Gaia Community: Anitta's Blog

Interview with OpenSpace-Online Founder Gabriela Ender

http://Trinity777.gaia.com — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:48:44 GMT

Two weeks ago I met Gabriela Ender and we had a longer conversation about Open-Space-Online, Social Entrepreneurship and new fields of Business Technologies.
Especially fascinating was the story of her business and further opportunities.

The German Magazine for women:

http://www.ab40.de

brings in its first english edition this interesting interview.

Building Bridges: OpenSpace-Online

The (r)evolutionary Global Demension of Co-Creative Interview Excellence
by Gabriela Ender

The interview was conducted by Gertrud Graf

Each day, millions of people travel around the globe to attend meetings, workshops, trainings and conferences. The cost for organizing, traveling and time are enormous and the CO2 exhaustion levels are gigantic. What can we do? Should our "globalized" world renounce its most valuable kind of communication, the meeting of people face-to-face? No, says Gabriela Ender. The question is not one of renunciation but of how to consciously create sustainable bridges between our offline and online modes. Gabriela Ender is a visionary, a progressive thinker and an enabler. She puts the people squarely into the center of her internet-based conference method and initiates on a global level totally new processes for learning, finding solutions and initiating change in society, economy, politics, education and research

read more....

Tags: OpenSpace-Online

Are we Security Addicts?

http://Trinity777.gaia.com — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:41:41 GMT

I found this very resonating article written by Mariana Bozesan and co-authored by Patricia von Papstein.

I met Mariana F2F in July - together with Albert, my partner and Tom, her husband - in Berlin Adlon Hotel, near Brandenburg Gate. It was a vivid conversation where European and Californian perspectives met each other.

Business and Consciousness, New Female and Masculine dynamics in global communication, Security needs and emergence of integral freedom. Emotional Intelligence and cognitive rides. Health and Wealth. Family and Communities. Children and adults. Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Ken Wilber, David Deida, Marianne Williiamson,

and lots of others.

While Mariana comes from a top pofessional business background My own focuses are described here and there and here too.

As emotional and material security all played a great role in my life as mother, grandmother, sister, wife and daughter. I am newly discovering freedom in new roads.
For decades security and freedom were contradictions for me.I couldn´t see that it is a paradoxon in reality. No either or. It´s about growth. And no new continents could be discovered without leaving the old shorelines.

I sensed a living and vibrating atmosphere which comprehended any single and personal specialities.
This was our first F2F meeting and it was so inspiring and cordially, warm and trusting. And we laughed very, very often. :):):)

I even imagined how it would have been if we had been together some more hours or days.......

And heres finally to the article:

Are We Security Addicts?

Swiss article from GDI Impuls No. 2/2008 on humanity's security wounds

by Mariana Bozesan

The latest neuro-scientific research performed by Princeton professor Kahneman and the late Stanford professor Tversky indicates that at our core we are irrationally risk averse. The fear of losing something feels twice as bad as gaining the same thing feels good.

However, our security wounds are nothing else but fear and with brain imaging technology, we can show physiologically that our pain avoidance tendency is deeply ingrained in the seat of our emotions, the limbic circuit in the brain (Kolb & Whishaw, 2003). Not only that, but according to Shiv & Knutson of Stanford University we have only now begun to understand how emotions are influencing our decision making process.
Meanwhile, what can give us an ultimate sense of security? How can we avoid being manipulated by the fear-based products and services that overwhelm us every day?
What makes us feel more secure is probably different for everybody. However, I believe that we can only heal what we are aware of and that our security wounds can best be made visible through our relationship with money. In general, it would be fair to assume that for most people, financial abundance would give them the feeling of more security through power, a heightened sense of protection, more insurances, firewalls, homeland security, and so on.

Yet, the subject of money is an emotionally charged subject in our society. While we believe that money would make us feel more secure, talking about money brings one of two reactions in people: (a) either it is very positive and they get really excited about it wanting to discuss ways to improve their financial situation, or (b) the opposite is the case and they would rather talk about their sexual lives than their finances. Many people hate it, find money evil, suspect, and want to avoid the topic at all cost. The result often shows up in these people’s lives as poverty, addictions to food, alcohol or drugs, lack of meaning, wars, and, of course, as security wounds.

Change in my Life

http://Trinity777.gaia.com — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:44:51 GMT

Change in my life...........

I am living in Berlin since 1970.

I grew up as the eldest child in a great family with my parents, 2 sisters and 4 brothers and 2 grandmothers.

I came with my first husband and my 2 children from Hofheim/Ufr. (a little town in Bavaria)

German Region of Hassberge

……… for working to Berlin.

My other 2 children are born in Berlin and my life was concentrated to my own great family.

When I was 40 years old, I began thinking…………my life must be change……………that can not be all………….but nothing happened………

In that time I worked as a nurse in an residence for old people and I read many books about “near-death-expieriences”, healthcare, inner and outer adventures and unusuall people…….but no answer arrived me!(.perhaps I did not listen deeply enough)

I was so sure, my life must be changed………..but how ????????

And so I was always searching……….but what I really searched, I don´t know!

In 1993 my husband died after 15 years illness and he was only 44 years old when he died.

The next 6 month I only worked.

But one day............I met some people from the community of Adi Da. And they and the written teaching opened my eyes for many other things. At first I was only wondering, but I was open and so there happened a lot.

