Ideas & Passions - The World Cafe Community2024-03-29T06:29:46Zhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/forum/categories/ideas-passions/listForCategory?categoryId=3306069%3ACategory%3A43&feed=yes&xn_auth=noEcologically and Socially Sustainable Education: Creating a Sustainable World.tag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2015-08-04:3306069:Topic:1075002015-08-04T20:08:39.605ZJan Hearthstonehttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/JanHearthstone
<p align="left"><font style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="URW Gothic L, Arial"><b>Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Education:<br></br> Creating a Sustainable World.</b><br></br><br></br> Published at <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=1845981">http://ssrn.com/author=1845981</a><br></br> Author:<br></br> Mr. Jan Hearthstone<br></br> <br></br></font></font></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 200%;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="URW Gothic L, Arial"><b><u>Abstract.</u><br></br> The purpose of ecologically…</b></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="URW Gothic L, Arial"><b>Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Education:<br/> Creating a Sustainable World.</b><br/><br/> Published at <a href="http://ssrn.com/author=1845981">http://ssrn.com/author=1845981</a><br/> Author:<br/> Mr. Jan Hearthstone<br/> <br/></font></font></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;" align="left"><font style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="URW Gothic L, Arial"><b><u>Abstract.</u><br/> The purpose of ecologically and socially sustainable education is to teach the skills and to impart knowledge necessary for the establishment and perpetuation of ecologically and socially sustainable society. The first step is to determine what an "ecologically and socially sustainable society" is. This is achieved by reconciling and unifying of <i>all</i> individual ideas that there ever might exist of what should constitute an "ecologically and socially sustainable society" into a unified model--a model acceptable to all because it is based on all knowledge of Earth and societal processes pertinent to the subject, and because everyone can participate in the modeling process. This unification in a model is necessary in order to avoid costly resolving ("costly" in terms of time, energy, resources, and, not infrequently, lives) of differences among those ideas in real life. This ongoing process of "reconciling and unifying of all individual ideas" into a unified model in itself would be <i>the</i> "ecologically and socially sustainable education" to the participants, because this unification process of all the diverse ideas would show what ideas would be more sustainable than others (or not), and <i>why</i> this should be so; in order to design a world that they would like to live in the participants would learn everything necessary for this while participating in the designing process. They would have an active interest in doing so--they would be designing a life for themselves that they would like to have. This, in itself, would constitute the best possible form of a government.<br/> <br/> <u>Keywords.</u><br/> "ecologically and socially sustainable education", "ecological and social sustainability", sustainable, sustainability, education, "The Path of Least Resistance", "Robert Fritz", "Mahayana philosophy", Mahayana, philosophy<br/> <br/> <u>Introduction.</u><br/> It could be argued that for humans to live sustainably is the optimal way to exist, a way that would generate the least amount of suffering for humans and many other beings who share this world with them. The principal idea expressed in this paper--the purposeful and conscious designing of our collective sustainable future collaboratively, with the participation of all who have an interest in achieving a satisfactory future--is based on the philosophy of Mahayana (please see bellow and/or <a href="http://www.academia.edu/206337">http://www.academia.edu/206337</a> /Mahayana_Philosophy_for_Sustainability ) and the practical approach to creating of desired results as it is formulated in <i>The Path of Least Resistance</i> by Robert Fritz (Fritz 1984).<br/> <br/> At present there are many people who know what they do not want in their lives, but a very few who have formed a definite image of what their ideal life should be. There are much fewer people who would like have their future to be sustainable, and there exist a myriad definitions of "sustainability", many of which are not even compatible with each other. A lot of time, resources, and energy are being wasted on trying to reconcile the differences among those definitions in real time and space. All this waste could be avoided by reconciling these differences in a model, i. e. by deciding the viability of any idea by modeling in virtuality "concrete" applications of any ideas in consideration pertaining to our future.<br/> <br/> Even people who do not "believe" in sustainability could use the modeling process to see how their ideas of what an ideal world should be like in a model. I contend that by using the modeling process continually, even using input of people who do not "believe" in sustainability, eventually the result would have to, inevitably, be a portrayal of a sustainable world, because no other way other than sustainable could ever be as justifiable, nor any other results could ever be as elegant and parsimonious as sustainable ones.