Harry van der Velde

The GCC and it’s allies.

At the end of the day, my day anyway, it is all about people. How do we connect, communicate and collaborate? If that went well I had a great day. Yesterday I had GCC Zoom sessions trying to realise just that. And it covered the full spectrum between my desperate sense of isolation and thisContinue reading “The GCC and it’s allies.”

Protected: Managing my layers of needs

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My experience is part of the collective

Last year I spent many hours on line. In generative conversations that builded trust and intimacy across cyberspace. Across the pixelbridge as I coined it. I never dared to imagine the unprecedented power of genuine human connections becoming so present and available. Thanks to this new combination of digital technology and more mature social behaviors.Continue reading “My experience is part of the collective”

Messy buddy list

This is just to get a first overview of the wordpress sites of my GCC buddies Heiner Benking https://benkingnews.wordpress.com/ Deborah M. Wunderman https://sapience207.wordpress.com Tammy Lea Meyer tammyleameyer.wordpress.com Glenn Gaasland Heidi Hörnlein, http://www.the-wisdom-factory.com  Gertraud Wegst Joshua Bridges http://joshuabridge.wordpress.com Doug Breitbart Flemming Funch Aaron Perlmutter, Charley Quinton, Jaswinder Singh Chaggar, jaswinderchaggar.wordpress.com Lucy Rist, http://lucyrist.wordpress.com Sam Hahn, http://kfjournal.org/wp/index.php/category/cy/ Andrew MacDonald andrewcartermacdonald.com Alex Reid https://savenaturefree.wordpress.com/ and https://multiplyourself.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/dark-ai/

My need to belong

This is how I felt for years. I unconsciously made that feeling visible. Only after painting, I recognised it. That feeling of being totally alien in a naive representation of a safe nourishing world. Crying without a voice. Only then I became aware of it. Like this cartoon fish finding himself in the wrong story.Continue reading “My need to belong”

The growing GCC network

This Saturday ‘Barn Raising’ conversation gave me the opportunity to connect with Alex Reid from New Zealand, Heidi Hornlein from Italy, Jonah Lion from the United States. And Esteban Trev from Mexico. That gave me the opportunity to be informed about their websites. Heidi is hosting The Wisdom Factory. Her blog is http://www.the-wisdom-factory.com . Alex Reid isContinue reading “The growing GCC network”

This tool we call language

From the moment I was introduced to the ‘Teal’ movement it was extremely difficult to understand all I did not understand. Everything mentioned was new, still emerging and without clear structure. Basically the language was unable to properly word what happened. The tools to grasp the evolution had to be developed as part of thatContinue reading “This tool we call language”

Scared and curious

I have always been both scared and curious. The label Schizoid fits me. But I always struggled to explain how this affects my behaviour. Since I stumbled on this lovely little puppy video on Youtube, thats became a lot easier. It metaphorically shows how I go about daily life. I approach every situation like theContinue reading “Scared and curious”

Globally Committed Companions

I have been joining the conversations in the GCC very early from when it started. Mainly as the next step after joining the Conversational Experiments by Flemming Funch. Following my desire to learn and master mainly two things: ‘Better Conversations’ and genuine generative ways to globally collaborate. The first has been a theme since 2006, … Continue reading Global Committed Companions →

How do values and needs relate?

image credit: https://irfankhawajaphilosopher.files.wordpress.com There is a lot of talk around values in the GCC. Values – as the word suggests – are important. So what are values? It turns out the scholar Shalom Schwartz* has researched this extensively and the image above illustrates his findings. (more ) So there seem to be sets of values that areContinue reading “How do values and needs relate?”