Just returned from the ALIA summerschool program in Halifax Nova Scotia. I am very honoured that CHE School of Synnervation is partner in bringing this progam to Europe in January 2010. Here is some more information on the program and registration.

It is a program with, by and for thought leaders. I'll be there and hope to meet you there as well.

In these extraordinary times, leadership-as-usual is not an option. Every organization and every community is navigating through many unknowns. Collectively we are at a crossroads, and much is at stake. As leaders, how do we rise to this challenge? What simple but powerful approaches and practices will not only sustain us, but move our leadership to the next level? How do we release the capacity for innovation and resilience within and across our organizations and communities? How can we work together to co-create the sustainable organizations and systems of the future?

Welcome to ALIA Europe, a six-day immersion in the fresh ideas, paradigm-shifting tools, and strategic conversations you need to guide your team, organization, or community through complex change. This programme follows the design of the acclaimed Shambhala Summer Institute based in Nova Scotia, which has been a magnet for pioneering thought leaders and change-makers since 2001.

Choose your focus

Parallel modules are led by internationally recognized facilitators and leaders in their fields. Choose the module that best addresses your current leadership challenge.

The Art of Hosting Transformational Change
with Toke Paludan Møller and Phil Cass

Deep Democracy: Resolving Complex Issues and Reaching Decisions that Last
with Myrna Lewis

Embodied Leadership
with Wendy Palmer

An Integral Practice for Evolutionary Leadership and Change
with Peter Merry and Dylan Newcomb

Leading through Turbulent Times: The Art of Effective Execution
with Lasse Wrennmark

Practicing Fearlessness in Times of Fear
with Margaret Wheatley and Jerry Granelli

Solving Tough Problems: Co-creating New Realities in Complex Systems
with Adam Kahane

Transforming Leadership (Including Yours!) through Action Inquiry
with David Rooke and Elaine Herdman-Barker

The schedule also includes...

• Plenary dialogues and keynotes. Stretch your thinking and tap into the collective experience of the programme community.
• Theme-based sessions. Connect with others who share your interest, question, or professional context, from across the modules. Each theme will be introduced by a special guest and then facilitated in a way that maximizes peer learning.
• Guided mindfulness meditation. Start each day by "paying attention to how you pay attention." Create the conditions for authentic insight, listening, and learning.
• Creative process sessions. Engage the intelligence of the body and the senses, while freeing up creativity.
• Arts events. Enjoy performance and improvisation led by accomplished artists.
• Time to reflect. Mennorode Conference Centre has many nooks and crannies conducive to quiet conversation, and an adjacent woods that invites exploration.

"The ALIA Institute combines in-depth cultivation of personal leadership with the organizational issues that are critical in today's global environments. Few other leadership programmes create such a dynamic, living laboratory of personal and collective learning." -Peter Senge, author, The Fifth Discipline, The Necessary Revolution, and others.

Schedule

The programme begins with dinner on 10 January and concludes with a celebratory banquet on 15 January, with departure on the 16th. A more detailed schedule is available here.

Who else will be there

225 forward-thinking leaders and change agents from business, government, education, NGOs, and civil society.

Fees

Fees include all programming and meals (except for the open evening) beginning with dinner on 10 January and ending with breakfast on 16 January. A minimum deposit of 50% will secure an early registration fee, with the balance due by 1 October 2009.

€2,300 on or before 15 September, 2009
€2,600 after 15 September, 2009
See the Registration page for cancellation policy.

Discounts: A 10% discount is available to teams of three or more from the same organization. A 10% discount is also available to employees of nonprofit organizations or educational institutions, and to full-time students.

On-site accommodations at Mennorode Conference Centre: €396 single / €336 double occupancy. English-language reservation page available here; Mennorode website translated into English by Google here. Rooms available on a first-come, first-served basis. For details see Accommodations and Travel, at left.

Coaching option

Four one-on-one sessions with an Institute-affiliated coach will help you make the most of your program experience and maintain the momentum of your learning in your home setting. Click here for more information.

