Duncan’s Blog
A collection of human transformation practices, lenses, 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.
Re-Energize: Harness the Power Of The Stories You Live By
Find the power in your own story and past experiences to shape the future you want
2020 Events
In 2020, I mostly worked on the How We Thrive: The Narrative Project in terms of hosting events and several events at the Front Street Community Oven. You can see the the How We Thrive Narrative Project recaps and summary video here. You can see the Front Street Oven...
A Worldwide Glimpse of the Future of Tourism
How the future of travel is evolving, tourism strategies designed for the travel, how tourism regions are adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic, what will be needed in terms of process to design tourism of the future.
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...
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