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This is part 6 in a 12 part series. The first five skills were Pattern Recognition, Environmental Scanning, Network Weaving, Foresight, and Conscious Awareness.

It appears that Barbara Ganly is interested in so many topics that I love to learn about. I'm glad she has joined our social artistry group and I'll have a chance to learn more from her. "After all, a healthy community is a basic premise through which deep learning and meaningful work come to life.  And yet it has been the messiness, the shifting, emergent nature of geographic communities and online communities outside the structure of semesters, grades, classes, disciplines, departments and majors that has really brought home for me how and why we need story to make sense out of the maelstrom of sensation and information-to slow down the rush of impressions, to make us confront our biases and fears and habits, and how we need storytelling to connect us and to build trust and curiosity and to push us past the façade of what we think we know so we can immerse ourselves in meaningful, creative work to bring better worlds into being".

Bill Strickland embodies what I consider a social artist. His ability to see the beauty in people and his drive to create environments for work and play to highlight, frame and enhance that beauty leaves me with the same thought-provoking and inspiring sense of truth that comes from art.

Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist that shakes the way I see the world. He brings a smile and a sense of wonder to how people live, work and play. A fun social artist that transforms my thinking and practice.

I learn so much about story telling and presentations from Nancy Duarte. Her company and team is leading the field in transforming organizations and individuals.

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