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Alumni Profile – Sami Berger
What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful to you? My most significant engagements: Make me feel a sense of wonder or connection to the planet. Most of this happens through travelling, being close to nature, and observing animals in the wild. S...
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What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful to you? My most significant engagements: Make me feel a sense of wonder or connection to the planet. Most of this happens through travelling, being close to nature, and observing animals in the wild. S...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Alumni Profile – Nick Kalogirou
1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful to you? I have been lucky in my life to be part of a close, caring, mutual support community. Especially over the last 10 years, this community has given me the opportunity to consistently strive across many do...
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1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful to you? I have been lucky in my life to be part of a close, caring, mutual support community. Especially over the last 10 years, this community has given me the opportunity to consistently strive across many do...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Winter Solstice Message 2018
by Ken Low The winter solstice is upon us, or more accurately, we’ve arrived at the solstice once again. The winter solstice is the point when the changing elevation of the noonday sun stops its downward course, appears to pause then begins to climb again. The change occurs slowly – almost ...
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by Ken Low The winter solstice is upon us, or more accurately, we’ve arrived at the solstice once again. The winter solstice is the point when the changing elevation of the noonday sun stops its downward course, appears to pause then begins to climb again. The change occurs slowly – almost ...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Poetry from Another Part of the Capitalist Machine
by Anonymous This is a collection of poems from someone named Xu Lizhi. He was a Chinese migrant worker who worked at Foxconn corporation. Foxconn is one of the pillars of our western society. It manufactures many of our smart phones, computers, monitors, televisions, videogame systems, and...
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by Anonymous This is a collection of poems from someone named Xu Lizhi. He was a Chinese migrant worker who worked at Foxconn corporation. Foxconn is one of the pillars of our western society. It manufactures many of our smart phones, computers, monitors, televisions, videogame systems, and...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
2018 Report to the Community
The past year has been an exciting period of development for the Human Venture community. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our collective effort to support adaptive learning and wise action to meet the challenges of this period of history we find ourselves in and for future generation...
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The past year has been an exciting period of development for the Human Venture community. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our collective effort to support adaptive learning and wise action to meet the challenges of this period of history we find ourselves in and for future generation...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Solstice Celebration
The winter solstice season is a time to break from routine and reconnect with family, friends, nature and self. It is also a time to reflect on the gift of being alive and human, and the responsibilities that come with that gift. Celebrate this special time with the Human Venture community. Your...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
The winter solstice season is a time to break from routine and reconnect with family, friends, nature and self. It is also a time to reflect on the gift of being alive and human, and the responsibilities that come with that gift. Celebrate this special time with the Human Venture community. Your...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Holiday Shopping Night on Nov 28
Attention holiday shoppers! If you’d like to give meaningful experiences to the explorers on your shopping list, consider giving books. At all ages, books stir our imaginations and consciences, helping us learn more about being alive and human. The holidays can be a perfect time to catch up on re...
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Attention holiday shoppers! If you’d like to give meaningful experiences to the explorers on your shopping list, consider giving books. At all ages, books stir our imaginations and consciences, helping us learn more about being alive and human. The holidays can be a perfect time to catch up on re...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
On Either Side of Memory
by Ken Low Memory is a critically important part of adaptive intelligence. The function of memory is to record and store relevant aspects of experience and observations, providing the material out of which we construct the lessons that guide our actions and further learning. Some lessons come alm...
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by Ken Low Memory is a critically important part of adaptive intelligence. The function of memory is to record and store relevant aspects of experience and observations, providing the material out of which we construct the lessons that guide our actions and further learning. Some lessons come alm...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Innoculating Ourselves Against Ignorance
Innoculating Ourselves Against Ignorance by Natalie Muyres We recently kicked off our ninth Human Venture Leadership Alumni Program. The Alumni Program provides us an opportunity to support each other’s learning, and work harder toinoculate ourselves against ignorance. Like our immune systems nee...
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Innoculating Ourselves Against Ignorance by Natalie Muyres We recently kicked off our ninth Human Venture Leadership Alumni Program. The Alumni Program provides us an opportunity to support each other’s learning, and work harder toinoculate ourselves against ignorance. Like our immune systems nee...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
The Mystery and Mastery of Strategic Thinking
There is a show on Netflix called Churchill’s Secret Agents: The New Recruits. The reality show takes people from today and puts them through Special Operatives Executive (SOE) training implemented by the British during WWII. Imaging pulling on your itchy wool socks and heavy felted uniform to ma...
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There is a show on Netflix called Churchill’s Secret Agents: The New Recruits. The reality show takes people from today and puts them through Special Operatives Executive (SOE) training implemented by the British during WWII. Imaging pulling on your itchy wool socks and heavy felted uniform to ma...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Community Profile: Amanda Hall
Amanda Hall is an alumna of the Leadership Calgary program. She is one of six finalists competing for a million-dollar Women in Cleantech prize. 1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? Balance is important, and so the most significant engagements in...
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Amanda Hall is an alumna of the Leadership Calgary program. She is one of six finalists competing for a million-dollar Women in Cleantech prize. 1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? Balance is important, and so the most significant engagements in...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Graduation Address to the Class of 2018 at Queen Elizabeth High
To the class of Queen Elizabeth High, the teachers and parents assembled here, congratulations! I very much appreciate you having me, a humble filmmaker, share some of my observations of life. I, too, am in the midst of a transition both exciting and terrifying. Three months ago my son was born f...
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To the class of Queen Elizabeth High, the teachers and parents assembled here, congratulations! I very much appreciate you having me, a humble filmmaker, share some of my observations of life. I, too, am in the midst of a transition both exciting and terrifying. Three months ago my son was born f...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Alumni Profile: Hadeel Qazzaz
1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? As a woman who was born and raised in a war-torn country with strong patriarchal structure, heavy political engagement, and controlled by strong traditions and cultural affiliation, my strongest affiliation is...
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1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? As a woman who was born and raised in a war-torn country with strong patriarchal structure, heavy political engagement, and controlled by strong traditions and cultural affiliation, my strongest affiliation is...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Alumni Profile: Eleanor Finger
1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? Right now, I feel like most of my time is taken up with engagements that are of very little significance to my own and humanity’s development. But even being able to realize that is an indicator of the ...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? Right now, I feel like most of my time is taken up with engagements that are of very little significance to my own and humanity’s development. But even being able to realize that is an indicator of the ...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
Alumni Profile: Buffy St. Amand
1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? The most significant engagement for me right now is raising our twins to be caring, resilient and curious about life and the world we live in. Parenting is the hardest job in the world…nothing prepares you fo...
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1. What are the most significant engagements in your life, and why are they meaningful? The most significant engagement for me right now is raising our twins to be caring, resilient and curious about life and the world we live in. Parenting is the hardest job in the world…nothing prepares you fo...
Published at Leadership Edmonton
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