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The subject of this inquiry IS my work, and has been for the past five years. I prefer to operate as part of a core team within organizations/initiatives/movements, both strategizing and offering facilitation support, and as a host for large group dialogue(both in-person and virtually) that engages the wider world around various strands of The Movement for systemic change.
What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?
As a co-convener and host of this"community of inquiry and action," I am honored and delighted to be holding space for, doing this work with all of you. That opportunity is its own reward. I am also looking for collaborators who are ready to take a leap into action in 2015, based on a gift economy model, trusting in the power of the convergent energy that is co-arising all around us. I see this gathering as a model or prototype for things we might do together"out there" at the intersection of Power and Love. I'm not particularly optimistic, but I am committed to acting as if this convergent energy will unleash something that can, as my New Stories colleague Bob Stilger likes to put it,"make enough of a difference to make a difference."
I help businesses maximize impact by aligning their actions with their purpose. Around me, people get to be who they really are.
What motivates you to be a part of this inquiry?
After years as more of an activist, I've spent more recent years working with our existing structures rather than thinking about replacing them, much more local than global recently. It's time to open up my thinking again.
Bruce Schuman
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I am a web systems and database programmer, with an interest in interspirituality and"all things integral". As a simple generalization, I'd say that"oneness" is probably the containing and guiding meme for"the shift"("great turning","great transition") . For me, the primary driver in our entire context is the force of globalization, which creates transformative intercultural encounters across all boundaries, and is tending to universalize categories(religion, sustainability values, sense of community, principles of governance and democracy) that were formerly culture-specific.