<br/> <br/> The modeling of the ideal, would never be in any way influenced by any ideologies, creeds, or personalities of the in-putters. Only the realization that we all have to share the Earth together with as little conflict as possible would matter. Only the relevance of ideas to creating of the ideal would matter.<br/> <br/> The modeling of an ideal future could be used even in small scale situations in conflict resolutions and also in deciding the future of smaller social units.<br/> <br/> <u>What is "ecologically and socially sustainable education"?</u><br/> Ecologically and socially sustainable education helps to establish and maintain an ecologically and socially sustainable society. It is a part of designing of an ecologically and socially sustainable world. Participants learn what they have to learn about what "ecological and social sustainability" is, while designing their own ideal lives themselves as they go--learning what they need to learn.<br/> <br/> <u>What is an "ecological and social sustainability"?</u><br/> There are many definitions of what constitutes "sustainability", let alone "ecological and social sustainability". Some are less abstruse than others, but there is not a single one definition of "sustainability" that would satisfy everybody.<br/> <br/> Therefore, in order to be able to define "ecological and social sustainability", the best definition of the term would be actually showing in a model what an ideal sustainable state of any geopolitical entity ought to be by collectively inputting individual definitions into models and reconciling the differences among them by representing "concrete" portrayals of the optimal sustainable states of those entities.<br/> (All the above is further elaborated upon bellow).<br/> <br/> <u>The need for a model that would show what an "ecologically and socially sustainable" world should look like.</u><br/> The unification of all ideas about what our collective future should be like in a model is necessary in order to avoid costly resolving (costly in terms of time, energy, resources, and--not infrequently--lives) of differences among those ideas in real life.<br/> <br/> It is necessary to have a good definition of "sustainable" for working purposes. Only by modeling of this definition we can get definitions of "sustainable" that actually would be "visible"--made "visible"--by "concrete" applications of what might be considered "sustainable" in a model.<br/> <br/> To reconcile all the various definitions of "ecological and social sustainability" (and to unify all ideas about what our collective future should be like generally) I propose that all of these are used to construct a model that would portray what an "ecologically and socially sustainable" (henceforth "sustainable" in this paper, for brevity sake) society, or any social entity of any size--from a local community to the whole Earth encompassing humanity. In such a model it would be possible to "see" what the each definition of "ecological and social sustainability" ("sustainability" from now on, but let us not forget that "sustainability" should be a holistic concept, that demands all of its components to be thoroughly "sustainable" themselves) would look like when translated from the abstract to a "visible" representation of "sustainability", if in virtuality only. In this way each of the definitions' viability could be "seen" and evaluated against all other definitions and against all knowledge that is important in deciding what is "sustainable" and what is not so (e. g.--availability and distribution of resources, form of the society, and such).<br/> <br/> It is important to stress that this modeling should not be about "problem solving"! According to Robert Fritz in <i>The Path of Least Resistance</i> (Fritz 1984) the process of creating the results that we want to have in our lives cannot depend on "problem solving", because we never, really, run out of problems ever, and even, very unlikely, when we solve all of our problems, we still might not be even close to having what we really want to have, especially, if we don't know what that might be. The modeling has to focus on the results that we do want to have in our common reality.<br/> <br/> The resultant emerging portrayal of an ideal state of things would not depend on the personalities of people inputting the model--only ideas would compete with each other. The process would not be hampered by the prestige, or the lack thereof, of people inputting the modeling process. Nor could anyone personally profit from taking a part in the process. The "profit" would lie in making it possible for all to design and to strive for the optimal home ever for all involved possibly obtainable with no one excluded from the process of doing so.<br/> <br/> In essence the shaping of human society on any level, from a local community government to global concerns, driven by the desire to approach the ideal, would supersede, eventually, any form of government in existence currently, because once a justified, unified objective would be identified, the actions to achieve it would always be defensible, and because no one ever would be excluded from the political action.<br/> <br/> There is a qualitative difference between the way the society would be governed by using the modeling process and the way politics is being conducted currently. Today our future is being shaped by a very small portion of humanity, excluding a huge proportion of people who cannot influence their future significantly. Much discontent thus generated will create problems in the future, problems that will be resolved to the satisfaction of only a few again--the number of problems will be increasing till they will be "solved", for a while, by some major societal catastrophe.