Thrivability Montreal

Does this sound familiar? This is why we do this work.

"That point in life where you want to create something incredibly beautiful, but the business and tax hurdles to jump over seem insurmountable, and all you want to do is quit, but you can't because you finally come to the sickening realization that this is just the way things are right now, and if you don't continue with this dream you'll likely forever regret not knowing what would have happened if you'd just pushed through, but still your pi**ed off because you know the economic system is inherently flawed toward the production of death and most of our tax dollars are going to the military... Ya. That's me right now. That's us right now. Don't try to help. There's no way to help. Just feel the inconsistency of this bu****it. Really feel how ill-aligned it is with Life. Maybe something righteous and productive will come from the anger, but for now all I have is anger, and that's productive enough for me in this moment... Thanks for listening... Now, I'm going to finish this budgetary statement, play some music, and go to bed. Goodnight world."
~(copied & pasted from a person begrudgingly enslaved to a maligned system of industrial growth).

via Ben Browner

Wonderful 20-minute interview as a sneak preview of an April 6 event hosted by the Montreal chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement. Thank you, Sonia Di Maulo! Please join us!

Audio sneak peak: “Striving to Thrive: Beyond Traditional Performance Thinking” Listen to this interview with Michelle Holliday recorded on March 13, 2017, where she explains her framework to help organizations, “Striving to Thrive: Beyond Traditional Performance Thinkin…

The Age of Thrivability is now available for sale at Culture & Language Connections / Connexions Langue & Culture in NDG! That organization is featured in the book. So not only can you pick up a copy, you can see a thrivable org in action! That alone is worth the trip.

On this day, most of all, we need to know that there are abundant signs of another story coming to life, a story of thrivability. This is the topic of the book The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World. Montrealers - message Michelle Holliday if you would like to buy a copy locally. Book launch event coming soon..... :-)

www.ageofthrivability.com

Join what promises to be a thought-provoking and inspiring online conversation next week (Fri June 24, noon EST) hosted by Tamarck Institute's Deepening Community program. The conversation will be led by Michael Jones, with guests Michelle Holliday of Thrivability Montreal, Ben Wolfe of Axiom News and Tolulope Ilesanmi of Zenith Cleaners (also good friends). The topic is thrivability and the commons. This is the third in a dynamic series on placemaking.

http://deepeningcommunity.ca/events/transformative-celebration-commons-and-thrivability-re-imagining-place-making-through-local-l

Transformative Celebration, The Commons and Thrivability: Re-imagining place making through...

"What if companies had Mission Questions instead of Mission Statements? How much more engaging and inviting would this be than the typical bland pronouncements about “being number one” or “being the best”? Why do you want to be number one? What learning, discoveries and milestones – what unfolding story – is to be found on that path? What are you all wildly curious about? What compels you to come together in this work because you can’t gain enough insight into the story alone?"

http://solarium.cambiumconsulting.com/content/mission-questions-not-mission-statements

Mission Questions not Mission Statements | Solarium What if companies had mission questions instead of mission statements? How much more engaging and inviting would this be than the typical bland pronouncements about “being number one” or “being the best”? Why do you want to be number one? What learning, discoveries and milestones – what unfolding…

Montrealers: Michelle Holliday will be presenting with Julian A Giacomelli next Tuesday at a breakfast meeting of Women Investing for Impact. They'll share stories of their work introducing the perspectives and practices of thrivability at Crudessence and RISE Kombucha, where he was both a leader and an investor. Please join us!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wifi-breakfast-michelle-holliday-and-julian-giacomelli-tickets-13512976677

WIFI Breakfast - Michelle Holliday and Julian Giacomelli WIFI welcomes: Michelle Holliday, Co-Captain - Thrivability World Quest Principal - Cambium Consulting Julian Giacomelli Founder and Principal Druk Training and Consulting Michelle Holliday is a researcher, writer and consultant bringing the perspective…

Have you heard of generative journalism? Michelle Holliday spent 3 days last week with Axiom News exploring what it means and what it could come to mean. Much inspiration - and important insights both for media organizations and "for any leader hoping to catalyze greater capability across a community."

http://solarium.cambiumconsulting.com/content/generative-journalism

Generative Journalism | Solarium I’m at the end of three head-spinningly rich days with Peter P**a, the founder and CEO of Axiom News. We’ve been exploring what he and his team mean by “generative journalism” and what more it might come to mean. The gist of our discussion has been that there’s tremendous power in aligning their w…

Living systems principles for organizational design. Here's the video of a webinar Michelle Holliday gave a few days ago, hosted by Mycelium. Includes stories of 2 orgs, and a bit of Q&A.

Comments? Questions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRHjXdTvSw

9:26 Michelle Holliday Michelle Holliday, Founder of Cambium Consulting, shares how the incorporation of Living Systems Principles can increase the health, vitality and profitabili...

Living Systems Thinking, Being & Org Design - a 90-minute interactive webinar this Friday (Sept 26) from noon to 1:30. Please join in! Through the fabulous Mycelium School.

Living Systems Thinking, Being & Organizational Design w/ Michelle Holliday In this 90-minute interactive webinar, you will learn how core characteristics of living systems are present in organizations. Michelle will share a holistic framework to guide organizational strategy, including client stories to illustrate the framework's usefulness. And together, we'll explore what it means to steward a living organization.

Montrealers: Please consider participating in this stunning program to hone your skill in "hosting" participatory meetings, organizations and communities. It will be led by the wise and talented Lisa Gravel and Juan C Londono A, with some of my favorite people as guest speakers (well, including me, actually!). It takes place over several weeks (on weekend afternoons), giving you an opportunity to apply and integrate what you're learning. If you lead an organization, consider sending several people. This is the most important skillset there is. And this is a jewel of an opportunity.

http://www.lupuna.com/events/lart-de-la-rencontre-aut-2014/

Lupuna | L’art de la rencontre – Aut 2014 Une formation dans la durée qui vous permettra d’intégrer au quotidien des méthodologies, des outils, et des approches issus de l'univers des pratiques collaboratives.

Change of course for the Thrivable World Quest! In Montreal, we will NOT be meeting in person on June 18th (as originally planned). Instead, we're looking at ways to explore Mastery in an online conversation. Stay tuned!