Barbara Marx Hubbard, futurist and visionary passed away on the 10th April 2019. She accomplished so much in her very long life and gave a great impetus to the change of consciousness that is slowly gathering strength. Barbara influenced many worldwide. The generosity, wisdom, and knowledge she shared globally left a lasting memory in human […]
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Let me take this moment to first celebrate the fact that I am blogging again!!!! Whew…It really feels like centuries since my last blog. The bird is out of the cage…the bear is out of the cave…and the wolves are out hunting, once more. Yep! These are the best analogies to express my freedom to
Emotional Intelligence – Affirmations: I Stand & Expand Read More »
For the last seven years, I worked in the world’s largest youth-led organization. I started my journey in the local office in my city in Medellin, Colombia, and went all the way to the global office. I worked my way all the way up to being in charge of Strategy at the global level and
Lessons on Leadership Read More »
Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship are hot terms at the moment. Why the need though to qualify “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” with “social?” A Change of Eras We are not just in an era of change, but a change of eras. The industrial age has run its course. We are currently facing the challenges created by
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Of all the Soft Skills, building cross boundary teams is perhaps the most challenging. Historically, we humans have been very tribal. Studies conducted the world over show that we like people who look like us, we prefer food that we are used to, we largely live according to the customs that we have been taught,
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All over the world, people, companies, schools and governments are waking up to the fact that Soft Skills matter. This is revolutionary. For the past 400 years since the beginning of The Enlightenment, everyone has thought that the only thing that was important was Hard Skills — science, engineering, technology, mathematics, business, finance. Everything was
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I spent many years in my 20s as an environmental activist. That included closing down roads in London to throw a big street party, setting up camp in the woods to prevent a road being built through them and being politically active in the Green Party. They were years full of excitement, camaraderie and fun.
Shadow-work: integrity for activists Read More »
It has been quite a whirlwind in Sri Lanka for the past couple of months and it’s not even monsoon season! Ubiquity has just entered the local market and is making quite the splash. We are partnering with a number of key education service providers and social service organizations to educate, inspire and galvanize changemakers
Our Sri Lanka Story: Chapter One Read More »
At Ubiquity, students get one third of their study points for self mastery. In this previous blog you can read more generally about our self-mastery program. In my experience, a foundation for self-mastery is mindfulness. Mindfulness has become a bit of a trend recently, but what does it really mean? Mindfulness is quite simply about
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At Ubiquity University students get one third of their credit for Self-Mastery (the other two thirds are divided between knowledge and Impact projects). Why do we do this and how do we do this? Why would a university include self-mastery? Ubiquity is designed to equip you with the qualities and competencies you need to make
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