tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52230266186859351252011-08-02T15:07:59.459+02:00This blog is about living and learning. Sometimes living by learning, and sometimes learning by living! I will share personal ramblings on things that interests me and that challenged me. Hopefully, the sharing anchors it for me, and somehow can serve someone else.Andrea van der Merwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14264003754945637498noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5223026618685935125.post-50312727983367386882010-11-04T19:13:00.000+02:002010-11-04T19:13:01.448+02:00

I have recently completed a very interesting and inspiring project with Stop Aids Now!*    The purpose of the project was to create a facilitator's toolkit that can be used by communities in Sub-Saharan Africa in their work to empower woman and girls. HIV rates are often higher among women and girls, and women and girls living with HIV tend to bear a heavier burden. This increased

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More and more I am realising the contribution that complexity theory and systems thinking can bring to our everyday life. Yes, I admit I am one of those people who are completely fascinated by the complexity thinking and how the application of this can help us in our lives and organisations! In recent blog Dave Snowden complained that some people just like the language of complexity, but don't

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For a new blog, I am not doing so well with regular posts! Almost 11 days later... I have been thinking a lot about writing the blog, but not actually getting round to it. So this is where discipline or 'practice' comes in.Last week we had a breakfast with the topic of Resilience. We have these breakfasts once in a while, when we want to explore a topic with some other interesting and diverse

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This feels like a new blog, even though it is not. Previously I set up this blog to be a tool for a Learning day with a client, but that was sort of a once-off. I decided that I liked the name too much to let it go, and it is perfect for what I want to do on this blog.So what do I want to do? Well, someone said to me that blogging is sometimes a bit self-indulgent. That actually helped me, as

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