A Year in Review
As 2006 fades into the memory there is a brief chance for reflection. This year marks the close of a five year period for FCG and a busy year itself. The theme for the year was large systems change. The insight is into the impact of unseen leadership.
There was the focus nationally on water sustainability with the community consultation for the State Water Policy Framework, the development of the Water Reform Blueprint recommendations, moderating the Water Forum at the 2006 Future Summit and the design of Water Sustainability simulations to enhance our response capacities. In other places where the community is in surprise and needing urgent water management approaches, the proactive continue to prepare for the certainty of an uncertain future. Now holding over 3500 perspectives on water I know what a fully recharged aquifer must feel like.
There was travel to Sydney, Melbourne, Denver, San Francisco and Perpignan, France to continue participation in the Integral Community and the emergence of different aspects of integral practice globally. In August the initial Integral Theory program offered at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco was launched, which I was accepted into. In September I gave a brief presentation at the second Integral Sustainability Seminar. In October I was invited to attend the first Integral International Development (Integral Sans Frontieres) group meeting in France. In December the initiators of Integral Africa began the next stage of their inspiring leadership journey. It is a great credit to the leaders of these groups who have been working for several years towards this point to now see the calibre of people attracted from all corners of the globe to continually contribute to these spaces.
The year in statistics was 41 flights, 56 workshops, involving 1,350 people, working in teams with 85 people from 16 countries, travelling over 106,000 km and also emitting 36 tonnes of CO2 (now offset as FCG is a carbon neutral organisation). The statistics mean little. The people mean a significant amount. This blog is an honoring of the invisible leadership that was clearly apparent in all the events mentioned. What continues to engage my attention is the passion and commitment of the people with whom I have the good fortune to work. While the knowability of when the work they are doing will be complete is distant, their clarity in the reason why is for them completely present.
Read more:
Integral Africa Case Study
Future Summit 2006 Report
Integral Sans Frontieres - Resources