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I am the executive director of Ag Innovations Network, an NGO based in Sebastopol, CA. My personal mission is to support the emergence of wisdom and vision about creating a sustainable world from the root systems to the tip symptoms by protecting the interests of the future as much as the present, helping to enable our human system to deeply know itself, working to reveal deep assumptions that block creative change and bringing compassion to each situation I encounter.
I work primarily as a facilitator of deep dialogues between diverse stakeholders grappling with the question of how to make the food system sustainable. I lead a talented team of facilitators and organizers work at the local, state, national, and global levels.
I have a broad background that includes leading both non and for-profit organizations, study of steady-state economics (MA, U. of Rhode Island), and organizational/social change (MA organization development, Sonoma State U.). Mainly I try to live the spirit attributed to Mother Teresa: "to do small things with great love..."
My Interest Areas:
multi-stakeholder collaboration, art of hosting, dialogue, sustainability
Food and food production is the cornerstone of civilization. How we produce, distribute, and consume food reflect both what works and what is failing in our modern world.
Ag Innovations Network’s mission is promote the long-term health of the food system and in particular, of the agricultural production upon which we all depend. To accomplish this mission, we focus exclusively on creation of critical dialogues within the food system and between food system stakeholders and the wider public. These dialogues reveal the changing needs, emerging issues, and most importantly new options that will move us towards a better food system.
Other Organizations:
Roots of Change, http://rocfund.org
International Association of Facilitators, http://www.iaf.org
IATP
Where to Find My Work:
Ag Innovations Network: http://aginnovations.org
The Akous Group: http://www.akous.com
work with others involved in cutting-edge approaches to deeply stuck social and environmental problems. For example how we can we change the dialogue and the reality of water allocation and use in the arid southwest of the United States.
