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economics, state, power, the people, oppression and transgression

Posted in anarchy, community development, complexity, democracy, environment/ecology, justice, power, questioning development, social change, the State on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I recently revisited the idea of anarcho-syndicalism and am coming to the conclusion that I have a good deal of affinity with its political and economic philosophy. An ongoing critique of (a certain kind of) community development that I am trying to piece together seems to be leading to many anarcho-syndicalist conclusions. Is that perhaps [...]

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such a big difference?

Posted in action research, co-creation, collaboration, complexity, conversations, facilitating, learning, organisational change, patterns, philosophy, reflection on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As I slowly prepare myself for the work I will be doing upon my return to Seva Mandir, I have been doing my best to get whatever I can out of google books. As elaborated in my Analtical Paper and also alluded to in an earlier post, I am finding myself deeply interested in the [...]

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Complexity and inter-disciplinarity

Posted in complexity, philosophy, questioning development, studying on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My first assessed essay during my time here at IDS was on the topic of how an inter-disciplinary approach to development can contribute to the development research and practice. I took advantage of this opportunity to write about the insights from complexity science into the workings of the world and then to point out that [...]

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What I’ve been doing

Posted in action research, complexity, complexity based methods, learning, organisational change, personal ramblings, philosophy, seva mandir, social change, studying on December 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The way that can be described is not the absolute way…
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Complexity World Cafe

Posted in co-creation, complexity, complexity based methods, conversations, facilitation, rights-responsibilities on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On a radically different note from the previous post…
I co-hosted the first of what may be many sessions on complexity at IDS today! After extensive brain-scratching and chatting with colleagues and co-learners a World Cafe format was developed and we got a good mix of students – including some new faces from outside IDS – [...]

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As the dust settles…

Posted in complexity, learning, questioning development, reconciliation, reflection, studying on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, it has been a while now since I posted here! The dust is finally settling a little here at IDS and I feel that I have reached a comfort level where I can return to my blog!
I have not been inactive at all during this time! I have been furiously conversing, reflecting and also [...]

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Some positive feedback on the 6th CP process

Posted in complexity, conversations, organisational change, seva mandir on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Another pleasing outcome of today’s ‘last’ meeting for the 6th CP process has been the positive feedback on the overall process received by the team (which includes me). It was good to hear people voicing many of the points that I had mentioned in an earlier post based on my own observations. I guess it [...]

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on complexity, chaos and self-organisation

Posted in anarchy, complexity, facilitating, self-organisation on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just the other day, I was reading a post by Dave Snowden on management vs. self-organisation that triggered a few questions in my mind… This is what I commented:

chaos and anarchy are not the same thing at all. anarchy would imply not having any ruler but this does not mean chaos since a group can [...]

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