February 2012
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January 2012
6 posts
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“We can’t wait for the wise ones to come. We must become the new Elders.”
– Richard J Leider in Claiming Our Place At The Fire.
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December 2011
4 posts
“The less there was of me, the happier I got.”
– Leonard Cohen
“The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we...”
– John Holt How Children Fail (1964)
November 2011
2 posts
“The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it.”
– Marshall Rosenberg
“How do you make the question you are living more beautiful? David Whyte”
– Nov 2011 David Whyte Seminar
October 2011
7 posts
“Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the...”
– Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?
“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
– John Updike
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Arts Campaign: Not Just "OTHER"
“Campaign to get online forms, surveys, applications etc. to recognise “Artist” and other artistic professions as genuine categories in their drop down menus.” https://www.facebook.com/Notjustother
So it happens again, you’re filling out an online form and you click on the drop down menu to say what you do as an occupation: Every time you do so it becomes clear that...
Satyagraha In New York City 2011
“While it is dangerous to oversimplify dangerous problems, the only problem we can ever have is to ignore the dreaming background to reality”
Arnold Mindell: The Dream-maker’s Apprentice.
Three years ago Improbable came to New York City and mounted our Philip Glass opera “Satyagraha”. At that time we had a great ad campaign which was almost cheeky in it’s...
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Why I like calling it "The Law of Two Feet"
In open space technology there is only one law. It’s know as “The Law of Two Feet” Some people don’t like calling it this and it is objected to on the grounds of diversity/disability issues. So it gets re-christened “The law of mobility”. However, I think it’s a very useful metaphor and as such think all should have access to it. However that’s not what I want to talk...
September 2011
8 posts
“May Integrity of soul be your first ideal. The source that will guide and bless...”
– John O’Donohue in Leader’s Blessing
Improvisation & Silence
An improviser who doesn’t have a relationship with silence is missing the opportunity to play with one of the most rewarding players there is.
“The antidote for exhaustion is not necessarily rest. The antidote for exhaustion...”
– Brother David Via David Whyte in Crossing The Unkowm Sea.
August 2011
8 posts
““While it is dangerous to oversimplify dangerous problems, the only...”
– Century of the Self: Happiness Machines
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July 2011
7 posts
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“Dear Brave Souls: Some people have a bucket that holds whatever is poured into...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes
June 2011
29 posts
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“No path. There is no path that goes all the way.”
– David Whyte
#Trust30
Today is about stumbling but still smiling.
Today in a sentence. #Trust30
Today is about noticing that the weather changes.
#Trust30 Prompt 5 years
Five Years by Corbett Barr
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would you say to the person you were five years ago? What will you say to the person you’ll be in five years?
I would say to the person I was five years ago:
“The things that you think are important are not necessarily the things...
Surprise. #Trust30 prompt
Surprise by Ashley Ambirge
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, if we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of a time when you didn’t think you were capable of doing something, but then surprised yourself. How will you surprise yourself this week?
What is surprise? Is it thinking one thing is true and...