Over the past several months, we—Gail and Todd, mother and son, partners in business, have been developing a long essay on what we call Wayfinding. We have been working together as collaborative process designers and facilitators for nearly twenty years.  In this time, we have jointly designed and facilitated more conferences, workshops, sessions, happenings and other forms of convening than we can count.  While we have coauthored numerous essays, white papers and letters, this may be our most substantive written collaboration to date.

As we continue to iterate, refine, illustrate and hone our writing into a form that can be independently published, we have decided to post the paper as a series of journals, welcoming your thoughts and comments to help us move and shape our ideas going forward. (Online publishing dates in parenthesis.)

I. In which we share our background and perspectives
This first section is the exception in that we have written it as two individuals. Beyond this, we’ve forged our writing into a single narrative that we believe provides a more compelling and complete picture of wayfinding that either of us could have produced on our own, or from the sum of our individual vantage points.

     Gail - Seeing, feeling and engaging differently (Nov 15)
     Todd - The Way Found (Nov 15)

II. In which we define wayfinding, past and present (Nov 15)

III. In which we tie wayfinding and this moment in time together (Nov 22)

IV. In which we speak of living our way into a new paradigm (Nov 22)

V. In which we explore wayfinding’s role in steering toward best case futures (Dec 3)

VI. In which we tell stories of wayfinding (Dec 3)

VII. In which we offer a process for the play and practice of wayfinding (Dec 17)

VIII. In which we restate guiding principles, pose questions to perturb your wayfinding practices, and offer resources for your further exploration (coming soon!)