How to register

• Register online or by fax. Early registration discounts apply. Some modules fill early, so be sure to indicate your second module choice.
• Reserve on-site accommodations at the program venue, Mennorode Conference Centre. Be sure to indicate that you are attending the ALIA Institute programme. English-language reservation page available here.
• Questions? Please read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. If you have additional questions, send email to Karen Densmore or call Inge Kuipers at                00(31) 33 467 7760         (in Amsterdam).

Partners and sponsors

 CHE Synnervation now constist of 15 Synnervators interconnecting and vitaliseing people, organizations and communities. One of them is Dylan Newcomb. Dylan is a professional dancer and choreographer who has been doing research on movement and sound for over 10 years. The last 3 years Dylan has connected with the Center for Human Emergence in the Netherlands.

The work of Dr. Don Beck and Ken Wilber has been a source of inspiration for the latest developments in Dylan's research. This resulted in an interactive dance production called "This" which is based on Spiral Dynamics integral. The world premier of "This" in The Hague was attended by Dr. Don Beck, founder of the global organisation called " Center for Human Emergence".

CHE School of Synnervation and CHE Synnervate can offer "This" as a kick off in change processes and leadership development programs.

In his research Dylan integrates ancient knowledge from the ‘I Ching' and ‘Ayurveda' with modern philosophies as the Integral theory and Spiral Dynamics. Over the years Dylan has worked with more than 100 people, dancers and participants at workshops, to experiment with movement, sound and chi energy. I am honored to have been part of his research as have Peter Merry, Auke van Nimwegen and few others from CHE-NL.

Integrating Eastern and Western knowledge Dylan has found remarkable parallels and developed a movement practice called "The 16 ways". The 16 Ways is a simple body-mind practice, which powerfully interweaves eastern Yin/Yang movement principles with key understandings from western ‘integral' models of psycho/socio/spiritual development. The movie here explains what the 16 ways are and how is emerged.

With his organization called "Manybody" Dylan is now developing different programs that support vitality and movement practice. The 16 ways has been presented at conferences in the US, Asia and Europe. Dylan and Kyung Sun are now touring through the US with a series of workshops. You can find more information about the international scheduling of workshops on Dylan's website.

CHE School of Synnervation supports the research Dylan is performing and participates in its further development. The 16 ways is becoming part of an integral life practice for Synnervators. With Dylan we are developing a practice for synnervators that integrates the movements of the 16 ways with concepts of Spiral Dynmics and the actual work in projects. Our flow in projects from seed to maturity is connected with the 16 ways and we are now experimenting how doing the actual movements can bring clarification in projects.

CHE School of Synnervation also offers workshops in the Netherlands. Besides the 16 ways workshop School of Synnervation offers a workshop called "The 16 ways and the spiral of life". Dylan Newcomb and Peter Merry take you through an experience of the spiral using the 16 ways to enlarge your consciousness on your personal strengths and development. The worskshops in the Netherlands are planned for July 13 - 14 and September 28 - 29. You can learn more about the scheduling of these workshops on the CHE School of Synnervation website.

The 16 ways and the work of Dylan are only in its early childhood stage. You can learn more about the basic principles of the 16 ways by watching the video's, by ordering the 16 ways DVD or by attending a workshop.

I am convinced that we will learn much more from the next steps and actions taken in the research. And I strongly believe in it's significance for the development of evolutionairy consciousness as it arises as us.

The Dutch node of the Center for Human Emergence has a new website.
Latest development in CHE-NL you can find there. It also offers a calendar with activities, projects, courses and salons.

CHE global, founded by Dr. Don Beck, seeks to put in place the conditions to facilitate breakthrough to the next level of living and working together. These conditions relate to and affect both the individual and collective dimensions, both subjective and inter-subjective human aspects and tangible structural elements.

