3rd European Salon – Dialogue and Leadership - Action Learning for Emerging Communities

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Comment by Christine Whitney Sanchez on January 8, 2010 at 12:27pm

Happy New Decade!

Are any of you going to be in the UK or vicinity in early March? I'm going to be there and would love to connect in person. Please let me know via my personal email - [email protected] or leave a message here.

I'm going to be in the UK to offer a Methods for Strategic Collaboration Foundations Training in Wales (see Cliodhna Mulhern - [email protected] for details).

Warm wishes from a sparkling and warm Phoenix day,

Christine

Comment by Ulrich Soeder on December 8, 2009 at 8:07am

Hello to all of you, and a warm welcome to the new members in this group.

In the time since Reichenau I have been very busy and I had to follow up on different projects that didn't get enough attention before Reichenau. It took me a little time to get focused on the Salon again.

In one way or another the European Salon will evolve. It should not be a one time event, but an ongoing process. While there is a willingness to move forward, the next steps are not clear yet. The hosting team needs some renewal – the old hosting team will come to a close and a new team will form.

So if you want to introduce yourself to this group and share something about what attracts you to the European Salon, you are welcome to contribute to the discussion thread »Introductions to the European Salon«. I just have added a documentation on a SecondView process we used in Reichenau to introduce ourselves and to tell each other about what attracted us to come to Reichenau. You find this document in the »European Salon - LIVE« section – be inspired!

The overall documentation is still work in progress.

I have opened another discussion with the summary report of a Synthetron reflection on the Salon we hosted on Nov 30th, 2009. See this as another starting point for sharing your reflections on the Salon.

Cheers, Ulrich

Comment by Ilona Christl on November 30, 2009 at 1:24pm

Dear Chris,
playing for change is a great idea. A friend of ours had given us the CD and we love it. Next sunday we will have a singing and more evening. Won't you join us? Our living room is filled with diffrent instruments which needs to be played. Singing is nourishment for our souls I trust. You are welcomes to tune in.

Comment by Ilona Christl on November 30, 2009 at 1:16pm

my dears,
trying to get home? HMH. May be that is what I#m looking for.
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A baby needs to be welcomed, to love itsself and thus others. May be it is this deep welcoming each others and helping us see where our uniquness for nourishing this planet and life is.
I'd love to welcome you guys here in Egensbach for a next step, so we could sing, cook and eat together and what our souls and bodies dance. Go out in the forest and listen to those huge trees...There will be a time

Comment by Chris Chopyak on November 30, 2009 at 1:00pm

My dear friends:

As you look at this dance, and the survival of humanity as sustainability! (perhaps...) check out this -
http://www.playingforchange.com/

This is a great tool to create awareness, and way to look at how to reach humanity through music (makes me always think of Ilona and Higgins...)

Ulrich, Charles, Ilona, Hanno and Agota - thank you for your words of support and the beauty of the flow, and the gorgeous picture...I am so grateful to be in the dance. I wish I could also be with Edgar - he is wonderful and so inspirational.

Another dance of sorts - related to climate and Copenhagen....Sabine, Ulric R and I will be at this meeting http://www.mediatorsbeyondborders.org/

Look for our blogs - where one of us will post at least once a day as we reflect on a human dimension to the climate challenge.

I heard a beautiful interview with Wendell Berry - an American poet, farmer, essayist and environmentalist today on the radio (www.npr.org - Diane Rheim show) - and his stories of the deep south are profound, tough and insightful - people's tie to the land. Yes, Hanno, I agree with you - we cannot keep the enviornment out of the sustainability challenge there needs to be the connect and deep - not commercial.

In the US, religious fanatics (very conservative religious people) are making a big move to grow their own food, make their own energy and get off the grid. And they are doing this to the exclusion of others who don't believe like they do.

To me this is not sustainable - and does not build sustainable communities. We have to change the way we see - we have to see the context (as Charles was speaking about) -- the relationship between things place, people, our thinking and our actions. And to be able to change our actions for the whole - without this...this really tough thinking and being....a profound shift will not happen. And, without a shift, what really will change?

This transience time - being always in movement and trying to "get home" has piqued a question - aren't we all just trying ot get home? what does this actually mean? What are we willing to do to get there?

I wonder.....Chris

Comment by Ilona Christl on November 30, 2009 at 12:20pm

From dancing a community to heart chakra to dancing souls. All this resonates strongly within myself and I would be really curious what your fantasy and creativity might play around with.
Like Edgar is planning : We will be running the Oasis Game with lots of Circular Dances and Cooperative Games. Lots of fun, joy and connection!!!! :-)
Here where you can know more: http://survivalacademy.ning.com/events/oasis-game-playing-to-change
I believe that joy is a forgotten gift, that has a lot of power for change. see this wonderfull idea, how music changed the behaviour of many people.http://www.internet world.de/ Nachrichten/ Kreation/ Achtung-anstecke nd!-U-Bahn- Musik
Love and laughter Ilona

Comment by Charles M. Savage on November 30, 2009 at 8:28am

Ulrich, where is the social in the eco-crises graphics from Bangalore - it's not there directly, but only as we journey within ourselves (and away from crass consumerism) can we learn again to reflect and dance as a community of souls. Agota, please let your "fantasyland" bloom!

Comment by Ruzsa Ágota Éva on November 30, 2009 at 8:10am

Well, i deeply love this expression: "European Salon will be a combination of deep reflection and the dancing of souls." and all that dancing at the heartchakra of the world in DOBOGOKÖ, The Throbbing stone???? Anyway, happens as happens but an image like this does shape my fantasyand creativity as well as my inspiration in beleiving that we, humans do find our place with care and responsibility for eachother as well as for ALL beings( animals and planets as well ) on Earth.
my love, Agota

Comment by Hanno Langfelder on November 30, 2009 at 2:16am

I hear of engineers who certify wind turbines, but drive to work by car. I am part of social communities who are exploring great depths of emotional connection, yet want to buy cheap food and would not think twice about boarding a plane.

Who stands at the junction of social and ecological issues? I dare to say, the ecological is more important that the human. But only through human action can the ecological be saved.

So, do you start by fostering sustainable communities, who will realise that sustainable MUST incorporate ecology? And given this achievement, we will create economies that fit this model. And, voila, we arrive at the core of sustainble development.

Hanno

Comment by Ulrich Soeder on November 30, 2009 at 2:00am

Dear Charles,

thank you for sharing these insights from Bangalore.

When I see all these topics, the main question that comes to my mind is: Where comes the the social / human perspective on sustainabilty into play? What is a sustainable community?

There is an inspiring book by Johannes Heinrichs on this aspect: »Öko-Logik«. Highly recommendable to re-think ecological topics from the mindset point of view. Available only in German, unfortunately.

Cheers, Ulrich

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