<br/> <br/> In contrast, no one ever could be excluded from modeling the ideal state of the world--all who would care to live in a better world would always be able to improve on the ideal. No one's effort in modeling of the ideal and in contributing to achieving of the ideal would be wasted--actions small and actions big will all flow coherently into the realization of the ideal--both in the model and in reality. Differences that there are among people and cause so much unhappiness in real life could be dealt with, could be resolved in the model preemptively.<br/> <br/> <u>Sustainable education springs from the need of bridging the current reality with the desired state of affairs.</u><br/> <br/> With a visible, collaboratively being created, and generally upon agreed model of what our ideal common reality should actually be, it would always be possible to see what the discrepancy between what is desired and what actually exists currently, in relation to the ideal, is. This discrepancy between the desired goal and what there is in reality (in respects to the desired goal) alone would be the driving force of sustainable education (I am alluding to Fritz's description in <i>The Path of Least Resistance</i> --Fritz 1984--of how "structural tension" between the desired objective and its "current reality" drives the creation of desired results).<br/> <br/> Sustainable education would always makes sense, because at each point the whichever particular knowledge that is being acquired is clearly "seen" (by comparing the modeled desired reality with the current reality) as being necessary to know in order to achieve that which is desired.<br/> The start of the modeling process itself would be the start of sustainable education.<br/> <br/> <u>Conclusion.</u><br/> Most problems that humanity experiences are human made, and this fact implies a hope--it might well be within human powers to effect the healing of our world.<br/> <br/> The "old" way of doing things will never do; obviously the "old" way got us to where we are now. We cannot look back trying to find solutions to our present problems, because any "solutions" from the past helped to get us exactly to where we are now. Any solutions based on humanity's experience from the past that have been tried have been proven ineffective, so far; ineffective in trying to deal with issues that really matter--fulfilling the basic life on Earth needs satisfactorily--QED.<br/> <br/> We have to look, as if, into the future for solutions, more precisely--we have to design our future to our collective satisfaction, and then we can work to make this designed future our reality. It is very important to know what it actually is that we desire to have.<br/> <br/> Alone the existence of a constantly updated, evolving model of an ideal state of the Earth would greatly improve even our current political process by "seeing" to what degree each political decision would, or would not, help to achieve the ideal state.<br/> <br/> <u>References.</u><br/> <br/> Mahayana:<br/> Mahayana and Ecological and Social Sustainability.<br/></b>(The following reflects author's own personal understanding of the terms "Mahayana" and "Bodhisattva").<br/> <br/> <b>Mahayana is a view that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all phenomena across all time and space (no phenomenon is an isolated "island"), and that any one being's well-being depends on the well-being of every other being across all time and all space.<br/> <br/> A Bodhisattva is one who strives to realize the ideal of Mahayana, and therefore regards the well-being of all other beings as important as one's own.<br/> <br/> To live ecologically and socially sustainably means to acknowledge the need of all other beings to live well also.<br/> <br/> The need for living ecologically and socially sustainably is implicit in Mahayana.<br/> <br/> An aspiring Bodhisattva would help all beings to be mentally and physically optimally well, and therefore an aspiring Bodhisattva would promote the way of living ecologically and socially sustainably in all places and in all times.<br/> <br/> A traditional Mahayana dedication--affirming, focusing on what the actual ultimate goal of life should be:<br/> "May all beings benefit optimally everywhere and always". (A philosophy quite suitable for achieving an ecologically and socially sustainable world.)<br/> <br/> Mahayana's noble goal is to cause all beings to become ultimately happy, with no beings left behind in suffering. Thus Mahayana philosophy might be best suitable as an ideology for creating and maintaining of ecologically and socially sustainable society, because Mahayana's concern is the ultimate happiness of all beings, transcending all differences--be those differences in species, ideologies, creeds, classes, and any such differences--that divide all beings. All beings' welfare is important in Mahayana's view, as it is in true sustainability, where all members of a system are important.<br/> <br/> To live ecologically and socially sustainably does not imply a complete abolition of all beings' suffering which is the goal of Mahayana--that would be impossible to achieve with our mere "earthly" means--, but to live sustainably would prevent most of unnecessary suffering from happening, at least.