Exemplar Project Meeting in Yucatan, Mexico
Written in Houston, Texas. On my way to Merida, Mexico and eventually to Hacienda Itzincab.
I am honoured to represent Team Academy along with Vilma Väisänen in this meeting bringing together living ‘exemplars’ creating the new economy of well-being. Idea is that as there are actually few social innovators (folks of TA in our case) in this world today and they should know about each other. It’s something loosely related to the SoL Evolution process which been going on the last year where a question something like this was asked: “Who can hold the space to bring together the different people and networks creating the new economy (of well being)?”
I am very excited about this meeting. Interesting people from interesting organizations are here. The idea is to connect with and to learn from another about personal and organizational change. Meeting is called together by Peter Senge from SoL and Dennis Sandow from Matriztic Institute among few others. Organizations represented include ROCA, La Vaca Independiente, Sustainable Food Lab, Uganda Rural Development Training, Presencing Institute, Icebreaker and few others.
Where to find more info? We have a shared page at Presencing Institute, but it’s closed. I think that sucks. We should be more open when it comes to the communication. It’s hard not to have a real page where to link and where to find more information. I think it’s better to be open and the future is in open communications. As the motivation of Richard Stallman, the originator of GPL “copy-left” license, originally was: nobody should excluded who wants to contribute. Let’s see what I can do related to that. I will keep you posted through the blog and also with some MonkeyTV.
To prepare for the meeting me and Vilma did a phone call with Manish from Presencing Institute, Peter and Jimmy of SoL. Manish put it together and I will upload it here in a moment: The questions were: What’s the essence of Team Academy? What are the challenges? How does all this relate to your work? We also did a little complimentary video about it:
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about 5 months ago
Please share how things are ‘growing’ in Mexico. I am currently working part time on my consulting work while being a full time Masters student (Conflict Transformation and Peace Building) at the World Peace Academy in Basel Switzerland. 26 of us from 24 countries have gathered to be part of the inaugural class of this new institute. Diversity abounds here as it does where you are – we are all forming our research questions for our Masters as I am typing this to you. IN my next email I will share my topic explorations….perhaps we can build together…?… Last time we connected in person was in Oman, and before that in Vienna. The years have carried us to this point…this spark of time and creativity to transform…
about 5 months ago
Dear Carrie,
thanks so much for the comment! This is great, a connection after a long time. Please let me know how the questions cook up for the thesis, and if there’s anything we can do to help you. I am very happy to reflect more with you. Loads of yellow!