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Archive for the Connecting category

Make yourself at home: lessons from a decade of travel

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

I travel a lot. I once calculated that between 2001, when I moved back to New Zealand from Gaza, and 2008, when I moved back to New Zealand again – this time from Afghanistan – the longest consecutive time I slept in the same bed was 11 nights. In those seven years I lived and worked [...]

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Portland, power and connection: reflections on a summit that’s not really about domination at all

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Last week I was in Portland, OR. Portland is one of my favorite places in the whole world. Partly because some of my favorite people in the world live there, partly because of the food (if you go to Portland please eat tacos here, Thai here, Indian street food here, pie here and icecream here) and partly because of all [...]

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The Village Crier

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

I think of myself first and foremost as a storyteller, and sometimes I see myself as the village crier. My work is to find, polish, treasure and then share the stories that help us see ourselves in each other, the stories that compel us to take better care of each other. My work, often, is [...]

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The intimacy hypothesis, expanded (in which I sing, off-key)

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Wanna use social media for social change? Course you do. Here’s the low-down on how it works. (Warning: this presentation contains slightly off-key singing, by me, of 80′s TV theme songs)

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The intimacy hypothesis

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

I’ve been using Twitter for a few years now and I still like it better than any other social media tool (although Google + is winning me over with it’s lovely clean design and its ability to create more structured conversation threads). Without thinking about it too much, I’ve developed an hypothesis about why I [...]

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Hanging out in the itchy-scratchy place.

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Uncertainty is itchy. Change is scratchy. Today Pema Chodron told me (at least, her Twitter-bot @PemaQuotes did): Discomfort of any kind also becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing that our pain is shared. I’ve been in plenty of discomfort lately. I’m going to tell you a bit more about that because I [...]

Posted in Being the change, Connecting, self care | 9 Comments »

What is Creative Flow?

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Alex and I both know this: creative flow is about the body as much as the mind. Find your creative flow with us. You don’t need to be a yogi, a photographer or even be sure yet that you are ‘creative’. You can trust us: you are. Come play with us! Registrations now open through [...]

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Do not apologize ~ Desiree Adaway

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

This one is for everyone who cares about communities, for everyone who believes that all humans deserve (in the words of Audrey Hepburn) to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. This is for everyone who has been told they care too much. For everyone who has been told ‘don’t take it so personally.’ This [...]

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