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Founded in 1997, The Open Circle Company is dedicated
to supporting organizations in becoming who they say they want to be.
Productive, fulfilling work is performed by people who bring
themselves fully to their work: mind, heart, body, and spirit.
The Open Circle Company supports organizations in remembering how
to do this.
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Peggy Holman convenes and hosts conversations that
matter, inviting people and systems to gather around issues they care
about. By using generative processes that call forth the best of who people
are and can be, the energy and wisdom to move dreams to action are
unleashed, resulting in more resilient, agile, collaborative and alive
people and systems. The vastly expanded second edition of her book, The
Change Handbook (Berrett-Koehler, 2007), co-edited with Tom Devane and
Steven Cady, has been warmly received as an aid to people wishing to
increase the effectiveness of their organizations and communities. Peggy has
an MBA from Seattle University. Since 2001, she has worked with journalists
in redefining journalism for the 21st century. Her current inquiry is
into how we take to scale the gifts that the "process arts" bring to
shifting our collective capacity for living well together.
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EDUCATION
1983, MBA, Emphasis in Finance, Seattle
University
1976 BA, Drama, University of Washington
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BOARD AFFILIATIONS
Open Space Institute (US) co-founder and board
president
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In my twenties, I developed 2 theories that have often
guided me through the years. Here
they are:
The skiing theory of life.
I didn't learn to ski until I was 23.
I quickly learned that the very counter-intuitive way to be
successful was to lean down into the hill.
Rather than causing me to wildly speed towards the bottom, it
meant I could set my own pace with grace.
This recognition that the best course of action often is the
opposite of what seems the best thing to do has continued to play
out in many realms.
The ice cream theory of life.
I love ice cream. It's
my favorite food. While
debating with friends the merits of high quality brands vs. cheap
brands, I learned that the reason people tolerate cheap ice cream is
that they rely on their memory of how ice cream tastes.
Rather than enjoying the real thing in the moment, much of
the time, we rely on our memory of they way it should be.
To enjoy most fully, I treat every bite as if it were my
first. To live most
fully, I live every moment as if it were my only moment.
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Partial Client List
Ala Kukui Retreat Center
American College for Advancement in Medicine
American Press Institute - The Media Center
Antioch University
Associated Press Managing Editors
AT&T Wireless Services
Association of Jewish Community Professionals
Boeing Company
Buddhist Churches of America
Co-Intelligence Institute
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
Department of Labor: Employment & Training Administration
Embry-Riddell Aeronautical University
Fetzer Institute
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Girl Scouts, Totem Council
Idipron, Programa Bosconia-La Forida, Colombia
Israeli Ministry of Education
Israeli-Palestinian Center for Research and Information
Justice System Assessment & Training
Kaiser Permanente
Los Andes University, Colombia
Media Giraffe Project
Microsoft Corporation
National Forest Service
National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
National Park Service
Nature Conservancy of Washington
New England Associated Press News Executive Association
Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
Pemco Mutual Insurance Company
Positive Futures/YES! Magazine
Seattle University, Organization Systems Renewal (OSR)
Spirited Work at the Whidbey Institute
St. Joes Medical Center
Washington State Arts Commission
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
911 Media Arts Center
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