Sep 23, 2018 "Come, come to the circle" "Come, come to the circle. (repeat twice). Come, dear friends." I forgot to mention one thing: in the last two weeks we were often accompanied by music, when the breakfast is ready, when having lunch, when it's time to come back from tea break ... It took … Continue reading Day 23 @EDE Class: Chinese Culture Talk, Inner Dance
Sep 13, 2018 Morning reflection First thing in the morning, Anna gave everyone 2 minutes to stand in the center of the room and share their personal reflection on the first half of the week. It felt unusual as in previous days the entire class did only 10-minutes review together. But people took the opportunity … Continue reading Day 18 @EDE Class: Reflection, Open Space
Sep 12, 2018. "You are a system of your own." When reviewing what we learned yesterday, Anna made this observation. She referred to the difficulty of looking for English video materials with Chinese subtitle, as well as Chinese materials with English translation. I guess it's still uncommon that grassroot organizations and individuals here would create English … Continue reading Day 17 @EDE Class: Design Ecovillage Economy, A Game Theory Situation
Sep 11, 2018. We learned that we need a new economy system in global scale that aims at making the world more sustainable. How do we go from this 30,000 feet view to a 3,000 feet view, namely, from global to local? In the class, we learned many useful frameworks / models for thinking about … Continue reading Day 16 @EDE Class: New Forms of Capital, from Globalization to Localization
Sep 10, 2018 We have a new Teacher for this week, Anna Kovasna, Education Director of Global Ecovillage Network. Anna grew up in the beautiful Stockholm, Sweden. She studied economic and anthropology and got her PhD degree. She spent many years living in ecovillages around the globe,including 5 years in Findhorn,Scotland. At GEN, she has … Continue reading Day 15 @EDE class: A System Design Problem, Getting out of Chaos