<br/> <br/> Fritz, Robert<br/> The Path of Least Resistance, Salem, MA, DMA, Inc., 1984, ISBN: 0-930641-00-0<br/> <br/> <i>The Path of Least Resistance</i> by Robert Fritz (Fritz 1984) teaches how to create results that one desires in one's life; it is based on the common sense observation that it is impossible to achieve something that one doesn't know what it actually is. In order to achieve a result one first has to know what it is that one wants to achieve in as small a detail as possible, or, at least, to know what one wants to achieve so well that when one would encounter this goal realized, one would recognize it without a fail. This is very important in achieving sustainability--as it is today, we are professing that sustainability is what we want to achieve, with a little or no consensus among ourselves as to what this "sustainability" should actually be! It is my conviction that it will be impossible for us to ever become sustainable, unless we agree on what "sustainable"/"sustainability" is.<br/> <br/> The process is described in <i>The Path of Least Resistance</i> as "creating", because it concerns bringing into reality results that might not have existed ever before, bringing into being results as if out of nothing (the foregoing is loosely paraphrased from the book-- <i>The Path of Least Resistance</i> by Robert Fritz--Fritz 1984).</b></font></font></p> Applications in fundraising?tag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2013-12-16:3306069:Topic:947772013-12-16T18:09:24.489ZRobb Kushnerhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/RobbKushner
<p>Hello WC friends,</p>
<p>I'm wondering if anyone out there has used World Cafe in any way to support a fundraising (or development) effort. If so, I'd love to hear about your experiences.</p>
<p>Thanks - and best regards - Robb Kushner, Jersey City</p>
<p>Hello WC friends,</p>
<p>I'm wondering if anyone out there has used World Cafe in any way to support a fundraising (or development) effort. If so, I'd love to hear about your experiences.</p>
<p>Thanks - and best regards - Robb Kushner, Jersey City</p> Join a "deconstructed World Cafe" experiment!tag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2013-10-07:3306069:Topic:931342013-10-07T19:28:21.773ZBen Robertshttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/BenjaminRoberts
<p><em><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868413156?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868413156?profile=original" width="634"></img></a> <br></br>It was suggested that I cross-post this here to get a few more eyeballs...</em></p>
<p><strong>I am fascinated by and passionate about the idea of playing with our ability to "stretch and collapse time and space" using virtual tools,</strong> and with what this might imply about ways to innovate dialogic process.</p>
<p><strong>In virtual realms, time can be…</strong></p>
<p><em><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868413156?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868413156?profile=original" width="634" class="align-full"/></a><br/>It was suggested that I cross-post this here to get a few more eyeballs...</em></p>
<p><strong>I am fascinated by and passionate about the idea of playing with our ability to "stretch and collapse time and space" using virtual tools,</strong> and with what this might imply about ways to innovate dialogic process.</p>
<p><strong>In virtual realms, time can be stretched</strong>, as many people participate in a conversation by posting at widely varied intervals, and it can also be collapsed, with the potential for everyone to essentially "talk at once."</p>
<p><strong>Similarly, we can gather across vast distances of space</strong>, bring together multiple in-person gatherings, or link to and build upon the energy of an in-person gathering using virtual tools.</p>
<p><strong>All of this is in play in the current national conversation "experiment" I am hosting on <a href="http://bit.ly/povwealth" target="_blank">"Poverty and Wealth in America,"</a></strong> in partnership with the National Dialogue Network, and YOU are invited! You might think of it as a sort of <em>"deconstructed World Cafe."</em></p>
<p><strong>Ways to engage include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>post ideas online (spend just a few minutes, or engage on an ongoing basis)</li>
<li>join a MaestroConference call (10/12, 10/29 and 10/31)</li>
<li>gather your own small group (like a single table in a WC) for one or more rounds, either in person (great excuse to meet friends for dinner or coffee!) or via conference call, Google Hangout, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>See <a href="http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/events/poverty-wealth-in-america-virtual-and-in-person-dialogue" target="_blank">this event posting</a> for more details, or simply go to <a href="http://www.bit.ly/povwealth" target="_blank">www.bit.ly/povwealth</a>.</strong></p>
<p></p> INNOVATION FOR APPLIED HAPPINESS IN CREATING VALUE AND MEANINGtag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2013-09-24:3306069:Topic:930832013-09-24T02:17:14.325ZMauricio Quiroga-Pascalhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/MauricioQuirogaPascal
<p>INNOVATION FOR APPLIED HAPPINESS IN CREATING VALUE AND MEANING</p>
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<p>Download short paper</p>
<p><a href="http://goo.gl/gz0ljB" target="_blank">Innovation and Happiness</a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868410960?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" height="150" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868410960?profile=original" width="221"></img></a> <a href="http://goo.gl/gz0ljB" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/gz0ljB</a></p>
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<p>Happiness, Meaning and Value Creation through, among others:</p>
<ul>
<li>Design…</li>
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<p>INNOVATION FOR APPLIED HAPPINESS IN CREATING VALUE AND MEANING</p>
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<p>Download short paper</p>