Integral evolutionary consciousness is a phenomenon currently emerging in groups of people all over the planet. People acting from this consciousness display the following characteristics:

• alignment, great clarity, to a higher purpose
• effectiveness at manifesting what needs to happen at the right time
• clarity of mind and unconditional openness of heart, from which flow powerful action
• authenticity in action, with no attachment to the result.

CHE NL is a not-for-profit foundation which:

Creates a context in which people from various backgrounds can connect to explore what it means to be and act from an integral evolutionary perspective;

Scans for radically new insights that may contribute to sustainable solutions for various social and economic issues;

Links the new insights it generates to relevant areas of application in society.

The core purpose of CHE NL is:
To become a catalyser and crystallizer of action for the planetary transformation into integral evolutionary consciousness.

The core principles of CHE NL are:

• We practice full presence and radical authenticity
• We open our hearts to the voice of the whole
• We pay attention to the evolutionary impulse as it arises as us
• We move ourselves as that impulse with swiftness, precision and love

The daily board of directors of CHE NL, called the Alignment circle is currently occupied by the following souls:

Name:Peter Merry
Function:Integral Alignment Officer
Purpose:Aligning the organization internally and externally

Peter, as visionary, identifies relevant signals and events and leads the process of development of CHE NL.
Name:Lisette Schuitemaker
Function:Organisational Spaceholder
Purpose:Nurturing and gathering information from the CHE's nonlocal field

Lisette sensitizes the interaction of CHE with the abounding spheres of influence and shares insights with the rest of the organisation.
  Name:Marinet Ritz
Function:Integrity Guardian
Purpose:Safeguarding individual and organisational integrity

Marinet safeguards the practice of the purpose, principles, and vision. At the same time, she takes into account individual energies that have a message for the organisation as a whole
Name:Anne-Marie Voorhoeve
Function:Strategic Connector
Purpose:Facilitating strategic connections between CHE and society

Anne-Marie identifies developments and needs that are strategically relevant to CHE NL, and she connects these to CHE NL.
Name:Arjen Bos
Function:CHE Synnervate Lead
Purpose:Manifesting CHE Synnervate www.synnervate.nl

Arjen leads CHE Synnervate. He positions services and activities and develops the consulting practice.
Name:Alain Volz
Function:CHE School of Synnervation Lead
Purpose:Manifesting CHE School of Synnervation www.schoolofsynnervation.nl

Alain manifests the expanding education and research portfolio of CHE, in the CHE School of Synnervation.
Name:Jan de Dood
Function:Financial strategist
Purpose:Developing and implementing the financial strategy

Jan helps to build the financial strategy of the Center for Human Emergence.
Name:Marianne de Jager
Function:Wisdom council lead
Purpose:Maintaining the relationship with the Wisdom Council.

Marianne manifests the value exchange between CHE and the members of the Wisdom Council..
Name:Jan-Willem van Aalst
Function:Organisational connector
Purpose:Nurturing healthy relationship with CHE's wider circles

Jan-Willem connects CHE with its wider circles.

 

http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/index.php

Welcome to the March 2009 issue of integral Leadership Review.

Before you check it out, let me tell you about a couple of things that may interest you.

First, the latest streaming audio interview is with Craig Park, Vice President and Director of Marketing, Lea A Daly, one of the world's largest construction firms. Turns out he is a student of Ken Wilber's work and recently published an article about marketing in a professional association journal that draws on Wilber's work.

Second, please note that we are about to publish Peter Merry's new book, Evolutionary Leadership. You can secure an advance copy at a 20% off retail price discount by ordering at the Integral Leadership Review website before April 15, 2009.

And do notice that you can listen to Michael Jones perform on the piano as you read his article! I hope you enjoy this new issue of ILR and some of its novel features.

Thanks,

Russ Volckmann, Editor

Last week-end there was an Alia Europe design team meeting at Mennorode, the location for the 2010 conference. The first Alia program in Europe.

The open invitation was answered by Susan Szpakowski, Chris Grant, Lenneke Aalbers, Bart Budding, Alice Chilver, Walter Ligthart, Gerard Vreman, Peter van der Lugt, George Por, Helene, Yvonne Burger and Alain Volz.

