tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18757647089387671602011-07-07T18:22:43.856-07:00Welcome to my blog. My name is Naomi and here I want to share with you my learning experiences. I post articles about topics I work with and that inspire me.Naomi Raja Boeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10063581246447682458noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875764708938767160.post-85758398757063235442010-09-22T07:37:00.000-07:002010-09-22T07:41:03.831-07:00

Dear reader my blog has moved to: http://naomiraja.wordpress.com/Wish you happy reading, sharing and learning.

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I want to pass on this text to you. It is quoted from a speech by John Gardner. Today we spoke about meaning, values and Identity. What does it mean to you..."Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the

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“The future is no place to place your better days” -FranziskaEvery second our brain is stimulated by the events that happen around us, sometimes we are aware of them and sometimes we are not. In today’s society where information is there as an overload the question is not whether to find some but rather to see the right information that fits your purpose.What is our purpose? And what state of

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'Do you act out of open choice or out of fear?' This question came up last Monday during a group reflection at Knowmads, looking back at 6 months that have passed and a 3 week holiday break. My first reaction was ‘Open choice’ Of course... Everything I do is a conscious choice... come on.. I do not let myself be lead by fear.[Silence] ...Do I? ...Thinking about this led to the observation that

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Reading back in my notes I wrote...On Struggle...: “Once I can accept it in myself I can accept in the other” (Moraan Gilad)On Group Processes....:“Don’t wait until the group to change in order to come to action”On Diversity....: “Keep on questioning assumptions. ‘Do you see....’The last two weeks passed by as if it all happened yesterday or as if it happened far away because so many different

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I love to look at reality from different angles. This week I learned to do this from the one of the camera! The last two days we spent on a great moviemaking workshop lead by Hiba Vink. Our challenge is to create a documentary of 20 minutes about Knowmads. For the first time I edited an action, great fun! I realised that before you reach this point you go through a deeper process to unleash the

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A Check Up we sometimes do during a day to sort of catch up with each other. Here follows a little check up on my blog about what passed by @ the school and inspired me:Deepening the way we work together as a team in and outside the school! Giving the container word co-creation a more personal meaning.Theory U workshop : 'Leading from the future as it emerges' Summary: http://bit.ly/cE2kGo A very

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How do you listen? What do you hear? And what do you give back as a present? This week was a week where we aligned the team and practiced our listening skills. Listening can be such a powerful tool to connect on a deeper level and to work together more efficiently. Last Friday when I was working in the Hub Amsterdam with two of my fellow Knowmads Manuel and Oscar we reached a point where we got

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Is there such a thing as coincidence? I do not believe in coincidence. Yesterday I finished this beautiful book of Joseph Jaworski, the book inspired me and gave me exactly what I was looking for. It tells a personal story including many interesting elements which I am unable to address in this small article. One of the things that grabbed me was the topic on the inner path of leadership, finding

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I am one of these persons who wants to do a lot and want to do it all really good. Is this possible? No. Thats why ‘letting go’ is my theme. It’s not easy so for me to put it in practice it in real life, especially during the last two weeks where I have been pushing my boundaries further and further up, ignoring my intuition. Now it’s time to balance again and to let go :) what it means for me

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The twenty till thirty-years-old that started their career and are about to enter a company for their first job(s), who are they and what do they find important? How can you make use of this new generation? Last week I read several articles on the so called generation Y. This generation exists out of the now twenty till thirty-years-old. And I am part of this generation. Due to the different

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Back to the essence of life, the old indigenous tribes that are still somewhere shattered over the world, if not almost disappeared, cary an unknown amount of wisdom. They live in harmony with nature, with their body, mind and soul and they do not rely on material needs. How come that human species have transformed as such that we make a mess of the earth and each other? What can we learn from

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We have been together for 7 weeks now ... let the images tell the story this time

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I decided to think and write some more on the topic of co-creating. Co-creation is becoming more popular and last week I had my first experience of co-creating with one of the partners of Knowmads Royal Haskoning SMC. As to how I experience co-creation it can be seen as a process and a way of working that focusses on interaction between several parties. Together creating value by incorporating

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Many things came up last week but I want to talk to you about a subject that concerns me the most at the moment and that is living through the emotions, diving into myself, my passion, fears and dreams. When we started speaking about the subject of personal leadership we listened to each others personal stories, how do you deal with challenges and difficulties? It came down to the idea that you

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Im sitting at Amsterdam Central station waiting for my train. What I feel is a feeling of greatness, richness, luck, warmth, completeness. This week we went through a transition as a team, leaving the phase of being in love with each other to the next stage including feelings of frustration. Tuesday it came out during the afternoon. In a two-hour talk with the tribe and some of the council,

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Themes that came along this week were: decision making processes (Fokke Wijnstra and Edwin de Bree), What the Fuck Workshop Marcel Kampman, Aikido lessons, Lunch @ the HUB Amsterdam, we made new friends, worked on the start up of our business and on ourselves. I really enjoyed a workshop given by Fokke Wijnstra and Edwin de Bree, the two experienced entrepreneurs shared their knowledge about

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Today we attained at a lunch meeting about social innovation at the Hub in Amsterdam. With about 30 people we spoke about what social entrepreneurship means and how we can bring it into the world, particularly for Amsterdam. 'What can we actually do to stimulate positive change that comes out of social entrepreneurship?' About which elements can one think when speaking of social entrepreneurship

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Today was a very emotional day for me. I chose to start off as being the first of the tribe to present myself, I felt so because today it is also my birthday and I feel like giving it a special touch and tell people more about ‘Who is Naomi?’. This presentation turned up to become very emotional. I really shared with people who I am and the way everyone responded to this touched me. After the

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Dreaming, being, real ground! If you start a company, if you decide to work together as a team, what is your staring point? What is your shared meaning? What is it you believe in? And how do you create this, a shared dream together? In the morning Fokke Wijnstra and Edwin de Bree worked with us on the principles and ideas we set yesterday. Out of this I learned many things, at some point we

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Sometimes you have those days that you think ‘huh did it end already?’ time flies, many impressions and many things happened. Today was one of these...learning about theoreasy, learning about intelligence of yourself and the group, creating shared values and principles and a shared dream The morning started off with a workshop of Anna Pauzenga, founder of ‘Theoreasy’. A theory about how people

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Wow the first day was just amazing! We got back together, the tribe, the Knowmads staff, friends of Knowmads and started the year with an unknown amount of energy!I am sitting in the train thinking, enjoying, appreciating what I just experienced today. What I felt today was a level of energy and openness which I have never experienced before in a group (especially in the context of not knowing

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15th of February 2010. Starting off with Knowmads - www.knowmads.nl- an utter challenge for me.This is a school full of life, talent, ideas, experience, courage and culture. Teaching in social entrepreneurship, sustainability, marketing and media design, leadership and international project management... No standard classes but real life projects, indicated by our self and the team and in

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