<p><a href="http://goo.gl/gz0ljB" target="_blank">Innovation and Happiness</a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868410960?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868410960?profile=original" width="221" class="align-left" height="150"/></a><a href="http://goo.gl/gz0ljB" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/gz0ljB</a></p>
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<p>Happiness, Meaning and Value Creation through, among others:</p>
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<li>Design Thinking</li>
<li>Prototyping</li>
<li>Lean Startup</li>
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<p>Finding activities that will provide us with happiness today while building future happiness and:</p>
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<li>Make Sense</li>
<li>Generate Income</li>
</ul> Dialogue colleges, I need you helptag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2013-06-10:3306069:Topic:872442013-06-10T18:10:47.574ZJoop Boukeshttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/JoopBoukes815
<p>In the Netherlands I am competing in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ministerievanvrede/app_168500559972950?app_data=https://www.aventura-colombia.nl/deelnemer/joop-boukes/" target="_blank">contest</a> on Facebook to go to Colombia tot help to bring peace to this country and be in contact with peaceactivists. My goal is to bring dialogue to Colombia to let the people experiance the power of dialogue. I am confinced dialogue is the best way to solve problems on the long term. My story…</p>
<p>In the Netherlands I am competing in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ministerievanvrede/app_168500559972950?app_data=https://www.aventura-colombia.nl/deelnemer/joop-boukes/" target="_blank">contest</a> on Facebook to go to Colombia tot help to bring peace to this country and be in contact with peaceactivists. My goal is to bring dialogue to Colombia to let the people experiance the power of dialogue. I am confinced dialogue is the best way to solve problems on the long term. My story on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ministerievanvrede/app_168500559972950?app_data=https://www.aventura-colombia.nl/deelnemer/joop-boukes/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> is in Dutch so I hope that you will bring my goal to the attention of all fellow ambassadors for dialogue in this world cafe online community.. Please ask everyone and your friend to vote for me. I will be writing blogsposts and take a lot of pictures witch I will share with you. Thanks a lote.<br/>This is the link <a class="_553k" href="https://www.facebook.com/ministerievanvrede/app_168500559972950?app_data=https://www.aventura-colombia.nl/deelnemer/joop-boukes/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/ministerievanvrede/app_168500559972950?app_data=https://www.aventura-colombia.nl/deelnemer/joop-boukes/</a>.</p>
<p>warm greetings, Joop Boukes, The Netherlands<br/>If you want more info or have questions you can email me at joop@mensindialoog.nl)</p>
<p>Great if you can help me!</p> World Cafe's role in Staging Changetag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2013-03-24:3306069:Topic:856322013-03-24T14:21:40.283ZMelissa Blockhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/MelissaBlock
<p><em><strong>Making change stick</strong></em> is one of the hardest things we face in community and organizational development. That is why the World Cafe is such a crucial piece of the process in the upcoming Staging Change Institute. At Community Performance International, we have worked for over 20 years to bring our story-performance process to communities across the US and abroad because we have found that when people share their personal stories in a safe environment and perform…</p>
<p><em><strong>Making change stick</strong></em> is one of the hardest things we face in community and organizational development. That is why the World Cafe is such a crucial piece of the process in the upcoming Staging Change Institute. At Community Performance International, we have worked for over 20 years to bring our story-performance process to communities across the US and abroad because we have found that when people share their personal stories in a safe environment and perform those stories together, it is possible to grow relationships across traditional lines of difference (race, age, educational attainment, sexual orientation, homeless/homed, economic status). We have seen people that would never have met before come together and, like a family, create a new community identity on stage. </p>
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<p>This process always produces an upswell of energy and positive community identity. The problem we have found, in the long run, is sustaining that energy and utilizing those amazing new relationships to forge real, <strong>lasting community change</strong>. </p>
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<p>That's where the World Cafe comes in! In 2011, <strong>David Isaacs and Juanita Brown</strong> worked with us in the community performance project in Jonesborough, Tennessee, called <em>The Jonesborough Yarn Exchange</em>, to include World Cafe conversations as part of their performance process. </p>
