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Here you will find the latest news about our events and activities, articles from staff, directors and associates, details of seminars and courses, press releases, essays on human relations and associated issues, along with archive materials that reflect our interests and commitments.

Job opportunity – Financial Administrator

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An opening has arisen for a Financial Administrator to work at Oasis. The role has at its core the financial administration of our services: counselling, consultancy and one-to-one executive development. We are seeking a reliable, organised person with excellent human relations skills. You will be responsible for maintaining financial spreadsheets, creating invoices, updating budgets and [...]

August 22nd 2012 Read full article

Developing Your Organisation

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Two new manuals have now been posted on the website. Both are in the Developing Your Organisation series. Team Development in Organisations is a comprehensive resource for anyone who is or has been a member of a team. It highlights the differences between groups and teams, giving considerable insight into the particular features of teams and provides [...]

July 3rd 2012 Read full article

There is No Planet B/More Connected Than We Know

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Two new videos have been added to the Oasis website. The first, More Connected Than We Know, is a compilation of comments by students, young people and community activists from around the world. They were asked their thoughts on the state of the world and the role of business in shaping it. It was created [...]

June 29th 2012 Read full article

Grey clouds over Rio

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The final post in a series of blogs from the UN Earth Summit, Rio+20, by Oasis Core Associate Chris Taylor. There are stormy skies over Rio this morning as Heads of State roll into town to sign the Summit agreement. War ships patrol the coast and military helicopters hover under the slate grey cloud. Then [...]

June 25th 2012 Read full article

Connecting through creativity

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The fourth blog from Oasis Core Associate Chris Taylor, who is attending the UN Earth Summit.  Rio’s People’s Summit has the feel of a summer carnival – except that it’s punctuated by marches of Amazonian Indians fully decked in feathered headresses and painted chests. We set up camp next to a tent where speakers take [...]

June 21st 2012 Read full article

Climbing A Mountain With Three Summits

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The third blog in a series by Oasis Associate Chris Taylor, writing from the UN Earth Summit in Rio. One of the noticeable things here in Rio is that it’s not one summit but three. At the far Western end of the city in a complex of pavilions is the official inter-governmental summit. The site [...]

June 20th 2012 Read full article

The Power of Something Different

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The second blog post from Oasis Associate Chris Taylor, who is attending the UN Earth Summit 50+20 in Rio on behalf of Oasis.  Anders, an affable Swede, leans in urgently over coffee, holding me with his eyes: “There’s too much business as usual here. They are behaving like they can carry on as usual and [...]

June 19th 2012 Read full article

Creating a biography of Oasis

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We need your help! Oasis has commissioned a piece of artwork that will create a sense of the history of the school. Artist Becky Heaton Cooper is going to create a collage that brings alive our biography over the decades of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Do you have any photos from the early days [...]

June 19th 2012 Read full article

Rio+20 must not be another Copenhagen

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Dr Katrin Muff, Dean of Lausanne Business School, blogs some very honest and interesting thoughts on her way to the UN Earth Summit in Rio: http://50plus20.org/archives/2336?utm_source=50%2B20+News+and+Alerts&utm_campaign=59cffacead-BLOG_POST_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email.

June 18th 2012 Read full article

Towards a Green Economy?

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Oasis Core Associate Chris Taylor is attending the UN Earth Summit in Rio, representing Oasis. Here is the first of his blog updates. The young woman next to me on the plane jiggled her leg the whole flight. Ten and a half hours. Even when she was asleep. Maria was an Italian activist also travelling [...]

June 18th 2012 Read full article