While most of us have trouble spelling ‘anaesthesiologist’, Lydia Kavai is in no doubt. That’s what she wants to be. Lydia’s ambition: “To become an anaesthesiolgist and become a part of Kenya’s expanding medical services. I also want to help my family and in particular my brothers and sisters achieve their goals”. When we met [...]

Recently, I read a blog about Owen Hansen and his 1980’s “innovative” open-space technology for conducting meetings. The open-space approach has the following mechanisms: a broad, open invitation that articulates the purpose of the meeting; participant chairs arranged in a circle; a “bulletin board” of issues and opportunities posted by participants; a “marketplace” with many [...]

The seemingly random collection of words which appear above are contained in a mural which dominates the entrance to the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). I found the words resonated so much with me that I immediately jotted them down in my notebook to share with others.   MoMA itself cannot fail to [...]

The interconnected nature of the world we live in was brought home to me recently when I stepped into a local greengrocers in the surf town of Byron Bay on the Australian Gold Coast. Imagine my surprise when I saw, hung prominently, posters of African children under the title African l.e.a.f. (Learn, Educate, Acknowledge and [...]

Rita Field-Marsham At a tremendously informative and humorous lecture that I attended last night, JoAnn Deak, in Q.A., shared her opinion about the effectiveness of “Tiger Moms”.  “It depends on the temperament of the child”.  Some children can take it and thrive, others can’t – cultural background will play a part on how their children [...]

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