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<p>We then took the World Cafe into the first ever Staging Change Institute. So now, following the surge of energy brought by a community performance process, we engage the performers AND the audience (where possible) in a world cafe conversation with Graphic Recording. Now the participants can explore the discoveries they made in sharing stories, performing together in a new community, listening to stories that evoke experiences they are familiar with, hearing stories about your place that you never heard, and on and on. All of the emotions and ideas that are brought forth by the story-performance process can provide the background for the Cafe conversation process that follows. This in turn can lead to individual and community action plans.</p>
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<p>One of the action plans formulated at the first Staging Change Institute has come to fruition over the last 12 months. In Jonesborough, CPI collected stories, wrote and directed a play called <strong>I AM HOME</strong>, and it highlighted the deep desire to be "at home" in community, utilizing stories as diverse as a Puerto Rican immigrant standing up to intolerance and claiming her place in her Tennessee mountain town, and a young mother fighting to feed her family and caught between allegiances during the Civil War. The play bonded and energized both the players and the audience. The challenge was to convert the energy of that performance process into the change the community wanted to see. And with new economic hardships facing the community, the I AM HOME cast (known as the Jonesborough Yarn Exchange or JYE) was facing the possibility of not being able to continue this work. </p>
<div>So, at Staging Change 1, our playwright Jules Corriere worked with some of the JYE folks to develop her own Action Plan for keeping the momentum going forward and building on the work of the first play. For the next 12 months, Jules wrote a radio show each month with her friends in Jonesborough. For a fraction of the cost of a full one-year play process, they were able to 1. continue story work 2. keep the JYE family working together for the community 3. provide a new artistic offering to the community of Jonesborough and 4. highlight different issues and community sub-sectors in each monthly show. </div>
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<div>Last month, the Town was awarded a grant to convert the "radio show-style stage play" to a real, NPR radio show. You can listen to one of the radio shows <a href="http://jonesboroughyarnexchange.podomatic.com/entry/2012-10-10T22_15_37-07_00" target="_blank">here</a>. The show went live this month, and the community is bursting with pride. But more importantly, through the work of Staging Change and the World Cafe conversations we convened, the JYE community was able to assess and appreciate their existing resources, build on the creative energy of I AM HOME, and continue to involve new participants in the work of sharing their community's stories. In essence, they succeeded in making change stick! We are so very proud of them, and feel that the foundation they were given at Staging Change 1 provided them with the tools to keep moving forward, taking the minimum elegant next steps and keeping their goals in sight. </div>
<div>We feel very fortunate to be working with Juanita Brown and David Isaacs at Staging Change 2. This year, the Institute will examine how we make change stick using Community Performance, World Cafe Conversations, and Community-Based Rites of Passage -- with Story being the focal point, always. </div>
<div>The plan for SCI2 is to create our own <strong>Staging Change Community</strong>, that stays connected beyond the Institute, supporting each other in the action plans we create following our World Cafe conversations. We would love to hear about how others are using story and conversation in their communities and <strong>what challenges you face in making change stick.</strong> </div> Adler's Cafetag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2013-02-05:3306069:Topic:837282013-02-05T17:29:57.700Zwendy ann goddardhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/wendyanngoddard
<p>Alfred Adler was a physician, psychotherapist, and the founder of Adlerian psychology, sometimes called individual psychology. He is considered the first community psychologist, because his work pioneered attention to community life, prevention, and population health. Adlerian psychology emphasizes the human need and ability to create positive social change and impact. </p>
<p>Adler was born just outside of Vienna on February 7, 1870. Adler and Freud, along with Rudolf Reitler and Wilhelm…</p>
<p>Alfred Adler was a physician, psychotherapist, and the founder of Adlerian psychology, sometimes called individual psychology. He is considered the first community psychologist, because his work pioneered attention to community life, prevention, and population health. Adlerian psychology emphasizes the human need and ability to create positive social change and impact. </p>
<p>Adler was born just outside of Vienna on February 7, 1870. Adler and Freud, along with Rudolf Reitler and Wilhelm Stekel, began meeting weekly during “Wednesday Night Meetings” that eventually grew to begin the psychoanalytic movement. Together, they formed the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, of which Adler was the first president. </p>
<p>After serving as a doctor in the Austrian Army in World War I, Adler established a series of child guidance clinics in Austria and embarked on extensive lecture tours in the United States and Europe. To significant acclaim, he successfully promoted his psychological concepts emphasizing social interest, or gemeinschaftsgefühl.</p>
