Sunday: from riots to unity?

Meetings all day from 11am to 9pm… Lakshmi on IRN – covered ground and had a really good rice-flour chappatti with dry (south Indian) chutney… it rocked (thank you!). Then met Arvind and talked about the seminar he wants to host – nice idea but not my area of interest or capability… I agreed to [...]

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back to the blog

More than a year has elapsed since I was last active in the general blogosphere. But now I am back with the intention of taking it all a bit more seriously.
The last year has given me the chance to work directly with the citizens of a small town called Delwara, working alongside them to strengthen [...]

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quote for a change

After much delay, today’s blog is only a quote. Having said that, it is quite a satisfying quote.
“Using the image popularized by chaos theorists, the invitation is to recognize that although we may be no more than “butterflies” in terms of our power on the overall system we can have enormous effects, especially when we [...]

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the next level or a whole new game?

The most recent addition (in process) to my collection of concepts and tools for change is ‘Action Science’, as based on the book by Argyris et al (1985). The first song of praise is that this book provides the most lucid articulation of how to engage in a change process at the inter-subjective level that [...]

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today’s stew

In my new position I find myself doing a lot of hopping between themes and projects. This gives me a sometimes fascinating and sometimes bewildering opportunity to connect together different sets of concepts in different parts of my brain. For example, one minute I am finding spaces for the application of elements of social network [...]

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i’s a-muggin’, we’s a-muggin’

Very much a-muggin’. With some more clarity on what lies before us, our humble network has decided to go for a fairly profound revamp and is now looking to contribute to something that I would call a youth movement – but right now it’s couched in the rather PC garb of a youth forum… [...]

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spasmodic update

Hmmm… Feel like i’ve been here before. I think this time it will not vanish from under my nose… that just wouldn’t be right!
I am right now in the middle of a workshop (actually it is the end of the first day of a three day workshop) that I am supposed to be facilitating… Somehow [...]

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