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spirit rocks and sacred people

Making a move from Sri Lanka where I was for the last 27 years enjoying the warm weather, the social life and meaningful work,  also dealing with the challenges of a brutal war around us, yet feeling as we were living our life on the edge and to its fullest, was not an easy one.

We chose Ottawa, a smaller city, accessible, nice people and the beauty of nature, yet making a move at my age of 52 is challenging.   Then again, my father was 57 when he and my mother immigrated with us to…

It is not as if I had not travelled to the west , it is not even as if I have never lived in the west, but moving back to Canada from Sri Lanka after 27 years, I had truly forgotten how embedded consumerism is in life here.

It is also not as if consumerism is not taking a foothold in Sri Lanka - it is there - the media machine is making headway to the remotest corners of the country to sell products and offering credit for things that are not…

Mary Ellen Copeland, Ph.D., international scholar and author received the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. The medical model for treatment of mental health and addictive behaviors has been to medicate, maintain, and isolate for over 125 years. Mary Ellen’s leadership and breakthrough visionary work has lead to the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®); currently, WRAP® is being used in retraining psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and social…

Initial Outcomes of a Mental Illness

Self-Management Program Based on

Wellness Recovery Action Planning®

Introduction

“Although the concept of recovery from mental illness is relatively new, the fact that significantly proportions of people with psychiatric disabilities can successfully self-manage their conditions has been documented for more than…

Photos and comments are being compiled on a Summer Institute harvest blog. There you will also see a twitter feed (#ALIA2011). Look for us on Facebook too (ALIA Summer Institute 2011).

Today the three-day Leadership Intensive begins, with about 300 people gathering today for the opening dinner, talk, and ceremony.

As we get closer to Columbus, some of us are sharing the stories of how ALIA inspired us in the past. I had a chance to connect with two of the people I met with at ALIA in 2010 (Ann Badillo and Jarda Dokoupil) and I asked them to share their impressions of ALIA. Here are the videos of those interviews. Feel free to share your stories too!…

I just finished writing this article for the next issue of Fieldnotes, which comes out next week. Serious play, deep play, warriors’ play— how would you define it and where do you see it? Feedback and comments welcome. If you don't hear about new issues of Fieldnotes by email (more or less monthly) and want to, subscribe here. Submissions also…

In IM Magazine ( http://immagazine.sapo.pt/en/home/ ) we have many interviews to change makers (or world changers as we like to call them). Interviews very unique and personal that make us think about life and the world and personal journeys...

During this Alia week in Europe I've done some interviews (and 3 of them are already online in IM magazine).

They are very inspiring...

with Marcello Palazzi (part…

Heather Plett has been posing this question to change-makers across the ALIA community. Through video Skype, she has been capturing the "three words" that gets to the heart of the matter for each person, along with their short commentary. These videos will be featured on this site and on the ALIA Summer Institute Facebook page in the coming weeks.

We begin with Lyn Hartley (Yukon, Canada) who twice each year leaves her home in the far north to embark on a transformational…

How that butterfly effect happens, and who some of those butterflies were, in Tunisia, Egypt, but also Poland, Czechoslovakia, Wisconsin: a brilliant, passionate article by Rebecca Solnit, originally published in Tom Dispatch, and reprinted in Yes! (Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions).…

The performance story I offered at Mennerode on the arts evening

has been transformed into a blog offering.

Enjoy . . . !

One afternoon, early in the ALIA Europe week,

I need to clear my mind from all the talking

and feel the "more-than-human" world.

I step outside and walk into the woods . . .

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Hi all,

Just wanted to let you that a free online teleseminar series is about to start with global conversations to awaken a world of conscious business. Check out: http://www.wakinguptheworkplace.com/

Final photo album ALIA Europe March 7 - 12 2011

I have added photos of the other and last days events, and so completed the photo album of documenting the ALIA Europe Seminar from March 7-12, in the Netherlands at the Mennorode Conference Center.

Please enjoy and feel free to share this album!

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Final photo album ALIA Europe March 7 - 12 2011

I have added photos of the other and last days events, and so completed the photo album of documenting the ALIA Europe Seminar from March 7 - 12, in the Netherlands at the Mennorode Conference Center.

Please enjoy and feel free to share this album!

 …

Having arrived on Monday morning, March 7th, being part of the faculty for the second ALIA seminar in the Netherlands. It takes place at the Mennorode Conference Center, which is located in the midst of a national forest (as big as it can be in this relative tiny country), but yes there is some wildlife such as deer, foxes and boars.

I am here as part of the arts team to present one of the creative processes module, and taking photos. Here follows a short summary mixed with some of my…

I am in my office today, after travelling yesterday with, in alphabetical order, Barbara, Dorian, Isabelle, , Isabelle, Hala, and Yolanda. It is like I come from a place which is very far from here.

When we took the train in Nunsplet all of us was without ticket..normally…