Organizational Development

In terms of organizational development consulting, I specialize in helping transform disorganizations into beautiful organizations – can you relate? Here’s my secret: since I’m the only person I get to influence something like totally, everything works better when I start by working on myself. To this end, I invited my partner to spend the last month re-organizing our teaching enterprise, PlanetDharma along with my o Read more

Nearly ten years ago my partner, myself, and a group of students and other supporters founded Clear Sky, our wonderful retreat center in beautiful southeastern British Columbia. We wanted a place to do longer meditation retreats, so we bought property where we could do that.  Easy, right? You can imagine how I felt when I realized that we now had a business to run. Wha–––t? I had experience as a self-employed profess Read more

  Imagine five days of this: explorations into the democratization of capital; opensourcing redressing fossil fuel extraction on indigenous lands; delicious and healthy meals; engineering how to scale a social business; a sing-along with a major financial cooperative rep about how joining together makes us happier; the joys of flow charts; plus rainforest and an exquisite beach. I’ve attended the annual Social V Read more

When we know that something isn’t working, and we’ve tried everything you can think of and it still isn’t working, are we ready to risk the unknown and truly make a change? It takes courage. Human nature longs for comfort and security, often leading us to prefer the devils we know rather than the angels we don’t. But hey! There are a whole lotta angels out there ready to make our happy acquain Read more