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A post-capitalist world is not only possible but millions engaged in the various organizational and social transformation movements around the world are actively working on the transition to it. One of the most potent emerging visions of that new world is a commons-based society.
http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/content/towards-commons-base...
It's a vision that tremendously inspires me and I joined with friends to work for. That's why you saw me less active, in the last two years, in the world cafe community. During all that time, I didn't loose my connection with TWC as a transformational methodology but I've been waiting for and supporting the maturation of the social movements, when they can take full advantage of such social technologies of collective intelligence and freedom as presencing, communities of practice, art of hosting, world cafe, and appreciative inquiry.
That time has now come. This blogpost will be part of my attempt to nourish a closer relationship between the social movements and technologies of liberation. (I'm speaking of liberation from all obsolete systems and structures that cripple our highest potential and causing unmeasurable human suffering, environmental degradation and wasting our collective resources.)
One of the projects I co-initiated is the School of Commoning, a London-based commons education group.
http://www.facebook.com/SchoolOfCommoning
The title of our next workfop is #SpanishRevolution, and the Commons Here and Now. It will be dedicated to experiencing commoning and understanding the current Democracy Real mobilizations in Southern Europe as seeds for the transition to a commons-based society. It will be held at SOAS University on June 24. For more information about it and to register, please visit the event's Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220375597981035
It will be a fun-filled collaborative learning event, and a good time to discover how you can bring your presencing savvy in service of one of the world-changing movements of our times. If you are not in London but have friends there and this message inspires you, please pass it on to them.
If you *are* in London and interested to help with hosting a world cafe in the workshop, drop me a line. That would be much appreciated also because I can't be there (due to too slow recovery from an open heart surgery a few weeks ago), and my friends who will run the workshop are less experienced with TWC.
Looking forward to read your comments and questions about anything that this update evokes in you,
george
http://www.commonslearningalliance.org/content/towards-commons-base...
It's a vision that tremendously inspires me and I joined with friends to work for. That's why you saw me less active, in the last two years, in the world cafe community. During all that time, I didn't loose my connection with TWC as a transformational methodology but I've been waiting for and supporting the maturation of the social movements, when they can take full advantage of such social technologies of collective intelligence and freedom as presencing, communities of practice, art of hosting, world cafe, and appreciative inquiry.
That time has now come. This blogpost will be part of my attempt to nourish a closer relationship between the social movements and technologies of liberation. (I'm speaking of liberation from all obsolete systems and structures that cripple our highest potential and causing unmeasurable human suffering, environmental degradation and wasting our collective resources.)
One of the projects I co-initiated is the School of Commoning, a London-based commons education group.
http://www.facebook.com/SchoolOfCommoning
The title of our next workfop is #SpanishRevolution, and the Commons Here and Now. It will be dedicated to experiencing commoning and understanding the current Democracy Real mobilizations in Southern Europe as seeds for the transition to a commons-based society. It will be held at SOAS University on June 24. For more information about it and to register, please visit the event's Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220375597981035
It will be a fun-filled collaborative learning event, and a good time to discover how you can bring your presencing savvy in service of one of the world-changing movements of our times. If you are not in London but have friends there and this message inspires you, please pass it on to them.
If you *are* in London and interested to help with hosting a world cafe in the workshop, drop me a line. That would be much appreciated also because I can't be there (due to too slow recovery from an open heart surgery a few weeks ago), and my friends who will run the workshop are less experienced with TWC.
Looking forward to read your comments and questions about anything that this update evokes in you,
george
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Comment by Jan Hearthstone on November 4, 2011 at 9:31am -
A lasting world peace has to be designed co-operatively before we can ever experience it:
www.ModelEarth.Org/peace.html
http://www.modelearth.org/praypeace.html
Thank you, Mr. Jan Hearthstone.
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