With thanks to Monet, Sea Coast at Trouville, and Ivana who created the CPA tree [scroll down], this is a play on colonisation, and the institutional and cultural discrimination everywhere. [i] Fortunately we are not trees. The prevailing wind will not change, nor will the rocks, poisoned earth or damage that made the roots choose … More When Difficulty is Gift
Organizations, Management of Change and Ethical Dilemmas A brief outline of the concepts in the transitional approach to the management of change. [quite a bit of this is summarised from Ambrose, A. Key Concepts of the Transitional Approach to Managing Change, in Lisl Klein, ed. [1989], Working With Organizations, Kestrel Print, Loxwood, West Sussex.] Then, … More Transitional Approach to Change
While taking a really good online course [Institute for Sustainability and Leadership: Money and Society] I have had to write an assignment for the first time in many years. Having been taken through Monetary History with a series of slides and associated papers, we were asked to develop our own theory on the main factor … More Love-Hate Relationships/History of Money
Read Part 1 here, and Part 2 and Part 3. Based on philosophical and psychological inquiry, part 1 referred to the philosophy of science in order to show the need for a new paradigm approach to a world problem: to think how “money” or a monetary system might be better planned to support life. Part … More A new Paradigm for a new Monetary System [4]
Read Part 1 here, and Part 2,or go to Part 4 These produced questions, that are counter-intuitive to how we often consider money: First: Could we, creative people, conceive of a money system that is like life? [Life is a gift] Second: What would money as gift look like? Before damning this as totally unrealistic, … More A new Paradigm for a new Monetary System [3]
read part [1] here How do we set about creating a system that would represent life better? Inadequate as it is, the Venn diagram below helps me think about how we can stop seeing money as only a means of transaction between people, helps me start from something more whole in human experience. There are … More A new Paradigm for a new Monetary System [2]
Equity, Fairness and Worth We, or our governments, spend time talking of economics and money, and even more esoteric things like fiscal policies, and when some idea is proposed, there is an instant query about “resources” which usually means, “Where is the MONEY?” Our societies and their institutions are made up of people, made by … More A new Paradigm for a new Monetary System [1]
This post is made up of excerpts from a paper “Making and Mistaking Reality” written 2003. Systemic thinking can be defined as not looking for statements about a situation, but for provisional and partial explanations (or images) which illuminate the here-and-now. The idea of being inside or outside a system is recognised as being itself … More Twist, or, psychopathy
This post, like my last one, was also written in response to many detailed thoughts on Positive Money. I believe we want, and need, a systemic structural change towards Human Rights. Possibly you do too. Let’s start with that horrible accusatory saying “Get a Life”, not saying it to you who are making contributions, but … More Economy – Change towards Human Rights
I follow a group from UK called Positive Money. Sometimes I agree with them, sometimes I do agree with the way they are asking questions about the way money / economy works. Or, I agree with some of the questions. However, I feel that like many others within a hegemony of thought, that it is … More Money: Do we have to have a debt system?
Transitional Space: The In-between of Identity, Culture and Community 