100 Voices
At Recrear, we are creating new ways of interacting and delivering projects in international development by integrating young people’s ideas and energy.
Collective poem: Going Inward.
Today, we hosted a creative session to explore our emotions around the CODIV-19 crisis. This is our collective poem. How are your emotions speaking to ?
A remote cooperative inquiry to renew our organisation
The description of a year-long participatory research that Recrear undertook to re-think itself.
Tierra Verde
Someone asked me today, ‘De que color es su tierra?’ – What color is your land? Confused I asked him what he meant and he responded ‘Mi tierra es verde por todo que hay que…
How do you predict the weather?
I was travelling in a teetering wooden canoe along Rio Conambo in the middle of Ecuador’s South-East Amazon. We had just arrived in Ripano, a small hilltop community. The jungle was so thick I could barely…
Surrendering to Serendipity and Finding Direction for our Passions!
I rocked up in Montreal for Recrear Magnify 2015 with very little idea of what to expect but filled with a strong sense that it was just what I needed right now, both personally and professionally…..I…
Time to Unpack Our Baggage
RecrearMagnify is such a personal journey for me: One part personal development, one part professional development, and one part life-long frienship building. For the organization, its a time for skills-building and stratigicplanning, but its also a…
Something a little Different: “Dumi Does”
A spontaneous happening on a random Tuesday evening enabled us to tap into a different level of consciousness and shared understanding of three individuals in our group. This was brought about through the sharing of stories…
Magnify Through Photos
Over the first three days of Recrear Magnify 2015, participants were treated to a personal development retreat at Centre Tara. Located in the country side an hour away from Montreal, participants had to tap in to…
Unofficial Spaces: Making Memories
The best part about these kind of initiatives is often the quiet moments in between official sessions, when young people get to engage with each other on day to day issues such as marriage, intercontinental differences and…
Diving into our emotions
How can I give myself permission to change and grow? And as I change, how do I contribute to the system surrounding me? Who am I to the social system I struggle to accept? Am I…
Big Brother or Real World?
There is a powerful word that is often used loosely or inaccurately defined: Diversity. This is something Magnify has come to be well known for. With different personalities, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives on day to day aspects…
Pathways to Gender Based Violence Prevention
Our new online Creative Movement and Physical Theatre series
Moving Inward
Our new online Creative Movement and Physical Theatre series
Soy Emoción (un poema colectivo)
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36 questions to fall in love (with your ally/partner/donor)
An adaptation of the NYT's 36 questions to fall in love - a tool to deeper conversation with your allies and partners.
Being seen and seeing through PAR
Being seen and seeing through PAR With Recrear A poem, kinda A new language undefined by words but rather by presence. An experience of the senses beyond the restrictive probing, prodding and fickleness of one world…
Who are the people we go to in times of need?
During the Magnify experience, there have been a couple of instances of understanding and deep connection with somebody else that have left me feeling a little sad. I am not sad at the connection in that…
Meet this year’s RecrearMagnify Crew
RecrearMagnify is starting this Sunday! We are super excited to bring together a group of extraordinary practitioners from all over the world. For two weeks we will be answering together the question: “How do I recognise…
What’s ‘the system’ to me?
Have you ever found yourself blaming the system for not realizing a dream you once had? Have you declared not wanting to be part of it anymore? Have you called for ‘systematic change’? I certainly have.…
Unraveling ourselves in the system
How can I give myself permission to change and grow? And as I change, how do I contribute to the system surrounding me? Who am I to the social system I struggle to accept? Am I…
The ghost of incoherence – Whose knowledge is it anyways?
It took me a few weeks to digest the experience of attending the ‘Global Assembly of Knowledge Democracy’ organized by the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA). Something about the conference did not feel right,…
Why we are taking a Magnify sabbatical
It’s our 7th year, and we are taking a Magnify sabbatical For six years in a row, we’ve had the great honor of holding space for social innovators from all over the world during our two-week…
The things that make us happy
We think about happiness a lot when we work with people. So much so that we created an exercise around it. In celebration of the International Day of Happiness, we’d like to share the technique with…
Allsorts
That morning, I went to pee. Everything stilled. There were two doors. A person with a skirt and one without. I breathed out, and walked forward. Washing my hands next to a woman doing her lipstick,…
Our art
As I write this, I am sitting in a funky hostel in Cali, Colombia… When I arrived this afternoon, my eyes got caught up by a dozen bright coloured string on the floor. Next to…
Stuck in an elevator 16 people – What would you do?
Imagine 16 people leaving a house party at 2 AM where everyone has had enough drinks to be at least tipsy, and then getting stuck in a 3 m² elevator at basement level with no cellphone…
Circular Reflections
Dear Loved Colleagues, I remember the day I learnt what I was going to be growing up. It was July 2009 and I was walking the streets of Nablus, West Bank (Palestine). I had spent the…
Magnify 2015 – A thank you poem by Barnabas
Barnabas’ goodbye poem. Play the audio here:[divider] To thank you all for such a wonderful time, I thought I would try to write up a rhyme An Instagram Jesus, Chris you must be, Silent, lovely,…
Flash of luck
Have you ever felt that you were in the right place at the right time for NO particular reason? That feeling that goes through your body and makes you aware of all the possibilities. I have…