Happy Earth Day, Today Problems Come From Yesterday Solutions

It was shock me when my friend Inayah told me that she saw a documentary film about Climate Change and Global Warming on Metro TV that conclude "Every natural disaster are made by people".

On the weekend of April 15-16, 2007 I joined a workshop called Learning Organization in Jakarta which organized by Initiatives of Change Indonesia and facilitated by sincere lady Ms. Sheila Damodaran from Singapore. This workshop attracted 20 persons from many backgrounds, from students to Human Resource Consultant.

In that inspiring class, we talked on Disaster in Indonesia, then we split to two themes on Natural Disaster and Man Made Disaster. Some example on natural disaster that we had are flood, earthquake, landslide, and tsunami. Beside, on man made disaster we had plane crash, and ship sink. After that, in a group with 3-4 persons we write down some of the factors or reasons from the social, technology, economic, political (STEP) factors where the disasters are coming from, based on perspective from the government side, private sectors side and people side. After all, we stick all the flip chart in the wall and try to connect one another with causality line.

It was AMAZING when we found that every cause are interrelated one another. "Today problem come from yesterday solution" is worked here. So, from that simple pictures that we had drawn together, come up a conclusion that what we called before as A Natural Disaster is A Man Made Disaster.

In this two days workshop on level one from three level of Learning Organization we had already learn on System Thinking (understanding complexity) and Mental Model. Cannot waiting for the next workshop on May 2007.
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