LCLI Briefings

LCLI Briefings share items of interest, information about Fellows and activities, and occasional notices.
They are loaded below from the most recent (2020) to the earliest we have (2014).
Also include are occasional issues of the LCLI Chronicle, which contains longer pieces from some of our Fellows.

ALL ITEMS ARE CLICKABLE PDF LINKS TO READ ONLINE OR DOWNLOAD
Briefing #34 (2021 Jan)
~  LinkedIn account
~  2 New Videos ('Flip to Life' YT Channel)
~  'Complexity Science &  Assessing LCL'
-  'Underestimating the Challenges ....'
Briefing #33  (2020 Dec #4)
~  2020 Vision
~ 'A Child is Born' (Heather Wood Ion)
~ 'Noah's Seed Bunker: Protecting Billions of Wild Plants' (Daily Maverick)
 Briefing #32  (2020 Dec #3)
~  'Stewards as Vital Deviants' - Confluence of Stewardship, LCL & Positive Deviance
~  Final set of 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos, including link to full set on YouTube channel
Briefing #31  (2020 Dec #2)
~  LCLI & 'Measurement' - A Challenge to LCLI Fellows and to the LCL approach
~  Next set of 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos
~  LCLI Website changes announced
Briefing #30  (2020 Dec #1)
~  Additional 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos
~ 'Climate Change & Religion: Politics, Perceptions and Radical Potentials (Panel discussion, Cambridge University)
Briefing #29  (2020 Nov #5)
~  Still more 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos
~ 'The Moral Imperative Around Climate Change (TED Talk: Pope Francis)
Briefing #28  (2020 Nov #4)
~  Still more 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos
~ 'The Positive Deviance Collaborative
~ Positive Deviance bibliography - over 240 items easily accessible
Briefing #27  (2020 Nov #3)
~ More 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos
~ What's still coming in our videos
~ 'The Space Between us is the Magic' - #TrustLifeProject
Briefing #26 (2020 Nov #2)
~ Two more 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos
~ 'In Times Like These' - Sharing a moving piece from LCLI Fellow Heather Wood Ion.
 Briefing #25  (2020 Nov #1)
~ More 'Flip to Life' LCL/PD videos
~ 'Kufungisisa: Grandmothers to the Rescue'
~ 'Maverick Rewilders' - Turning back the tide of extinction'
Briefing #24  (2020 Oct)
~ 'Flip to Life' - new LCL/PD YouTube channel
~ 'Thriving Together' - Covid challenges, a far-reaching US document
~ Mexico honours LCLI Fellow Eva Moya
Briefing #23  (2020 Aug)
~ "Welcoming Fr Michael Lapsley"
~ "Ancestors: John Lewis & C.T. Vivian"
~ "Kenyan Boy's Coronavirus Invention"
~ "Pathfinder Series #2: Horst Kleinschmidt"

Briefing #22  (2020 July #3)
~ "Mycelium - the Future is Fungi"
~ "Eugene Marais - A Science Yet Unborn"
~ "Seeding Hope & Belonging" (LCL in practice)
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Briefing #19  (2020 June #2)
~ "What 'remain in Mexico' really means"
~ "Feed World w/o Depleting Resources"
~ "Unfinished Symphony: South Africa"
~ "Community Action Networks & COVID-19"
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Briefing #16  (2019)
This update brings you the lates on the planned LCLI Fellows gathering in El Paso with colleagues working on Positive Deviance, to take place from 16-19 April, 2020. It includes who's coming, what to expect, and more.
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Briefing #13  (2018)
~ On Gary Gundersonls new book, Speak Life: Crafting Mercy in a Hard-hearted Time.
~ Also introducing new LCLI Fellow Matthew Bersagel-Brayley.

Briefing #10  (2017)
Several new Fellows were introduced in the LCLI Fellowship, including Emily Viverette, Shingai Ndinga, Nomvula Dlamini, and Beulah Tertiens-Reeler.

