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Cultures of Sustainability

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Just back from the Cultures of Sustainability event in Camden where staff and guess teachers from Schumacher College gathered at Cecil Sharp House to discuss issues relating to sustainable living.
This photo shows Satish Kumar, who chaired the afternoon, guests Gustavo Esteva and David Orr, and lecturer Brian Goodwin. Also participating were Karen Blincoe the college’s […]

Disruptors

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

This week found me at a meeting of disruptive social innovators — The Disruptors for short. According to their Facebook page:
a group for people who are, and are inspired by, creating the precedents of the future; riders of the next wave of positive social change.
The blurb for their event, which came to me as a […]

Digital Speech Standard

Friday, February 8th, 2008

I just opened the CD that I got from Schumacher College — they give a CD instead of lots of paper notes — and there are audio recordings of all our lectures. The files are .dss files that my linux box doesn’t know what to do with. DSS = Digital Speech Standard:
a proprietary compressed digital […]

Homework and contrails

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

I’m trying to remember how it all started now. I think it was Sociocybernetics… No! It was something from one of Alan’s comments here! Alan uses Sara’s blog as his URL when leaving comments, but I know he has another web site without much on it as yet. And when I visited that site last […]

Last day of term

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

It was snowy this morning and the ground and grass was crunchy underfoot while I was working in the garden with my team; we were sawing firewood.
And now it’s almost time to leave. I’m steeling a moment to write this before we have a kind of last minute final session: some of the group have […]

Four relationships

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Another full day. Yesterday we used our bodies: a hike on Dartmoor with stops to practise focusing our attention on the earth, biosphere and atmosphere, scale and beauty as a prelude to experiencing Deep Ecology; my team worked in the garden — mixing compost and sawing wood and, in the evening, we danced movement medicine.Today […]

Desire is the engine of becoming

Monday, January 28th, 2008

First day partly done: we have another session in half an hour, hopefully I can knock out a quick entry before then.The title of this entry is something one of my fellow students said earlier today. I love it. He’s making out that he doesn’t enjoy being quoted.
Speaking of quotes, here is another, this time […]

Beginnings

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Service; that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day. And being happy to serve.
Arrived at Schumacher College last night after four amazing days: the last of the NLP training.
It felt strange to bail out of the last day of the Practitioner Certification training; so much going on in my head and in […]