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T.M.B.A.W ! If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? 1710 George Berkley _ A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge. Observation and knowledge of reality = Interpretation? How we experience something may be in dynamic relationship to our understanding of it's environment. If a system is unsustainable it disintegrates. Habits, practice and attitudes. Locations, data, processes. Rapid evolution always requires adaptation. T.M.B.A.W - is the latest professional training program I've designed for DO Learning. T.M.B.A.W will encourage people to realise there are always solutions. Working collaboratively and efficiently with others, interpreting our environment in real time here and now is the express way to achieve what it is that we need to achieve. New Zealanders brush and floss our teeth, other cultures practice oil pulling .... - keep it clean people! This Aruveydic wonder treatment involves the swirling of cold pressed oils around the mouth and gums for excellent dental and general heath benefits. And on a continent such as India where the old brush, paste and floss may have been a later arrival on the dental hygiene scene - oil pulling has resulted in gorgeous healthy pearly whites for a long time. How long have you known about it? Tempted to try it? Or maybe Google it to find out a little more? If you long for good gum health, have any skin issues or would just like a whiter smile I bet you might just DO a little more research on it. Travel creates opportunity for us to take a study tour - The observation of group agreed knowledge, a culturally varied reality. How we DO what it is that we do? How do we interpret what happens to us and around us? Which is the right way? "Fascinare" - to cast a spell, long a theme of DO learning workshops - encourages participants to become fascinated in observing what is happening in their environments, to engage with it again. Understanding that everyone is DO-ing the best they can with what they know at the moment. - no right or wrong just useful. - no good or bad just different. Examples of gazillions of other ways to do things are just a pinterest board away from you and millions of other googlers and influencers. Are we over loaded? How are we responding to the access we all now have to the collective consciousness. DO we need this many options of ways to DO things. So many directions to turn that we get stuck and sit still unable to move forward at all. The paradigm shifts of the GFC are rippling through our networks. Everything that goes on tour goes on facebook. To deal with overload we may find inspiration in the observation and understanding of how others achieve success. Perhaps our current perceptions are limiting our actions. Our interpretation clouding our vision. At the perceived peak of the anthropocene, on the edge of the slippy slip into cloud computing, sims, social networking a penchant for being twit faced - alternate realities are easily perceived. Our current systems in local governance, communities and lifestyles face challenges to sustainability. Extreme weather events, changing use of assets, technologies and system failures. Observation drives innovation. Efficient application of resources, collaborative methods of finding solutions. A system that views change as lineal and sequential has disintegrated, people are not sure how to respond in its absence. Affecting all areas of the organisations ability and effectiveness. In local government overload comes from all directions, central government, internal work relationships, engaging with ratepayers, stake holders, elected members. Our local councils are not alone in needing to find solutions for how to achieve more with less. Leaders in big business such as Apple, Google are changing the corporate environment - there are multiple examples that can be applied to civil service. A multi-media, environment immersion learning workshop will provide the wake up call to participants. Spark ambitions, clarify values and limits. Effectively and collaboratively. The T.M.B.A.W DO professional training workshop is a one day course which supports small teams of workmates with similar challenges to find new ways to support the delivery of product and service. T.M.B.A.W applies to any service based industry - hospitality operators, tourisim, retailers and to each of us - It's great life skill stuff.Try a one to one professional development session. This workshop has given me a wake up call - my clients were saying help! please, but we are not sure what with - The challenges were the same across varying requests. I get a monumental buzz on when a new workshop takes form - the synchronicty runs high and the content download from the collective consciousness comes fast and furious. There are hours at the computer, writing , researching and the conversations with clients, friends, randoms and others all seem to pick up on similar content or themes. It lets me know when I'm on the right track - Sir Avery turns up at conference, then you turn on the TV and his presentation is replaying, when the book you were given for christmas turns out to be just that book, and R.A.S activated people have talked to you about it more than three times so far this week. Yes it's on you tube - these are the types of content down loads you start to listen