During two days, facilitated by Chris and Lenneke, included meditation, dialogue and action. We have looked into possibilities of the program in Europe and the location Mennorode.

Here is the offical announcement from the Alia website:

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ALIA Europe

January 10-16, 2010
Mennorode Conference Centre, Netherlands

In turbulent times, how do we release the capacity for innovation and leadership within and across our organizations and communities? What simple but powerful approaches and practices will sustain us? How can we work together to co-create the bright new systems of the future?

We are pleased to announce that in January 2010 the ALIA Institute will host a five-day immersion in the paradigm-shifting skills, tools, and mindsets leaders need to navigate through times of rapid change and complexity. We hope you will join us for this exciting inaugural event.

ALIA Europe follows the design of the acclaimed Shambhala Summer Institute based in Nova Scotia, which as been a magnet for pioneering thought leaders and change-makers since 2001.

Programme updates and registration will be available soon. In the meantime, reserve your place here.

Fees include all programming and meals beginning with dinner on January 10 and ending with a closing banquet on the 15th. Nonprofit and team discounts are available.

Earlybird fee: €2,000
Final fee: €2,600

Accommodations at Mennorode (page translated into English by Google here) (six nights): €396 (single) or €336 (double)

Download an announcement to forward to your network here.

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With the team we have agreed action for next steps. Communication will be found through the Alia institute or the groups on facebook of Alia and CHE School of Synnervation.

What is the Alia program? This is what you can find on the alia website

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Authentic Leadership in Action is a transformational journey of learning, growth, and skill-building that leads to the profound renewal of our organizations and communities.

What exactly is authentic leadership and where does it come from? Although it may be hard to define, most of us know it when we see it. We recognize it in personal examples, whether it is an historical figure, our minister, our CEO, a neighbourhood grandmother, or a politician who is truly inspiring. And we recognize it in our own best moments. When we are authentically present and true to our own internal compass, we are able to bring out the best in others. We are able to communicate without pretense and manipulation because we are not hiding behind ego or driven by fear. We are confident because we trust in the natural intelligence and goodness in ourselves and others. Seeing clearly what is and what could be, we are able to act decisively and effectively.

In today's world, authentic leadership is like a breath of fresh air. And it is needed everywhere. We are all being called to rise to this challenge, whatever our position or domain of work. 

As we move forward with this inspiration, we encounter some key questions: How do we go beyond habits of fear and limiting assumptions? How do we align our compass and strengthen our core presence so that it shines even in the midst of difficulty and uncertainty? How do we release the potential that already exists in the people and situations around us, rather than resorting to control and manipulation? These aren't lessons we will learn at business school or in most leadership programs and seminars. At the same time, we do need strategies and toolkits that are aligned with an authentic way of being, and with an authentic way of empowering others and achieving our goals.  

The challenge of authentic leadership may seem daunting: we are being called to integrate the core of who we are, how we think, and how we respond moment-to-moment with the best strategies, tools, and practices of 21st century leadership. 

To address this challenge, the ALIA Institute draws on two streams of influence. One has ancient roots: the deep and rigorous understanding of "authentic presence" and "enlightened society" as taught in the Buddhist and Shambhala traditions. The other is leading edge: the new-paradigm thinking, research, and tools emerging from adaptive systems and complexity theory, chaordic design, Theory U, social networking theory, strength-based community development, and other disciplines that respond to current issues of leadership, innovation, and change.

The ALIA Institute began as the week-long Shambhala Summer Institute, which has convened annually in Halifax, Nova Scotia, since 2001. Early thinking partners and faculty included Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley, Juanita Brown, Toke Moeller, Marianne Knuth, Art Kleiner, and a team of professional artists and senior meditation teachers in the Shambhala tradition. The leadership-development model developed by the Institute blends intensive skill-building modules facilitated by pioneers in their fields, mindfulness meditation, creative process, and plenary dialogues. This blend has proven to be more successful and impactful than even the founders had anticipated. The Summer Institute has strengthened the leadership of thousands of people around the world and has resulted in countless new collaborations.

