Archive for the ‘POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, WELLBEING & POETRY’ Category
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5 stages of leadership – from leading me to leading a massive crowd
08 Jul 2011As I searched for well written articles on social system stratification – or to you and me, coordinating our organization…
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Where are those qualities of bravery and sharp compassion in this group?
07 Jun 2011There’s courage involved if you want to become truth. There is a broken- open place in a lover. Where are…
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Don’t brag and don’t whimper!
10 Apr 2011I love a good story of intrepid adventure but it smacks of bragging to tell. What is the ethos where you live? Do you subscribe to "don't brag, don't whimper"?
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Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?
01 Apr 2011Have we really imagined a universe with our own town or city as a centre. What kind of universe has Olney as its center? And what might I find in a universe that has New York, or Mumbai, or Beijing, or Lagos as its center? How can we deny the lens of the place we live? Do we not deny ourselves?
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Our lives but a poetry of place?
31 Mar 2011Could it be that our lives are the poetry of place? Even if we are unaware of writing its poems?
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3 simple ideas for leading in today’s turbulent workplaces
31 Mar 2011My, hasn't work, and the theory of work, changed since the 70's. Well so it should but strangely psychologists and work theorists didn't expect work to change. So our theories didn't put change at their very core. Funnily, the theory has become simpler as work has become more turbulent. Simple, but, young or old, you will have to let go of old ideas.
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Fumblings with poetry
30 Mar 2011Being more of an IT person than a poet, I look to the mechanics of poetry to understand its possibility. Here are some very useful notes I made from Professor Rother's blog. They put the work of William Carlos William in context of poetry of the 21st century (rather than his time 20th century) and ideas of chaos, complexity and emergence
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Sour grapes or dog in the manger or cutting off your nose?
30 Mar 2011I've just discovered this Russian poem (in translation). "Having dropped an urn with water, a maiden shattered it against a cliff." It seems so apt in times when changes may be unwelcome.
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Are you grasping for the moon in the water?
16 Mar 2011A little poem by Taigu Ryokan captures for me the way we get caught up in fruitless activity and how much more we could do and enjoy if we only stopped to "listen".
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Complexity theory – “getting it” through literature
12 Mar 2011It's tough to understand the idea of emergence and the lack of destiny. Here is a line from Robin Yassin-Kassab's novel "the road from DAMASCUS" that illustrates the idea very personally.
