A Parliamentary disaster ushers in the new era — Herman Tjeenk Willink and Herman Wijffels shine their light on a formation that after last week seems more complicated than ever. On the difference between managers and leaders, restoring trust and the need to embed a dialogue between citizens and politics in a new coalition agreement. Written by Marcel ten…

Otto Scharmer 30 Oktober –21minuten leestijd De Amerikaanse verkiezingen van deze week voelen aan als een planetair keerpunt, met gevolgen die veel verder reiken dan de Verenigde Staten. Dit moment heeft een externe en een interne dimensie. De externe dimensie is een referendum over de bemensing van het Witte Huis…

Dealing with Drought in The Netherlands: Experiences with Theory U — by Simoon Fransen and Natasha Groot-Braaksma This story is mainly based on an originally published article in ‘Tijdschrift voor Begeleidingskunde” (September 2020), a Dutch magazine focusing on the art of facilitation. In this article some changes were made because of a different audience. Introduction Picture this: in mid-2019, leaders of various…

How it all started… In 2019 we have started to experiment for the first time with ‘decentralized Hub Host support’. After 5 years of global support, facilitated by the Presencing Institute, this is the year where we have begun to “go local”! At the moment we count hundreds of hubs…

This is the story of what started to grow after the Public team — a social enterprise in Skopje, North Macedonia — participated in the 2018 cycle of u.lab. During the course, the group formed a hub involving members and entities from business and the civic sector. On December 3rd…

Very quickly after the launch of u.lab in 2015, the Hub Host Community started to grow. The beauty and the complexity of communities resides in the fact that you cannot really build them. …