This new website introduces the Berkana Collaborative. We're a small group of practitioners whose work is based on the values, principles and beliefs of The Berkana Institute. We are available to work with you as conversation hosts, facilitators, strategic consultants and speakers. Berkana's living system approach emphasize that each system -- a community, an organization, a family -- has immense knowledge and resources which are often untapped or under-utilized. The Berkana Collaborative works to help systems surface what they already know and use it in service of their goals and directions.

 

These are turbulent times. When British Socioeconomist and Futurist Robert Theobald wrote Rapids of Change in the late eighties, he had only an inkling of what was around the corner in two decades. He did caution about the dangers of deflation, which we're now seeing in Japan and soon in the U.S.. Many of us think we're not going back to "normal" for a while. Now is the time for each of us to step forward with the leadership and insights we have to offer. Together we will travel through these rapids of change and create the communities and lives we want. But we must begin now.