Appreciative feedback triads: Kupa humbowo muhutatu

March 7, 2011 | Expressive Change | Warren Nilsson & Tana Paddock| 1 Comment

At Kufunda Learning Village, we’ve recently experimented with a powerful exercise called ‘Appreciative Feedback Triads’ or ‘Kupa humbowo muhutatu’ in Shona. Here’s how it works…

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Cleaning for a change

May 1, 2012 | Expressive Change | Tolu Ilesanmi| 4 Comments

It took courage to start a cleaning company when Ronke and I did. I was an MBA student at McGill, having worked as a star banker at GT Bank, an elite Nigerian bank, and in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. Being slightly rebellious, I proceeded partly because being a cleaner was contrary to everything my society expected of me. The clients, friends and associates who have engaged with us have had a sense that there was something different […]

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Podcast: Emerging from hibernation

July 29, 2015 | Expressive Change | Podcast| Comments Off

In 2012, we hosted a podcast with Aerin Dunford of The Berkana Institute about the organization’s decision to go into an undefined period of hibernation. Given its focus on promoting ‘living systems’ principles in social change work, we were curious to learn how they were putting these principles into practice internally. Berkana recently resurfaced from its restful state, and so we followed up with Aerin to find out what the experience has been like for them.

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Podcast: Dancing the talk

January 20, 2013 | Expressive Change | Podcast|

In this podcast, we speak to Kiran Gulrajani, who challenges us to take a lighter and more exploratory approach to living out our values in our work. We had the pleasure of hosting him and his CoEvolve colleague Rohit Sasvehalli at our home during their recent visit to South Africa. Our intention was to […]

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The heart of Einstein

September 8, 2013 | Expressive Change | Veena Vasista|

When I recently came across Einstein’s explanation of his statement, I felt relieved and excited to discover that indeed he was instructing us to use more than our mind and ego-driven analysis to work through problems. Knowing this, I take it further to imagine that by ‘higher levels’ he meant higher levels of […]

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Daring to hibernate

May 31, 2012 | Expressive Change | Podcast| 3 Comments

A couple of months ago I received an intriguing note in my inbox from The Berkana Institute. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Berkana, you might know one of it’s founders Meg Wheatley, a well-known author who writes about […]

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Posts tagged "growth"

Appreciative feedback triads: Kupa humbowo muhutatu

Cleaning for a change

Podcast: Emerging from hibernation

Podcast: Dancing the talk

The heart of Einstein

Daring to hibernate