When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last three posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper, Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time and Lynnika Butler’s article […]
Tags: africa, change management, dyana valentine, Jay Walljasper, leda dederich, lynnika butler, overcommitment, politics of spontaneity, rps, skype, stephan rechtschaffen, time, tokyo, utne reader
This thing called time: Tokyo time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last two posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper and Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time. In the same […]
Tags: africa, japan, Jay Walljasper, lynnika butler, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader
This thing called time part 2
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last post I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper. Accompanying Jay’s article is a bold headline that reads “How to Expand Time”. […]
Tags: africa, Jay Walljasper, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader
This thing called time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel
Coming back from working in Africa for a month I’ve been thinking about time a lot. A lot. Time flowed thicker there. I was swept up in its meandering current. I delighted in its unpredictability. Slipping back into the stream at home in Canada I observe myself getting annoyed if someone takes a few extra […]
Tags: africa, canada, Jay Walljasper, time, utne reader
YMCA Power of Peace Awards
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, Travel
I was recently honoured by being nominated for and becoming a finalist for the International category of the YMCA Power of Peace awards. See a YMCA Power of Peace clip here. Nazanin Afshin-Jam, who has a name like liquid poetry, was the captivating keynote speaker and winner in the emerging leaders category. Nazanin is a […]
Tags: african drumming, awards, joe given, kunka youth marimba, miynada, nazanin afshin-jam, peace, power of peace, stop child executions, ymca
How old are your ideals?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind… Nobody grows old by merely a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. (Poet Samuel Ullman, from his poem ‘Youth’, as quoted in Gods and Soldiers, the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing.) How old are your ideals? For […]
Tags: africa, gods and soldiers, questions, samuel ullman, youth
Musings on Africa; cookie dough, screech owls, bumper cars & matatus
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Back in chilly, wet Vancouver. Remembering. Recent musings from Africa. I watched some weaverbirds making nests while running on the treadmill the other morning. Picking up twigs from the children’s playground they industriously wove them together. I marvel that they make 5-6 nests for every one they use (better protection). I especially marvel that the […]
Tags: africa, bumper cars, kenya, tanzania, uganda, united nations, weaver bird
Lulled to sleep in a mosquito net
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
Enroute home from Nairobi to Vancouver. I’ve switched one cocoon (mosquito net encased bed) for another (airplane). Sleeping within a mosquito net is like: – going to bed in a fairy’s nest – entering a butterfly’s silken home – entering a den of cotton candy – being free and cocooned simultaneously Where are you free […]
Tags: africa, cocoon, free, kenya, mosquito net, united nations
I believe in hope
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, Travel
Tomorrow I leave Nairobi for home. As I get ready for the 24 hour marathon journey a pause to think about my time here……. I believe that hope has a home. It lives in small places, fanned by the winds of change. I believe that hope is our compass. Without it we’re lost in the […]
Tags: africa, change management, kenya, nairobi, united nations
Change management: Alice in Wonderland with chicken legs or wings
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Travel
We had been working on designing a survey for youth who had taken part in training at the One Stop Youth Centre. I was working in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania last week doing follow-up to the program evaluation training I did in Naivasha for the United Nations. Dar es Salaam means ‘haven of peace’ in […]
Tags: africa, alice in wonderland, change management, chicken, naivasha, program evaluation, tanzania, united nations