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Adrian Pyle
Jim Burklo's blog continually throws up quirky, creative and sensitive ways of looking at practical spirituality. Today he's written about a more open view of friendship that I think can come about with greater spiritual... More »
Adrian Pyle
I'm continuing to be energised by reports of "nonsense" and how it's essential to the creative life. This report from Salon explores how "nonsense" from children begins to make a lot of sense in generating... More »
Adrian Pyle
In an address to the "From Clients to Citizens Forum" , at the Coady International Institute , the co-director of the Asset Based Community Development Institute John McKnight made the following wonderful comment (amongst... More »
Adrian Pyle
So I'm not into wordy petitions to the "absent divine" but am asked to "write a 'significant' prayer of both thankfulness and lament" for an event. What to do? This is what I came up with,... More »
Adrian Pyle
How best to write an album of children's songs? In this open-systems, self-organising world the answer's becoming clearer and clearer ..... surface the wisdom and talent within children of course! This link describes such a... More »
Adrian Pyle
I wonder if everybody can be an entrepreneur? By the traditional or modernist definition of the word - the "creativity in business as a separate life activity" type definition - this would not seem to... More »
Adrian Pyle
I have just planted my carrot seeds for the southern summer. I wonder what proportion of early teen children in the overdeveloped world know where carrots come from? I have just... More »
Adrian Pyle
Adrian is appreciating sustainable leadership........ This opinion item relates to the use of appreciative inquiry for business reframing. It mentions the use of the "leader framework" from the Forum for the Future . That's not a... More »
Adrian Pyle
Words are being created at a reasonable clip in the culture change/philosophy/ spirituality space. Usually such words are the result of adding a simple affix to a term that's already deeply important in the... More »
Adrian Pyle
I'm no expert on the art of humour. But maybe some of the sharpest acts of comedy arise when - through laughs - we are made starkly aware of a meaning deficit in our society.... More »
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