer from the name that this is moving into new territory.

The second circumstance is moving from San Francisco after 40 years!
The Sacred Life of Boxes

Feb 10, 2016

Crucibles of Change: Learning to Love Transformation

Feb 10, 2016h in Family, Leading Change, Personal Transformation by David Sibbet 8 Comments

Crucible - Crucibles of Change: Learning to Love Transformation Crucibles are on my mind. A crucible, as you may know, is a container that can stand a lot of heat and is used in chemistry and metallurgy to combine elements into new forms. As a student of metaphor, I love applying the image to change. It points so aptly to the fact that humans need containers and heat to melt down and transform old habits and thinking so something new can emerge.

Those who know me can infer why crucibles might be on my mind. I’ve been in one, and am just finding out about the new me that is emerging. Might these circumstances qualify as being personal crucibles?