General Assembly combined with IfGIC workshops took place on November 4th to 5th at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. 10 members came togehter and participated in the GA, that had one very important topic – election of the board members for 2017 – 2021. GA elected Kazuma as director, Anna and Sergej as vice-directors […]
Adding depth to the research on Cosmopolitan Communication. The topic of this Forum is ‘Cosmopolitan Communication’ which was first proposed by Barnard Peace (1989) and is researched especially by the CMM Institute and IfGIC. One definition of ‘cosmopolitan communication’ that I developed as a CMM-fellow is: “Cosmopolitan communication is a form of persons-in-conversation and energy-in-conversation which can […]
“The Warriors…passed the ball six times with so much speed that the defenders helplessly scrambled a step or two behind…. ‘A play where the flow is perfect, the rhythm is perfect,’ (Steve) Curry said. That is how he defined beautiful basketball.” (Branch 2016) A Personal Note on my article “Rhythm and Intercultural Communication: Edward Hall’s […]
“The world is a good place, not a perfect place, as anyone can see, but a good place , a place worth the trouble of trying to make better.” -Peter Buffett Education can be the way to make our world a better place for all of us! Recently I actively explore the frontiers of education […]
I just returned from the SIETAR Australasia conference in Sydney and want to take a moment to share some highlights with you and reflect upon my enriching experiences there.SIETAR Australasia is a young organisation, but a part of the worldwide Intercultural Education Training and Research network! There is definitely a a need to work at […]
Kazuma and Sergej participated in the CMM Learning Exchange in Oracle, Arizona. Sergej, who is also a board member with the CMM institute, was a co-organizer of this year’s Learning Exchange. The theme was “Embodying CMM”: What can it mean to embody or to live within a CMM perspective in our personal endeavors to make […]
This summer, Sergej performed his Final Oral Review in Chicago. This marked the end of his PhD journey. Sergej’s dissertation examines the ways in which the metaphors that designers use in design conversations become embodied in the systems that they are creating. It assumes that by making designers aware of their use of metaphor, they […]
Joint Forum with IfGIC + CMM + UBW Discovering Cosmopolitan Communication!: Crossover dialogue between past and future / theory and practice / west and east September 17th – 20th 2015 at University of Federal Armed Force in Munich, Germany Vision: Communication theory and practice since its beginnings have tried to develop and improve our communication skills from […]
On the 7th of August the Institute for Global Integral Competence presented their work during the Celebrate Life Festival 2015 with Thomas Hübl, where every year hundreds of participants interested in conscious work are gathering in Oberlethe to exchange and practice with one another. The presentation took place as a parallel presentation of different projects supported by […]
Kazuma and I (Sergej) joined the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution in their Learning Exchange East in April 2015. This event was rich in learning. A personal highlight was to visit the CMM Archive at Fitchburg University which holds all of Barnett Pearce’s writings and personal archive. In the image you can see […]