anna: 2016

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Talk with Dalai Lama about Reinventing Organisations

http://www.enliveningedge.org/media/power-care-organizations/

Iceland crowd-sourced a new constitution

In 2012, by a 2/3ds vote, the Icelandic people told its parliament to enact a constitution "based on" a constitution a citizen council had drafted. Four years later, they have done nothing. Help us show the politicians who they work for.

Iceland crowd sources a new constitution

'Constitutionalising does not stop after a certain point, but ought to continue as a fundamental part of social and political activity.'

https://theconversation.com/icelands-crowd-sourced-constitution-hope-for-disillusioned-voters-everywhere-67803

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38187599

https://canyouhearus.is

Saturday, 3 December 2016

Profound wisdom concerning the grief journey we all must take to reach our essential joy.

http://www.futureprimitive.org/2016/12/dance-grief-joy/

In this week’s episode, Carolyn Baker speaks with Joanna about: understanding the context of the latest American election; Standing Rock, example of sacred activism; inner and outer activism; the safe circle; the five gates of grief; return to radical joy; the shadow magnet of our time; reconnection is a two-way street; we must resist the possibility of a 21st century fascism; the way of developing resilience

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Alice Miller and Darcia Narvaez

I would like to recommend the books of Alice Miller, a German psychotherapist, which opened my eyes to a deeper level of understanding than I had received in training as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. By opening up to her childhood feelings, Alice was able to identify 'the true origin of the vein of ferocity which runs through human relationships everywhere'. The methods recommended by paediatricians to impose obedience and firm discipline on young babies up until recently, are revealed as cruel and damaging to helpless infants. Darcia Narvaez, in her book, Neurobiology and the development of Morality, has shown in detail how the true needs of the child, when not met by parents or carers, eg when a baby is left to cry themselves to sleep, a very common practice, can damage the development of the child and produce anxiety and depression later in life.

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Healthy Birth, Healthy Earth, Findhorn Conference 3-9 Sept 2016

An International Conference, Findhorn, Scotland, Sept 3 – 9

Join the Inquiry!

PUBLISHED ON April 23, 2016

This conference is an inquiry into the transformation of human consciousness through re-visioning how we birth and care for our children.

Our earliest experiences as infants set the tone for how we later respond to the world around us. Our capacity to love ourselves, others and the Earth is either enabled or suppressed as we come into being. We are all born and have a story to tell.

Facing the challenges of climate change, can we think in life-affirming ways about this critical period of human bonding? From conception through to early childhood, a consciously supported beginning to life is crucial to the future of civilisation and the Earth.