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2023 Solstice Message
On December 19, 2023 the Human Venture met virtually and in-person to celebrate the winter solstice, a tradition for many…
Natalie Muyres
Kid Power! by Elizabeth Dozois
In response to multiple requests from the Human Venture community, Elizabeth Dozois has published a kids’ book! Kid Power! features our community’s…
Dana Penrice
Thinking about organizational design and the Human Venture
by Dana Penrice What are the consequences of using the machine as a metaphor for an organization? When I think…
Natalie Muyres
Why we need hope, why we need Human Venture Leadership
by Laura Kennett, donor and volunteer board member with Human Venture Leadership I was knocked off a treadmill. Well, not…
Natalie Muyres
For my children, their children, and all children
by Elizabeth Dozois, February 25, 2022 This year, the Human Venture Associates were tasked with writing an introduction to Human…
Natalie Muyres
Reflections from the 2021 Solstice Gathering
On December 21st we had a strong turnout of HV community members to our online solstice gathering. It was a…
Natalie Muyres
Human Venture Leadership: 2021 Report to Community
Prepared by Chris Hsiung The Role of Human Venture Framework When disasters start stacking on top of one another –…
Natalie Muyres
The Freedom Convoy is really a battle of narratives
by Ken Low and Alison Hagan At a recent Friday community call Ken shared his thoughts on the truckers’ Freedom…
Natalie Muyres
The Invasion of Ukraine: A Human Venture approach to reading the news
by Dana Penrice I am not a journalist. I am not a politician. I am not a historian. Nor am…
Natalie Muyres
Recommended Reading: 2021 Book List
The Human Venture publishes a list of books and other resources annually. The list includes books that were either drawn…
Natalie Muyres
Part 4: Ethics Begins with Compassion
by Nick Kalogirou This is part four of a six part series on ethics for the Human Venture blog. Ethics…
Natalie Muyres
A Winter Solstice Message from Ken
by Ken Low Photo by Denys Nevozhai The holiday season is so meaningful because we get to spend time with…
Natalie Muyres
Taking time to reflect on your life meaning and purpose
By Eleanor Finger In June 2021, the Human Venture Associates participated in a reflection exercise using questions adapted by Laura…
Natalie Muyres
What kids need…. or, things I wish I knew about parenting
by Kim Rowe There is not much that I can think of that tests and changes you more as a…
Natalie Muyres
Part 3: Ethics and Responsible Strategy
by Nick Kalogirou This is Part 3 of a series on responsible strategy. Here’s Part 1 on Responsible Analytics and…
Natalie Muyres
On Memory
On memory and ground penetrating radar: Ken’s reflections on the remains of Indigenous children found The recent discovery of the…
Natalie Muyres
Thank you to our volunteers
by Laura Kennet Did you know… Human Venture is supported by a team of volunteers? Did you know… Further explorations…
Natalie Muyres
Part 2: Strategy, Grand Strategy, and Values
by Nick Kalogirou This is Part 2 of a series. Part 1: Pursuing Responsible Analytics. What is strategy? Strategy is…
Natalie Muyres
Complexity Shock, Finding Patterns, and Adapting
by Laura Kennett and Eleanor Finger Introduction What a year! Full of disruption and adaptation, over and over again. If…
Natalie Muyres
Part 1: Pursuing Responsible Analytics
by Nick Kalogirou Analytics and strategy help us navigate the fog of war, but don’t necessarily make us responsible or…
Natalie Muyres
Recommended Reading: 2020 Book List
The Human Venture publishes a list of books annually. The list of books includes those that were either drawn on…
Natalie Muyres
2020 Solstice Message
by Jason Low It’s amazing to think that Ken has been with the Human Venture community for 20 years now.…
Natalie Muyres
Network Governance as an Empowerment Tool
by Blythe Butler and Sami Berger One of the functions of pioneer leadership is to build others’ capacity to understand…
Natalie Muyres
Part 2: People in Converging Crises
George Floyd protest in Grand Army Plaza June 7, 2020. Image: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons by…
Laura Kennett
Learnings From Parenting: Racism
by Lindsay Mitchell “I hate black people.” – Four-year-old white girl. These are words you never wish to hear spoken…
Natalie Muyres
Part 1: Systems in Converging Crises
by Laura Kennett We are not only in the midst of a global pandemic; we are also experiencing a convergence of…
Laura Kennett
An Opportunity for Civilizational Change
Image: Jason Wong, Unsplash by Elizabeth Dozois “There seems little doubt that we are currently in the midst of one…
Natalie Muyres
Deep Voices
A view from Kim’s window, as she reflected on the pandemic, west of Calgary, March 2020. Kim was inspired to…
Natalie Muyres
The Upside of COVID-19: What Gifts Does the Global Health Crisis Offer?
Social distance on Kings Parade. Image: Gyles Glover, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons by Elizabeth Dozois Do you find…
Natalie Muyres
Recommended Reading from 2019
By Ken Low The following list of books includes those that were either drawn on in 2019 to support our…
Natalie Muyres
Why Pay Attention to This
Image: Iceberg off the Grey Glacier in the southern Patagonia Icefields in southern Chile & Argentina in 2019. The border between…
Natalie Muyres
Poetry from Another Part of the Capitalist Machine
by Anonymous This is a collection of poems from someone named Xu Lizhi. He was a Chinese migrant worker who worked…
Anna-Marie Ashton
On Either Side of Memory
by Ken Low Memory is a critically important part of adaptive intelligence. The function of memory is to record and…
Anna-Marie Ashton
Inoculating Ourselves Against Ignorance
Inoculating Ourselves Against Ignorance by Natalie Muyres We recently kicked off our ninth Human Venture Leadership Alumni Program. The Alumni…
Anna-Marie Ashton
The Mystery and Mastery of Strategic Thinking
There is a show on Netflix called Churchill’s Secret Agents: The New Recruits. The reality show takes people from today…
Dana Penrice
Turning Everydayism on its Head
It is 8:30 am when I roll my sleepy self out of bed. Sorry people, I have yet to figure…
Dana Penrice
Perspective: The Rise of Trump
This past year, the Human Venture Institute has been exploring the rise of Donald Trump as the President of the…
Natalie Muyres
Solstice Reflection
by Ken LowHere we are at the solstice once again, the day when the sun stands still, or at least…
Anna-Marie Ashton
Beyond Remembering
by Ken Low Remembrance Day originated as a memorial to members of commonwealth forces who died in the line of…
Anna-Marie Ashton
Life Ranging Kids: Power, Empowerment and Life Learning
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Anna-Marie Ashton
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
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Dana Penrice
Resistance and Human Venture Progress
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Anna-Marie Ashton
Witness to the Revolution
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Dana Penrice
Stephane Hessel, The French Resistance, and the Human Venture
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Anna-Marie Ashton
Resistance in Action
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Natalie Muyres
Truth, Understanding, and the Human Story: Whence Came This Mess?
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Anna-Marie Ashton
The Challenge of Truth in Reporting
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Anna-Marie Ashton
Change the Story, Change the Future
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Dana Penrice
Sy Montgomery
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Natalie Muyres
The Hidden Life of Trees
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Dana Penrice
Solstice Reflection
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Anna-Marie Ashton
Reading for Life Learning
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Natalie Muyres
Human Learning Ecology in a Time of Unrest
by Dana Penrice Board Chair, Human Venture Leadership As we are sorting through the recent events in America, it is…
Dana Penrice