Tools For Wholeness
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Many public and private institutions find it very difficult to respond to changes (and the increasingly rapid pace of change) that are taking place all over the world. These organizations are stuck in their institutional thinking with respect to their solutions concerning global and local issues and problems like inequities, discrimination, famine, poverty, pollution and the like. Theory U utilizes a method know as "presencing" to connect people to the deepest source within themselves in the present moment to allow inner knowledge and wisdom to emerge to address many of the deeply rooted challenges we face in the world today. Theory U provides the framework and method to accomplish this awareness-based change. It has been found to be a highly effective method to facilitate change in many types of institutional, personal and situational settings.
The World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today’s world. Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more than a method, a process, or technique – it’s a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership.
The Connection Partners facilitate change through effective engagement with community, government and business decision makers.
The Connection Partners are dedicated capacity guides who practice individual and group learning as continuous, essential components of change. We recognize the intraconnections* between inner and outer actions. No matter how brilliant one may be, a person, organization or community cannot address today’s complex intrarelated* challenges alone.
The Garrison Institute is part of an emerging field of innovative changemaking organizations working to apply the wisdom that arises from contemplation to new action strategies for transformative social and environmental change.
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The Garrison Institute is about all of us. It’s about cultivating awareness of our interconnectedness as the basis of positive change. It’s about bringing disparate elements together, finding common ground, and taking collective action for the common good. It’s about leveraging the ability of contemplative practices to hone skills and insights, combining them with new learnings from science, and weaving them collaboratively into new strategies for social and environmental transformation.