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Leap into Life – What is a MeshWORKS foundation?
In this post I will share an article written by Dr. Don Edward Beck, the founding father of the global Centers for Human Emergence, including CHE-NL. Dr. Beck has been, and still is, a great teacher and wise mentor to … Continue reading
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What can we learn from tradition and conflict?
This article is an English translation of an article previously published in Dutch on July 2nd 2016. With special thanks to Michiel Doorn who helped me with the translation. Those that know me are aware that, already for five years, … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Quaida, Alain Volz, Boko Haram, buddhism, Center for Human Emergence, community development, consciousness, consciousness development, Daesh, Dagomba, Dagomba tribe, Dagomba values, don beck, Geert Wilders, hinduism, Isis, Islam, Judaism, leadership, Muslim, politics, religion, Societal Development, spiral dynamics, Spiral Dynamics integral, spirituality, sufism, Taoism
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Leap into Life – Dipaliya
Story of an emerging Social Economy that combines tradition with innovation To boldly go where no man has ever gone before … In this article I will describe the journey Umar Mohammed and I are travelling as Leap into Life … Continue reading
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Is capitalism dying?
Jeremy Rifkin – President of the Foundation on Economic Trends: “While I suspect that capitalism will remain part of the social schema for at least the next half century or so, I doubt that it will be the dominant economic … Continue reading
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Leap into Life – what, why and how?
What is Leap into Life? Leap into Life is a professional development program for participants in Europe and in Africa. The program works on a local-local base. Both Europeans and Africans work with local facilitators on issues and questions they … Continue reading
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Leap into Life – honoring its origins and the people involved
Leap into Life has its origins in Macha, rural Zambia. I’d like to honor this with a brief introduction before going deeper into Leap into Life Ghana. This post shares about the history of Leap into Life moving from Zambia … Continue reading
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New economical principles for organization
A lot is going on in the world and it seems that we are facing many cries at the same time. There is a food crisis, an energy crisis, an ecological crisis, a financial crisis, a social crisis, … In … Continue reading
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Spiral Dynamics – 3 good video’s explaining
The years from 2006 untill 2011 I have had the the priviledge of being involved in creation of the Center for Human Emergence in the Netherlands. Dr Don Beck, founding father of the global initiative for centers for human emergence, still … Continue reading
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Rediscovering Spinoza
Doing research for my contribution in the January 2008 issue of the Integral Leadership Review I rediscovered Baruch de Spinoza, one of the most influential philosophers of modern western society. Spinoza, a Portugese jew, lived in Amsterdam from 1632 until … Continue reading
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