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November 2011You may need to
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or something similar to see the photos WelcomeNovember has seen me back in New Zealand again. The Theosophical Society in New Zealand paid for me to come back and co-facilitate an Integral theosophy weekend in Christchurch and give an evening talk in Dunedin. Around 25 people came to the Christchurch workshop with people from Dunedin, Nelson, the West Coast and Nelson. This time we had more people coming in to present a section of the programme, making our facilitator role more like a orchestra conductors. I also had time to look at the earthquake damage in Christchurch again and the just opened Cashel Street Mall with shops made from shipping containers. The photo to the right is a temporary bank.    Right: Damaged desks and paper left untouched since the earthquake nine months before    I had a day in Sydney on the way to New Zealand. It enabled me to visit the headquarters of the Theosophical Society in Australia and I met with Dara Tatray, the national president. Of course this trip also enabled me to make contact again with friends and family in New Zealand. This month I decided to study for my PhD through the University of the Sunshine Coast. It seems the logical choice, particularly as they have a strong spiritual aspect to their academic work.   I managed to talk to the occupy Dunedin people. It is a very interesting
movement that is expressing itself in very new ways. There is no
leadership and no specific demands, but somehow it seems to be the
germ of something quite new and important. Their biggest problem has
been the drunken young people coming through the tents. Two were burned
down and the occupirers have been blamed for what the youths have
been doing in the middleof the town.   In Invercargill we went to Oreti beach where Bert Munro rode his Indian motorcycle (or Anthony Hopkins in the movie "The world's fastest Indian"). The Giordano Bruno GlobalShift is a humanistic onnline institution, committed to creating informed and ethical agents if change who bring a new consciousness, a fresh voice and up-to date data thinking to the global community transforming obselete paradigms and empowering the co-creation of an equitable, responsible and sustainable world.  |
Subscribe to this newsletterIf you would like to receive this newsletter as a monthly email just send me an email. You may choose to email me to Unsubscribe. Previous NewslettersNewsletter archive Old "Recent News" Books I read this monthEvolutionary Enlighternment by Andrew Cohen.
Andrew Cohen defined ego as whatever is an obstacle to our development in this book. I find I like the psychological definition as the mediator between the conscious and unconscious, which creates the view we have of ourself. That way ego stops being the enemy to be overcome and becomes a part fof us to be inetegrated. Distributed Leadership by James Spillane
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This book has just been published and
highly commended by many imminent people in the field. I liked the book, but wasn't as
impressed by the book as the hype would suggest. It did not seem to peesent anything particularly new or different.
This
book uses examples from education about how leadership must be seen as
something spread through an organisation rather than something the one
person at the top does. He tends to look at existing organisations and
use distributed leadership as a way of describing them better than
looking at how the use of distributed leadership might improve or find
alternative ways a group can function.
Ervin Laszlo has been instrumental in establishing the