While the Shambhala Summer Institute will continue this tradition, in 2009 we are also setting sail under the banner of ALIA to three new locations, with the intention of working with regional partners to host programs that will spark and support regional place-based networks. We also aspire to develop a virtual campus that will connect these regional nodes and make ALIA's resources and community more universally available.

The ALIA Institute is an independent nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. The Shambhala Summer Institute is incorporated under the Nalanda Foundation, a charitable organization in Canada and the United States.

Governing Council

Phil Cass (Chair)
Claudia Chender
Michael Chender (Founding Chair)
Aftab Erfan
Chris Grant
Matt Habash
Mark Hazell
Marty Janowitz
John Roy
Susan Skjei
Sera Thompson

Staff

Susan Szpakowski (Exec. Dir.)
Karen Densmore
Gabrielle Donnelly
Cara Lynn Garvock
Glenna Jeffers
Nicola Parker
Ryan Watson
Barbara Zielinski

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I am very much looking forward on the Alia Europe program emerging. and I am glad to be part of the team that is supporting this.

The week-end brought us towards deeper understanding of the program and the value of this happening in Europe. I was inspired with some old friends and found new ones. CHE School of Synnervation supports and recommends the Alia program within the CHE network and with her relations.

Let's make this happen!

CHE School of Synnervation is moving forwards, also in the virtual environment.

We now have a School of Synnervation group on facebook.
Here you can find the latest developments and join discussions with other SDi practitioners related to CHE School of Synnervation.

Find out:
- when and where the next course hosted by SoS will be
- who are global practioners with and fans of SoS
- what topics are discussed within the group
- what current news and events are concerning CHE School of Synnervation.

The School of Synnervation website will be on line very soon.
www.schoolofsynnervation.nl

A new special edition of the Integral Leadership Review has been published.

Integral Leadership Review is an international magazine on leadership and leadership development from an integral perspective. This years January edition is on Leadership in Australia.

Please support the ILR and help us share the experiences, insights and ideals working with leadership and societal development from an integral perspective. You can register for a free subscription. 

ILR January 2009 - Leadership in Australia
The contributions in this special edition show elements of new leadership-maybe second tier-emerging. These elements are fragile and agile. Almost all point out the struggle between including the benefits of the present and transcending the emerging new.

Read the leading comment by Ron Cacioppe, Guest Editor for this issue.

This issue contains the first discussion of a Global Integral Leadership study that we are undertaking at the Integral Institute Australasia. Jay Davies spent three months visiting England and the United States interviewing eight leaders who were identified as having characteristics of ‘Integral' leaders.

A Fresh Perspective: Exploring the World of Integral Leadership: A Conversation with Jay Davies, Russ Volckmann

Roger Stace explores the ongoing puzzle of how humans could have evolved the traits that integral leaders exhibit and proposes a new theory for why these beautiful and inspiring aspects of human nature are adaptive.

Article: Roger Stace, Evolution and Integral Leadership: How the Homo Got Its Sapiens

Tom Morris explores integral leadership in the workplace using the AQAL framework and considers 1st, 2nd and 3rd person perspectives.

Article: Tom A. Morris, En Route to Effective Workplace Leadership: An Integral Novice's Exploration

Steve McDonald also takes us on his personal journey in working with clients to apply the integral perspective to managing change.

Article: Steve McDonald, My Integral Change Journey

Mark Edwards uses three lenses to look at leadership: developmental (stages of development), ecological (leader-follower relations), governance (power), and argues that these are additional important dimensions to the understanding and practice of leadership.

Article: Mark Edwards, Seeing Integral Leadership through Three Important Lenses: Developmental, Ecological and Governance

David McDermott and Ron Cacioppe bring an integral model of four quadrants and six levels to the important subject of environmental sustainability and include examples of organizations such as InterfaceFlor, Bendigo Bank and Google that are demonstrating a commitment to zero environmental harm.

