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Thursday to Sunday August 22-25, 2013
90 minutes from Toronto, Canada

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"Can I swim?" We sure hope so, because Mindcamp X is on a lake. Bring your swimsuit!

Sky-Walking: A Metaphor for Organizational Learning

Between the railroad ties of the Kinzua Sky Walk in Northwestern Pennsylvania, one can view the valley floor 301 feet below — offering a chance to confront fear. Image: Nicholas A. Tonelli

by Kristen Barney

“Not even my foot could fit in that gap,” I told myself, “so how could I possibly fall through?” [Read more...]

What Do You Do?

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by Veta Bates

PEOPLE: “What do you do?” ME: “Idea development.” PEOPLE: “Ah, right… wait, WHAT do you do?” ME: **broad dimple-inducing smile**

Why the smile? Because I remember having similar curiosity my first time on campus at The Creative Problem Solving Institue (CPSI) in Chicago six years ago, although it was more along the [Read more...]

Resistance

by Sean Hurwitz

Resistance is only useful when it prevents terrible things from happening (like your muscles or bones tearing apart). The rest of the time I think of resistance as entirely personal, both fast and slow, and a doppelganger. What do I mean? Well…

Entirely Personal. Everyone resists for their own reasons in all [Read more...]

Even in the Struggle…

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The following poem struck me as so apt to this year’s theme of “Resistance” that I couldn’t resist submitting it to the blog.

How will you work with resistance this year?

Even in the struggle, you are loved. You are being loved not in spite of the hardship, but through it. The thing you [Read more...]

We Are NOT…

Over the years, we’ve often heard people describe Mindcamp by what we’re not:

We’re NOT stuffy. We’re NOT a traditional conference. We’re NOT overly structured. We’re NOT expensive. We’re NOT boring (at least I hope not!).

Well, today we discovered another thing we’re NOT. We’re not authorized to have a Pecha Kucha Cabaret. At least [Read more...]