Bureau Zee

leadership and the third space

anjetvanlinge — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:12:25 +0000

Zachary Green and Omowale Elson and I wrote about finding a third space from where to lead – away from polarities, and beyond the known ‘both-and’ perspective. It has recently been published in The Transforming Leader, edited by Carol Pearson.

on accountable innocence

anjetvanlinge — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:02:19 +0000

On reading Christopher Alexander’s A Timeless Way of Building he invited me to discover many patterns or rules that determine what gives a building what he calls ‘the quality without a name’. I may call that soul or spirit, or the potential to develop fully and learned that most if not all of what he says applies to organizations and working communities too. Every page in the book offered me many ‘yes!’ experiences. Towards the end he says – so now I have told you all these rules, the most important thing is not to apply them but allow yourself to be innocent. And then he really made me think. Because perhaps innocence is what I risk losing when I attach too much importance to what I know.

On accountable innocence – Anjet van Linge – July 2010

turtles dance differently

anjetvanlinge — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:58:33 +0000

Turtles dance differently is a story on noticing, on what may happen when we cannot find the space inside ourselves to connect the light and the shadow, and on the collective capacity of the community to notice, after all.

Turtles dance differently – Anjet van Linge and Zachary Green – April 2011

cycles of noticing

anjetvanlinge — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:52:42 +0000

In moving in and working with what moves us in fields of energy within and beyond learning communities, we have become aware of the crucial importance of noticing. In seeking to practice our own noticing, we have started to write, about noticing what is the field and how we move in it, about the force of intention, the presence of synchronicities, collective wisdom, and the importance of being with not knowing.

Cycles of noticing – Anjet van Linge and Zachary Green – August 2011

Primary energy in working communities

anjetvanlinge — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:48:02 +0000

A lot of what happens in organizations appears cyclical; periods of growth and bloom are inevitably followed by periods of retreat or pause, people group and ungroup, join and leave. Working with organizations over the years has made me reflect on this cyclical nature, and how it manifests itself in various ways. This chapter offers a perspective on the cyclical movement of energy in organizations. It looks as organizations not only as a configuration of people, processes and tasks, but also as a working communities.

A developing perspective on primary energy in working communities – Anjet van Linge – July 2011

anjetvanlinge — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:44:06 +0000

Earlier writing:

2009 – Making sense of instability: a case study of change in a large system, in Whittle, S. and Izod, K. (eds.), Mind-ful Consulting, Karnac Books, London – available via Amazon or Karnac Books

2007 – Local participation in global change, the dynamics of local-global relationships in a multinational company, paper presented at the OPUS conference, London – available as pdf upon request

2006 – Lost in translation, found in translation – translation as mediator on the boundary between languages and systems-in-the-mind, Anjet van Linge and Phil Swann, paper presented at the OPUS Conference – available as pdf upon request

writing

anjetvanlinge — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:18:05 +0000

Alone and with others I also write. What we write down we can let go. In a paradoxical way writing up the basis of my work both causes some attachment to what I wrote, ánd offers me a chance to let go, to offer to the field for further exploration, to make space for what is next. What I share here is often work in progress, that with my co-authors, we offer in order to open our thinking to that of others.

Below most of these publications are available via pdf, or with a link to a publisher. Some of these publications are also available via Group Relations International .

Currently some of the diagrams in the pdf’s are not displaying properly via the links. I am working to get that fixed. If you are interested in a copy with the complete diagrams, simply email me and I will send you one.

engelenvleugels

anjetvanlinge — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:57:11 +0000

van steen

maakte hij haar

engelenvleugels

opdat zij wachten zou

en het geduld

haar dragen zou

tot hij klaar was

om te vliegen

tekst bij vliegen – 2010

beelden met tekst

anjetvanlinge — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:56:42 +0000

beelden 2009/2008

anjetvanlinge — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:07:03 +0000