Duncan’s Blog
A collection of human transformation lenses, practices, and perspectives. Including: tools for re-authoring our relationships to nature and each other, tools for facilitating better conversations, behaviour change concepts, experiential tourism and community development, community based marketing resources, and more.
COVID 19 Has Changed Everything, How Can We Get to Our “New Normal”
Good day friends, this morning I had a breakfast call with my friends at Mudcreek Rotary Club and it brought up some thoughts about how everything has changed and how we can work together to "create our new normal." Hi folks, I didn't get a chance to...
Cynefin Framework Changed How I Think About…
...every social and climate crisis related issue I've worked on! Cynefin framework helped me understand why social innovation, poverty reduction, and food systems often work fails. It starts with an understanding that to work on complex problems like food system...
Everyday Questions to Inspire More Connective Conversation and Story
This post is inspired by the re-authoring learning and practicing I'm learning with Dr Chené Swart, conversations with my dear friend and business partner Adam Barnett, many conversations about hosting with my life partner Anne Stieger, many first meeting...
One Simple Way to Have More Interesting Everyday Conversations
I'm very hesitant to reshare this because of how destructive these kinds of words are and the implicit meanings expressed int he statement "look like a Canadian." When I posted this, I got a response from my friend Christa. She said, "When we were in an airport...
Insights on Behaviour Change, Archetypes,Stories, Food Waste, and Thriving Economies and Communities
Experiences/new behaviours, new behaviours create new thoughts, and new feelings. Understanding this is important for understanding how to work in our emerging new economy. This insight came from my dear friend Emily LeGrand at Flying Squirrels when she was telling me...
Exciting Upcoming Events
Experiential Concepts I’d Like to Do More Of Hosting Food Workshops that are Processed based: Wood-Fired Flatbreads of the World, Sauces and Flavour Balancing, for friends groups and organizations. Food and Local Culture Based Experiential Team Building - send...
New Direction for My Work, Insights from the Past Year, and Exciting Events Coming Up!
Hi folks, I’m prototyping projects that create more regular experiential learning opportunities, push the bar for regenerative slow tourism and entrepreneurship, working on community narratives, and foster deeper connection between humans and the earth. I’ve...
Hope in the Dark – My Family’s Story and Questions for the Future
Dear community, I invite you to watch this documentary. I think we can learn a ton from it and for this history not to repeat itself. I appreciate it's approach to shows the "light in the darkness" within this dark time of war. I feel we are "at war" today, a war of...
Why Sharing Moments I Want More of Changed My Life and Continues to Shape It
I used to not be courageous enough to share moments and stories in my life that moved me in a professional context. I thought it wasn’t professional or appropriate, that no-one cared and it wasn’t useful, but boy was I wrong. When I look back at the last 10...
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