Silvia Hagen
Life begins, where your comfort zone ends.
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I have spent my life, even since childhood, with exploring consciousness, trying to understand how it works and most importantly to find out how I can expand it.
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These days I am learnig from the wisdom of nature and the forest.
My name Silvia derives from the Latin word "silva", which means forest. Maybe my mother had a premonition when she gave me this name.
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i was born in the French part of Switzerland to German speaking parents and therefore raised bi-lingual. I mention this because I believe that language and how we use it has a lot to do with consciousness. I decided not to go to University, I have always loved the more pragmatic approach. Do things, not think about things. So I spent six years in the music industry which was a fascinating time (in the golden 80-ies).
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After my time in the music industry, and after I had become a mother, I started to work in IT and soon started my own company Sunny Connection. I became a consultant and coach for many large and international enterprises, based on the fact, that I had written some well known books about the Internet Protocol (IP) In these projects I learned to understand how large organizations work, what dynamics they have and what their biggest issues are.
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I learned that the most obvious problem in many cases was a lack of communication and holistic thinking. Often the departments within the company ran in their own isolated tube and did not talk to each other. So no wonder they had network and other issues.
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I decided that it was time to invent new forms of organizations. And I did an education in integral and systemic organizational development. On my research I discovered the Agile community and the famous book by Frederic Laloux, called "Reinventing Organizations".
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Why am I boring you with this? Because, if you read the twelve principles of Permaculture, it happens to be that they can be applied to organizations almost one on one. Similar to what Frederic Laloux describes it in his book.
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Today with the initiation of my project Panambi, I combine my understanding of consciousness, integral thinking and permaculture with my passion for the forest.
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When we dive into the wisdom and beautfy of nature and the forest, we can learn everything we need to know about consciousness and healthy communities.