<p>Adler’s goal was to create a psychological movement that argued for the holistic view of an individual as well as social equality. Adler focused greatly on family dynamics, specifically parenting and family constellation, as a preventative means of addressing possible future psychological problems. With a practical and goal-oriented approach, Alfred held a theory of three life tasks – occupation, society, and love – that intermingle with one another. Success and health in each and all life tasks is dependent on cooperation.</p>
<p>Perhaps Adler’s most influential concept – and the one that drives the Adler School today – is that of social interest. Not to be confused as another form of extraversion, social interest should be viewed as an individual’s personal interest in furthering the welfare of others. Collaborating and cooperating with one another as individuals and communities can progress to benefit society as a whole.</p>
<p>Wherever there are a group of Adlerian practitioners gathered together, such as our Summer Schools or our training courses you will find an Adler's cafe which follows the socratic questionning favoured by Adler and philosophical debate about his work, psychology, life, and most of all community just as they debated such things in Vienna cafes and from which grow new ideas, enriched personal and professional development. </p>
<p>I have attached some information about our Summer School in England in July</p>
<p></p> Child labour & povertytag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2012-08-21:3306069:Topic:793562012-08-21T15:01:02.780ZGeof Warrenhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/GeofWarren
<p>I've just watched a couple of videos on YouTube about child labour and poverty, and to say the least it moved me but even more it appalled me.</p>
<p>I know we live in an unequal world but it is so easy to shut out these things with the thought 'what can I do? I sort of comfort myself that there are many organisations working on their behalf but nevertheless the exploitation of children goes on. Often this exploitation exists purely out of poverty and necessity but too often it goes on…</p>
<p>I've just watched a couple of videos on YouTube about child labour and poverty, and to say the least it moved me but even more it appalled me.</p>
<p>I know we live in an unequal world but it is so easy to shut out these things with the thought 'what can I do? I sort of comfort myself that there are many organisations working on their behalf but nevertheless the exploitation of children goes on. Often this exploitation exists purely out of poverty and necessity but too often it goes on purely because lack of education and opportunity for betterment.</p>
<p>Most of us live in affluent countries, enjoying a good life; we can travel and enjoy freedom but many of the children of the world will not grow up to experience such things. This thought attacks my conscience.</p>
<p>Of course I can send some money to the organisations who are doing something but is this really enough? And I can make lots of excuses as to why I don't do more - best thing to shut it out and get on with my life? But now I can't and why should I?</p>
<p>My philosophy is that we should strive to create a better world but this can't be done just by creating a better life for ourselves, we can only do it by creating it for others and then our life will become better as a consequence.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtu.be/yfKJ8Mof6lU" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/yfKJ8Mof6lU</a> <a href="http://youtu.be/F_tRJLszXxc" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/F_tRJLszXxc</a></p>
<p>This site tells us more <a href="http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/childlabour#Facts" target="_blank">http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/childlabour#Facts</a></p> Anticipating the Anthropocene, How Shall We Proceed?tag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2012-04-05:3306069:Topic:761012012-04-05T02:20:21.907ZMark Hurychhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/MarkHurych
<p>I have visited and participated and started TED conversations. I've tried tumblr blogs, facebook, twitter, google sites, google +, gameful, et al. </p>
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<p>I want to help link ideas together that seem to need each other. For example, both bio-diversity and resource management are in crisis in this period called the "Anthropocene" since both are threatening our continued existence and chances of surviving and thriving in the future centuries. We may be able to measure, somewhat,…</p>
<p>I have visited and participated and started TED conversations. I've tried tumblr blogs, facebook, twitter, google sites, google +, gameful, et al. </p>
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<p>I want to help link ideas together that seem to need each other. For example, both bio-diversity and resource management are in crisis in this period called the "Anthropocene" since both are threatening our continued existence and chances of surviving and thriving in the future centuries. We may be able to measure, somewhat, the amount and effects of CO2, but we are not good at measuring the threat of the loss of bio-diversity, or extinction. </p> PASSIONtag:www.theworldcafecommunity.org,2012-02-21:3306069:Topic:750132012-02-21T07:31:51.588ZALBANY JAMES NGOITANILEhttp://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/profile/ALBANYJAMESNGOITANILE
<p>having my own event management company which will help people organise quality events with affordable price,this has been my dream since when i was a kid</p>
<p>having my own event management company which will help people organise quality events with affordable price,this has been my dream since when i was a kid</p>