Imagine collaborating on some thrilling initiative that is making the difference we most need...
What is that project and who is involved?
(If you have time) Explore why you chose this particular vision and how it relates to the visions of others in your group.
Collaborative Notes
Carol: working on a project to alleviate poverty in a disadvantaged neighbourhood; root cause for violence seems to be poverty.
Ellie: working on a travelling exhibition, around justice and peace and social change. How do people make that happen? Collaboration with schools and high schools and community members...
I was visualizing something around the question what it would mean to bring all the different aspects of social change together in an exhibition in the Museum for Civil Rights.
Gary: About to head to India for 5 months. Creating educational resources for schools around climate change in Nepal.
Activity needs surely to be empowering. Creative non-linear process. Modelingdifferent paradigm. Connecting people with different interest who might be inspired to participate in a broader initiative--at a specific limited moment-- that is not in their typical territory....and then enjoying everyone else focusing on the issue/principle that they are usually interested in.
Michaela: imagining wildly... An initiative around"The Art of Commoning in Health Care" - cross-nation-state, cross-sectoral, inviting all voices into the circle: professionals, patients...
Empowering.(I will post the links to the Art of Commoning initiatives that have already happened later...)
Ellie: when people feel seen and heard, the magic happens!!! Wisdom Council in Asheville, using Dynamic Facilitation. Great to see what is possible!
What would be the ideal outcomes / the aspiration for your dream?
Ellie: my interest is in youth engagement. My hope is for ripple effect, youth becoming connected with others - and their voices would be heard! Youth are engaged. Energized youth is my goal, my journey.
Carol: Ripple effect... I am exploring the Social Lab - is an organisational form that resolves those issues inside-outside.
Content framework that can be replicated in urban environments
a healthy vibrant cooperative city
Michaela: what would become possible if we allow those who are most affected to speak their wisdom? Stepping out of the expert paradigm, stepping into a space in which professionals and patients can sit together in circle...