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Areas of Focus
Democratic Participation
(919 people) | Globalization Impacts
(1325 people) | Democracy and Civil Society
(1213 people) | Business Firm and Organization Sustainability
(1684 people) | Agricultural Water Conservation and Management
(642 people) | Rural Farming Communities
(801 people) | Local Food Systems
(1671 people) | Leadership Training
(1422 people) | Agricultural Policy
(678 people) | Climate Change
(2727 people) | Ecosystem Services
(792 people) | Sustainable Agriculture
(2111 people) | Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus-Building
(1204 people) | Community Participation
(2039 people) | Agroecology
(625 people) | Land Stewardship
(1050 people)
About
I am the executive director of Ag Innovations Network, based in Sebastopol, CA. My personal mission is to support the "Great Turning" from an industrial to a sustainable society through facilitating transformative dialogues between often polarized parts of our communities.
I believe we can help create a life-supporting society by:
- Taking a wide view that considers both root systems and tip symptoms
- Protecting the interests of the future as much as those of the present
- Working to enable our communities and organizations to deeply know themselves
- Revealing deep assumptions that block creative change
- Bringing compassion to every situation we 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 am the primary facilitator for the Ag Futures Alliance movement in California.
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..."
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..."


