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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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the guru illusion (yeh guruwuru kya hai yaar?)

Posted in conversations, philosophy, self-organisation, spirituality, the source on August 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I am increasingly feeling myself anti-guru – at least in the traditional sense. Some great posts from Mushin who deconstructed his own guru role helped strengthen this feeling in me – although it has been there for quite some time (this is one example). More recently, I was chatting to someone about Baba Asharam Dev [...]

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Trying to get some bearings…

Posted in anthropology, facilitating, healing, learning, life-work balance, philosophy, random perspectives, spirituality, story-work, the source, wisdom on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a while since I managed to get back to the blog and I have a lot to say. At the same time, I really want to learn how to say whatever I am trying to say in less space. One approach could be to use several smaller blog postings (to create the illusion [...]

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If I were God… Oh but I am – if only I could realise it!

Posted in conversations, philosophy, spirituality, wisdom on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After that last outburst on narratives, which seems to have opened up an entire new dimension of reality to me, I started reading San Beck’s translation of the Katha Upanishad. This marvellous story, and I really mean MARVELLOUS STORY, is a must read. This little quote gives a taste of what it is trying to [...]

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