What we’re about

All we propose, in return, is that you care for each other, help each other, treat each other with respect and dignity, work and play together and take your future and your children’s future into your own hands and do your best to make existence into the most wholesome, meaningful experience possible for everyone.
Get it?

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conversations, presencing, change and more

A while back I had been talking about social objects – the things that give us a reason to be in a relationship with others – and how they are critical elements in the process of social transformation. Now there’s a kind of magic that takes place in that fuzzy area where we interact around [...]

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the guru illusion (yeh guruwuru kya hai yaar?)

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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social capital – possibility is in our hands

Another long-standing topic that I am finally getting around to putting on my blog… and a good follow-up for the previous blog. It struck me one day in Delwara as I found myself trying to stop two ‘community leaders’ from neighbouring communities – one a tribal (Gameti) the other a scheduled caste (Meghwal – traditionally [...]

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visions, dreams, problem-solving and change

So, I’m pretty sure that I’m not saying anything new here (I have been thinking about it for a while and have taken inspiration from numerous sources and even woven it into my own practice)… but it does kind of strike me as being rather important… here it goes:

Vision-driven change is completely different from problem-solving-driven [...]

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Trying to get some bearings…

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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Hearing the Call

Even as I wrote the title of this blog, I found myself confused. Which goes to show just how things are at the moment. Working on a process of organisational change is a rather tricky thing indeed. For whom, exactly, are we changing? What is this change and why are we doing it? These may [...]

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