A handbook about process consulting – Concordia University, 2025

What is this? This is a handbook and also a harvest: a tangible trace of the final conversation that took place in a planning and consulting course I hosted with 18 students completing their first year in the MA in Human Systems Interventions, on May 3rd, 2025. In this day long conversation, students were invited …

Nora Bateson et le laboratoire des « données chaudes » (Warm data)

Il y a quelques jours, Nora Bateson est venue à Montréal pour un atelier et une conférence. Nora Bateson est l’initiatrice de la pratique des « warm data labs », que je comprends comme une pratique qui nous amène à explorer la complexité de manière créative, c’est à dire vivante. Ces notes sont une forme de témoignage …

Walking on the resistance line – What if resistance was a pathway to wisdom? 

Art by Mohammed Hanchi Have you ever made a decision as a community, seemingly embraced by the whole only to be undermined in ways subtle and not so subtle? When that happens, we often talk about this as resistance. But what is resistance, really? The Cambridge Dictionary defines Resistance as « the act of fighting against …

Walking the chaordic path

Some reflections on the Art of Hosting and Reimagining Education « to innovate or understand  to work with human complexity with problems that are not clouds and not clocks we need people and inquiry creative diversity to act and respond with creative possibilities we need learning insights connections new ways of seeing and acting emerge.«  On …