Chapter 10 & Conclusion — This series of reflections are based on Adam Kahane’s new book Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together, and the reading club Anne Heberger Marino @leantocollabs organized. We meet once a week from Oct. 28 to Dec. 2 in 2021. You are invited to join…

Chapters 8 & 9 — This series of reflections are based on Adam Kahane’s new book Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together, and the reading club Anne Heberger Marino @leantocollabs organized. We meet once a week from Oct. 28 to Dec. 2 in 2021. You are invited to join…

Thanksgiving 2021 — “It is so good to take a breath without pain” were my husbands first words greeting me as he laid in the coronary care unit, fresh out of the Cath lab after a massive heart attack. Having fully recovered from the heart attack, these days his answer to the question…

Chapters 6 & 7 — This series of reflections are based on Adam Kahane’s new book Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together, and the reading club Anne Heberger Marino @leantocollabs organized. We meet once a week from Oct. 28 to Dec. 2 in 2021. You are invited to join…

Chapters 3, 4, 5 — This series of reflections are based on Adam Kahane’s new book Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together, and the reading club Anne Heberger Marino @leantocollabs organized. We meet once a week from Oct. 28 to Dec. 2 in 2021. You are invited to join…

Forward, Introduction, Chapters 1& 2 — This series of reflections are based on Adam Kahane’s new book Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together, and the reading club Anne Heberger Marino @leantocollabs organized. We meet once a week from Oct. 28 to Dec. 2 in 2021. You are invited to join…

An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. …

Why and How we host adaptive spaces — Last summer my husband, my pup and I went on a three-month cross country camping trip. We went through a lot of deserts such as the Grand Canyon; we also encountered many oasis in the deserts. These oasis exist because they are connected to a water source; even though most…

Developing community capacity for complexity — Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead Fall is my favorite season. It is special for many reasons — u.lab is one of them. This is the third year I have…