Fela Kuti

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Sugata Mitra and Open Space

“Learning in Open Space” was a video Anne Stadler and I did some years ago. It was good and fun but all on tape, so I guess not available. Even better is the work done by Sugata Mitra. Powerful science, and brings tears to my eyes every time. When science makes you cry, either you are weird or the science is powerful. I would guess both are true.

You can skip the ad and get to the goodies…. And Open Space Technology is never mentioned. That would have been rather redundant."

Harrison

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Original Play (Fred Donaldson)

Back from Wosonos 2015 in Krakow, this was one of the big gifts there, knowing about Original Play. Is there a key on the proportion kids/adults?

Thanks Agata!

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Edna O´Brien: you have to be lonely to be a writer

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Transforming business, society and self

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Under squam rock (Shaun McNiff)

I read this recommendation by Christy Lee-Engel (thanks so much!) on the OSLIST.

"That's really lovely, Harrison. Along with what Michael H wrote yesterday ("Perhaps a bit of conflict in the definition, as it seems to say that listening isn't active participation.") this makes me think of a favorite passage from Shaun McNiff's book "Trust The Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go" (with my emphasis added):

"...keep in mind that people move and act 'freely' when they are allowed to do so according to their personal sense of timing. Some take longer to feel comfortable. Never push and force expression in others or yourself. Learn how to wait with a belief that every person will become involved when the time is right. Invite expression but don't judge people who may be warming-up or preparing themselves on the sidelines. Trust that something significant is always moving inside them."

​Which of course is so Open Space-y too.
love, Christy"

Last day John Paul Lederach spoke in Bilbao. Interesting too. Metaphores, non-linearity, arts, conflicts,...

Arts can be fun and helpful.
So "the fine art of doing nothing" (as Harrison Owen would say) is :-)!
Enjoy life,

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Ukulele Anthem (by Amanda Palmer)

Amanda Palmer - Ukulele Anthem from Tram Sessions on Vimeo.

Sid Vicious played a four-string Fender bass guitar and couldn't sing

And everybody hated him except the ones who loved him

A ukulele has four strings, but Sid did did not play ukulele

He did smack and probably killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen

