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On the 18th of April we herded sheep during a U workshop ‘Building the sustainability movement’ for a multi-national. Paul Bos is a farmer that invites managers in primitive circumstances to be on his farm. While I was explaining the different levels of listening a lamb was being born in the same stable behind me. We stopped and attended. During the workshop we were invited to bring the sheep from one meadow to another.
What were our learnings doing so:
Observe, observe, observe: who is the boss (third in the row actually), the herd consists of different kind of sheep (lambs, mothers, old, young etc), see what your intervention does to the flock.
Sheep walk out of themselves, don’t push them. Just prevent them going into the direction you don’t want them to go.
Because they walk while eating they are always on the move (just like managers). If they go a dead end, let them, they will be back and look for your direction.
One sheep goes a certain direction, all will follow (the Dutch proverb: “If one sheep crosses the dam the rest will follow” is proven true).
Let go of your tendency to act. Observe where they go.
But act in an instant when they tend to go the wrong direction.
It was fun and a great experience, check out his website: www.boerbos.nl

After doing a series of interviews Cordes (Bas van Rossum) on 9 December did a presentation and game about salary negotiation in Holland in the new Ernst & Young building. There was a lot of enthousiasme and interest with the members of the Dutch Japanese Round Table. See the pictures for an impression of the game!

Hein Dijksterhuis was invited to be guest speaker at the Waldzell meeting 2008: A Global Dialog for Inspiration (http://www.waldzell.org/). This years' theme is 'The Time is Now'. Hein has lead Presencing Workshops for the 'Architects of the Future'. The presencing process is a journey that connects us more deeply both to what wants to emerge in the world and to our highest future possibility—our emerging authentic self.