About
Who Is ABC?
There are at least two ways of answering the question "Who Is ABC?".
One response draws the boundary of our identity firmly at the core group--those who meet regularly and create the consensus decisions which move us in a particular direction. This position might also add, "and ABC projects are those in which the core group collaborates". In this way, the Community Building Facilitator Training we offered is an ABC project.
Another response draws the ABC circle to include those who have been a part alongside those who have expressed interest or contributed every now and again over time but are not connected on a daily basis. This position might speak of ABC in a way that values its function as a process arts aggregator and include in its scope those projects which include only one or two ABC members, because it is through those members that any other ABC contributor might become connected with related work. In this way, the work of individual members in the world, often supported in one way or another by other ABC members, is related to ABC because we tell each other what's going on and invite each other to participate. In this way, ABC includes the potential to follow Leon into a connection with an East Bay meditation group, or Iris into supporting local disabled activists, or Brandon into the group practicing aikido at UC Berkeley or Martial Nonviolence through Free Aiki Dojo.
History
For over a decade ABC has provided nonprofit leadership, offered fiscal sponsorship for community building initiatives, and acted as an intentional distributed community devoted to developing the process arts for social justice and conflict facilitation training. Toward this end we conduct public and private dialogues, such as the recent events with Huston Smith, as well as connecting process arts professionals with individuals and groups ready to work through conflict toward the kind of peace which is impossible without learning conflict done well. Every minute/dollar donated to ABC deepens and strengthens the sustainable capacity of your community to respond creatively to difficulty and difference.
At this time, ABC is in a period of uncertainty, is reduced to a minimal Board of Directors, is rewriting this website and putting in place the tools for new marketing, and considering various potential futures. Please be patient with us as we recruit, ponder, listen, wait, and discern. Many of the pages on this brand new website, for instance, are waiting to be re-written to reflect what we hope will be a renewed process of consensus.
Would you consider attending a facilitated gathering some evening in December 2011 in order to invite individuals to consider forming a new core group for Association Building Community? If you would like to come, please compare the ideas below to your vision for the future and email brandon at abcglobal dot net for more information.
- We've just formalized the support (project umbrella) of ABC for Free Aiki Dojo
Coming soon:
is about ready to be released as a fundraising two DVD set, complete with release party and hosted ...
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Coming soon:
is about ready to be released as a fundraising two DVD set, complete with release party and hosted ...
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News:
... All the news... (includes older items)
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Healthcare
-- Berkeley- Over 60 Clinic http://www.lifelongmedical.org/centers_60_berkeley.html
- Street Level Health

