Spend a little time with Charles Holmes and you quickly discover the power of connecting and community. He is a messenger between worlds and the bridges he creates are built on relationship.

As a master convenor he travels the globe responding to invitations to host generative conversations amongst people from all walks of life and fields. If you accompany him as he visits people in various networks the mosaic of diversity is stunning. How he keeps his head straight or his feet on the ground is a marvel. As a connector he often puts people from distant worlds and networks together with incredible results.

He’s seen new life born out of connections between people. His unique place in the midst of those connections enables him to see constellations not clearly visible to the rest of us, his friends and colleagues.

Whether it was the birth of the Academy for Systemic Change, the connectedness of gifts in Salmon Arm, B.C., or community in La Paz, Baja California restoring its local fishing waters, each new possibility was born of connecting, relationship, and gifts.

To story the magic of connectedness Charles is partnering with Axiom News. In the next few months the partnership will connect with Charles’ friends and colleagues to explore the threads of relationships and spaces created by them.

Members of the Axiom News team will be reaching out to people to memorialize how new relationships were begun, how gifts were brought into the light, and how they remain at work in our lives today.

Short stories will appear on the site twice a week.

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