to when you are given infomration not just in one form but many - the ripple effect. As if to validate that this is the content that needs to get to a wider audience. I'm excited as are the clients who have requested the T.M.B.A.W professional training program. Contact me if you would like your workplace to work more efficently and collaboratively. The continual and rapid rate of change is at risk of leaving some workplaces adrfit.Valuable and motivated employees may become disillusioned and leave impacting the ability of the organisation to move forward at a comparative rate. Those who are struggling to adapt to change may face restructure as levels of service and the application of new technologies and extreme weather events fundamentally alter the daily tasks we are required to perform. Some are ill equipped personally to cope with the overload of change asked of them currently. Some admirably are taking up the baton and adapting to the organic, collective and collaboration processes that help to sustain systems, adapt and evolve. T.M.B.A.W is a full day training workshop that focuses on: What has changed how and why in the ways we provide products and services. How is the world responding to real-time now. – A study tour of difference and how it impacts me. How to value, utilise and effectively apply existing skills with a sense of urgency and energy. Working efficiently and collaboratively. How to personally handle change overload, depression, stress and organic change. Interpretation skills - How to observe and respond to our environments in new ways. For learning to take effect it needs to be motivating, to provide a wake-up call – delivered in a format that is in its self; paradigm shifting. Fresh thinking and new processes to address our changing realities in 2013 and beyond. So here and now in real time - when we get stuck we can just yell T.M.B.A.W Click the pic to contact Lisa regarding TMBAW workshops.
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"What's in it?" ...Asks our middle child - te mokapuna. "Well... 2 x Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen. " At 8 there is a satisfied skip at my answer. It leaves me mulling questions...How do we make water - really? How do we use it? Abuse it? It's raining today a Chali Rain day; my eldest named a liquid treasure. Her dad a sky diver only ever got a day off when it rained and today it is indeed a Rainy day. February in Central Otago brings very few of them. One - on the 4th of Feb. Those adventure tourism professionals must be relishing the lie in bed this morning. It's the first in six weeks. Huge tracts of New Zealand officially in drought. Rivers dry - fish being moved by hand, stock hungry and the price of beef and milk set to soar. Gods own hydro powered nation may be on the whip lash end of a winter power price hike if the heavens don't open more frequently between now and then. Our changing use of assets puts the challenge of local governance into new paradigms - metering water, restricting water usage and debating ownership. Drive through McKenzie country or the back blocks of Bendigo and count the irrigation pivot pylons while trying to recall how the desert plains of the Lindis lands and Ardgour valley look before we turned them green. GM grass sprouting where there is no irrigation - is it dew feasting? Irrigation changes not only river flow levels but water table levels - flooding now seen in the Waitaki Valley on low rain fall levels due to a high water table in the wet season or bone dry plateaus in the drought. It is our base common denominator. We are water. Regardless of colour or creed. Look around you and see how we respect it? Hoteliers - are you still placing two bottles of plastic treasure beside each guest at turn down each night? A responsible guest will turn down your offer. Piles of bottles form the only landmarks on hikes through a Thai jungle to see the waterfall which today is not flowing. Do you clean your teeth with the tap on, save your grey water for your plants or fly your tipple in from the French Alps? How you act speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying. We take it for granted like its a fossil fuel and it may well be. Though there is no sustainable substitute. We need the real McCoy, no additives ideally, those we have already are due to our stuff ups with pollution and poor diet. I am far from guilt free. We have a bore and I use it to grow lawns and food. The hole in the ground so deep it continues to give me flow when the river below is low enough to make me guilty of consumption. I have the occasional major system flaw. Like piling the pony poop really close to the well neck. Thank god the engineer next door pointed that out before todays rain fall or we might have been settling a very different score. By the time it had been raining for four hours yesterday the social media trolls were over it already complaining about the weather. The council customer service teams are a long time over it I'm sure - the phone calls about the metering, the leaks and the monitoring. No understanding of the generational inequity that's resulted in these outcomes. A council that has managed to keep the shit out of the lake and the water flowing from your tap when your population has doubled needs to be congratulated not harranged. Look around the world and become fascinated by the way we honour the water gods or fight the lack of them. Western use of water is gluttony without breaking a commandment. Flushing toilets, swimming pools, power showers. On a Rainy day like today I suggest we sit back and look at our behaviour, while enjoying the sound of the rain on the roof and the wearing of gumboots to school. Thanks be to god above in the highest for crying on our day. Save it and treasure it because a day without it we can survive but even a week without it will kill many. