The KOAN Method
Breakthrough Leadership for a Divided World
Published on 7. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
979-8-88797-059-2 (ISBN)
Description
In Zen Buddhism, a KOAN is a saying or mantra designed to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning for achieving enlightenment.
The KOAN concept is also a helpful framework for imagining new models for living and organizing in Kind, Open, Adaptive, Networks.
Rooted both in ancient wisdom, and cutting-edge research, the KOAN method gives us an alternative model for evaluating and evolving how we come together as humans to solve the important issues facing our world today.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
598 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88797-059-2 (9798887970592)
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Jennifer Lyn Simpson, PhD (she/her) is Integrated Work's CEO. She developed the KOAN method based on over 30 years of experience working in and with organizations across the academic, private, public, corporate, and not-for-profit sectors to create more meaningful and effective ways of living and working together across differences. She is an author, artist, entrepreneur, and idealist whose vision includes the integration of creativity and personal inquiry as catalysts for individual and collective transformation. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Syracuse University, a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder and continues her own learning and development by regularly participating in immersive experiential leadership, contemplative, nature-based, and JEDI programs. She still teaches University classes, works with executives committed to evolving their organizations to meet a changing world, and develops and delivers transformational experiences that help people amplify their impact by being more human, together. When she isn't working with mission-driven leaders to amplify their impact, leading her team, or enjoying time with her growing children, she explores life's persistent questions through art, poetry, and creative writing, and spending as much time in nature as she can conjure.