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Culture of Gentleness | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. What is Gentle Teaching? What is a Culture of Gentleness? Be the first to start a conversation. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. June 19, 2016.
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Abundant Community | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. 8220;In many nations, local people have come together to pursue a common calling. They are groups of local people who have the courage to discover their own way — to create a culture made by their own vision. It is a handmade, homemade vision. And wherever we look, it is a culture that starts the same way, with an awakening:. 8220;We also know that these three step...
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Conflict Transformation | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. A deeper more life-giving way of seeing conflict. The word life-giving applied to a conflict situation reminds us of. Conflict flows from life. Conflict also creates life. Conflict transformation will be only utopian if it is unable to be responsive to real-life challenges, needs, and realities. From The Little Book of Conflict Transformation by John Paul Lederach ...
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On Empire | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. Empire: how is it created and sustained? Being right, making wrong. Power and control through fear. 5 Consumer Society (. Questioning what we think we know…. Empire in this sense is a more comprehensive term than culture because it incorporates more complex notions of culture (including the constant tensions between dominant and subaltern forms of culture) and beca...
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Leadership | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths, making our weaknesses irrelevant . (Peter Drucker). Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Leadership i...
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On Community | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. John McKnight — on community. Sufi Story — you can only learn what you already know. Every community’s ultimate wisdom lies within itself). 8220;Revolutions begin when the people defined as a problem say, ‘It’s the people who define us as the problem that are the problem.'” (John McKnight). DEFINITION OF MENTAL ILLNESS ACCORDING TO INDIGENOUS CULTURES. A community ...
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Why I Write | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. I do not write because I understand. I write in order to understand. Writing for me has become a deeply transformational spiritual discipline. And The Way of the Brokenhearted. Here is a quote from a book I’m reading that has really changed my heart, Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer. This quote tells why I tell my story:. Why am I here? To inquiry and dialog,.
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Overview of Living with Open Hands | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. Overview of Living with Open Hands. Posted on April 21, 2012. Living life with open hands. Is an outward expression of the inner work. Of learning to live with an open heart,. Live with an open mind,. And live with an open will…. This opening up requires open eyes that see with the heart . . . A “Seeing” that goes beneath the surface. Mental models and assumptions,.
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Hearing | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. The Courage to Teach. The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. Be the first to start a conversation. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You a...
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Seeing | Living with Open Hands
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LIVING WITH OPEN HANDS OF EQUALITY. Oppression, Power, and Privilege. Living with Open Hands. An expression of an open mind, heart, and will. At first, it appears that nothing could be easier than seeing. We just point our eyes where we want to go, and gather in. James Elkins, The Object Stares Back. Https:/ ronirvine.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/seeing-with-the-heart/. Https:/ ronirvine.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/seeing/. Https:/ ronirvine.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/seeing-beauty/. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.