Mindful community building at Plum Village
On my adventures exploring meditation retreats around the world this year, I was always looking for an opportunity to visit Plum Village, the Buddhist retreat centre established by Thich Nhat Hanh in the south of France as a place for refugees fleeing the Vietnam war to find peace and recovery. It has grown into a…
Shanghai and the changing world of manufacturing
I was in Shanghai to participate in a meeting on the future of manufacturing. It had been ten years since I was last there. How the city had transformed in that decade, not only in what was there but how people were interacting and businesses were operating (ex: paying for everything from taxi rides to…
Strategy workshop in Indonesia on evidence-based public policy
I was in Indonesia with Syntegrity Group and the Knowledge-Sector Initiative to help over 50 public sector and academic leaders from across the Indonesian archipelago to connect research more directly to implementing effective public policies. This was the first bilingual workshop I’d ever done. The conversations were conducted in Bahasa Indonesia, so I want to…