Imagine…carrots in concert

And some interviews in German:

Source: Ode Magazine Article

We Think

Did you know 2.0

The KaosPilots.NL is recruiting NOW!

Imagine a school, where on the first day, you will not be registered with a number, but instead be given a business card with your name on, and a key to the building seconded by the remark: “It is all yours 24/7.. make the best of it!”

Last September, 17 individuals from 8 different countries gathered in Rotterdam to form the first ever KaosPilots.NL team! They are now recruiting Team 2! 20-35 young entrepreneurs with a head for business and a heart for the global society will be offered the opportunity to join Team 2. In the program you will develop your creative, innovative and entrepreneurial talents to enable you to take on the future that you choose! The question is always: “What will be your contribution to the world… what is your impossible dream… and are you risk taker enough to make it happen…?!”

Check out www.kaospilots.nl for info on the school, stories from students and info on the application procedure. Or contact our Welcoming Team at apply@kaospilots.nl.

There will be an info meet on Saturday, April 26^th. Deadline for application: May 19^th, 2008.

P.S.: Ursel from IMAGINE 2007 is on Team 1. I am sure, she is happy to answer your questions…

The Hub in Brussels at the Art of Hosting

Last week, I have been in Belgium to visit the Hub in Brussels and to be part of the Art of Hosting. Over 50 people gathered at the Heerlijckyt to celebrate diversity, complexity, and collective intelligence through conversations that matter.

 

I had to go to Brussels to meet Mushin from Berlin who wrote about the Art of Hosting afterwards: “Art of Hosting is not a method, even though it uses state-of-the-art (post-)modern social technologies that make a lot of sense and help turn that sense into effective action - if that is what the participants wish.”

Using the Hub vision document to present the Hub concept at the Art of Hosting in the Hub in Brussels last Tuesday, Simone and me discovered the chaordic stepping stones inside:

Simone is the initiator of the Hub in Brussels.

And this is how her week looks like:

Web 2.0 meets social innovators

What happens when you get a bunch of software developers and social innovators together, give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them?

What happens, if you put together the IT specialists with the NGO sector in the selfHUB in Berlin?

Two interesting “unconferences” are coming up in London (April 04-06, 200 and in Berlin (June 14-15, 200 .

Imagine is rippeling out

Shortly after IMAGINE 2008, AIESEC in Austria organized SOLUTION in Vienna, where my colleague Wiebke went. Here are her reflections:

“From 14 to 17 February 2008 AIESEC in Austria and Emersense together with a variety of reputable partner organizations, guests and speakers hosted Solution – a learning platform for sustainable leadership. Building on Theory U – an MIT developed concept for personal and social transformation – this year’s conference aims to enable and empower young people from across the world to take initiative and provide leadership for a meaningful and sustainable development of themselves and their communities. Throughout the four-day conference, about 100 selected participants engaged in an intense experience – marked by the integration of latest learning methods with arts and formal education – to build clarity, confidence, capability and courage to contribute to a sustainable future. “

Read further here. 

Are you living your dream?

The Davos 2008 question

News from the KaosPilots

Hi there, Matti, it is so great to hear all the connections behind the scenes!

I had Frederik visiting us in the selfHUB last week. He was a delegate at Imagine 2005. We had an interesting chat about transforming the German school system and I told him about the course on sustainability education in schools that I am excited about to start in January.

Speaking of Ursel, I have just discovered this piece by her on the KaosPilot Netherlands website:

“Something about last week and the coming one:

Our first marketing client assignment: exciting! Especially if it is about a topic I am personally really passionate about: How can a company bring about organisational change, especially when this change includes a buy-in into a rather different paradigm? And: how can this company sell their services if the service itself cannot be completely defined upfront but will develop with the process?
We are working for DeLimes, who do consultancy within the Rhinelandic economic philosophy, rather then the widespread Anglo-Saxon model. For me the rhinelandic philosophy goes much more along with human values, it gives space to personal development and offers a possibility for people to love what they are doing. Wouldn´t it be nice if you would wake up exited about going to work every day? If you would look at your job as doing something useful, something that fits into the bigger picture? Something that you not only like, but that also contributes to a world you want to live in? Most people choose their profession for this reason, but just as many forget during their daily work. It does not have to be this way!
It makes me proud to be able to play my small part in this vision. Doing this as a taks from school and learning at the same time is even more thrilling!

Cheers
Ursel”

Enjoy the Holidays and looking forward to see some of you again at Imagine 2008 in January!
FRAUKE