Article: Ron Cacioppe and David McDermott, Integral Environmental Sustainability: Achieving an Integral Vision of Business Success with Zero Environmental Impact

Also in this special edition:

Leadership Coaching Tip: Russ Volckmann, Mentoring and Coaching

Review: Laura Santana reviews David V. Day, Michelle M. Harrison, Stanley M. Halpin, An Integrative Approach to Leader Development

Article: Wendelin Kupers, Thoughts on Leadership in Australia

Integral for the Masses: Keith Bellamy, Focusing on Differences-A Critical Trait for the Aspiring Integral Leader?

Leadership Cartoon: Bill Bates Update

Leadership Cartoon: Guest Cartoonist, Mark Hill

Review: Russ Volckmann, Obama, Leadership and Hierarchical Complexity, A Review of Don Dunoon, In the Leadership Mode , Michael Commons and Sara Nora Ross, On Hierarchal Complexity, World Futures

Global Values Update: Alan Tonkin, Evolving Values in the 21st Century: An Integrated View with Annexure on India and Australia

Notes from the Field

• Michael Dewan-Herrick, Integral Neuroscience at the LIC
• Prasad Kaipa, Igniting the Genius Within Conference
• Brian Van der Horst, THE FRENCH LETTER: Integral News, Happenings and Events in France
• Yung-Pin Lu and Katherine Gaines, International Leadership Association Conference

Announcements: Integral Leadership Review , France, Indianapolis, Tucson, Australia, Dubai, Prague, Los Angeles


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Bureau Chief and Associate Editor the Netherlands
Integral Leadership Review

CHE School of Synnervation is an initiative of the Center for Human Emergence in the Netherlands (CHE-NL). The school is CHE's entity for research, development and training. It offers in company programs for resilience, meshworking and leadership development, offers individual coaching for professionals in complex environments and offers programs with an open registration.

Differentiation in participation by SoS
CHE School of Synnervation is a living organism and collabortates with other organisations in its offering. The school differentiates it's educational curriculum in 3 categories:
 - Hosted by SoS - the event is organized by CHE School of Synnervation, often in co-creation with other partners. CHE donators often receive a discount on registration.
- Powered by SoS - the event is hosted by a partner organization and recommended by the School of Synnervation. CHE donators often receive a discount on registration.
- Supported by SoS - CHE School of Synnervation has no direct involvement in this program, but the offering is in line with SoS purpose and principles. No agreements are made for CHE discount.

Hosted by CHE School of Synnervation
CHE School of Synnervation offers educational programs with an open registration. The school is now offering 5 different programs in the Netherlands, is launching 2 new programs in 2009 and is expanding internationally.

CHE School of Synnervation hosts the following 5 programs in 2009
     - Spiral Dynamics Integral level 1
     - PeopleSCAN practitioner, Spiral Dynamics Integral Level 2 training
     - Conscious Leadership Course
     - The 16 ways & the Spiral of Life
     - A Perfect Present

Spiral Dynamics Integral level 1

The SDi-level 1 is a basic course in Spiral Dynamics integral. It offers deeper insights and experiences in the dynamics of Human behaviour and systemic change. This course leads to a certification approved by dr. Don Beck.

          January 26/29 2009

          June 2/5 2009

          September 28 October 1 2009

PeopleSCAN practitioner, Spiral Dynamics Integral Level 2 training

The SDI 2 PeopleSCAN course offers coaches and consultants practical tools and methods to integrate SDi in their professional practice. This course leads to a certification approved by dr. Don Beck. 
          March 16/18 2009

          October 12/14 2009 
 

The Conscious Leadership Course
The Conscious Leadership Course is a modulair leadership dvelopment program. It is case oriented and enables managers to apply SDi, theory U and other practices in their work. CLC level 1 leads to a certification approved by dr. Don Beck. Levels 2 and 3 lead to a School of Synnervation certificate. 

