Overview Below please find a musing on the gift of silence, and a lesson learnt through conversation, and some tools and resources. Or perhaps, simply take this as an invitation to enjoy a moment of silence and enjoy that?             I (and other readers) would be interested in hearing your own experiences [...]

Google Blog Search : Yet another addition to the search service offering by google, Google’s blog search is currently in Beta. What do you think about this? As I think about this search feature I see both "amazing" and "cause for concern": On one hand the individuals/groups usifg blogs/sites with a blog interface are able to make their mark more easily, and in many [...]

What happens to you when you are giving / watching a presentation? How does that differ from how you feel, think and act when you are part of a conversation? Summary: Next time you are considering giving a presentation, why not look at facilitating a conversation instead? More indepth: A story/example: I was invited to a "dialogue" - [...]

To all of you who have been (and are) reading my blog, I was thinking I wanted to write something today and as I sat down I realised that one thing I hadn’t done was take the time to acknowledge you – the reader! So, I today I want to take the time to say thank you! Thank [...]

"Life is too precious to take it seriously…" There is joy and laughter in everything! Special thank you’s to the beautiful people I met over the last weekend at the "edge of emergence" dialogue and retreat! It was a privilege to meet you and be part of the changes together..and to find myself and joy again…and to dance! [...]

How does one complete a marathon? How do you slow down and still get there? You know how there are things that you ‘know’ and yet haven’t embodied yet? Like the world not being black and white…and such. Well one such thing in addition to the black-white-no-it’s-grey-it’s-all-ebb-flow lesson, another major thing for me right now [...]

"Art is not about the object itself, any piece of art is a vehicle to bringing you an experience, to provoke a thought, an emotion or a new perspective. The art is the experience you have with the piece" I just ‘discovered’ an artist who speaks to me: Mackenzie Thorpe and just had to share. I [...]

"What is the future vision we are climbing towards? - What is a future outcome I would like to be part of?" *** A rabbi is watching a group of young boys attempt to climb a very flimsy ladder to the top of a tree. Each boy takes his turn and each, at some point, falls back to the [...]

"With age, some games turn serious" – image below and quote (c) Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun Quite a while ago, friend and colleague, Colby, alerted me to the importance of ‘gamers’, creaters/designers/players of online games, and their future role in society "they’ll be the future CEO’s" and they will understand what you are [...]

- Biz ethics (western countries) vs corruption (developing/middle eastern) – does the developed world want the developing world to develop? – where are the economic policies and theories that dont rely/incorp concept of a peripher? – how much of $ spend on AID in your country vs military spending? – (gap perceived v actual) – [...]