{"id":624,"date":"2006-05-17T15:20:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T21:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/17\/lunch-with-shilpa-jain\/"},"modified":"2006-05-17T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T21:20:35","slug":"lunch-with-shilpa-jain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/17\/lunch-with-shilpa-jain\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Shilpa Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a rare treat, lunch with my friend Shilpa Jain. Rare because she lives in India, Udaipur to be exact. Once upon a time we ran a few days of Open Space Technology training together, for her organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaraj.org\/shikshantar\/\">Shikshantar<\/a>, the People&#8217;s Institute for Rethinking Education and Development.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite of all the stories we told today was of a week-long bicycle trip 14 colleagues did last October in India &#8212; without cash. They rode out, with signs, juggling gear, sleeping pads, jewelry making tools and no food on their bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>The signs invited conversation. The other stuff was some of what they used to survive&#8230; by offering entertainment, cleaning, carrying, and other &#8220;body labor&#8221; along the way, bridging the gap between urban and rural people, and learning a lot about simple, human relations, economics, exchange, humility and power. I think the humility of the endeavor is most impressive for me.<\/p>\n<p>Shikshantar is doing community work with zero-waste and organic urban gardening.  I shared my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/12\/nestworking\/\"><em>Nestworking<\/em><\/a> experiment and Shilpa has connected me with somebody here in town working on community gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Shilpa brought me a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaraj.org\/shikshantar\/expressions_toc.htm\">Expressions Annual 2005<\/a>, a journal recently published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abhivyakti.org.in\">abhivyakti.org.in<\/a> in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaraj.org\/shikshantar\/expressions_herman.pdf\">Shilpa interviews me<\/a> about Open Space. Dialogue, walking, film-making, cooperative games, and a piece by Juanita Brown on World Cafe are also featured this year.<\/p>\n<p>Jill and I are hoping to meet up with Shilpa in Udaipur this Fall, but likely not for the next cashless bike\/work tour. Guess we&#8217;ll just have to organize our own tour here in Chicago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a rare treat, lunch with my friend Shilpa Jain. Rare because she lives in India, Udaipur to be exact. Once upon a time we ran a few days of Open Space Technology training together, for her organization, Shikshantar, the People&#8217;s Institute for Rethinking Education and Development. My favorite of all the stories we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/17\/lunch-with-shilpa-jain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lunch with Shilpa Jain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12,23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-media","category-community-care","category-learning-and-education","category-open-space-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}