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Permalink Reply by Clive Durdle on March 14, 2010 at 2:31am

I am rereading Fromm to have or to be. I started off as a psychiatric social worker with therapeutic communities and therefore am very interested in these ideas. A major conversation might be about to have or to be.


To have or to be
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=J...age&q=&f=false

Rereading this, and it is thought provoking.

A major issue is that the English speaking world has definitely moved to a "haveworld" and the mythology of this is in fact embedded in our main cultural myths.

Greater love has no man than...

1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love

Compare p 17 of Fromm on above link.

To "have" love is an abstraction, an alienation. A falsehood.

It is not authentic.

"I love you" not "I have a great love for you".

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Permalink Reply by Clive Durdle on March 14, 2010 at 2:34am

How do you edit?

This is link

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JvG85s966koC&dq=fromm+to+hav...

Permalink Reply by Jeanne Schulze on March 24, 2010 at 8:11am

Here's a little about me. I live in Victoria, MN and work as an Org. Development Consultant and Executive Coach. I work with teams, individuals and large systems. I am also a Lominger Associate, which means that I do my consulting/coaching practice using the LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT Suite of tools and I certify people in the use of them. I have a husband and an adopted son from Kazakhstan who just turned 6 years old. I am facilitating my first World Cafe in June at the 50 Year Anniversary Summit for Americans for the Arts. In a pre-conference workshop, a group of 150-200 arts educators from all over the US will explore how they can move the valuing of arts education to the prioritizing (as in decisions for funding by key constituency groups). The design team and I are right now in the process (like in 20 minutes from now) of finalizing the design of our set of questions for 6 Cafe Conversation rounds. I have loved working with the material so far and find this community to be totally exciting. Thanks. I'll be in touch with questions and thoughts as the emerge.

Jeanne Schulze

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Permalink Reply by Megan Hopkin on March 31, 2010 at 4:43pm

Hello!
My name is Megan. I currently am finishing up my Master of Science in Historic Preservation at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. I am currently involved in a class that is discussing cities and their movement towards becoming sustainable. We have been assigned international cities and I am currently researching Berlin, Germany. I have found some information of the the city and Germany is doing in order to improve air quality, transportation, land use, water, etc.
Is there anyone on here that can provide me with any information on what is happening in Berlin grassroots wise? Or how the movement has been successful? What plans are in the works for a Sustainable Berlin?
Please I am willing to learn as much as I can within the next few weeks.

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Permalink Reply by juanita brown on March 31, 2010 at 7:29pm

Hi Mary,
I don't know anything about Berlin....but I'd like to welcome you to this community and hope you find inspiration, friends, and useful information here. How did you learn about the World Cafe?

With my warm regards and best wishes,
Juanita

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Permalink Reply by Gary Malkin on March 31, 2010 at 9:53pm

Hello All:

Apparently, when I joined in February, I had filled out a fascinating account of my reasons for wanting to be a part of this vibrant community. Then, apparently, it never got saved! So Amy has urged me to try again, so here goes.

I met David and Juanita when serving as Artistic Director for the Quest for Global Healing Conferences in Bali. Having been an avid follower of all these Balinese (since the age of 17 when I played in Balinese Gamelan while a student at Oberlin Conservatory), I was determined to weave the power of the multi-dimensional languages of the arts as a tool for integrating the hearts and spirits of the participants of the conferences, not just their minds. After having co-created an audio intervention for people in the end of life process called Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, I've been obsessed with finding new arts, music, and media infused ways to integrate our emotional and spiritual intelligences with our rational/linear capacities.

Anyway, I was blessed to have been given this role at this remarkable conference in Bali in 2004, and when we put this conference on again in 2006, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting and being with David and Juanita, and frankly, it was love at first sight. It was clear from the beginning of our new/old soul friendship that there was great possibility in exploring ways in which these values might enhance the world cafe experience. While we've not yet hit our stride in this department, we're having fun imagining what might be possible.

As a result of their faith in me and my perspectives about how the arts have only barely scratched the surface in terms of how they could be used as strategies to cultivate consciousness, deepen education, enrich receptivity, anchor emotions, and connect people in more meaningful ways, they recommended me as the host/Weaver for the last Pegasus Conference last October in Seattle. I was attracted to finding a platform to present my ideas to the Systems Thinking community, and accepted the gig even though I had some reversations about it.

As it turned out, while I fell in love with the Pegasus Organizations, the Systems Thinking community, and the paradigm that fuels them, I was only appreciated by about half the audience. The ones who seemed to appreciate me seemed to be the HR/OD types, the ones who love concepts like integration, Emotional IQ, Presence, etc. The ones who seemed to be bored out of their minds when I sang and gushed from my heart were the geeks, the analysts, the quantifiers and social scientists. Let's just say it was a great learning experience!

I dare any of you to present to a crowd that is filled with half the audience that is counting the minutes till you'll get off the stage. Now I know how Obama feels.

My background? I'm a seven time Emmy and ASCAP award winning composer who still loves creating music for media, only I'm pretty much dedicated to the media projects that make a difference in the world, the ones that contribute to the Great Turning we're in the midst of.

My main focus is the building of a social venture media company, a global media publishing company called Wisdom of the World, Inc. - "Media for a Meaningful Life". The concept of the venture is to create a completely new form of "innertainment ", media medicine for the mind: Downloadable short format media experiences that radically provide access to the world's known and unknown visionaries and people of presence, awakened through the power of film score quality music and drop your jaw time lapse images of nature. We just secured global distribution to 75 countries, and it's a start up that actually might work. Since no one I know has yet succeeded in integrating meaning with media in a substantive way, I'm thrilled we've gotten this far. But I invite you all to experience the work. You can download your own film at www.wisdomfilms.com, and you can sign up for our community and newsletter by going to www.wisdomoftheworld.com!

I'm honored and thrilled to be a part of the larger World Cafe community, and look forward to ways in which we can co create beneficial collaborations someday.

Wishing you all the best,

Gary Malkin
[email protected]

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Permalink Reply by Jeanne Schulze on April 1, 2010 at 6:18am

Gary:

I just want to say to you that I'm with you in Spirit. My husband and I have been blessed many times over, through many passings of loved ones with the Graceful Passages. I am thrilled to see you in the World Cafe. Thank you for being.

Jeanne

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Permalink Reply by juanita brown on April 1, 2010 at 6:22am

Hi Gary,
Welcome! It's SO exciting to see you here and I'm sure you'll meet many kindreds also interested in the arts as a vehicle for deepening our experiences-- both with our own inner worlds and with others --
Fondest regards,
Juanita

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Permalink Reply by John Inman on April 3, 2010 at 5:59pm

Gary do not despair, no matter what your field it is always a challenge to find a way to connect with everyone. I enjoyed your interludes at the conference. Thank you for your work. Heartfelt and a wonderful example of the power of music. Welcome to the cafe community. If there is any way that I can help just let me know.

John

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