"A french biologist describes the process of creating living things as bricolage - assembling parts and items in complicated arrangements, not because they fit some ideal design, but just because they are possible."
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"Too often we interpret refusual as resistance. We say that people innately resist change. But the resistance we experience from others is not to change itself. It is to the particular process of change that believes in imposition rather than creation. It is the resistance of a living system to being treated as a non-living thing. It is an assertion of the system's right to create. It is life insisting on its primary responsibility to create itself."
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"We encourage others to change only if we honor who they are now, We ourselves engage in change only as we discover that we might be more of who we are by becoming something different."
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"How do we create organizations that stay alive?"
"Rigidly certain organizations die early. They collapse from the weight of the structures they've erected to hold themselves up. If, as individuals we rigidify ourselves, we suffer the same fate. But there are other organizations with identities that are clear but curious. They explore the world by understanding who they are but inquiring about who also they might be...Structures are more temporary; they come and go to fit the demands of the present. Clear at their core, curious about their future, these organizations develop expansionary range."
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"We are naturally suited to be partners. The invitation to join with life will restore us to the world and evoke what is best about us."
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"Once individuals link together they become something different... Relationships change us, reveal us, evoke more from us.
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"The environment is invented by our presence in it."
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"It looks like a mess. It is a mess. And from the mess, a system appears that works."
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"Life always organizes as networks of relationships, spinning dense webs that can't be disentangled. As we organize, we keep inquiring into the quality of our relationships. How much access do we have to one another? How much truth exists among us? Who else needs to be in the room?"
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"How many of us work in organizations that fulfill our desires? How many of us feel supported in our need to connect and create? Our organizations rarely reflect our need for meaning, connection and growth. Yet we continue to create new organizations because of our human need to be more, to do more. We notice possibilities. We notice one another, we see a need which calls us to respond, and we organize. Can organizations learn to sustain the engergy and desire that called them into being? Can organizations learn how to support us as self-organizing?
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"People want to love their organizations. 'Love.' writes Catholic theologian David Steindl-Rast 'is saying yes to belonging'
... if we agree to belong, we will feel called to new ways of living.
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"Here is another place from which to contemplate a simpler way. Stability is found in freedom - not in conformity or compliance. "
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"Life organizes around identity. Every living thing acts to develop and preserve itself."
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