People are unique and so are their needs. Depending on what you want to create in your life and how intensely you want to engage, there are a number of ways to proceed to make a difference in your life.
The WEL-Systems Institute offers you books, CD’s, and intensives that explore provocative new ways to consider yourself, your world and the way you move through it. For some, the way to engage is based on whether they wish to initially Read, Listen or Experience aspects of a WEL-Systems perspective – the choice is always yours.
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Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.
Not only can these results revolutionize how we think about teaching, it can transform how we think about our children! In this compelling and hopeful presentation, we believe that the message is clear: our children are naturally curious; and when curious, they’re willingness and ability to learn – quickly and vastly! – challenges us to rise to the occasion of moving beyond the confines of our own limitations to make way for our children to lead. The greater question becomes: are we willing to be ‘wrong’ and make the leap to seeing our children through new eyes? The book Guardians of the Vision: Parenting for the Birthright of Potential shares this invitation to trust our children and allow them to be our guides to our own greater potential.
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Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.
As you watch this TEDtalk, be mindful of:
the need to wake up and stay awake
the need to think for myself AND engage with others who are doing the same, within the larger context of a Living Planet
the need to become The One… to act rather than philosophize; rather than wait for action to be taken elsewhere. To stop.. and notice what touches my life… and what mindful choices am I making about what touches my life.
It is happening, now. It is moving at a pace that we can no longer help but notice. The greatest extension of decentralization is to return to Self and from there, create a new reality.
Inspired and inspiring! When work becomes an authentic and meaningful expression of who you are, it creates a sustainable business that in its very expression, transforms culture – not as a task but as a natural outcome of that expression. Enjoy!
When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count.
A video for those who know Androgynous Baby™ and Nested Living Systems™, the following speaks to living organic collectives, Choice Point, down. Look familiar?
We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.
Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents.
The founder of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, Kiran Sethi has launched an initiative to make our cities more child-friendly. Full bio and more links
Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.
For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own plans to do what many say can’t be done — to fly around the world, day and night, in a solar-powered aircraft.
He’s talking about learning how to allow our minds to open so that we can soar, fuelled by our own potential!
