Posted by venessa miemis on February 28, 2012 · 7 Comments
Several months ago, I was invited by Sean Park to be a Venture Partner with Anthemis Group, a new financial services group with an aim to totally reinvent finance from the ground up. (Sean was a generous backer for the Future of Money Project I co-created for a SIBOS conference, and we’ve met up several [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 27, 2012 · 13 Comments
. It feels like there’s a lot going on right now. I’m consciously pushing myself to be better, trying out different ways of doing and being, existing much of the time outside my comfort zone, feeling afraid of failure or just plain confused. I’m finally learning the importance now of self-care as I try to [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 24, 2012 · 14 Comments
I recently had an email exchange with a colleague, who was sharing his frustrations about “following one’s passion.” It seems he’s looking critically inward at the alignment between his drives and motivations, and checking that against the reality of his actions. Is change being made, or just spoken about? He acknowledges the comfort of his [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 21, 2012 · 67 Comments
There’s a lot going on right now.I’m in the process of federating with a large number of people across the globe to form a new kind of living systems organization, and lay down infrastructures that we intend will lead us towards a desired socioeconomic paradigm and human operation system. We’re pioneering practices in cultural design, [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 17, 2012 · 22 Comments
. I’ve just returned from a two-day workshop sponsored by Agile Boston called The Core Protocols BOOTCAMP. The purpose was to go through an immersive experiential learning process to understand the fundamental mechanics and dynamics of forming GREAT TEAMS. Specifics included: Results-oriented behaviors How to enter a state of shared vision with a team and [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 17, 2012 · 8 Comments
I had the pleasure of spending time yesterday with Eric Harris-Braun & Arthur Brock of the Metacurrency Project, sharing thoughts about the federation of tribes we are forming, and the principles upon which this type of living systems organization should be founded. Eric shared this excerpt from the book Sanctuary For All Life by Jim Corbett, [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 13, 2012 · 9 Comments
Imagine your mind as a construct – a series of models, assumptions, biases, values, beliefs, memories, past hurts and joys, experiences, expectations, and blind spots. It’s running a real-time simulation of the world 24/7, creating stories, scenarios, predictions of what could happen next and how a situation might play out. We run a cost/benefit analysis [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 9, 2012 · 42 Comments
(Photo credit: Vicky Brago-Mitchell www.abm-enterprises.net/wallpaper.html) . Whew, what a month! . 2012 is moving forward at a rapid clip, and construction of our new operating system is manifesting before my eyes! . Here’s what I’m seeing happen: . The last few years have been spent building our networks. Getting plugged in, getting connected, and sending out [...]
Posted by venessa miemis on February 9, 2012 · 8 Comments
This is a guest post by Lynne Desilva-Johnson, cross-posted from her blog, The Trouble with Bartleby ——- So… I’ve begun writing a book. On Evolution. (What?! I know. It sounds crazy to me too.)It’s hard to start a sentence with “basically” about the book’s concept, but it boils down to the idea that we are [...]
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Posted by venessa miemis on February 6, 2012 · 8 Comments
As some of you know, I’m in the midst of helping build a chaordic living systems enterprise. Our core group is currently having fascinating conversations about mission, values and the kind of culture we want to cultivate amongst ourselves, which in turn will inform what we model and inspire in the world. As the days [...]