​​Home Pad for "Weaving the Community Resilience and New Economy Movement" 
​​Produced by the Post Carbon Institute and the ​+Conversation Collaborative,​ in collaboration with the New Economy Coalition and the CommonBound 2014 conference.
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​​Welcome to the online home for this "Weaving the New Economy and Community Resilience Movements" dialogue, which is seeded by our recently issued report and ​+the interviews​ on which it was based. Below, you will find the most recent "news" plus general information about this dialogue and the "weaving" initiative of which it is the final component. For easy navigation of each "pad," there is a menu bar at the top and a table of contents in the right-hand margin.  If you questions or problems, please email Ben Roberts.
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​​Please click here to register for our interactive conference call on 9/25 from 11-12:30 PT/2-3:30 ET. Note: this registration will also place you on the email list for the dialogue. 
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​Dialogue News (updated 12/11/14)

​​THIS CONVERSATION IS COMPLETE. THESE HACKPADS WILL STAY UP AS A RECORD OF WHAT TOOK PLACE.
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​​Here is the final online "news" entry from the active online conversation, on 9/25:
  • ​​Our second (final) call is TODAY, Thursday, 9/25, from 2-3:30pm Eastern. Register here.
  • ​​Conversations initiated on the 9/18 call (and shortly thereafter) are continuing via the ​+Round One pad​, where you can also find call notes. Feel free to add additional reflections, whether you were part of the call or not. Topics that are open for discussion are:
  • ​​Please consider adding to the following pads as well:
  • ​​Follow this Home pad (icon on far right of toolbar--hackpad log in required)  for email notices on news updates.
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​About this Movement Weaving Initiative

​​The purpose of our "movement weaving" is to build greater coherence and foster connections across the emerging New Economy and Community Resilience movements, and to surface opportunities for synergy and collaboration. Our focus is on what is happening and what is possible in these movements for systemic transformation (see "The Adjacent Possible" below).
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​​For this final dialogue, our intention is to: 
  • ​​Create an open space where all participants can initiate and/or participate in conversations of value to them, including opportunities to:
  • ​​Connect with fellow activists
  • ​​Promote and get support for your work
  • ​​Learn more about what is happening 
  • ​​Generate new ideas
  • ​​Generate annotated lists of resources and upcoming events relating to the movement
  • ​​Identify next steps, including topics for further dialogue
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​How this Dialogue Works
  • ​​Participants are free to join any or all portions of the dialogue, which runs from now through the end of September.
  • ​​Ongoing Sharing via Hackpad
  • ​​"Round One" 
  • ​​Propose topics. We invite all participants to consider proposing a topic on which they wish to convene a discussion during the upcoming live conversation (or online only, if you cannot be on the call).
  • ​​Live conversation. We will gather live on 9/18 for our first call (register here if you have not already done so) and break out into groups to discuss the various topics participants have chosen to initiate. Although it is not required, we encourage everyone to help take live notes together here on hackpad.
  • ​​Online reflections. We will harvest key items from our live conversation and continue the dialogue here on hackpad from 9/19-9/30. 
  • ​​"Round Two"
  • ​​We will gather again live on 9/25 and follow a process similar to the one from the previous week. The pad for proposing topics will be posted on Monday, 9/22
  • ​​Final Reflections. Hackpad will remain open for final reflections through the end of the month.
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​Our Overall Weaving Process
  • ​​We began in April 2014 by conducting a series of interviews with movement leaders, and have created a transcript for each one. These can be found here: ​+Movement Weaving Interview Index​
  • ​​We followed that with two virtual group conversations on ​+May 13th ​and ​+May 22nd​
  • ​​We attended the New Economy Coalition's CommonBound 2014 conference, where we hosted an interactive workshop and also participated in the annual meeting of coalition members that immediately followed the conference. Our learnings through this point are summarized in this hackpad: ​+NEC "Annual Meeting" Input​
  • ​​In August, we drafted the report now being circulated by the Post Carbon Institute (link coming shortly!)
  • ​​To complete our weaving work, we are now hosting this virtual dialogue.
  • ​​To be continued? If a demand emerges for this work to continue in some form, we are open to that possibility!
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​Who is producing this weaving initiative?
​​The project is funded by the Threshold Thriving Resilient Communities Funding Circle and produced by Ken White and Marissa Mommaerts of the Post Carbon Institute and Ben Roberts of the Conversation Collaborative.
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​Additional Pads

​​The pads listed below are the product of our movement weaving work prior to writing the Report, including notes from group conversations and summary/synthesis of themes and patterns that emerged as we progressed: 
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​"The Adjacent Possible"

​​This concept informs our larger intention for "movement weaving." We first learned about it via this WSJ Online piece: "The Genius of the Tinkerer"  (with thanks to Jeff Vander Clute for passing this on). Here is an excerpt:
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  • ​​The scientist Stuart Kauffman has a suggestive name for the set of all... first-order combinations: "the adjacent possible." The phrase captures both the limits and the creative potential of change and innovation. In the case of prebiotic chemistry, the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
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  • ​​The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations. Think of it as a house that magically expands with each door you open. You begin in a room with four doors, each leading to a new room that you haven't visited yet. Once you open one of those doors and stroll into that room, three new doors appear, each leading to a brand-new room that you couldn't have reached from your original starting point. Keep opening new doors and eventually you'll have built a palace.
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