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Permission to Try

7 Apr

The permission to try thrives in an environment where encouragement flourishes and where criticism and ridicule do not exist. One of the best areas to learn that one has permission to try is during play. Play is the perfect place to put this to heart. In the world of play, we are given permission to attempt anything, be anything or anyone and shift from one character to the next as many times as we want and as fast as we want to. (more…)

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Necessary Playgrounds

12 Feb

Greg Mortensen, an American, author of the best selling books, “Three Cups Of Tea” and Stones into Schools”, has been able to build at least 130 schools, most of them for girls, in one of the most dangerous regions in the world – the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. This place is known to be the heart of the Taliban country and where many of the most wanted terrorists are trained. In his books, Greg describes how he and his team from this region were able to build the schools and how they were able to get permission from armed groups to allow their young girls to come to these schools. Here is an excerpt from the book Stones into Schools: (more…)

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Rediscovering Play

7 Jan

Think back if you may to the time when you filled your endless afternoon hours with playtime. We had wooden tops that were fashioned from the hardest type of wood we could get our hands on. We spent weeks and months looking for the right shaped branch to build our ultimate slingshots. Slingshots which we believed could with the right stone destroy any monster standing in our way or at least put a vicious dent on an empty evaporated milk can. (more…)

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Building Bridges

7 Jan

Today it is the world of the “creator’s economy”! How you lead your people to freely exist in this type of economy will determine where your company will be in the future. (more…)

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