I was feeling the great energy and demanding fire from Adi Da and that opened my heart and my mind for an other lifecondition.

I read the books from Adi Da, met the community, was beginning with yoga, participated in retreats. In Germany and in the Ashram in Maria Hoop / Netherlands:

The European Danda Ashram and Retreat Center

In that time I took also some seminars in "Holotropic Breath" (plus additional bodywork)............they helped, provoked and challenged me incredably.........to take my life in my own hands again.

My family couldn´t understand this.........they were very concerned about me.

But...........this was the beginning of the change of my life...........and

this time was one of the best in my life...........

.............years later...........

I was sympathetic with the joint Ken Wilber study groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and listened Andrews Cohens Teachings here in Berlin........but today I am in no community..................therefore..........I love the Gaia Space as it connects even continents. And even the most diverse reference systems.

Tags: Holotropic breathing, Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, family, change

Virtual Womens Conference

http://Trinity777.gaia.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:40:18 GMT

7 years ago I was reading "The Purpose Of Your Life" from Carol Adrienne. Now I received invitation to:

http://www.virtualwomensconference.com/

O my God....these themes are coming perfectly in time for me. This is from the invitation:

We are very excited to announce this Virtual Women's Conference with an outstanding range of women who are experts in their fields--on things we women want to know. I know this is a long email, but I thought you couldn't make a decision unless you saw all the topics and people involved. The fees are at the bottom.

"Women Leaders in the 21st Century: Change Agents,
Renegades, Role Models, Mothers and More!"

How would you like to attend a conference filled
with practical and inspiring seminars and panels
by leading experts, such as Oprah guests Carol
Adrienne and Marybeth Bond, and KGO Radio host and
America's health and fitness expert,

Joanie Greggains
RIGHT FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME,
YOUR OFFICE?

If you would like to learn to:

* Succeed in business YOUR way with serial
entrepreneur and self-made multi-millionaire,
CHRISTINE COMAFORD-LYNCH

* Build a financially-free future with SUSAN BROSS

* Find the purpose of your life, create YOUR own
luck and fashion the life you deserve with Oprah
guest, Life Coach and author, CAROL ADRIENNE,PH.D.

* Learn about Crossing Boundaries and Integrating
Cultures in Life and Careers with scientist, poet
and award-winning author, CHUN YU, PH.D.

* Learn how the gifts of our female brain make us
particularly well-suited for success as women
leaders in this 21st Century with women's health
and high performance expert, CHERYL MCLAUGHLIN

* Stay fit, strong and healthy and prevent
injuries common in women with JOANIE GREGGAINS,
America's health and fitness expert and #1 Talk
show Radio Host on KGO Radio

* Learn successful leadership tips and strategies
from successful women leaders, CHRISTINE
COMAFORD-LYNCH, BARBARA EUSER, PAM GILBERD AND
SARA OREM who have created change in their
communities, corporations and in the world

* Hear from gutsy women about adventure travel for
women and how it can benefit you personally and
professionally with author, MARYBETH BOND, CARLA
KING, RITA GOLDMAN GELMAN and LAURIE McANDISH KING

* End emotional eating with SELMA LEWIS, PH.D.

* Listen to depression and how understanding your
pain can heal your life with award-winning author
and psychotherapist, LARA HONOS-WEBB, PH.D

* Love your body for good: why diets are out and
healthy body esteem is in, with Life and Body
Esteem Coach, LAURA FENAMORE.

* Create change in yourself and others faster,
easier and with more positive energy by learning
to ask the right questions with SARA OREM, PH.D.

* Develop tools to manage your most precious
resource - your energy with CHERYL MCLAUGHLIN

The theme from the conference alone thrilled me:

Change agents, Renegades, Role Models, Mothers and more

Having played my role as mother, daughter, sister, grandmother , wife and nurse so many times in my life - sometimes I think it must have been centuries!! - I am yearning to liberate more and more the artist, player, actress, renegade, pirate and other parts of my wild self.

As in her book Carol is a master in providing very concrete and living examples, stories and humorous anecdotes. Makes me laughing, singing, crazy and simply happy beyond reason.

Just wanted to share this wonderful opportunity.

Love and Happiness,

Anitta

Tags: Carol Adrienne, womens conference, renegade, change agents, Laura Fenamore, Cheryl McLaughlin, Sara Orem, Rita Goldman, Carla King, Chun Yu

Our Family Manageress

http://Trinity777.gaia.com — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:25:25 GMT

This is my first blog entry. As I always love laughing want to simply post a TV Spot from German Company.

Vorwerk

Though I have nothing to do with the company I like this Spot. I am a mother of four children -which are already adult now - and in the last years on my way to new challenges in job and life I always felt my life as mother not so much appreciated and seen. As so many other mothers in the world....

Enough words............ here the TV Spot:

Our Family Manageress

As it is only in German here my translation:

The Guy in the interview asks the wonderful lady:

Your profession? Or are you ONLY.......???

Lady: I am working in the communication branche and organization management. Additionally belong quality management, furthering rising generation, research, motivation, and jurisdiction to my tasks.

Incidently I am working as doctor and interior decorator.

In short: I am leading a very sucessful small middle sized family company.

This TV Spot gives a lot to smile and laugh...............

...........................and today is

International Women's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tags: Family Manageress