The presidential primaries are on in the U.S. and are making news. This has to be the longest presidential election cycle ever. I have a preference for who I

I had a very good experience this weekend. I went to a spiritual event where people drink Santo Daime and enjoy the inner journey together. Santo Daime is, as far as I know, a collective name for several plants/teas that have similar effects. They are all aimed at opening you up, letting your soul/cells talk to you and letting you know what you need to proceed in life. It isn

I believe that all the world

The older I become, the more amazed I am by life

I heard a nice story a few days back about a doctor turned entrepreneur in the North East of Brazil. This region is known for coconuts, great beaches, relaxed/lazy people and a lot of poverty. The doctor bought a small handicraft company with a social focus. The people who made the handicraft did so at home and got a decent salary for a day of work. They were making R$ 50,- a day, which is R$ 1000,- a month (500 USD). Minimum wage is R$ 400,- , which is by any standard a shitty salary. So the money that the women at this company were making was not so bad, but no luxury either. If they would be the only breadwinners in their households they would need to turn around every cent to get kids to school and food on the table. It

Conscious creating has reached the mainstream. Use those two words in any group and it

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Mysticism is an approach to life that fascinates, captivates many a spiritually focused soul. Unneeded in religions where body, mind and spirit were never painfully extricated from one another, mysticism serves as a unifying agent where the material and divine have seemingly parted ways. Among many other avenues, it is found in the complexity and ordering principles of the Jewish Kabala, the reverent graciousness of Christian mystics, and the exuberant delight of Islam

I am currently preparing for an education programme on education for sustainable development that will start in 2 weeks.

I just finished reading the first chapter of a book series on spreading sustainability awareness in Germany. It was quite often quoted in the sustainability scene in Germany in 2007: http://www.forum-fuer-verantwortung.de/nachhaltigkeit_b_e.htm   Read more...

Tama J. Kieves, writing in the September 2007 Science of Mind magazine, completes her quote,

As I sorted my papers for my 2007 tax declaration, yesterday, I thought about writing this article to review the last year by looking at those little things each month that changed my world in 2007:

January
I read the bestseller

Joyce Lemke, a Positive Change Core member and a long time international consultant in Appreciative Inquiry sent out the following email announcement and a request:

"Sally Smith, a pioneer in strengths based learning for children, died early this month. Founder of the Lab School in Washington D.C. in 1967, Sally Smith developed curriculum which has had uncommon success with those who learn differently. Smith gave respect, hope and the tools to succeed to children beginning over 40 years ago. Smith asserted that " A child's failure to learn means that the teaching staff has not yet found a way to help him. It is up to the adults to seek out the routes by which each child learns, to discover his strengths and interests and to experiment until effective techniques are found."

Sally Smith created a learning environment that used the arts to shape the school, and believed that the arts could and should be used to teach all manner of things. I remember when I was doing my graduate thesis in the early 70's, looking for positive approaches to teaching and learning, how strikingly different Smith's pioneering approach seemed from other models at the time.

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Mostly my venues are grocery stores. My target audiences are pre-verbal. I have more fun than they do. I am the world