I have worked in "international development" for 30 years and live in Thailand. I want to cultivate networks of committed people who see that the key transformation required for reducing poverty, creating peace and solving the plethora of problems and worries that beset us (insert all previous, current and future causes), is personal transformation.
This does not mean you have to acquire any beliefs, views or opinions. Nor does it mean you have to become a spiritual recluse, monk or a nun. It means that you have start to see how your own mind is an essential player in how you create the world as it is - its problems and its joys. Like all people who work, I have acquired certain skills and experiences that are displayed in a CV of who "I" am. What I see in the organizations I have worked in is that they are by their nature dysfunctional because they spend no time or effort getting beyond the CV and into shared responsibility, ego-reduced relationships and ways of managing the confused feelings and conflicts that arise in the workplace.
If organizations are to become even slightly better at what they do (reducing poverty, improving access to education, increasing political participation, improving egalitarianism in sharing of planetary resources) they must be managed by people who appreciate and take up the challenge of being awake and facilitating the same in others who work for them and for whom they work. In fact, this requires one to be a full time student of one's own mind in order that one is able to negotiate the desire to own and take credit for the results. Having a practice that encourages this and rehearses one's ability to step outside the personality view, the views and opinions and the doubt thrown up by thinking is essential.
Can we do something together? Please get in touch!! :-)
