Your Name | deborah colins |
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Email Address | deborah@wicked-elephants.coop |
Cohort Assignment | Australia Online, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Facilitating learning and development for adults to be more able to communicate with each other, generate resilience in themselves, wider their perspectives to embrace differing perspectives and a more world centric and planet centric view, be kinder, more compassionate and care deeply about all living creatures. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | as a designer of and facilitator of learning |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | to work with organisations and individuals keen to shift their world view and practice to create a regenerative earth practice |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Generating resilience in self and team to continue our/my work in a complex marketplace with competing personal demands. |
5. And for professional growth? | Meeting a network of similar practitioners in Australia. Understanding and utilising a new set of frameworks and skills and stepping up and doing this work |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | A lot of education, both academically and through years of courses, programs, coaching circles. Invested funds to set up the Co-operative we operate from and finally lots of time and energy to bring our vision and work into reality, which to date has been partially successful (in terms of uptake) |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Integral theory Ken Wilbur, Diane Musho Hamilton |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | IMHO I long for a lived philosophy and practice of interconnected care and love and deeply connected intergenerational and interspecies communities as our underpinning. I believe we are all one but this has been smashed out of us human beings over time and I too at times find it hard to not sit alone in separateness and despair. |
Date Created | July 11, 2024 |