The HUMANitarians project; Juozas & Anita make me proud to be a Canadian
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility, Travel
Sometimes, if you’re lucky, your path merges with individuals who make you think, bring a smile to your face, a warmth to your heart & inspire you to action. Juozas Cernius & Anita Vizsy are two such folks. They’re in East Africa to document Canadians doing good work. It’s part of a photographic documentary project [...]
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What does school really teach children?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, Social Responsibility, training & development
After a long, challenging year where one of my kids wasn’t invited back from one school year to the next (an almost straight A student & class president) I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about formal education. Some schools teach the above. So do some trainers. Authority, compliance & repetition rules. My kids have [...]
Tags: access and inclusion, compliance, creativity, critical thought, truth theory
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: resources related to Emmanuel Jal, former child soldier
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Social Responsibility
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on what Emmanuel Jal, international hip-hop star & former child soldier had to say when I sat down with him. Read the entire issue here. Not on the monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here. Emmanuel Jal. If he’s not on your radar, he should be. The following [...]
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Training & development learning well December blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, training & development
December is about to bid farewell & with that, usher in a new year. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply usher yourself down to the well & click as you wish. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. [...]
Tags: africa, communication, evaluation, holidays, hope, inspiration, ladysmith black mambazo, perspective, rock.paper.scissors newsletter, social change, twitter
I’m selling my soul, are you?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Social Responsibility
I sold my soul. I sold my soul in New York City. I’m still selling my soul. I will always sell my soul. Perspective. It’s a tricky thing. It’s an intriguing thing. It can be a brick wall or a wide open window. The number one hit on ‘selling your soul’ is selling your soul [...]
Tags: danielle laporte, new york city, perspective, soul, Wellness
Perspective on public peeing – are public toilets a gift? (& other issues of access & inclusion)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility, training & development, Travel
Skip to the loo – why public toilets matter is a fascinating article by Michael Harris in the Walrus magazine. Have you ever been caught needing to use a public toilet and yet not being able to find one? Ever talked your way into a restaurant bathroom, in a restaurant that you weren’t eating in, [...]
Tags: access and inclusion
Chris Weeks, DHL’s Director of Humanitarian Affairs, on corporate responsibility
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility
Recently I co-hosted AIESEC’s Youth to Business Forum where 500 delegates came from 110 countries to engage, inspire and take action on three tracks: innovation, corporate responsibility and leadership. That’s my co-host Krishnan Ananthakrishnan, from UNHABITAT, and I above. It was a real honour to meet some of the delegates and key speakers. Here are [...]
Tags: chris weeks, corporate responsibility, dhl, jessica fraser, marianne knuth, mobile movement, pioneers of change, Social Responsibility
Learning about change & the power of music to rock the world from United Nations ‘Messenger of Truth’ Sara Mitaru©
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Social Responsibility
Imagine being able to write “Messenger of Truth” as a job title on your CV. That’s what the incomparable Sara Mitaru can claim. What exactly is a messenger of truth? The United Nation’s Messengers of Truth (MOT) Project has 3 major objectives: to inform youth living in slums and inner cities of the Millennium Development [...]
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Learning from a hole in the wall
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, Human resources, Social Responsibility, training & development, Travel
Check out the video below about the TED hole in the wall educational experiment (forward to 7:15 min). It’s the work of Dr. Sugata Mitra, of India. His office butted up against a slum and one day he punched a hole in his wall and stuck a computer in it. A computer that faced out, [...]
Tags: alternative education, dr sugata mitra, education, hole in the wall, India, learning, Learning Theories, pedagogy, self-organizing, slums, Social Responsibility, Sugata Mitra, TED, values
Kindness doesn’t have to be huge, hairy and hard to reach (or teach)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility
Some things are complicated. Some things are complex. Some things though are simple. Deceptively simple. Like kindness. I love Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Thought Bubble – Kindness video for that reason. It’s not huge and hairy and hard to reach. Rather it’s simple, soft and within our grasp. It’s also easy to teach. Kindness is the [...]
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