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Intergenerational at Shambhala: story and what is next?

At the Shambhala Summer Institute, June ’08, people were invited to join a conversation around the next steps for the intergenerational work in Shambhala. It started with people trying to put the story together…

Meg Wheatley remembered that at the first Institute people were wondering: Where is the youth? At the last dinner, the kitchen and serving staff said they had enjoyed the conversations. Then they noticed: they were young!

Different pieces made something happen: the work of Berkana, the Pioneers of Change, David Isaac and Juanita Brown wanting to open space for more young people, Toke Møller hosting a module together with Marianne Knuth…
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Bhanar:

Your perception is very good. There is one other element to consider. There is an old say which fits your theme: “If Siemens only knew what Siemens knows.” There was a study of Siemens which tracked threads of knowledge for which Siemens paid dearly. The study documented that at different times, different sub-parts of the company would have the same issues, create a team to study and solve the issue and put the solution in to effect – several times over.

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Greetings!

I have a little theory about the Upanishads (Hindu mystical texts) - one that I have long been nurturing but that makes itself clearer to me every day. And I thought it might be worth sharing it here.

Upanishads means (etymologically) 'to sit down beside/close to'. Usually, it is presented as sitting down close to the Guru to acquire knowledge - but I think that this is unnecessary Guru worship (and this is where I defect). Doesn't the Guru learn from his student? What, nothing at all?
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The harvest of the recent Stewards Gathering is more or less finished, at least what I committed myself to post. In the forums you can find a more or less chronological harvest and you can take a look my pictures, with also some harvest flipcharts.

Hello Everyone,

This is my first blog.

Just wanted to say that it feels like I have arrived home.

Hugs and blessings

Andrew

This morning (June 15, 2008) we started the Art of Hosting Stewards Gathering in The Shire, Nova Scotia - Canada. We are almost 20 people here and you can get a feel of our opening circle, when you read the poem that Chris Corrigan made as the harvest. Take your time! It is intense!

We all agree that the Learning through informal ways always have higher retention and recall then the formal learning sessions. and therefore the current eLearning (WBT and CBT) industry in the Web 2.0 era is putting more emphaisis on making the learning experience as much as informal by using various fun games, online live interactions, etc. Some times the objective is not fully well treated by the budget/time requirement and to some extent by available technology.

There are many ways the industry is catering to this need is produce of second life concept, virtual worlds, video blogging, Avtars ets and the others tools like Flockpod - Social Learning on the spot, kind of tools really helping a lot in achieving the objective.

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