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Proposals
Fictions looking for feet.
Institute for Embodied Change
Under the direction of a team of Berkeley locals,the following things are potentially in the works:
- building the Guardians of Peace idea http://www.abcglobal.net/<wbr/>Projects/Guardians_of_Peace
- aikido-based trainings in conflict resolution and mindful interaction for various communities that could benefit from such trainings
- a community space for aikido and conflict studies and programs for at-risk youth, special needs youth, and other underserved populations
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Help Plan an
Alternative, Spiritually Oriented Pride Event
I've found several others who are interested in helping me plan an
event for the week leading up to GLBTQ Pride weekend in San
Francisco.(June 28-29). Once a celebration of a courageous people who
stood up for their own longings, so much of the weekend-long event now
seems to be about getting high/drunk/stoned, looking sexy, and being
marketed to by large corporations. In part, the sadness of the events
for me is about how much wounding there has been as a result of
homophobia, which among other things has exiled people from families,
hometowns, and spiritual communities. The resulting suffering is
capitalized on by corporations, especially alcohol, cigarette,
entertainment, and high-end clothing companies. The attempt to answer
spiritual longing, or longing for meaning, with material stuff is what
the NSP would like to challenge on a large scale. What would an NSP alternative Pride event look like? All we know is
that it would be drug-, alcohol-, and commercialism-free and would
provide an opportunity for GLBTQ people and allies to come together for
connection and meaningful conversation about the kind of world we want
to build. We'd love to know your thoughts about what this might look
like and have your help in building it. If you are interested, please
send me an email and we'll figure out a time
when most of us can get together to brainstorm.
Source: NSP, Nichola Torbet nichola at tikkun dot org
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PeopleGreen
is a service mark Brandon WilliamsCraig coined and uses.
If paying attention to how you consume, reuse, transport, recycle, spend, etc., and also refrain from doing all these things has to do with being Green, than what is required to green the human interactions on which all of this is based? Process arts like dialogue, deliberation, Nonviolent Communication, psychotherapy, organizational development and more all draw attentions to how humans do what they do below, above, and beyond the material physically produced. Those that work overtly to build peaceful communities by practicing conflict so they can do it well over time are Peoplegreen - relationally sustainable in stewardship of the systems their hands and ideas make every day. Peoplegreen families and organizations consume, reuse, transport, recycle, spend, shape conflict, and make cultures in which every voice gets heard and every need has a good chance of getting met.
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