A New Road for EAs?

by | Apr 17, 2019

Linear leadership understands power as the ability to assert your will, even against resistance.  In this mindset, the environmental assessment (EA) process is linked to the licencing process as a watchdog for potential problems. It seeks to protect the...

Jill Bolte Taylor’s Story

by | Apr 2, 2019

From a circular perspective, there are two ways of knowing because that is what we experience. This is valid even without scientific study or expert advice. Linear thinking wants external, objective, repeatable evidence. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuro-anatomist, actually...

Are You a Circular or a Linear Thinker?

by | Nov 3, 2017

Have you ever been in a conversation and felt like you’ve just been hit by a train?  Or, that the person you are talking to is from another planet, and there might be unicorns and endless time there?  These are extreme cases, but I do sometimes find myself in a...

The Movie Arrival is All About 2WK

by | Dec 12, 2016

Louise and Ian, a linguist and a scientist, are rushed by helicopter to the site of an alien arrival. Somehow they have to decode the alien communication system, or as Louise would say, have a conversation with them. The US Army, and indeed the world, wants to know...

What Do You Get From Complaining and Gossip?

by | Oct 22, 2016

Will Bowen’s 21-Day complaint free challenge has been getting a lot of media attention lately. It made me wonder why people are finding this challenge, well, so challenging. We, as a society, must be getting something out of complaining or it would be much easier to...