About
Ideagiant.org was started by Guru Dorje who was an immigrant to the United States of Tibetan heritage. He arrived in Seattle, Washington with his family and a total of 20 dollars. From this humble beginning he worked his way through college and graduate school and then dedicated 15 loving years to the education field. He strongly believes that all systems arise out of value foundations such as: selfishness or selflessness. He took this belief and constructed education departments based upon the selfless model that were called: student centric, compassionate, holistic programs. The programs that he designed were for out of school youth: adjudicated, parenting, abused, mental health issues, etc. They were successful in increasing basic/developmental skills in underserved youth and being a conduit for them to pass into a post secondary education: Harvard University, George Washington University, and University of Washington being a few of schools that that the students went too.
Ideagiant.org takes the same belief that values are the foundation of all subsequent actions. When we have the right values we are able to create systems that are, at a fundemental basis, based upon our best natures. Ideagiant.org will have two primary focuses: Online and Offline.
1) The online presence will be focused on the dissemination of ideas and give the support to make them a reality (starting with the blueprint blogs). Its model is best described as an open source for ideas that allows for one to be both grantee and grantor-that donations will be a secondary part of the equation and treated as a necessity. A necessity that the founders like to say,
“is like the process of digestion. We need it to occur but nobody focuses their entire life on digestion. We pay attention to it as much as is necessary to make the body work successfully, but it is not a purpose. It is our values, the ideas that arise from them, and the process of making them a reality that make for a meaningful life”
2) The offline presence will be focused on Value Foundation Development by leading groups on how to identify, become aware, master, and craft their value foundations in various Systems manifestations (personal: parenting, family, business, non-prof. etc). This will have an online aspect e.g. podcast, event listing, but it will be used as a conduit to the offline artifact (groups, seminar, etc.)
Ideagiant.org is a process and will always be one. It is an idea that is conscientiously, consciously, and explicitly partisan* in its hopes of being a medium to change the world’s value paradigm to reflect our best natures.
Ideagiant.org where ideas become a movement.
“As long as space endures, as long as sentient being remain, so to shall I remain to dispel the miseries of the world”-Shantideva
*we do not believe that partisanship is the error of our modern age, that it is what we are partisan for that is the error. To seek non-partisanship is to default to our ingrained paradigm which for many reasons: historical, environmental, etc. is steeped in the selfish realm.