Voices from the field — writings on inner transformation, gift ecology, collective coherence, and the quiet experiments that ripple outward.
The evening before the retreat, I was looking at an Excel sheet given to me by some ladders that had the flow of the retreat planned to the last minute. It had details of which volunteers will...
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This Sunday, as part of clowning, a bunch of us went to spend some time with an organization who trains people with special abilities to make incense sticks. It was a completely new experience in...
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Spotted on Jaideep's Instagram (via @knowyourstar) ... :)
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[Originally Posted by Kavita Rajavanshi]Last month, me and my husband, Rakesh, were visiting our son Pratyush in Ahmadabad. Every visit to Ahmadabad is filled with lots of stories of love but...
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“Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love you have got.” Recently I was at a cancer home where kids and parents live together. Every day these...
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Dear family, It will soon be a year since we started our student intervention program - Mentor India - in the Brindavan Tent School. The school transformation that we have all witnessed during this...
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(this is a transcript of Zilong Wang’s talk on 13th January’18, as part of the one-day Youth Retreat in Surat) Zilong: I feel so blessed this morning going around in the circle -...
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This year, I felt quite fortunate to get another opportunity to volunteer at Gandhi 3.0 retreat. What did I learn this year? When I sit and think about it, below are some reflections that stand...
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Basking in the energy from Gandhi 3.0 behind at Sughad, we just concluded a 3 day "Restorative Justice" retreat. It featured a wide-range of NGO founders, researchers, policy makers,...
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I finally got the opportunity to visit a residential and daycare center for the differently abled children and what a blessing it was to spend the morning with them. Getting permission to make the...
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'Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.' - Khalil Gibran Tehzeeb, one of our local anchors in Dubai, was recently part of...
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What happens when an 84 year old Gandhian, decides to sit in a circle of listening with 30 young servant ladders, to hear their stories of inner transformation? Recently we had the privilege of...
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"Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages." - Auroville Charter "For in this ideal place money would no longer be the...
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What does it take for a tree to bear Fruits? Sun, air, water, fertile land, microbial activity below the earth, etc..and to top it all, a deep connection and harmony underlying the...
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When God or whoever created human beings, s/he smartly placed the stomach in the body. And since then, the small, little stomach has made human beings toil hard, from hunting to sowing, and from...
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[Originally Posted by Aban Mukherji]Yesterday I gave myself a treat. I had not been in a bus for a long time so I decided to take the 37 Bus to Nehru Centre where I thought a lecture on Tagore was to...
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others” - M.K. Gandhi Seven years ago a group of people sat in a room sharing so many ideas on how to celebrate the...
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On 7th November, 14 yatris (pilgrims) started on a sacred pilgrimage, walking the same path that Gandhi ji and many Satyagrahis had walked from Sabarmati Ashram to the coastal town of Dandi during...
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“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. I enjoy it when the world smiles, the more smiles there are, the warmer I am.” As 25 of us gathered together on a pleasant Friday...
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There is no better teacher than Nature. We just wrapped up our second round of Mbl Laddership circle where 13 of us came together for creating a space of deep inquiry, holding space for...
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