          April 8/10 2009

          October 14/16 2009
 

The 16 Ways & the Spiral of Life

The 16 Ways is a simple body-mind practice, which powerfully interweaves eastern Yin/Yang movement principles with key understandings from western ‘integral' models of psycho/socio/spiritual development. Go home with a movement practice that can take you through eight core stages of human development. This course leads to a certification approved by dr. Don Beck. 

          Mach 30 - 31 2009

          July 6 - 7 2009

          September 28 - 29 2009

A Perfect Present

This 5 days journey enables you to unveil your personal purpose in life, face your shadow and grow in your personal strength. 
          Dates in 2009 to be announced.

For more information send an e-mail to Alain@humanemergence.nl
          http://www.humanemergence.org/
          http://www.schoolofsynnervation.nl/

The Utrecht College runs a minor called "Charismatic leadership" . 50 students from different studies wollow this program this year. Theay are challenged to co-create the program with a series of teachings, a retreat and a seminar on authentic leadership.

CHE school of Synnervation is involved in the seminar and tomorrow I'll act as co-creator for one of the teachings on spiral dynamics and charismatic leadership. The seminar will be held on January 29th.

There are few things that I really appreciate about the setup of this minor. Co-creation is part of the program. This aligns with my perception of co-creation as a carrier for individual authenticity in service of collective leadership and purpose. The retreat offers possibilities to party and to meditate or do yoga. It is functional and fun. The way the students are involved in designing their own learning material and series of teachings gives space for creativity and co ownership.

The students I work with tomorrow had a clear idea on what they wanted and it seems to be quite easy for me to step into this. I am part of their program, not the experienced professional coming over to tell them what they need to know. We aligned the individual contributions and created a program that hopefully will be flexible, interactive, inspiring and fun for all 50 students. I know I'll be having fun.

The students will start the session with this video. It explains briefly the vMemes of the spiral. From there the students will go into more depth of the vMemes and I'll step in sharing about characteristics of leadership in the differente vMemes. 

Possibly I'll write more about the seminar in January.

The Dutch ministry of Foreign Affairs has initiated a possibility for young and innovative organisations to offer a proposal for funding international developmental projects. The Dutch Center for Human Emergence has offered a proposal for this center.

The core group of CHE NL involves around 80 - 100 active volunteers. In 2007 CHE NL  received € 37,830 as private donations. In 2006: € 38.654. The Wisdom Council of CHE NL consists of prominent, leading persons in Dutch society, such as Herman Wijffels and Carlos de Bourbon, Prince de Bourbon de Parma, Prince of Piacenza.

With the initiative "The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence" the CHE NL aligns, activates and supports MeshWorks of stakeholders needed to design, implement and learn from solutions to the different and interconnected challenges that humanity faces.

Within the field of International Development it will identify partnerships and align initiatives. It will look at the specific qualities of the different partners and how their uniqueness can be enhanced and vitalized through their connection to other unique partners, thereby adding value in terms of a structural higher effectiveness of the partners activities, hence leading to a decrease in poverty.

The "Hague Center" will focus on different countries from the DAC list. Current activities of the CHE NL that will be incorporated within the "Hague Center", take place in Zambia (listed as one of the ‘least developed countries' in the DAC-list) and Kenya (listed as ‘other low income countries' on the DAClist).

Dr Beck refers to the CHE as a MeshWork Foundation. In his words: "This type of foundation uses the power of "mesh" in identifying, integrating, aligning, and mobilizing all available resources. These, in turn, are focused like laser-beam on specific challenges, goals, objectives, or outcomes.

