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Slumdog Billions and Leap Frogging the Recession

Posted on Mar 12th, 2009 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

  The miniature ecosystem (frame 1) above has an eagle, a vulture, a small community of frogs, a tree and a very deep well.   The eagle and the vulture come to perch on the... More »

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Beyond the waves: Return to the centre and anchoring

Posted on Feb 9th, 2009 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

" Poverty in the world is an artificial creation. It doesn't belong to human civilization, and we can change that, we can make people come out of poverty and have the real state of affairs.... More »

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Beyond the Waves

Posted on Jan 12th, 2009 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

Reinventing Work, Technology, Community and Governance* A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must... More »

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First Discipline: Building Your Own Ark

Posted on Dec 8th, 2008 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

J: The old fisherman took me to the shore, pointed his hands at some distant waves and the shoal. I could not see any fish. But  I pretended  that I could  (the coward that I... More »

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Dialogue - Root wilt meets bunchy top

Posted on Nov 22nd, 2008 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

Continued from: http://firstdiscipline.gaia.com/blog/2008/11/dialogues_digging_deeper_in_space_and_time M: We have a 26/11, the Indian version of 9/11, and you are still digging? J:Recessions, terrorism and religious fundamentalism have manythings in common. It is very much part of the syndrome that... More »

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Dialogues: Digging deeper in space and time

Posted on Nov 15th, 2008 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

M: Why have you come up with an addendum to Abraham Maslow? J: This is something which the participants came up with. They said the model is more complete if the hierarchy of needs are... More »

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Dialogues,Recession Proofing ! (2)

Posted on Nov 2nd, 2008 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

M: That was a long break. When is the next post? J: We will wait till the views touch a certain number. I mailed an early version of this part of the conversation to friends.... More »

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DIALOGUES- Recession proofing your self and your business

Posted on Oct 18th, 2008 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

  J and M were cafe-hopping in Bangalore for the past many days J is a retiree after working for 34 years. M is between jobs and waiting for the next call from the head... More »

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Facts, Fiction and Metaphor

Posted on Oct 13th, 2008 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

     Fact, Fiction and Metaphor Are we guided by facts or fiction? We are guided less by facts and more by myth, fiction and fantasy 9/11 is a fact, not illusion, so are the... More »

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Limits to Growth OR Limits to Learning? SHP- Part 3

Posted on Sep 17th, 2008 by JM : Facilitator, First Discipline JM

  I would like to play god for a few minutes In those few minutes I would globally find and replace the word teacher with student facilitator from the soft tissue memory banks of all... More »

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