I’ve written pretty extensively here about the ways we’re engaged, what we’re engaged in, and how we engage throughout our lives. I define engagement as any sustainable connection in our lives, within or around us. Today I’m going to write about the roots of engagement, or why we become engaged. Talking recently with a colleague, sheContinue reading “Why Engage In Anything?”
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The Value of Meaningfulness
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man. Living within a vacuum is the standard for many people today. Aspiring to have and keep the things that are prescribed in life, people keep jobs that don’t hold meaning for themContinue reading “The Value of Meaningfulness”
Radical Transparency with Children and Youth
How To Be Radically Transparent With Children and Youth Start when they’re young. While young people are still young, that’s the time to make be radically transparent with them. Having a transparent conversation with a 17 or 18 year old can be difficult, if only because they’re conditioned to accept adults obfuscating. By starting early,Continue reading “Radical Transparency with Children and Youth”
The Mystery of Engagement
For all my attempts to explain Heartspace, it comes down to this: Engagement is a mystery in which everything works how it works, no matter how I try to understand it. As much as I want to rely on them, engagement is not a process or a pathway. Instead, its a million stars scattered acrossContinue reading “The Mystery of Engagement”
Do Not Let Go Of Young Adults
Youth engagement happens way into young adulthood. During one of my recent training events, participants were fixated on the end of youth. “When is youth over?” “How do youth move on?” “Can we just declare a youth finished?” “Youth” is never finished. We are all always youth, and we can never truly leave our youthContinue reading “Do Not Let Go Of Young Adults”
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100 Ways To Engage The World
An engaged world is one where everyone lives fully and wholly, everyday in every way. Since 2010, the bevy of consultants and trainers with CommonAction have been working across the U.S. and Canada to promote the concept of an engaged world. We define engagement as the sustained connections people have to the world within andContinue reading “100 Ways To Engage The World”
The Tree of Engagement
Download this article from my website FREE! As a young man, I was taught the art of storytelling by one of Omaha’s greatest, Idu Maduli. His graceful, courageous work brought me into neighborhoods throughout my area of the city where most people would never go, fearful of poverty or people of different races. Idu went though,Continue reading “The Tree of Engagement”
NO “Marketplace for Love”, Mr. Pollota.
We need to do it differently, and that much is agreed upon. However, that’s about it. Another white guy wants to sell nonprofits better. Earlier this week I watched a video of Dan Pollota‘s recent talk at the 2013 TED conference. Hoping it was another version of INCITE‘s absolutely powerfully essential book, The Revolution WillContinue reading “NO “Marketplace for Love”, Mr. Pollota.”
Just Be There
Being there is all you need to do. Wherever there is, whoever there is. Just be there In my life, I strive to do. Some have said in the past that I’m a do-aholic, constantly on the go and busy. Over the last few years though, I’ve learned to hear some of what Heartspace hasContinue reading “Just Be There”
