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Issue No: 313-314, August-September 2015

Initiators and Sustainers

I am part of an Auroville Task group that prepared governance goals for the recent Retreat. The group was very dynamic for the first phase of its existence but now that it has entered the next phase, that of fulfilling its post-Retreat responsibilities to materialise these goals, it is finding it hard to revive that former energy and commitment.  There are many possible explanations for this but one thing that strikes me is that the energy required to initiate a project is very different from the energy needed to sustain it. Initiators, for example, tend to be one-pointed, focused on specific goals, and highly creative in suggesting pathways towards it.  Sustainers are those skilled in keeping a group together or a project running long past its initial ‘glamorous’ phase. Where initiators tend to be creative in ideas, the creativity of sustainers lies in their interpersonal skills, in finding ways of getting diverse individuals to work towards a common goal. ...
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Issue No. 313-314, August-September 2015

  • Scenes from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
  • A Testimony to Stubborn Persistence
  • Initiators and Sustainers
  • Economics for People and Earth - part 2
  • Newcomer Housing
  • The Integral Entrepeneurship Lab
  • India, Land of Light
  • "There are many more Aurovilians in the world"
  • International Youth Day
  • Reading the Runes
  • New Books and DVDs
  • A 4000 Ladies' Special
  • Two New Land Campaigns
  •  Petra Janko (Passing)
  • Juanita Cole (Passing)
  • Brief News
  • Youth Link Takes Off
  • Auroville's Spirituality

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