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We Are Made for These Times - Becoming Wiser Together

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Time: October 13, 2017 from 8:30am to 3:30pm
Location: UIC Student Center East, 3rd Floor Cardinal Room
Street: 750 South Halsted Ave, Chicago
City/Town: Chicago
Website or Map: http://events.constantcontact…
Phone: 847 530 6779
Event Type: wiser, together, gathering
Organized By: Lina Cramer
Latest Activity: Oct 14, 2017

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Join us for a day dedicated to pursing how we can become Wiser Together and more prepared to address the challenges and opportunities for these times. Together with World Cafe founders Juanita Brown and David Isaacs and Wiser Together collaborators Ashley Cooper, David Shaw and Renee Jackson we will explore how World Cafe and other dialogue processes strengthen conversational leadership and social change efforts.

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Comment by Norlyn Dimmitt on October 14, 2017 at 5:41am: I participated my first World Cafe yesterday (UIC, Becoming Wiser Together). It was a wonderful experience..

I'm convinced that the World Cafe community can be a catalyst for a #CompassionateCitizens Movement.

We envision 30 million #CompassionateCitizens in the U.S., coming together in Meetups, having respectful dialogue-across-diversity, and embracing three memes associated with an inclusive, compassionate culture, democracy, and economy:

1. A culture of compassion/peace

2. A wiser/deliberative democracy

3. A triple bottom line economy

The vision is to unite a million "silos of compassion" around a single idea -- the vast majority of us embrace compassion and citizenship as important values.

We believe that having a sufficient, public tally of support for 3 movements (via membership in perhaps 10,000 #CompassionateCitizens Meetup groups) could provide the critical mass to politically and economically empower our collective wisdom and compassion.

I invite all in the Chicagoland World Cafe Community, to connect with me.

[See https://charterforcompassion.org/communities, which was the inspiration for establishing Compassionate Citizens Foundation.]

All existing, mission aligned civic engagement projects and cafes can operate under the #CompassionateCitizens umbrella, with Meetup as a platform that facilitates both online and face to face interaction.

Collaboration between silos and visibility (public awareness) are surely two keys to accelerating the movement for a world that works for all.

Norlyn Dimmitt, FSA

Founder, Connection Realty

Geneva, IL

630-362-4663

P.S. For more on our social mission and vision, see:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/norlyn/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/interfaith-dialogue-deliberative-dem...