http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/10/30/learning-from-natures-emergent-creativity-margaret-wheatley-and-the-aspen-tree/ Nature as Teacher—World as Lover: Telling a New Story Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/10/30/learning-from-natures-emergent-creativity-margaret-wheatley-and-the-aspen-tree/#comment-1952 jannfreed Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:20:59 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/10/30/learning-from-natures-emergent-creativity-margaret-wheatley-and-the-aspen-tree/#comment-1952 I love the metaphors and analogies with science and organizations. We are all connected and we feel it now more than ever in this economy. Thanks. Jann I love the metaphors and analogies with science and organizations. We are all connected and we feel it now more than ever in this economy. Thanks. Jann

]]> http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/10/30/learning-from-natures-emergent-creativity-margaret-wheatley-and-the-aspen-tree/#comment-1383 Change Hardiness & Learning Agility: What the Aspen Know « wild resiliency blog! Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:49:31 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/10/30/learning-from-natures-emergent-creativity-margaret-wheatley-and-the-aspen-tree/#comment-1383 [...] Margaret writes about Aspens as an image of self-organizing systems and what we can learn from them. And yet I believe, and I’m confident she would agree, she only begins to open the windows of perception as to what we might be capable of learning from Aspens. [...] [...] Margaret writes about Aspens as an image of self-organizing systems and what we can learn from them. And yet I believe, and I’m confident she would agree, she only begins to open the windows of perception as to what we might be capable of learning from Aspens. [...]

]]> http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/10/30/learning-from-natures-emergent-creativity-margaret-wheatley-and-the-aspen-tree/#comment-572 Kent Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:53:00 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/10/30/learning-from-natures-emergent-creativity-margaret-wheatley-and-the-aspen-tree/#comment-572 If you are leaving the "Aspen Body" series for a while, this seems like a good time to say "thanks" to you and the Aspens for sharing valuable insights. Getting to some truths is much like getting to an Aspen grove which is a thousand vertical feet above you; you can get there straight on but it is easier to take some switchbacks and approach it obliquely. That may be the greatest value underneath the surface of your metaphor, you get us there in a way we can understand and without exhausting us in the climb. If you are leaving the “Aspen Body” series for a while, this seems like a good time to say “thanks” to you and the Aspens for sharing valuable insights. Getting to some truths is much like getting to an Aspen grove which is a thousand vertical feet above you; you can get there straight on but it is easier to take some switchbacks and approach it obliquely. That may be the greatest value underneath the surface of your metaphor, you get us there in a way we can understand and without exhausting us in the climb.

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