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Living at the Intersection of Travel and Citizen Diplomacy
When my wife and I decided to take a mid-career break and travel around the world, we immediately recognized our role as citizen diplomats—for the United States and the West. After launching a website and connecting with a growing international community, we sensed a gap. Although long-term travelers continue to build cross-border relationships, traditional institutions of diplomacy haven’t yet flexed to take full advantage of agents like us and the emerging new communication techniques we employ.
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When my wife and I decided to take a mid-career break and travel around the world, we immediately recognized our role as citizen diplomats—for the United States and the West. After launching a website and connecting with a growing international community, we sensed a gap. Although long-term travelers continue to build cross-border relationships, traditional institutions of diplomacy haven’t yet flexed to take full advantage of agents like us and the emerging new communication techniques we employ.
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One Night Over Pizza
“We are seeing a very inspiring shift in social-mindedness and public compassion,” says CharityFocus founder Nipun Mehta. “Suddenly, ideas like service, selflessness, and philanthropy are cool. Our objective has always been to help create the tools that allow people to play joyfully in this space—to express their fundamental generosity, gratitude, hopefulness, and desire to be a more integrated part of the collective human experience.”
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“We are seeing a very inspiring shift in social-mindedness and public compassion,” says CharityFocus founder Nipun Mehta. “Suddenly, ideas like service, selflessness, and philanthropy are cool. Our objective has always been to help create the tools that allow people to play joyfully in this space—to express their fundamental generosity, gratitude, hopefulness, and desire to be a more integrated part of the collective human experience.”
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Voices and Bridges of Sarajevo
It is early '90s in Sarajevo. The Serbian Army is seeking surrender and expulsion of non-Serbs. Bosnian volunteer and civilian militias mount brave defenses.
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It is early '90s in Sarajevo. The Serbian Army is seeking surrender and expulsion of non-Serbs. Bosnian volunteer and civilian militias mount brave defenses.
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Signposts for (R)evolutionary Participatory Paradigms
By whatever names we may call the spreading movement to embrace people-to-people dialogue; collaboration as a rule not exception, and collective wisdom, ‘it’ is energizing many people. ‘It’ is giving people palpable hope that together we can deal with our local to global challenges.
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By whatever names we may call the spreading movement to embrace people-to-people dialogue; collaboration as a rule not exception, and collective wisdom, ‘it’ is energizing many people. ‘It’ is giving people palpable hope that together we can deal with our local to global challenges.
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Deep Democracy | Collective Reflection for Sustainable Change
What happens when you take the tools of dialogue, social artistry, spiral dynamics, presencing, and integral governance, and apply them to civic engagement around the globe? The result is Deep Democracy—an organizing principle based on the transformation of separation to interconnectedness in the civic arena.
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What happens when you take the tools of dialogue, social artistry, spiral dynamics, presencing, and integral governance, and apply them to civic engagement around the globe? The result is Deep Democracy—an organizing principle based on the transformation of separation to interconnectedness in the civic arena.
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Tuning into a New Frequency
We are teetering on the edge of an invisible, boundary-less, permeable, fluid, interconnected domain known as ‘the field.’ It is the quantum field. We can see it, and sense it…and now; it is calling us to a new frequency.
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We are teetering on the edge of an invisible, boundary-less, permeable, fluid, interconnected domain known as ‘the field.’ It is the quantum field. We can see it, and sense it…and now; it is calling us to a new frequency.
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Practical Collaboration
Around the world we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how we interact with one another on a global scale while still addressing the needs and traditions of our local communities or nations. This is more than just the result of a growing information age; on a deeper level we are experiencing the collective awakening of our heart center and beginning to unite consciously as a collaborative group.
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Around the world we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how we interact with one another on a global scale while still addressing the needs and traditions of our local communities or nations. This is more than just the result of a growing information age; on a deeper level we are experiencing the collective awakening of our heart center and beginning to unite consciously as a collaborative group.
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A Great Store of Wisdom
Of the great store of wisdom that the world has long possessed, where within this treasure should we search for what is now needed to heal a planet in crisis?
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Of the great store of wisdom that the world has long possessed, where within this treasure should we search for what is now needed to heal a planet in crisis?
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Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Today, people whose hearts are at peace have a duty to come out of the closet and address the dangerous distortions arising from the misapplication of power.
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Today, people whose hearts are at peace have a duty to come out of the closet and address the dangerous distortions arising from the misapplication of power.
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Conscious Leadership
Conscious leadership calls for inclusivity, multidimensionality, intergenerational and interdisciplinary focus and common experience that goes beyond boundaries of rank, belief systems or nationality and touches the core of who we are.
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Conscious leadership calls for inclusivity, multidimensionality, intergenerational and interdisciplinary focus and common experience that goes beyond boundaries of rank, belief systems or nationality and touches the core of who we are.
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(Updated Jul 28, 2010)
