Me (Andre Ling)
Collaborative Explorer-Activist Working for Intersubjective Improvement in the Quality of Life on Planet Earth
A more composite picture of me can probably be found by browsing through the blog. But let it be said that I am something of a nomad, something of an explorer, something of an activist, and something of a philosopher (perhaps a taoist, if such a name has meaning). I’m also an intersubjectivist – I believe that self emerges only in relation to other and that social reality is socially co-constructed. I believe in collaborating with the people I meet during my life in a process of questioning and transforming the reality with which we are presented through our own simple actions and decisions. I believe that we humans have the potential to emancipate ourselves from the messes that we are in, that we can learn or unlearn our way out dysfunctional patterns of being and interbeing in the world. I believe that there is no greater calling than this for me in the world at this time. And hence this blog, my journey of learning and change, serves as a way of singing my journey into existence and signing the winding route that is perpetually emergeing into being from the imminent unknown.
I also suppose that I ought to add something about love. It’s not really an afterthought though. In fact, love is so central to my understanding of who I am, what I am doing and why I am doing it that it almost seems odd stating it. But, I suppose, it needs to be said: I’m involved in love-driven change processes 
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After 5 years of working with Seva Mandir, an Indian NGO, I decided to go back to university with the hope that the experience and the exposure there would help me to find more effective ways of contributing to positive change in the world. I enroled in the MA in Participation Power and Social Change at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. As part of this course I will be back in India for a year, working with Seva Mandir, and doing participatory action research into my work. This blog is intended as a means of keeping an online portfolio that can combine my reflections on the process with the various outputs generated through my work.
