Engaging Internationally

A new home

February 3, 2012

If you frequent this blog you may notice a new look – I’ve now integrated it with my newly redesigned website.  I would like it to be easier for those involved in international engagement anywhere along the spectrum  to find resources that will help them with their work.  I’d like to invite you to take …

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Navigating Global Change

January 19, 2012

What skills, methods and tools will we need to navigate the choppy waters we are in and bring about transformative social change?

I have just spent 3 days in discussion with 22 people from 7 countries in a “we_b” laboratory held in Brussels under the umbrella of a new collaborative group we are calling Collective …

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New Beginnings?

January 3, 2012

The beginning of January is a time for reflections and can be a chance for new beginnings:  personally, professionally and as world citizens.  As this “New Year’s Time” piece notes the first of January is one day that is widely shared globally and brings us all together in a common observance  to ‘make of it …

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A Year of Inspirational Reading

December 14, 2011

The blog I wrote quickly in October of 2010 “What Makes Someone Inspirational?” has turned out to be my most ‘searched for’ and read blog post.  I am also an avid reader and greatly benefit from the suggestions of others, so my end-of-the-year blog this year is sharing some of my and my colleagues favorite …

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Back to the Future

December 8, 2011

[Note: I was asked by the creative folks behind whydev.org in Australia to draft a guest post that would reflect some on changes that I have seen in the international arena over the past few decades.  This is that post which can also be found on whydev.org The title came from our brainstorming about how …

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