CURRENT MISSION

Be the change I want to see in the World

ABOUT ME

I am a happy man. I am a grandfather of an immensely inspiring family, thanks to the most incredible wife with whom I married 40 years ago. To satisfy my family's needs, I was for 30 years a business entrepreneur, roller coasting between success and failure. 10 years ago circumstances forced to stop and reflect. It was tough, but so necessary. Indeed, I have to admit having the impression of having gone through most of my life blindfolded, prisoner of so many certainties and unquestioned conventions. Today I want my grandchildren to be happy in their lifetime, as should be their own grandchildren also. I believe this can only be achieved if everyone, every man or woman, young and old, is respected, happy and living in peace, in a world sustaining all life and nature. My readings, encounters, analyses make me increasingly aware of the very deep and inescapable changes we all are going through. Even if our world is a complex adaptive system, unpredictable and emergent, shifting between order and chaos, I do believe in our possibility to influence it for the better. This motivates my commitment to act, and to do what I can to be the change I want to see in the World.

PHILOSOPHY

Deep Dialogue and Understanding - constructionism

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Collaborative consumption as a new way of interacting and creating a New World

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet

Interests

I am on a perpetual transdisciplinary quest to understand what will change the world, so as to act systemically to curb it to betterment

• business
• entrepreneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson
Organising and Disorganising Michael Thompson
The Future of Money bernard Lietaer
Systems intelligence books by Esa Saarinen and Raïmo Hämäläinen
Hagel, Seely Brown and Davison: The Power of Pull
Mark Taylor in
Tolstoy's view of History
And many many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I am happily married since 40 years, I have 10 children, of which 6 are adopted, and I will have 8 grandchildren by the end of 2011, of which one is adopted

Teach, Learn, Share

Team Academy in Finland
How to apply the Theory of Socio-Cultural Viability (also calles Cultural Theory, or Theory of Plural Rationality...) in organizations, institutions, polity so as to allow a smooth shift to a more equitable Wolrd, in Harmony with Nature

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