David Robinson, initiator of the Findhorn Zoom Taize Community, invited me to share a few thoughts about Being in the World in 2023. This is what I shared with the Findhorn Zoom Taize Community on January 1, 2023. If David had asked me about Being in the World in 2020 I would have [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Power. Celebrating Our Cities as Power Places of Recalibration in 2022-23 If you want to improve the health of a system, connect it to more of [...]
How do you react to the word "Master"? I have always associated "master" with mastery – the successful learning of some practice. It represents a maturing of skills and experience and adeptness. It is the top level of a series of stages from apprentice to journeyperson to master. It represents a superordinate category [...]
As we amplify the influence of the Integral City paradigm, we are co-midwifing a planet of Integral Cities through the emergence of Living Cities Earth. Our impulse is attracting co-creators (more than 25 at writing). Seeking ways to align our multiple, trans-generational, trans-cultural perspectives we have been inspired to weave our narrative into the [...]
During her lifetime Queen Elizabeth II was the queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations. Her affinities were clearly joined to Britain internally and externally. At the same time, her 70 years of power, authority and influence gave her a natural position of “overview”. She had a sense of not only her [...]
CAPI – Coalescing Authority Power and Influence – a term coined by Ichak Adizes – is usually applied to organizational relationships and impacts. But the death of Queen Elizabeth II may engender the grandest CAPI that has never been contemplated. For on a global scale, September 19, 2022 will see the greatest confluence of [...]
The Park Ecovillage Findhorn (TPE Findhorn) enjoyed another co-creation from Laura Pasetti in early 2022 – this time on a very large scale. Laura is the initiator of EcoTheatre – theatre performed in outdoor ecologies; Processions – theatre performed by walking around; and 7 Directions Theatre – theatre from the East, South, West, North, [...]
After two and a half years of personal devotion to leading Taizé singing online, David Robinson has decided to step back a little from conducting a global choir 3 times a week, to continue hosting the Tuesday morning sessions. Thankfully, Gloucester-based Elyn will assume Thursday leadership – and Annelise from Leeds has come forward [...]
August 2022 seems such a long way from August 2020 – 2 years since the first summer pandemic lockdown in Scotland (and most other places in the world). Where were you when you realized that you could only associate with the people in your household and when outside the home you were required to [...]
I have ancestral roots in the Manchester area – my grandfather was born in Salford. My late husband Peter Dobson, grew up in Tiddlesley/Staley Bridge area of greater Manchester. Also in the early 1980’s I travelled frequently through this area as Peter visited the suppliers to the vehicle testing facilities he was project managing [...]