
Jan 24, 2024 Sanctuaries of Silence Gordon Hempton, acoustic ecologist, describes silence as not the absence of sound but rather the absence of noise from modern life. "Silence is the poetics of space; what it means to be in a place." We invite you to watch Gordon's brief video and consider how and where you might lean into spaces of silence.
Jan 17, 2024 Can I Align My Career with My Deeper Values? A Dialogue with Birju Pandya On Tuesday, Jan. 30 (5:30pm Pacific time), Dharma Realm Buddhist University will offer a special, online dialogue with Birju Pandya about how our inner values intersect with our outer realms of work and career. Birju has explored these and similar topics for many years. He will share part of his journey while opening space to consider opportunities to create more alignment within our own multifaceted existences. Learn more about this special event, and reserve your ticket, here.
Jan 13, 2024 NGO Retreat (Mumbai): Leadership to Laddership Founders and senior leaders from 45 NGOs gathered at a special retreat in Parel East, Mumbai last fall. These change-makers came together to explore the transformative shifts of moving from leadership to laddership. Diving deep into ServiceSpace values, they considered such ideas as: Broad Margin Goals Vs Narrow Margin Goals – How can we move from short-term thinking to long-term thinking and from the ‘Me’ to ‘We’. Value Of Context Vs Value Of Content – Asking ourselves not “what” we are doing but “how” we are doing it. Designing For Social Permaculture – Moving from ‘transaction’ to ‘building connections and community’. From Leadership To Laddership – How do we support and nurture an entire team to grow through Inner Transformation. Deepcasting in a Broadcast World – How diving deeper and amplifying the good is more effective. You can read more about this special retreat here -- or watch some inspiring video clips here.
Jan 11, 2024 Whitehorse Residents Shovel Snow For Those Who Can't Snow can be magic until you have to shovel it. That's why some Whitehorse, Yukon residents are offering to shovel driveways, porches, and sidewalks for elders, pregnant people, or residents living with health issues for free. "We just wanted to embark on this journey of serving," said Israr Ahmed. "It's grounded in our Islamic tradition which is to care about your neighbours. Read the full story of the generous volunteer shovelers here.
Jan 8, 2024 A Tea Vendor is Changing Lives A tea stall vendor in Uttar Pradesh, India is sharing his knowledge and kindness to help hundreds of villagers access benefits while being an extraordinary agent of justice and love. Enjoy the uplifting video below, created by a KindSpring member, to see how.
Jan 4, 2024 Care in Action in Bhutan In Bhutan, people gather in Thimphu for a weekly Awakin Circle to "deepen in friendship and community, inner work and contemplation, and skillful service and external action". (Read more about Awakin Circles here: https://www.awakin.org/v2/local/.) Watch the video below to see care in action through paradigmatic shifts at a Thimphu high school.
Jan 1, 2024 66 Stories of Good in 2023 An organization recently published an article with dozens of uplifting news stories you may not have seen this year. The stories provide a counter balance to the news we often hear about what's wrong with the world by sharing pivotal advances that have been made around the world in health, social and economic justice, conservation and so much more. Turning our attention to what's good isn't meant to minimize or ignore the suffering in our world, but perhaps it will expand our collective view of the good that's possible, and create positive ripples we can ride into the new year. Read all 66 stories here.
Dec 30, 2023 Wyoming Woman Creates Hundreds Of Personalized Snowmen For Town In Burlington, Wyoming, a small town of just over 300 residents, Pauline Parker began creating a snowperson for each of the town's 300+ residents in July. Read the full story of how joy and belonging are nurtured here .
Dec 28, 2023 In 2016, Preeta Bansal shared an informal talk on the "intersection between love and power" during a ServiceSpace retreat. Throughout the talk, Preeta explores how external systems and outer conditions can support or constrain inner work. "In this ecosystem, we focus so much on leading with inner transformation and the ripples that follow from small acts, and so I want to explore that 'ripples-based' Gandhian model of change in the context of our broader systems operating socially, and the relationship between systems and inner transformation. [...] Should we keep focusing on the circles and ever-widening ripples, or do we at some point also have to worry about the design of the square [hierarchical systems and institutions] which may constrain and hold in those ripples?" Read the full transcript of Preeta's thought-inspiring talk here.
Dec 27, 2023 A Tradition That Keeps Christmas Trees Alive, Literally Read the full story of this sustainable Christmas Tree tradition here.