How do you predict the weather?
I was travelling in a teetering wooden canoe along Rio Conambo in the middle of Ecuador’s South-East Amazon. We had just arrived in Ripano, a small hilltop community. The jungle was so thick I could barely see the sky, fog settled into the treetops, rain began to sprinkle down, the humidity seeped into my bones, […]
Something a little Different: “Dumi Does”
A spontaneous happening on a random Tuesday evening enabled us to tap into a different level of consciousness and shared understanding of three individuals in our group. This was brought about through the sharing of stories and life lessons via one on one interviews, in front of an audience of familiar people, inspired by the […]
Magnify Through Photos
Over the first three days of Recrear Magnify 2015, participants were treated to a personal development retreat at Centre Tara. Located in the country side an hour away from Montreal, participants had to tap in to their consciousness to bring forth their gifts, vulnerability and stories to connect. This was a three day experience filled […]
Big Brother or Real World?
There is a powerful word that is often used loosely or inaccurately defined: Diversity. This is something Magnify has come to be well known for. With different personalities, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives on day to day aspects such as cleaning, cooking and communicating, there have been moments of laughter, tension and just plain silliness. Unusually, this […]
Being seen and seeing through PAR
Being seen and seeing through PAR With Recrear A poem, kinda A new language undefined by words but rather by presence. An experience of the senses beyond the restrictive probing, prodding and fickleness of one world ways of knowing and being. A thick descriptive knowing, with body, with heart and with mind. A being that […]
Who are the people we go to in times of need?
During the Magnify experience, there have been a couple of instances of understanding and deep connection with somebody else that have left me feeling a little sad. I am not sad at the connection in that moment; that makes me feel great. I am sad that I have had to carve out two weeks in […]
Meet this year’s RecrearMagnify Crew
RecrearMagnify is starting this Sunday! We are super excited to bring together a group of extraordinary practitioners from all over the world. For two weeks we will be answering together the question: “How do I recognise and facilitate the personal transformation necessary for me to belong to an organisation or system that feels alive and […]
The ghost of incoherence – Whose knowledge is it anyways?
It took me a few weeks to digest the experience of attending the ‘Global Assembly of Knowledge Democracy’ organized by the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA). Something about the conference did not feel right, but I initially could not put words to it. I recognized that I felt out of place in the […]
Why we are taking a Magnify sabbatical
It’s our 7th year, and we are taking a Magnify sabbatical For six years in a row, we’ve had the great honor of holding space for social innovators from all over the world during our two-week annual conference. 2017 will be a sabbatical year for RecrearMagnify. We will be taking a year off to regenerate and […]
Our art
As I write this, I am sitting in a funky hostel in Cali, Colombia… When I arrived this afternoon, my eyes got caught up by a dozen bright coloured string on the floor. Next to them, two girls seemed really focused on making cool looking objects. I sit next to them on the floor, […]
