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Gathering ’11 was an event that brought together leading thinkers, change-makers and collaborators from across Australia and around the world to explore and develop ideas on how to solve today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges, together.
In this series of podcasts I interview the attendees about their personal experiences of Gathering ’11, as a way of exploring these topics further, and of continuing the conversation.
Ralf Lippold blogged his reflections of Gathering ’11. I thought I’d explore this further with him.
Ralf is a Consultant in Lean Thinking and System Dynamics and ‘boundary spanner’. He is passionate about sharing and connecting people and their ideas. He lives in Dresden, Germany.
You can follow Ralf on Twitter: @RalfLippold. He shares his thoughts on a number of blogs and platforms. The best starting point is his ‘Blogger’ profile.
During the interview, we talk about making small changes, quickly; connecting people and ideas across networks and countries; the social change scene in different areas of the world — and penguins!
There are a couple of things Ralf mentions during our chat, that are worth noting here:
- The ‘opening’ video discussed is ‘Thrivable’ featuring Jean Russell by Alan Rosenblith. This was launched at Gathering ’11.
- He mentions attending a previous conference, which was The 3rd SoL (Society for Organisational Learning) Global Forum in Muscat, Oman.
- He also mentions a trip he took to Finland to visit a ‘management school without teachers‘. That is Team Academy: the Entrepreneurship Centre of Excellence of the JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland.
- CoOrpheum: is a co-working space in Dresden.
- Ralf is currently on a mission to establish a new hightech institution to fuel the innovative entrepreneurship eco-system in Dresden. That project is InnoBay.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 33:10 — 15.2MB)
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Credits: Intro music by Sic Alps / by-nc-sa
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at 9:26 am
A big THANKS to Daryl for having me on interview last Thursday
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The visit to Australia (Sydney and Melbourne) has meant a lot for me especially not seeing much of the countryside and learning more about the people , has fueled up the pulling force to come back in short time.
Yesterday while meeting with friends (who know what I stand for, connecting people and bringing big “dreams” forward, only not having a plan (so it seems for most of them) for a Tweetup in Dresden there opened a time window to explain a bit more. Interestingly as the group size decreased and we sat around the table I naturally unpacked my Postits (I now have always a pack with me). It felt like this made the difference in shifting the conversation from question (“What are you really doing? What is your plan?”) and answer (“The vision is to bring up an entrepreneurial connecting think tank in Dresden, that combines hightech, arts, and social change”) to a real dialogue – it was amazing! The feedback of Steffen says it all http://twitter.com/Steffenster/status/97063703463206912 (Thanks to all for a nice evening and intense “thought battles”)
…. things evolve and there is no fixed plan that you could show somebody who is not involved in the process (at least not in the short and one sentence answer
Cheers from a winterly Dresden (where it should be summer instead)
Ralf
at 3:47 am
… next big thing already well under way. Thanks a lot Daryl, David, Annalie, Jean, Kate, John, and all the others at #Amplifyfest and #gathering11 for generating the energy that drives me in accelerating fashion from day to day. [further details, if you are curious, to be found in link on my name]
at 10:08 am
Amazing Ralf — wishing you every success on this next part of the journey!