Links

The following sites represent people and endeavours that provide nourishing soil for POPULUS:

Planning, design, place and sustainability

• Village Well  These folks make the connection between placemaking and sustainable communities.
• New Urbanism   A great site to make the connections between physical planning and social and ecological spheres.
• :arts on the ave  This grassroots Edmonton organization is leading revitalization of inner-city neighbourhoods through multidisciplinary art.
• A Small Group  This Cincinatti organization brings into conversation groups that normally do not intersect, with the intention of restoring and and reconciling community.
• The Congress for New Urbanism  recognizes walkable, human-scaled neighbourhoods as the building blocks of sustainable communities and regions.
• The Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public places that build communities.
• Cyburbia is an on-line planning community full of conversation:  Cyburbia Forums.
• The Detroit Collaborative Design Centre merges process with quality design.  Here is a neat film.
• integralcity.com is a site full of new thinking for all that makes up a city.  Marilyn Hamilton applies integral theory to the city.
• The Healing Cities Institute asks a really good question: why shouldn’t we plan and design our cities to make us healthier in every way? s

Being + process

• presencing.com
  The Presencing Institute and Thory U, a process to connect us more deeply to the future that wants to emerge in the world and to our highest future possibility.
• consciousembodiment.com -
  Using the principles from Aikido and other spiritual practices, learn about how to trust our sensations – the basis of bodily intuition and wisdom.
• artofhosting.org
  This site offers a description of the Art of Hosting – a leadership practice that forms the backbone of POPULUS’ work.
• peerspirit.com
  Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea offer wonderful insight to the world of story to leadership and community.
• collectivewisdominitiative.org 
  A portal into the practice and study of collective wisdom
• openspaceworld.org 
  Open Space Technology is a conversation technology useful in meetings from 5 to thousands of people.  This site offers a description of OST, what to expect, and, of course, conversation.
• theworldcafe.com 
  The site to explore The World Café, a conversation methodology that awakens and engages collective intelligence.
• appreciativeinquiry.case.edu 
  Drawing on the work of David Cooperrider, this site is a place to explore academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and positive change.  
• iap2.org 
  this is the official site for the International Association for Public Participation.   
• sbc.nrcan.gc.ca
  An overview of the integrated design process for building green.
• destinationcoach.com 
  This approach to coaching is one of intense listening, a practice that applies to coaching individuals as well as groups.

 Spiral Dynamics

• spiraldynamics.net 
  A model that makes some sense of the complexity of human existence, global diversities and what drives evolutionary change. Dynamic forces are described that attract and repel individuals, form the webs and meshes that connect people within groups, communities and organizations and forge the rise and fall of nations and cultures.
• wie.org
  An interview of Don Beck by Jessica Roemischer, editor of What is Enlightenment magazine. This offers an excellent overview of Spiral Dynamics.

Nifty People and organizations

• chriscorrigan.com 
  Chris works with organizations to improve their work and communities seeking to improve their future, and people looking to improve their lives.
• oftheshire.org 
  A gathering ground for the study and practice of how to build a sustainable human future.
• interchange.dk 
  Insight into Toke Moller and Monica Nissen’s question: What if hosting conversations is the kind of leadership that allows everybody to learn?
• gingergroup.net 
  A collaborative working with individuals, groups, organizations and companies working on complex issues in innovative and transformational ways
• engagency.nl
  People doing neat work!
• aliainstitute.org (was shambhala)
  A unique model of leadership development for organizations and communities seeking more inspired pathways to a bright and sustainable future.
• integralinstitute.org 
  This site is a useful portal into a framework that draws on the key insights of the world’s knowledge traditions.  
• peterblock.com
  A community thinker worth checking in with from time to time.  His latest book is Community: The Structure of Belonging.
• pioneersofchange.net 
  A global learning network of people from mid-20s to mid 30s seeking change in the world.
• plannersnetwork.org 
  A portal to a network of professionals, activists, academics and students working to change political and economic systems.
• berkana.org 
  The Berkana Institute works in partnership with people around the world to strengthen communities. 
• axladitsa.org 
  The name of this place means A little pear and things that grow in difficult places.  Axladitsa-Avatakia is a place rooted in the practice of hosting and co-creation.  
• kufunda.org
  Kufunda village is on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe. As a learning village, the Art of Hosting is their operating system as they create and share a strong, life-affirming community. This is a learning eco-village.