We don’t avoid conflicts – we avoid working through them!

How tempting it is to long only for spring, or summer: the days getting longer, the plants growing, Nature blossoming. So tempting that we often forget that there is only life in ecosystems because there is also death.   Similarly, in the organisations where we work, it is tempting to focus on good relationships; to […]

Regenerating Democracy

Last week I was in Rome, facilitating a General Chapter for a male religious congregation.   Democracy: insights from religious congregations Religious congregations are a very interesting type of organisation. In many ways – and despite all the fantasies and projections we might have about them being very hierarchical and authoritarian – congregations are one […]