Henri Bortoft’s Lecture on Goethean Science
As I am sure the vast majority of you will know, Henri Bortoft was one of my teachers at Schumacher College. Henri was a physicist who studied the problem of […]
Category Archives: Henri Bortoft
Jan Höglund Tweets The Wholeness of Nature
Jan Höglund has over 30 years of experience in software development and he is also an extremely well-regarded thinker on how we can find better ways of working together. He […]
Trying to Get to the Milk by Way of the Cheese Part 2
I would like to start this article with a quote from Idries Shah in his book A Perfumed Scorpion: “It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or […]
Can You See What is Right in Front of You?
I wanted to share this page from Henri Bortoft’s book The Wholeness of Nature – Goethe’s Way of Science. This section articulates the shift into a holistic mode of seeing […]
Guest Article: Christopher Moore – An Introduction to The Voyage of the Kresala
These events and experiences take me back some years. It was a summer sailing voyage. We were a few days out from Largs, on the west coast of Scotland, and […]
If Paradigm Shifts Are Dead What Next?
In a couple of previous articles I have mentioned that I have been reading and enjoying immensely Arthur Koestler’s The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe. […]
The Rediscovery of Colour (Supplemental Material for Holonomics)
In our book Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter we write extensively about Goethe’s Theory of Colours. The reason we do so is to help people understand what is […]
The Hermeneutic Dimension of Living Organisations
Sometimes management consultants’ activities can appear to be quite abstract, especially those who utilise schemes such as models and frameworks of the organisation. When these forms of models are applied […]
Encounters with otherness: Towards a participatory way of knowing – A Dissertation by Joana Formosinho
I am delighted today to be publishing this third dissertation from the 2014 class of Holistic Science at Schumacher College. Joana Formosinho is a zoologist with a background in animal […]
Pat Williams talks to Henri Bortoft about Goethe’s Approach to Science
I received today this interview from the journal Human Givens, Volume 8, Number 4, 2001 from my friend Ezra Hewing. Ezra, like Maria and myself, has a great interest in […]
