Inspired to become a change agent for sustainability?
"The question of reaching sustainability is not about if we will have enough energy, enough food, or other tangible resources - those we have. The question is: will there be enough leaders in time?" - dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt
The Lotus – A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development
How can you lead authentically and effectively engage groups in collaborative processes towards sustainability? The Lotus - A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development - presents nine personal leadership capacities that authentic leaders, change agents and facilitators find essential in their work when facilitating large-scale, complex, transformational change in organisations and communities....
Leadership: the inside and outside
Leadership: a vague, ill-defined buzzword, or the ‘blind spot’ of our time? By being part of the MSLS programme, we get in touch with some of the finest leadership literature, research and practitioners, while at the same time, in the ‘outer world’, there seems to be a serious lack of leadership in institutions of every...
Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability
Since a good two months, I am pursuing a long-lived dream. I am partaking in a Master's programme on Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, a small town in the south-eastern corner of Sweden. This year, this weblog will be the place of reflections, thoughts, and articles related to this...
The problem with debates, and the art of dialogues
What if we abandoned the kind of arguing we've been used to for long, and try to have a dialogue with our peers, instead?
2009
A bright New Year! Coming soon: • the year 2008 in review from a young internationalist perspective • the best – and worst – list of 2008 • a brief preview of the possible, probable and impossible of 2009 In the mean time, take a look at this wow! video (by Famous). Thank you anothercompany...
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is a special day. See it here… People who looked at this item also looked at… Rebuild Your Future The Lotus – A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development Subscribe A Checklist for Sustainability Number games: 2 degrees Celsius, 2050 and the G8. But does it all add up? Related items...
Belgian Blog ‘Award’
I was happily surprised today to find an e-mail in my Inbox that I was awarded a Belgian Blog ‘Bokaal’ (literally a jar, but in this case an award) by the Dutch weblog Sargasso, a big name in the Dutch blogosphere. Thanks for the honour! In tradition with following up this award, I have listed...
From world citizen to young internationalist
Time changes, all the time around us. Time flies when you’re having fun. Time can change step by step or it can leapfrog. In such situations, you can do three things: you can sit at the side and watch as a conservative as things go by and the world changes, you can try to row...
Actuality / Articles by Christopher Baan / Developing Countries / Photography & journalism / Society / Youth
Rebuild Your Future
New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council, The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou. See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl People who looked at this item also looked at… This is SCHOOL How on earth do we want to live together? Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability Virtual...
UN Youth | The Netherlands
I’m happy to present to you a new website which I developed & designed together with the UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou. This new website, vnjongeren.nl, aims to build a community for Dutch youths interested in the work and themes of the United Nations. Visitors can make their own account and start publishing articles, reviews...
Articles by Christopher Baan / Developing Countries / Globalization & Global Culture / Society / Sustainable Development / World
Doen WIJ genoeg voor een betere wereld?
- This article will soon be published in English, too. Sorry for your inconvenience. - Ondernemend idealisme voor een échte verandering. Het huidige praktisch idealisme is voorbij. Een veranderende samenleving vraagt om een nieuw idealisme en nieuwe ideologieën. Ik pleit hieronder voor een nieuw soort idealisme, wat mijns inziens een duurzamer karakter heeft en meer...
