No more!
“Within teams and organizations where consent is an afterthought (if we’re lucky), ‘No’ has to be a complete sentence – for my sanity and for our survival.”
“Within teams and organizations where consent is an afterthought (if we’re lucky), ‘No’ has to be a complete sentence – for my sanity and for our survival.”
“How do we help people understand: you don’t have to cling, you don’t have to dominate, you don’t have to hide, you don’t have to confine yourself.” PART IV of interview with Onyango Otieno
“They made life a business. I didn’t want to stay in the market. I wanted to stay in a community.” PART III of interview with Onyango Otieno
“We deserve equal time…We deserve equal measure of resources – just because we are here.” PART II of interview with Onyango Otieno
“I really love it when people connect to each other. Because it encompasses the idea that we need one another to make life work. We need one another.” PART I of interview with Onyango Otieno
“This is the world I know I want to be a part of – one where we can all experiment, where we can stop performing, where we can belong, where we can relax, celebrate, and grieve and be confused…together.”
The last of my reflections from teaching “Storytelling and Communicating for Change” in the University of Vermont Masters of Leadership for Sustainability program.
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue
Opening your heart and thus becoming an effective aid worker is a conscious, intentional process that takes effort, persistence and a willingness to examine your thoughts, motives and emotions.
Sovereignty is both a quality to be developed and a right to be respected and defended. It is a particularly powerful concept when applied to organisation, suggesting authentic qualities, describing a home-grown resilience, an inside-out identity, the idea of an organisation being the expression of the free will of its own constituents.
Who will revolutionize the development industry? It’s those with a professional, but more importantly, a personal resolve to nurture alternative models of “development” that genuinely build on the dignity, knowledge, skills, culture, and abilities of local people.