The leadership workshop at the Unity Pavilion.Bindu shares what she learnt from the ongoing Stewardship Workshops being offered in Auroville by Monica Sharma, through the support of SAIIER.I remember an old-timer agonizing that while the Mother gave us this beautiful Charter, she did not leave us with a blueprint on how to manifest the Charter – on how to embody, in the context of building a town, all the values of Auroville pertaining to individual and social transformation. And that lack of clarity on how to proceed constantly trips us – we either wring our hands in despair at our inability to change things and say “thus is human nature” or worse, proceed to build the city with relentless religious fervour in the certainty that if we just get the Crown Road right, or the Crystal right, things will be miraculously transformed.For the past decade, like perhaps many other Aurovilians, I have chosen not to be actively involved in the governance of Auroville. I have turned down all o...
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