Category: writing for knowing
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Light or wrong
Twinkle little light Why do you feel so tired, little one? You are not doing much Yet you feel there is rest you need to catch-up on Your body whispers in your ears “Rest, little one, even lights can’t shine all the time A little darkness does them good If there wasn’t darkness They could… Read more
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Layers
Hungry Hungry for quiet For the gentle dance Of leaves in the wind Hungry for butter For the gentle pleasure Of doing nothing With a slice of buttered toast Hungry for life In a unrestrained way Impatient for it to Happen all at once Life is hungry for life Le Siècle des Lumières Perhaps we… Read more
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Web of Patterns
Writing for remembering ‘You lay down a path in walking’. Antonio Machado I have just come out of an intense expedition into Jeremy Lent’s work, having devoured his incredibly well crafted books: The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning over the past 5 days. I felt in such intense connection with the learning process… Read more
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Inner Nature
From Nature to Inner Development Goals Last week, fascinated by the potential that becoming more aware about Nature’s ways of doing could teach us, I proposed a Nature-inspired project design framework, with the intention to help guide the ways in which we design, conduct and sustain projects. This week, I am reading about the Inner… Read more
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Here and now
Raft Teaching as a raft taking people from the shore of suffering to the shore of freedom When you reach the other shore, you can leave the raft behind When we reach the other shore, we realise we never left the shore we started from There is only one shore and we are already there… Read more
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Inspired by Nature
Nature as a Mentor Nature is so cool! Want an energy boost? Watch this awe-filling video in which Janine Benyus reminds us of life’s inspiring wonders and how much we could learn from Nature. Biomimicry aspires to emulate nature’s designs and processes to create a healthier, more sustainable planet. This is not a new concept… Read more
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Moving
Whirlpool The only way out is in Move in Only when you realise there is nowhere to go Nowhere to move on It is all there is You realise perhaps you didn’t need to do it alone You could have shared it The beauty of the shared experience It is all there is What moves… Read more
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You are the universe
Our perception of reality Sometimes I am not sure whether to stand in absolute awe or to laugh about some of the paradoxes we live within Grasping the fullness of what these might reveal seemingly appearing on the spectrum between tantalising and utterly absurd Most of us too busy busying ourselves with trivial activities that… Read more
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Eureka!
I just had a Eureka moment realising Useful Me is not Me. This is very exciting. What a relief. I am so grateful the process of writing is helping me think through and is bringing gaps in my understanding to my attention. I recently discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) as non-pathologising, evidence-based method to better… Read more
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The Milkshake Epiphany
Do you THINK or FEEL first? Let me tell you a funny story about a banana milkshake and what it taught me. Are you the kind of person who knows what’s good for them and trusts that things will turn out exactly how you want them to? Do you excel in being in the moment,… Read more