The last month has been busy for in8model circles. I had the opportunity to endure the challenges of long-haul plane flights to be rewarded with people, culture, scenery and different world views. First stop was Bali, where I addressed a chiropractic conference. A stand-out from this convention were two local kids, 12 year old boy and 15 year old sister. Their story that they related to us is as follows:
We cast our memory back to 2011 when we first entered some schools in central, hot, dusty poor India. We formed friends with children in the play ground while our mum and dad volunteered as chiropractors. I was 11 and my brother Finn was only 8. Every year we go back to the same place. At a certain time I turned 13 and I observed something quite strange, something that I did not like to see – a lot of my friends who also turned 13 were …show more content…
South Africa presented so many contrasts, conflicts and contradictions for me. Too many to address in this short article. The one aspect that is worth mentioning here, like people, countries also have quadrant preferences. My observation is that countries evolve through the quadrants. South Africa has gone from an extreme collection of three different tribes of indigenous people to being overtaken by invading tribes in the 1860’s goldrush to European tribes (Dutch and English) to ruling tribes apartheid to it’s current state of tribal states (Quadrant 1), which are in a current transition to organisation and structure (Quadrant 2). As they say, you can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs and the South African story is no exception. As an example of this, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner standing up for the freedom of all people in South Africa and the ability for order and organisation and structure in society to be
We cast our memory back to 2011 when we first entered some schools in central, hot, dusty poor India. We formed friends with children in the play ground while our mum and dad volunteered as chiropractors. I was 11 and my brother Finn was only 8. Every year we go back to the same place. At a certain time I turned 13 and I observed something quite strange, something that I did not like to see – a lot of my friends who also turned 13 were …show more content…
South Africa presented so many contrasts, conflicts and contradictions for me. Too many to address in this short article. The one aspect that is worth mentioning here, like people, countries also have quadrant preferences. My observation is that countries evolve through the quadrants. South Africa has gone from an extreme collection of three different tribes of indigenous people to being overtaken by invading tribes in the 1860’s goldrush to European tribes (Dutch and English) to ruling tribes apartheid to it’s current state of tribal states (Quadrant 1), which are in a current transition to organisation and structure (Quadrant 2). As they say, you can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs and the South African story is no exception. As an example of this, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner standing up for the freedom of all people in South Africa and the ability for order and organisation and structure in society to be