Our NIKE group

This is for you, Francette.

The first meeting of the NIKE (just do it) group met the day after a new moon in Leo and a partial solar eclipse. This was obviously auspicious since the group seemed (to me at any rate) to be centred and calm yet inspired and inspiring. Alternating waves of laughter and quiet filled the room. I loved it, every bit of it, and wished that we had booked in for the night so that we could be together a little longer.
I had been reading, with rapt attention, a book by Nancy Kline called Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind. Armed with the provocative ideas Kline puts forward about listening, really listening to people, and knowing that I had an awe-inspiring video by Sugata Mitra to share, I felt only positive anticipation about the day's conversations. There seemed to be no tension this time and no bone-wearying boredom either, but I could be wrong about this. It is possibly easier to be the organiser than the receiver on these occasions as one is able to control the flow and pace of the talk.
There will be another blog soon with heaps of information and a synopsis of the day's events but for now that's all, except to say, thank you Colette, thank you Elmarie, thank you Deon, thank you everyone for being so generous with your ideas and reminding me that there is power in the collective.
A luta continua!