If only Sid had had a ukulele, maybe he would have been happy

Maybe he would not have suffered such a sad end

He maybe would have not done all that heroin instead

He maybe would've sat around just singing nice songs to his girlfriend

So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong

'Cause even if your grades are bad, it doesn't mean you're failing

Do your homework with a fork

And eat your fruit loops in the dark

And bring your etch-a-sketch to work

And play your ukulele

Ukulele small and fierceful

Ukulele brave and peaceful

You can play the ukulele too, it is painfully simple

Play your ukulele badly, play your ukulele loudly

Ukulele banish evil

Ukulele save the people

Ukulele gleaming golden from the top of every steeple

Lizzie borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks

Then gave her father forty-one, and left a tragic puzzle

If only they had given her an instrument, those puritans

Had lost the plot completely

See what happens when you muzzle

A person's creativity

And do not let them sing and scream

And nowadays it's worse 'cause kids have automatic handguns

It takes about an hour to teach someone to play the ukulele

About the same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb

YOU DO THE MATH

So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong

'Cause even if your grades are bad, it doesn't mean you're failing

Do your homework with a fork

And eat your fruit loops in the dark

And bring your flask of jack to work

And play your ukulele

Ukulele, thing of wonder

Ukulele, wand of thunder

You can play the ukulele, too

In London and down under

Play joan jett, and play jacques brel

And eminem and neutral milk ho-

Tell the children

Crush the hatred

Play your ukulele naked

If anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it

Imagine there's no music, imagine there are no songs

Imagine that John Lennon wasn't shot in front of his apartment

Now imagine if John Lennon had composed "imagine" for the ukulele

Maybe people would have truly got the message

You may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve

Like if you want to change the world then why not quit and feed the hungry

But people for millennia have needed music to survive

And that is why I promised John that I will not feel guilty

So play your favorite Beatles song

And make the subway fall in love

They're only $19.95, that isn't lots of money

Play until the sun comes up

And play until your fingers suffer

Play LCD soundsystem songs on your ukulele

Quit the bitching on your blog

And stop pretending art is hard

Just limit yourself to three chords

And do not practice daily

You'll minimize some stranger's sadness

With a piece of wood and plastic

Holy fuck, it's so fantastic, playing ukulele

Eat your homework with a fork

And do your fruit loops in the dark

Bring your etch-a-sketch to work

Your flask of Jack

Your vibrator

Your fear of heights

Your Nikon lens

Your mom and dad

Your disco stick

Your soundtrack to "karate kid"

Your ginsu knives

Your rosary

Your new Rebecca Black CD

Your favorite room

Your bowie knife

Your stuffed giraffe

Your new glass eye

Your sousaphone

Your breakfast tea

Your Nick Drake tapes

Your giving tree

Your ice cream truck

Your missing wife

Your will to live

Your urge to cry

Remember we're all gonna die

So play, your ukulele

Lyrics from: http://www.azlyrics.com

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How to build your creative confidence, by Tom Kelley (Ideo)

2012 mai 16  http://www.ted.com Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create... (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes...

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What do you desire?

Alan Watts: What do you desire? from Omer K on Vimeo.

What do you desire? What makes you itch?

What sort of a situation would you like?

Let’s suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say, well, "we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do". So I always ask the question, "what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?"

Read here about Alan Watts, the one speaking his ideas on the video.

Another one by Alan Watts, vía JM Toledano... Work as play (with subtitles in Spanish).




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Creativity: Basic Principles (by Kim Hermanson)

Kim Hermanson, an author we like so much, just tweeted on creativity principles. Here is the link to the source of this lines. Thanks so much, Kim!

I discovered these "principles of creativity" on a handout I made for a workshop I led ten years ago (yikes.) In any case, I believe they still hold up:

• Creativity comes from the heart. Our hearts are what inspire our creativity. Listening to the heart's wisdom, we have the courage to do something different, try out new directions and explore new terrain. Creativity happens when our heart is moved and inspired.
• Creativity needs space, both internal and external. One of the biggest blocks to creativity is having our psyches clogged with unfinished business. A simple walk or time spent in nature can give us space and a fresh perspective, or simply stopping to close our eyes and take a few deep breaths.
• Your creative spirit needs a big vision. When we make things too small and focus on the mundane and trivial, we lose juice and life becomes boring. We can focus on problems, or we can focus on our big vision. We have a choice.
• Creativity is nourished and fed by beauty. Nurturing environments and nurturing people.
• Creativity is centered in you. The creative ground that you stand on is outside of the institution that you work for. Your own creative ground is comprised of your loves and passions, those things that you value and hold most dear.
• Creativity is unique. Your response to any situation is unique. Your perspective is unique. And your creative expression is unique.
• Creativity is bigger than you are. In the midst of a creative project, you don't know what the end result is going to look like. It's a lesson in letting go, to let your creativity take you in a different direction than you expected.
• Creativity comes with "Beginner's Mind." Beginner's Mind means not acting out of habit. It means having an open mind and perceiving what is happening with fresh eyes. Be willing to not know.
• Creativity means having a relationship with the world. Creativity requires participation--stepping out of our "bubbles," engaging with whatever it is that we are passionate about.
• The movement of your life is toward learning and creative growth. Life always presents us with continual opportunities to learn and create.

So good advice, thanks Kim!

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MARCIN JAKUBOWSKI: farmer and technologist: OPEN SOURCE ECHOLOGY

Videos taken from this link (http://www.noticiaspositivas.net/2012/02/10/marcin-jakubowski-modelos-de-codigo-abierto-para-la-civilizacion with the Spanish transcription of Marcin´s talk) sent by friend Keko

Marcin Jakubowski´s (http://opensourceecology.org) 4´ Ted Talk:




The global village construction set

Text on the YT video:

Willcleaver (2010 oct 23): A Hollywood movie producer 'Isaiah Saxon' who made the video "Wonderlust" for Björk... is an OSE (open source echology) 'True Fan' and has made a 2minute explainer video of the 'GVCS' - Global Village Construction Set. He put five days work into it out of pure passion for the project! It really gets our GVCS message across in a short and very concise way :) The purpose of the video is for entry into the "Buck Minster Fuller Challenge". But of course we will use it in all future presentations and marketing of this direction :)

Enjoy life!

