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A Writer’s Voice

Over the past 10 weeks, I facilitated a meditation, writing and sharing program that hosted individuals keen on discovering and deepening their awareness and transformation practices.  Each session provided the opportunity to: a)  reflect on one’s present moment experience through…

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Bipolar Disorder—The Dis-ease of the Day?

Am I the only one experiencing this phenomenon or are more and more people we know being diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD)? Bipolar disorder involves periods of elevated or irritable mood (mania), alternating with periods of depression. The “mood swings”…

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What HALTS Joy?

Today I am not seeing and feeling the endless adventure that Life gifts us.  It is because I am tired.  Too much work, not enough reward.  I need to halt what I am doing and reflect on my inner experience.…

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The Adaptive Enterprise: An Emerging Model for 21st Century Organizations

Over the past five years, my colleagues and I at Socio-technical Systems Roundtable (STS-RT)  explored, dialogued and prototyped our way towards a new model for designing and developing organizations — the Adaptive Enterprise. This body of international educators, managers, unionists…

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Standing Naked in the World

In my early 20s, my boyfriend, an English major, wrote a poem about me.  In its intimacy, it was both beautiful and frightening at the same time.  While he read it to me, I remember simultaneously thinking, “OMG, he can…

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Adaptive Enterprises: Optimizing and Innovating

In past blogs I talked about the need for organizations operating in today’s complex economy to maximize their efficiency while simultaneously exploring new opportunities and inventing new possibilities.  This massive juggling act for organizational leaders demands these two streams of…

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Transformation: A Universal Path

I am struck by the hopefulness and personal transformation of Middle Easterners undergoing significant social change.  Along with the rest of the world, they recognize they are in the honey-moon stage of change. As my yoga teacher says, “first it…

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Generation Gap 2.0: Bridge-building to a Shared Future

While the term ‘generation gap’ often engenders negative relations between age groups, I propose a more constructive way of utilizing each group’s specialized skills. A generation gap is defined as a difference in values and attitudes between one generation and…

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In the Arms of Time

  This week a dear friend of mine told me it was time for her ‘to dream big’.  Her words reminded me this is the life journey we all share, as reflected in a poem I wrote some years back.…

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From Paradigms to Paradoxes – The ECOLOGY Continuum

As someone who is not trained in the physical sciences, I struggled with what name to give this very important trend.  Should I call it an environment or ecology continuum?  When I looked at the two sets of definitions below…

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A Miracle in the Middle East?

http://mtviewclass.wikispaces.com/Gilgamesh On the eve of 2012 — the infamous year dating the end of the Mayan calendar — we are witness to the beginnings of social transformation in The Middle East.  I wonder how the Mayan prophecy and these Middle…

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From Paradigms to Paradoxes – The CONFLICT Continuum

Karl Marx espoused that socio-economic systems such as capitalism and democracy produce internal conflicts due to power differences (class struggles) which eventually lead to their implosion. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. [.…

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