Briefing #7  (2016)
~ Two new Fellows: Joy Anderson, Jerry Winslow
~ Several LCL events in Cape Town
~ Other news, and publications

Briefing #4  (2014)
~ Reflections on "Life and Death, Fairness and Freedom" (LCLI Fellow Doug McGaughey)
~ A watercolour by LCLI Fellow Larry Pray
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Briefing #21  (2020 July #2)
~ "Non-racialism & Education" (Alexander)
~ "Antiracism & More Equitable Society" (Kendi)
~ "Democracy & Capitalism: Need Each Other?"
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Briefing #18  (2020 June #1)
~ "Sikhs Feed Crowds in a Protest or Panic"
~ "'Hotel Corona', Palestinians & Israelis"
~ "The Bus & Community Health"
~ "M. L. King's Radical Anti-Capitalism"
~ "Yes to Life: Viktor Frankl's Lost Lectures"
~ "Cooling the Climate Mess: Walter Jehne"

Briefing #15  (2019)
~ See2See Road Trip: Soundings (book)
~ Generative Leadership: Releasing Life ....
~ New LCLI Fellows: Wecoming Arvind Singhal, Naiema Taliep, Maria Teresa Jones
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Briefing #12  (2018)
~ "Water is a Crisis": Perspectives from Cape Town and Kabul.
~ Introducing new LCLI Fellows Aziz Royesh, Anita Marshall, Mosi Kisare, Getrrude Pswarayi, and Marcellino Jonas.

​Briefing #9  (2016)
This one-pager serves to welcome Shingai Ndinga as part-time admin. assistant for the LCLI work. He tells us about himself.
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Briefing #6  (2015)
~ Masana & Shingai - LCLI help
~ Emerging LCL themes
~ Notes on "Generative Leadership"
​~ Some LCL-related publications

Briefing #3  (2014)
Extended notes on "Life and Power" from a discussion initiated by Gary Gunderson, with Fellows Jim Cochrane, Paul Laurienti, Doug Easterling, Doug McGaughey, Doug Reeler, Andy McCarroll, Joy Anderson and Teresa Cutts.

Briefing #20  (2020 July #1)
Welcome to 3 new Fellows ...
Introducing Eva Moya, Carla Alvarado, and
​Anat Gesser-Edelsburg

Briefing #17   (2020 Feb)
~ Who's coming to El Paso?
~ Welcome to new LCLI Fellow,
      Bobby Milstein
~ Notice of new, revised LCL Statement
       ... summary of the ideas & framework
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Briefing #14  (2018)
~ See2See Road Trip, November 2018
      ... Four community-linked themes
~ Barefoot Guide on Generative Leadership
~ New LCLI Fellow:  Tor Haugstad
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Briefing #11  (2017)
In this briefing an extensive outline is given of the purpose and nature of the LCLI workshop on 'Generative Leadership', incuding the first full outline of the "Contents" that emerged from the workshop.

Briefing #8  (2016)
Seven new Fellows are introduced, including:
Kevin Barnett, Elias Bongmba, Shirley Fleming, Sandy Lazarus, Kirsten Peachey, Somava Saha (then Stout), and Herman Tolentino.​

Briefing #5  (2015)
~ Four new Fellows: Sunny Anand, Ellen Idler, Jeremy Moseley, and Tom Petersen
~ Way Forward: Supporting what Fellows do
~ 7 LCL-related publications

Briefing #2  (2014)
~ On Power
~ New Fellows introduced: Fred Smith, Marlese van Broembsen, Rachel Sinha, Bret Nicks, Doug Reeler, Horst Kleinschmidt, Heidi Christensen, Leslie London, Evance Kalula, Malusi Mpumlwana, and Craig Stewart.

LCLI Chronicle

LCLI Chronicles contain short articles or commentaries by one or other of our Fellows on
issues or themes that express a sense of the import of thinking about the 'leading causes of life' 

​Chronicle #1 
Reconciliation & Restitution
~ Two LCLI Fellows spoke at an annual march for justice in the racially divided City of Cape Town (Nomvula Dlaimini, Horst Kleinschmidt)
Chronicle #2 
Incidental Findings
~ Comments on how the shell in our 'linguistic shells' can be broken and fractured, language refreshed and renewed (Heather Wood Ion)
Chronicle #3
Life Breaks Thru Tough Ground
~ Reflections on the celebration of a successful struggle to stop a semi-secret nuclear deal In South Africa (Jim Cochrane) 
Chronicle #4
Hairball
~  "I paid attention when the United Nations Climate report said we had a dozen years to fundamentally change our lives to avoid runaway melting with irreversible consequences. ...." (Gary Gunderson reflects)
Chronicle #5
Update
- Short one page summary of LCLI projects and people in early 2019, including the Barefoot Guide on Generative Leadership and the See2See road trip across the US South.
Special Briefing Note
LCL & Medicine in 21st Century
- 2-page summary of the LCLI framework from a keynote address to a conference of European health system researchers in Bayreuth, Germany, on 'evaluation criteria for medicine in the 21st Century".