Galloping into the New Year

Feb 8, 2014 | Experience Institute, Learning

As we shed our old skins, the year of the snake slithers into history and we welcome the galloping horse. According to the Chinese Zodiac. January 31st marked the Chinese New Year signifying the beginning of the year of the horse. I don’t usually read into this...

Pintakasi – Unconditional Community Support

Jan 11, 2014 | Learning, Musings

We arrived into Batug as a convoy of nine people contained in an SUV and a multicab packed full of tools, tents and supplies that were mostly donated. I would observe those little cars packed full of huge loads whilst traveling, always being amused and laughing at the...

Give and You Shall Receive

Jan 2, 2014 | Learning, Musings

I was debating what I should do after my experience in Australia. There’s a built in transition period designed into my year with Experience Institute and I was thinking maybe I’d have a week or two of ‘vacation’ time riding around New Zealand...

The Art of Team

Dec 19, 2013 | Learning, Musings

Teams are the glue that bind everything together in our world. There’s lots of frameworks and models freely accessible about different functional pieces of a venture like finance, business model, sales, marketing, community building, social media, organic farming,...

The Beauty of an Ugly Prototype

Nov 21, 2013 | Learning

At Island Vibes, I met Fred who had recently taken a permaculture design course at a newly developed piece of land. Fred spoke of a gasifier machine he learned about at the course which sounded remarkable. They launched a community project to build one – a wood...

Culture Shock

Nov 17, 2013 | Learning, Musings

I’ve been blessed with having the courage to take on heaps of different travel opportunities in my life, especially the last 7 years since I started college. After my freshman year of college, I went to Kenya for a summer followed by Singapore for a semester...