I really enjoyed it because it reminds me of how enjoy the time I spend with myself and my inner child.
And it reminds me that I could do this more again, because I haven’t made so many walks with my inner child/artist in the last months or so.

So enjoy! =)

via a facebook friend (thank you babsi! =))

via Markus Sikor – Mediation, Training, Gewaltfreie Kommunikation |.

And I will check out this guy’s association sooner or later, I guess.

Dominik Nostitz – Brother on Vimeo on Vimeo

via Dominik Nostitz – Brother on Vimeo.

Please do as I requested only ... … only if … you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not as I requested if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you wouldn’t do it mixed in. Please do not as I requested to buy my love, that is hoping that I will love you more if you do it. Please do not do as I requested if you would feel guilty if you don’t. Please do not do as I requested if you would feel ashamed if you don’t. And certainly do not do as I requested out of any sense of duty or obligation. - Marshall B. Rosenberg

I think I’m gonna print this and hang it up at the entrance door of my room. =)

Yay.

Seth Godin at Gel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

Why are so many things broken? In this entertaining talk – one of the favorites of Gel 2006 – Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them.

Embedding this kind of doesn’t work. Anyway, it’s a great inspiration on how to present stuff. Via Seth Godin’s Blog.

Numero dos, trés y cuatro:

Via Garr Reynold’s PresentationZen (entry 1, entry 2), a site highly recommended for everyone who wants to speak in front of an audience.

Started by reading the book “Auf den Spuren der Methusalem Ernährung – Gesund und Allergiefrei” (On the tracks of the Methusalem diet – how to live healthy and allergy-free – unfortunately there is no English translation, or at least I couldn’t find one) written by a German alternative physician (link: http://www.amazon.de/Auf-Spuren-Methusalem-Ernährung-Gesund-allergiefrei/).

Followed up by the book “Eat by Choice, Not by Habit: Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship with Your Body and Food” written by the American Nonviolent communication trainer Sylvia Haskvitz – great and veryuseful book for me. (link: http://www.amazon.de/Eat-Choice-Not-Habit-Relationship/)
Among other things she’s shedding light on which other needs you may try to need when you are eating. For me, when i eat these fucking orange cookies that a part of me thinks I’m addicted to, it’s about relieving my stomach when I’ve eaten too much or when I’m frustrated with what I’m doing right now and need something like flow and inspiration. Cookies are kind of a way or instant gratification. And seeing this I have more confidence that I can find healthier strategies than eating cookies. Anyway.

Why I’m writing this is: I’m working my way through this article on happycow.net with the latest insights about veganism and how to avoid malnutrition without the use of artificial supplements; and adapting my diet again (no soy-products…) feels not very playful right now. Yet I follow the argumentation and I wanna do it. Phew.
I’ll just share the summary with you.

A Résumé: The Daily Essentials

1. All food should be organic to be ecovegan.

2. Eat approximately a 50/50 ratio of raw and cooked vegetables.

3. Each meal (twice a day for adults and three times a day for children) should contain a protein
source (legume or cereal) with a limiting factor that fulfills the requirement for the same essential
amino acid. Choose wisely among legumes and cereals in the tables above.

4. Soak and cook your own legumes instead of relying on canned food.

5. Buy for the year your pumpkin seeds in February -March and your nuts in November-December
right after their harvest and directly from the producer. Keep them in the freezer, with a small
quantity in the refrigerator for daily use.

6. For a salty taste, buy flower sea salt harvested in the Atlantic sea, which naturally contains iodine.

7. Eat a lot of vegetables, especially crucifers (cabbages) for their calcium content, but, if necessary,
with some flower sea salt to equilibrate their usually high potassium content.

8. For their zinc content eat 2 tablespoons of fresh pumpkin seeds, whole for breakfast or ground to
sprinkle on top of your meal to serve as a protein complement of your meal.

9. Use first cold-pressed sunflower oil, as a primary source of fat or 50/50 with first cold-pressed
virgin olive oil.

10. Abstain from cooked oil and heated processed nuts or seeds coming from faulty storage condition.
Eat pastry on occasion only.

11. Abstain from all kind of yeast to protect your intestinal bacterial flora that produces your vit B12.

12. Eat Kamut: noodles, sourdough bread or flat bread for their complete protein contents.

13. Abstain from soybean by-products for their phytoestrogen content and their tendency
to lead to addiction and allergy.

“Do nothing that isn’t play for you” – Marshall Rosenberg (I guess…). Wise words, wise words.

Do you have any vegan, soy-free cook-books or recipes? That would really ease it up for me.

Thank you for any recommendations! =)

Anyway, all the links in this post sparked my interest and will use my time in the breaks in the next days I guess.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/08/a-postindustrial-a-to-z.html

He’s got a great blog btw. Insights that really shift my view every time, but every time packed in no more than 200-300 words. Like a cookie instead of a whole cake.

Him follow on facebook, i you endorse to.

Yet in my understanding and my experiences with it, it could take some improvements.

Now I came across Holacracy and I haven’t taken the time to read into it deeply yet, but it sounds sensible and interesting too. And could have the flexibility, effectiveness and intelligence that I sometimes miss with Sociocracy.

Here’s the link to a 1-hour video introduction to holacracy.

Do you have any experience with any of those two? Do you know any other methods/understandings of how to set up organisations/businesses in a way that everyone that is affected by a decision is or can be part of the decision process and that is still effective and flexible, which means able to cope with change and new developments? And that doesn’t take more time for making decisions than is really useful?

I’d be glad to get some new insights!

* “better” in this case is not a judgement but a short form for: does it meet needs like participation, effectiveness and spending time meaningfully to a greater extent than something else, in this case sociocracy?

Haven’t watched it yet, but it seems really interesting, thrilling and insightful. And I definitely will watch it!

Just check out this 2-minute teaser .

Via Geborgenheit Üben @facebook

Anyway, an acquaintance of mine has his own blog which he uses more as a kind of deposit for things he finds interesting.
So I’m gonna do that as well. In order to deplenish my browser-tabs and my thinking-rock “interesting things”-file.
And to spread those things as well. =)

So we’ll see how that works.

BTW:

“Georg Tarne has just come back from 5 wonderful days at the @Partycipation Festival. Hosting his first 1-day-long-all-by-himself-NVC-introductory-workshop, enjoying a lot of meaningful and/or fun conversations, massages, water pistol fights =), sitting by the fireside in a big circle, making music together, listening to bands and dancing, enjoying yummy local organic food, and and and…
will sleep a lot now. “

#my-one-and-only-facebook