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Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard? Jon Jandai

From TED´s page: 

Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and rare seeds back into use. It regularly hosts training on simple techniques to live more sustainably. Outside of Pun Pun, Jon is a leader in bringing the natural building movement to Thailand, appearing as a spokesperson on dozens of publications and TV programs for the past 10 years. He continually strives to find easier ways for people to fulfill their basic needs. For more information visit http://www.punpunthailand.org

12:37: "food, house, clothes and medicine must be cheap and easy for everybody, that is the civilisation!"

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SINGING YOURSELF ALIVE - WILL HEWETT

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening.. Love like you´ve never been hurt and live like is heaven on earth. - MARK TWAIN

Thanks so much @SunniBrown for tweeting on gorgeous video featuring @vocata.

Vocalist and improviser Will Hewett explores the language of sound beneath words. After singing 15 minutes every day for a year, Will Hewett describes--and sings--what he learned about commitment and the ability of a simple creative practice to open us to vibrancy, and to a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us.

Some extracts:

My whole concept of time turned inside out This practice became like a generational center of my day. It was like a fire, hoooooo, that the rest of the day gathered around.

Listen to the singing world around me and find my part on it. Something it was like if the world was singing so fully that there was nothing from me to add. 

I sang whatever showed up. Most times sounds in made up languages.

I got to travel every day into the world beneath words: the world of colour, of life, of vibration, of motion, a world that has no borders, no countries, and for me it feels like swimming. And I think we all know this world. I think our bodies are experiencing it all the time, they´re experiencing it right now. We just tend to cover it up with a layer of words, ideas,.thoughts about who we are or who we should be. But words are really flemsy messengers for the fullness of the experience. And singing can bring us here.

So my simple hope is that we´ll just sing more, that we´ll sing our way into the world of our bodies and the body  of our world. That feels more important than ever.

You can start it´s easy. You can just start humming...

Time bows to authentic commitment and it stretches to accommodate it.

Enjoy life, listen to the singing world around us :-)!

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SUNNI BROWN: "Doodlers, unite!"

Great Sunni Brown visited us in Bilbao these days to share her knowledge, experience and passion in a Gamestorming workshop. Now we can watch also this video in which she accurately and briefly makes us understand the need of Doodling. Smart woman, smart job! Thanks so much, Sunni!

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GAMESTORMING+DOODLING WORKSHOP (SUNNI BROWN). BILBAO: 22+23 Spt

Some months ago we were inspired with taking Sunni Brown to Bilbao to share a bit of her knowledge and her originality. Next week it´s coming true: on 22nd +  23th September she´ll be offering a 2 day workshop in Bilbao (just this opportunity in South Europe)...

DESCRIPTION:  Gamestorming your Workplace (A.k.a., How to Design and Run a Meeting using Words AND Pictures)


Since the vast majority of us have to either plan or attend meetings, why not become a Jedi at designing and running them? The simple but revolutionary techniques of visual thinking and gamestorming assure that your meeting not only doesn’t stink, but that you make the best use of everyone’s time and dramatically shorten the length of time in which you do it. The value of visual thinking and participatory design with a group is enormous and the benefits include...

• Using a simple, shared visual language to increase understanding and information retention;
• Applying improvisational discovery to keep participants engaged;
• Mapping the big picture, solving problems and innovating as a team;
• Creating visual meeting artifacts to drive decisions forward.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or an artist of any caliber to learn how to design and lead better meetings. In this day-long workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of visual language, how to illuminate complexities by mapping the big picture and how to use improvisation and games to innovate and solve real problems. At the end of the workshop you’ll feel more confident about using visualization in meetings and you’ll recognize the power of doing so. So let the games begin!

OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this workshop, learners will be able to:

• Recognize when to have a meeting (and when not to);
• Design meeting agendas that move a group to a desired outcome;
• Use games to support innovation and creative problem-solving;
• Leverage techniques that lead to co-creation and team solutions;
• Lead meetings, workshops, and group sessions comfortably using visual thinking and basic office supplies.
• ...

 WHO IS @Sunnibrown?

.. a business owner, creative director, speaker and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers. She’s best known for her large-scale live content visualizations, and she is also the leader of The Doodle Revolution – a growing effort to debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction.
Sunni’s work was recently featured on the Boing Boing, BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, Fast Company (coming in at #56 on the 100 Most Creative People in Business List and #5 on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list),...

+ INFO on Sunni Brown; VIDEOS: Gamestorming +The Doodle Revolution
and lots in the web,...

Language:
Sunni Brown will be speaking English and organization will be helping with Basque and Spanish 

When? September 22nd + 23r, 2011
Where? in EUTOKIA (Bilbao)

Registrations: info@eutokia.org

Time: 09:00-14:00 eta 16:00-18:00 (14 hours)
Price: 250,00€ (professionals, unemployed, sutdents,...) – 400,00€ (organizations)

Exclusice Workshop in South Europe,

take profit and  spread the word!

 

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ONE WORLD BIRTH: help empower to have BETTER BIRTHS

ONE WORLD BIRTH is a unique FREE video website launching 1st Sept featuring evidence-based information and opinions from the world's leading birth experts including:

Ina May Gaskin, Sheila Kitzinger, Michel Odent, Elizabeth Davis, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Cathy Warwick (RCM), Mary Newburn (NCT), Marilyn Curl (Lamaze International), Dr Sarah Buckley, Professor Soo Downe, Professor Lesley Page, Professor Cecily Begley, Professor Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg, Professor Ngai Fen Cheung, Associate Professor Denis Walsh and lots more leading midwives, academics, obstetricians, authors, doulas, birth educators and birth warriors around the world.

Here is a short video about the ONE WORLD BIRTH project and how together we can help change the world!.

Come join us and help empower ALL women to have better births. The website launches Thurs 1 Sept: http://oneworldbirth.net

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Born to learn

www.born-to-learn.org

Two feet: Terence McKenna (1946-2000)

Two feet that help people go.Two videos on Terence McKenna´s words that will help you grow.

NOBODY IS SMARTER THAN YOU


RECLAIM YOUR MIND (A Kinetic Typograph)

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THE PROMISE OF PLAY

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of #play than in a year of conversation." Plato


References: Stuart Brown (NIFP) and Play Science NIFP/TTF from Touch the Future on Vimeo.

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Story of an Artist

Important subject and beautiful song by Daniel Johnston

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old

Some would try for fame and glory

Others aren't so bold

Everyone, and friends and family

Saying, "Hey! Get a job!"

“Why do you only do that only?

Why are you so odd?

We don't really like what you do.

We don't think anyone ever will.

It's a problem that you have,

And this problem's made you ill."

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old

Some would try for fame and glory

Others aren't so bold

The artist walks alone

Someone says behind his back,

"He's got his gall to call himself that!

He doesn't even know where he's at!"

The artist walks among the flowers

Appreciating the sun

He does this all his waking hours

But is it really so wrong?

They sit in front of their TV

Saying, "Hey! This is fun!"

And they laugh at the artist

Saying, "He doesn't know how to have fun."

The best things in life are truly free

Singing birds and laughing bees

"You've got me wrong", says he.

"The sun don't shine in your TV"

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old

Some would try for fame and glory

Others aren't so bold

Everyone, and friends and family

Saying, "Hey! Get a job!"

"Why do you only do that only?

Why are you so odd?

We don't really like what you do.

We don't think anyone ever will.

It's a problem that you have,

And this problem's made you ill."

Listen up and I'll tell a story

About an artist growing old.

Some would try for fame and glory

Others just like to watch the world.

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