Maggie Kaplan, Founder and Executive Director of Invoking the Pause (ITP), recently was interviewed for the new Fall 2012 Issue Feature Section of ARCADE Magazine, exploring the theme of Global More=Global Less. "Having time for mulling and incubation is essential to finding truly integrated, innovative strategies". 

Maggie "has committed to supporting exploration through small grants that give recipients the freedom of time to explore intellectual and meaningful connections.  This generosity is essential in shifting profoundly embedded values and patterns."    » Read More

Last week members of Daily Acts Organization (DAO), Ecology of Leadership (EOL), Transition US (TUS) and an independent filmmaker took a pause from busy lives. In a beautiful setting in rural California we reviewed our programs, skills, audiences and interests in the light of synergies, leverage and potential. We surprised ourselves with the richness of the possibilities and the natural fit of many seemingly different pieces. Ordering and reordering, prioritizing and rolling out timelines - in effect, we sizzled. Excitement grew, respect landed and new programs came to light.  

In five days we were able to achieve a year's worth of meetings. » Read More

New York Times Dot Earth columnist Andrew C. Revkin reports on returning ITP Grant Partner, Nicole Heller and the climate retreat pause she coordinated in North Carolina along with Dr. Bill Chameides, Dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. 
Read the article here.

Dr. Bill Chameides is Dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a contributing writer to the Huff Post Green, a section of the Huffington Post. Recently, Huff Post Green featured Dr. Chameides' article on ITP Grant Partner and Climate Scientist Nicole Heller's retreat in North Carolina.

Returning ITP Grant Partner and Climate Scientist Nicole Heller of Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, along with several neuroscientists, climate scientists and artists, recently gathered for a two day retreat in North Carolina. Their coming together may change the way we receive the climate change message.  Read about their "pause" here.
 

From Kronos to Kairos:  Invoking The Pause - Acre, Brazil

"Lots of things have changed since I was a child," Erishi a 15-year-old pregnant daughter of one of the Ashaninka leaders told us in Portuguese when we asked her if she had noticed any changes in the climate in her area.  "When I was a child I never used to get sunburned.  Now I do.   I used to be able to dive into the river, now it's too shallow..."  Erishi, who has a quiet, thoughtful, demeanor, with wise eyes, rosy cheeks and a kind smile calmly described the changes to the climate she has seen in her corner of the Amazon jungle where her community subsists entirely off resources they grow, hunt and fish in the jungle.  I was amazed that she could recall such dramatic changes at her young age.  » Read More

XS Leadership Transitions to Local Team

“A little over two years ago, when I started working with XSProject, the organization was close to going out of business. The non-profit was being run primarily by volunteers, product sales were not covering expenses, and there were limited prospects for new revenue. The situation was dire. Thanks to Invoking The Pause, a group of committed supporters, and the dedication of the team on the ground in Indonesia, we were able to turn the situation around.”

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“We did it!! Just before the close of 2011, XSProject received notice that the organization had been admitted to the WFTO Asia. WFTO Asia is a regional chapter of the World Fair Trade Organization, the global leader in certifying local producers as adherents to Fair Trade standards.”

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Invoking the Pause Founder and Executive Director, Maggie Kaplan, was recently featured in The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW) West May 2012 member newsletter.

TPW May 2012 Newsletter

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