Such a foundation will be less interested in its own image, data banks, financial resources, or proprietary position in a specific professional or public niche. Rather, it is an open system; one designed to aid and assist other efforts, even if they appear on the surface to be competitive, to work for a greater goal, the power of the Third Win. It will accept, as its unique and transcendent role, the enabling and empowering of all of the elements that can contribute to a positive outcome. This new foundation is an inclusive (rather than exclusive) force designed to raise the total national or global capacity for both short and long term solutions to complex problems. It will use both the cyberworld and personal contact summitry to bring all of the other foundations (and other interests) together around common purpose. It will accept a major information sharing and technology transfer role. It will assist other entities to become healthy and vibrant. It has no need to re-invent the wheel since it is wasteful to duplicate resources and absorb capital in unnecessary expenditures, fancy offices, or expensive public relations efforts.

Such an initiative will be relatively lean in stature, with the capability of big-picture thinking cobbled with a quick-response intelligence. It will offer its "good offices" to the academy, marketplace, milieu, or MeshWork that links all of the efforts and resources in a given field or cause. As a result, more is done by less, solutions are both short-term and long-term, and the whole "brain syndicate" continues to learn, get better, improve, and even develop new and imaginative solutions that no specific effort, foundations, or entity could invent on their own."

This is the role that the CHE plays and that we see for the "Hague Center for GlobalGovernance, Innovation and Emergence"

The website with the proposal, partners and possibility for your comment  http://www.thehaguecenter.nl/News/News.html

Partners:

• Independent nodes of the Center for Human Emergence global network in the Middle East, Mexico, Brazil, USA and Germany
• M.CAM - provides Global Technology Assessments, enables the Global Innovation Commons
• Gaiasoft - provides virtual performance, knowledge and collaboration platforms
• Arlington Institute - provides technology for systemic mapping and surprise anticipation
• HolacracyOne - provides advice on the holacractic organisational practice
• Boer & Croon - provide advice on corporate finance and management
• Endemol - provides a partnership in multi-channel media communication for the MDGs
• PrivaServe Foundation - partner in improving the independence and self-reliance of local rural communities in Zambia through local leadership development in a holistic approach, using ICT and communication as important enablers; creating 8 rural competence centers in the coming two years together with local, national and international partners
• LinkNet Zambia - cooperative organization providing for cost based building, operations and maintenance of tailored communications infrastructure and services for special interest groups in rural areas.
• Elemental Africa - provides expertise and experience in the application of ecologically sustainable technologies in Africa (based in South Africa)
• Young Women's Leadership Institute - nurtures young women's leadership and open spaces for women's engagement in policy processes through capacity building, learning, intergenerational dialogues and creating links (www.ywli.or.ke) ( Kenya)
• CHE Kenya i.o - facilitating emergence in Kenya through MeshWorking, dialogues, capacity building and projects - starting with the connection, empowerment and mobilization of the women of Africa in collaboration with Kenyian (for example YWLI) and other organizations, to create the future of Africa and to develop bonds of friendship and mutual learning and support with women (and men) internationally.
• MeshWork Millenium Development Goal (MDG) 5 - A collaboration consisting of 20 partners who joined forces in order to make a real contribution to the reduction of the maternal mortality ratio (Millenium Development Goal 5). The MeshWork consists of the partners: AMREF; BIO Connection B.V.; BioFarmind; Cordaid; DRC; GlaxoSmithKline; ICM; Kenisis; KNOV; Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen; Malaria No More!; Mybody; NCDO; NVOG; NVTG; Organon; Share-net; TI Pharma; TNO Quality of life; World Health Organization.
• NatuurCollege, Lippe-Biesterfeld Foundation - NatuurCollege wants to contribute to the convelescence of the relationship between mankind and nature, by learningactivities, projects, publications, journalistic productions and the development of an interactive international platform.
• Energy4Life - global leader in the field of sourcing, co-developing and validating new distributed energy technologies, know-how and insights to manifest integral solutions for climate change and the global energy, water and food shortages
• The Hunger Project - a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. The Hunger Project has pioneered low-cost, bottom-up, gender-focused strategies in each region where hunger persists. These strategies mobilize clusters of rural villages to create and run their own programs that achieve lasting progress in health, education, nutrition and family income
• City of the Hague network - network of organisations and government institutions in the Hague