April 2015 Archives

Archive for April, 2015

Choosing Wellbeing

Posted by Bob Stilger on April 12, 2015

I recently came across this lovely blog on Edutopia.org about the choices we can make in our lives. It was written for teachers, talking about how to avoid burnout. But I think it has insights for all of us. — Bob Stilger Choice #1: Choose to Be Happy First, happiness is a choice. Choose to Read full post

Times and Stories: Reflections from David Spangler

Posted by Bob Stilger on April 11, 2015

NewStories friend David Spangler recently shared these thoughts about four different times. I was struck by how these are also four different frames for stories. Enjoy! — Bob Stilger A number of years ago I took part in a small conference that had the encouraging title “You Were Born for Such a Time as This!” Read full post

WHAT OTHERS SAY

Pierce County Regional Support Network

After a long and demanding year as a new start-up in Pierce County, WA, I really wanted my staff to receive the gift of Bob so I could thank them for the incredible work they did as individuals and as a team...

Family Policy Council

When Teresa Posakony, Tenneson Woolf and Bob Stilger worked with us from The Berkana Institute they helped us find language to express what we already know....

Cherokee Nation

Bob’s gentleness, humor and deft action as a facilitator kept the attention on the process and the people, rather than on him....

Joanna Macy

The work of Joel and Michelle Levey has long been a luminous thread in the fabric of the Great Turning. They embody in many ways the epochal transition to a life-sustaining society.

Margaret Wheatley

I have worked closely with Bob since 2000, when I invited him to join The Berkana Institute at a time when we were going global and focusing on supporting younger leaders in many different countries..

Dalai Lama

Joel and Michelle Levey are presently engaged in work that has great prospects for bringing the Dharma (the inner sciences of transformation) to a very wide section of people who may not under ordinary circumstances come into contact with these teachings.

St Lukes Health Initiatives

Bob was tasked to do something quite difficult: to defuse long-held tensions and perceptions, to supplant old habits and to establish new ways of seeing...

National Disability Services

Bob Stilger helped us connect with a whole community of like-minded workers in different parts of the world who see many of the same possibilities..

Durban, South Africa

It is has been an eye-opening experience to interact with Bob over the years in his short trips to Southern Africa to work with us at the eThekwini Municipality’s INK ...

Kufunda Learning Village

Bob became an important partner to our work in Pioneers of Change and later at Kufunda Learning Village

Fritjof Capra

Every time I come to Brazil I meet new kinds of organizations that demonstrate a real change of behavior. This time for example, I met in São Paulo the Warriors Without Weapons, and Rodrigo Alonso and Edgard Gouveia. They work with groups of young people to restore public spaces and downgraded areas, always engaging the local community. The most important thing is to change the community.