Participatory Culture

THAT ALL ARE CREATED EQUAL: The painful journey from the ideal to realizing the reality

James FarwellOctober 30, 2017

The American ideal, an experiment in people living together with the right to life, liberty and pursuit of wholeness, has become a fractured, fragmented, divisi...

Leadership8 min read

CAUGHT IN A CULT: Australia’s Osho Samaya Ashram is far more than a meditation retreat

Contributing WriterOctober 29, 2017

Earlier this year, I found myself losing the plot with my mental health in Brisbane, Australia. I ended up getting heavily involved with cocaine, alcohol and a ...

Community Building22 min read

Family at Women's March holding positive, inspiring signs - After 9 months of Donald Trump

AFTER 9 MONTHS OF DONALD TRUMP: An op-ed

Max ReifOctober 24, 2017

Many readers will remember the sickening feeling that began to sink in while the results of the 2016 American presidential election were coming in, nearly a yea...

Leadership6 min read

WE NEED HELP: A Cameroon organization calls for assistance for the disabled

Jane OlivierOctober 18, 2017

After many years of working in what I've come to call ‘the orphan industry’, one gets a gut feeling about requests for help. As anyone reading the comments on a...

Volunteerism14 min read

DOC HOLLYWOOD AT RISK: How to teach our kids to appreciate the gist of the risks they face

Contributing WriterOctober 4, 2017

In 1991, Michael J. Fox starred in the charming movie Doc Hollywood. The story tells of Benjamin Stone, M.D. (played by Fox), a young hotshot surgeon who's driv...

Communication8 min read

ENCOUNTERS WITH HISTORY: Monuments only serve to commemorate or mythologize aspects of our shared experience

Contributing WriterSeptember 12, 2017

The director Akira Kurosawa talked often of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, which devastated Tokyo, killing almost 150,000 people. In its aftermath, his old...

Peacemaking7 min read

Conspiracy theory department sign at library - Fact vs. fiction

FACT VS. FICTION: 9 popular conspiracy theories and their estimated validity [infographic]

ContributorAugust 29, 2017

From Visually.Screen reader version: Welcome to the new world orderValidity 3/5According to the powers that be there is no current sec...

Communication10 min read

THE TRUTH DILEMMA: Tell people a lie often enough…

James FarwellAugust 15, 2017

Not telling the truth and the creation of false narratives is the current state of affairs in 2017's political world.We hear a narrative about how the Democ...

Leadership7 min read

TECHNOLOGY TIME-OUT: Lessons from my 7-day digital detox

Contributing WriterAugust 9, 2017

We’ve all been through the phase of internet/smartphone addiction, which isn’t going anywhere, even though we know that it invades our privacy. Recently, th...

Slow Living8 min read