Our staff and partners highlight acts of courageous leadership, and opportunities for you and your community to engage in creating a vital shared future.
Politics, the economy, the pundits, the dark clouds gathering outside my window…they all had me discouraged until I read a recent article in the Capital Journal (Pierre, SD) about how elementary schools are using peace tables to help students talk through their conflicts. As with most things, there’s a lot we can learn from kids. ... more
On March 8 I was sitting in the lobby of the Minnesota Governor’s office, wearing the smell of eight days and 362 miles on the trail, hoping he’d decide to come out and accept a stack of muddy petition signatures—the concerns of more than 13,000 Minnesotans—that I’d carried on my dog sled all the way from Grand Marais. ... more
If you want to know how to sprinkle a bit of good nervous energy into an otherwise calm and centered InCommons Art of Hosting (AoH) team, just let them know they'll be working with a group of more than 100 people for three solid days. People who speak more than 25 languages and gather from all over three states. At a zoo. ... more
When Juanita Brown (co-founder of the World Café and graduate of my alma mater Antioch College) shared an invitation from John Esterle of the Whitman Institute to join a gathering of grantees and funders who focus on process and relationship-building in their work, InCommons Manager Jake Voit and I jumped at t ... more
