Inspiration Collection

Below you can find a compilation of gifts that have been brought into the world by individuals and organizations that have profoundly influenced my mindset and are aligned with the principles of my approach in work and life. Feast yourself on the abundance of genius that already exists in this world!

John Naisbitt

The most exciting breakthroughs of the twenty-first century will not occur because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

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Dancing With Systems

Donella Meadows

We can’t control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

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Online Warm Ups & Energizers

mural.co

A collection of online warm-ups and energizers that are short, provide team-building and aim at overcoming shyness and boosting energy with a group of distributed people.

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Decentering User-Centered Design

Ted Hunt

A seismic social shift has taken place seeing much of humanity transition from a person to a user. We are all complicit in this shift. We each clicked ‘I agree’. We perpetuate and propagate it. We are now the users, the using and the used.

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Hyper Island

hyperisland.com

Methods & Tools curated by Hyper Island

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Living the Questions

Daniel Christian Wahl

Our culture is obsessed with quick-fix solutions and immediate answers. Time is at a premium and we don’t want to waste it dwelling on questions.

The credo is: let’s get practical and not waste time with theory or philosophy! But how can you waste time with the ‘love of wisdom’? Is it not wisdom that will help us chart our path into an uncertain and unpredictable future? Do we not desperately need wisdom to respond wisely to the multiple converging crises around us?

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Unlocking Us / Dare to Lead

Brene Brown

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Butterfly Works

butterflyworks.org

Practical tools and inspiration to use design thinking and co-creation for social change.

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Untamed

Glennon Doyle

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Facilipedia

mischiefmakers.co

Workshop templates, video tutorials, content recommendations and scenario versions

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Dare to Lead

Brene Brown

Anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes and has the courage to develop that potential.

Sir Ken Robinson

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

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Inbo

inbo.ca

Funky, authentic and creative tools to unleash human potential through innovative, collaborative, and transformative learning experiences.

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Everyday Leadership

Drew Dudley | TEDx Toronto 2010

We have all changed someone’s life — usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives.

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ToolboxToolbox

toolboxtoolbox.com

A curated list of the best business, design, and organisational change toolboxes built by some of the most influential companies, institutions and thinkers.

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Humble Inquiry

Edgar H. Schein

The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

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Systems Thinking

Donella Meadows

A Primer

Paulo Freire

What the educator does is make it possible for the students to become themselves.

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Human Bubble

Check out this cool co-creative prototype of a workshop we designed with Elena Gramatikovska. It’s such a beautiful reflection of emergent collaboration in practice.

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Your Body is not an Apology

Sonya Renee Taylor

The Power of Radical Self-Love

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Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

John Koenig

A compendium of invented words written by John Koenig, that aims to fill holes in the language—to give a name to emotions we all feel but don’t have a word for.

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The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Creative Podcast

IDEO U

The IDEO U Creative Confidence Podcast hosts candid conversations with some of today’s most inspiring change makers, design thinkers, and creative minds.

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Gifts of imperfection

Brene Brown

Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are.

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Changing Education Paradigms

RSA / Sir Ken Robinson

This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.

Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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