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. So excited - I have 30 saffron bulbs to trial at Arrow Ridge. All via facebook and like souled-individuals, learning and sharing seed thoughts of sustainability in Central Otago. Bulbs offered and transported through social networking. Gotta love how the world works today. Thank you, thank you, thank you to those willing to share. 30 bulbs as a trial crop or just because... Saffron one of our best restaurants name sakes, as a crop - new to the region but not to the world. A gold crop, high maintenance and hard work like many Arrowtown women, born of gold, and stunning. A new plant is a new story, untold and untested. Better than a delivery of on line shopping from Asos. Clothes that look great on the modeIs but carry the guilt of air miles from the UK even though shipping is free... a fashion fail with kiwi cankles. I get to see if I can encourage those 30 bulbs to thrive here. It may seem nothing to some but to seed-crop-cravers like me 30 bulbs are 30 gold nuggets. I've been gathering seeds; sweet peas, parsley, corriander, cucumbers, peas, beans and tomatoes to propagate next spring. I'm very aware that some places on our planet what I am doing for enjoyment and satisfaction is a crime. I get a buzz each time I mulch the pumpkins in the horse poop, the parsely and mint from generations ago and wild tomatoes or beans that have found crevices and thrived. Arrowtown, a living historic village filled with high end estates, first family homes and holiday cribs. Artisan galleries, boutique shopping, restaurants where slow food that showcases Central Otago produce and wines thrive. Villagers from all walks wax lyrical describing puff balls bigger than your head harvested in the early morning dew of autumn. Rowan berries, elderflower and rose syrups. Apple trees, apricots and quince hang on the river tracks and verges. Wild black berries and yellow plums are harvested on 4-wd drive trips up river to Macetown. We worship our chefs who turn rabbits shot on the block into Moroccan feasts. Or a rainbow trout, Tar or fallow deer dropped off by whanau to full the freezers for the wwoofers. Our prized silver dorkings are fed on tapas from La Rumbla - scraps so good the chicken run must be dog proof or the bulimic suffering big black walrus of a labravac dog will surely die. Living in central we battle the climate, the days are shortening at one end while the shadows are lengthening at the other. Hot days and lingering afternoons are being swallowed by darkles in the morning and the threat of frost. I dare not look when daylight saving ends. Too soon we will be swallowed by -14 degrees and winter. To walk bare foot on the lawn freshly mown and watered with our bore supply cold and crisp from the Arrow. We can eat and grow lawns, chip and putt golf balls and splash in clear river pools. We may simply sit majestic amongst the mountains. Nurturing the 100 mile diet philosophy. Reflecting on the chinese market gardeners, gold miners and settlers who have sown seed here before us. And get prepared to bed down for winter. Gathering and preserving what we can and paying it forward when we have an abundance to share. Garden art is my current thing.
More truthfully weeding the garden is my current thing and it's hardly a work of art. That's what you get when the engineer in the family decides to put an acre into veges on the 5 acre block but works away solving the nations infrastructure issues most of the week. So aside from writing because to write is to breathe, I'm loving my green fingers, broken finger nails and fluffy inners of my Hunter gummies. I'd love my sustainable paradise to be a work of art but currently with the drought and full summer harvest upon me I really only feel like we've created a shit sandwich. I spend a lot of time irrigating, picking and panicking that everything is doomed, nothing will thrive and I'll fail. I'd like to put a big peg on it to remind me that this is what I value - like a memo note to self. A great work of art takes time, passion and commitment. And sometimes it's the preparation of the site, the collection of your tools and knowing what it is that you want to create that you must first give your focus to before success is achieved. If you've had some of your better ideas hit hurdles or get all caught up in schmoo too ...Congratulate yourself. You don’t have to eat the schmoo bap - However you do have a great example of contrast. You know what it is that you still need to work on, what you don’t like, what stinks and what turns you off. You know what failure feels like and you know you want to avoid anymore of it. Sometimes you have to say NO so that you can create the space to say YES. Saying NO to things, people and projects is the fastest way I have found to bring YES to fruition. |
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