Recrear Participación, Wrapping up!
Kevin, Kirsten and I have been catapulted from a wonderful two weeks in the Dominican Republic to Canada, where we are giving 100% at Recrear Magnify. We still have few blog entries in the pipeline- but for now, we would like to thank all the people that have supported us during our time in the […]
Breath in
Day one of Recrear Magnify has come and gone but as we settle in for a week at the North American Ashram, our staff has taken an immediate connection to one another in a magnetic way. This year, Recrear continues to pull youth from ever expanding corners of the world to join us in finding our own inspiration, connecting our visions, […]
Recrear Magnify starting today!
It is 4.34 am and we are still up working but super excited to meet the RecrearMagnify group and get started! While we become a team with the Art of Living, make sure to keep up with us. Get all the details on the conference by downloading the participants’ welcome package: WelcomePackage. You can also […]
Musical Break!
Making music
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5YA2RddE0?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] While in Santiago, we stayed with a host family of our close friend, Eric. Eric is a Dominican, studying Music Therapy in New Orleans at Loyola University with his colleague Alex Legges. These guys were doing such amazing work around the city, outside of our work in Recrear, that we asked them to come do a […]
Lessons 5, 6, 7
My reflections of the day are all dedicated to my ‘colleagues’. If you know Kirsten, Kevin and I, you know that we are all VERY different. Together, we are a tragicomic and soap-opera-worth trio. Spending every single awake (and asleep) moment together for the last four weeks has been an interesting process full of ups, […]
Lesson 4:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA1xpPCw-y8&w=560&h=349] 4) There Is More Than the Obvious Way to Communicate How do you communicate when . . living in a Spanish – Creole – French speaking environment. Even just speaking “Spanish” means something different here: where you are expected to drop your s’s, shorten your words and talk as if all one […]
Lesson 3: Get Silly!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ie_8kFxFQ?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] 3) Get Silly While working to inspire a community to make a lasting change for themselves, when the community has never thought critically about the possibility to start a movement from within; it could be easily forgotten that the best work stems from the work you do while having fun. We are […]
‘The point of the situation’ – 7 Lessons We Have Learned So Far
Our time in Esperanza has come to an end. As we get into our last week in the Dominican Republic, I feel that Kirsten, Kevin and I have a bunch of epiphanies about what the ‘whys’ ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ of delivering projects. We tend to be too ‘high’ in our moments of panic and glory […]
Let`s talk ideas
Since our time here, we have spoken much of what is in an ‘idea’ and by extension a ‘project’. The misconception is that projects are resource exhaustive and grandiose. In truth they can be – but those projects do not often become the sustainable ones nor the type of projects that in fact promote capacity […]