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Peterborough’s participatory budgeting experiment intersects with citizens group
Thursday July 7, 2016
While a participatory budgeting experiment has sparked openings between the citizens and government of Peterborough, Ontario, citizenship in the city has been coming alive in exciting ways of late.
'You don't analyze and engineer a generative space. You host and you convene and you narrate.'
Thursday June 30, 2016
What's it take to co-create and hold a generative space in community? What questions do we start with? What are the design constraints to generate real, felt change? How does individual agency fit in? What’s the place of analyzing and engineering versus hosting and narrating a generative space?
NewScoop YYC team members drawn by opportunity to step into their gifts, co-create a new story for their city
Wednesday June 15, 2016
Hope and possibility is stirring in Calgary as a Generative Journalism co-op called NewScoop YYC draws an array of new talent sensing a life-giving space in which to step into their gifts and animate a new story for their city and society.
What’s next? ‘Blue sky,’ though language is still a speed bump
Wednesday June 8, 2016
Bright hope for the future of reconciliation in Canada has stirred and bloomed for Wanda Brascoupé Peters, and when asked what’s next for this work, she answers with vivacity, “Blue sky.”
‘We're really excited about what's happening. This is distinctly different from anything we’ve done before.'
Tuesday May 24, 2016
PETERBOROUGH - A Peterborough congregation's shift into new ways of gathering is sparking a whole new energy and connection, members are saying. "This is just the beginning, but it is an amazing beginning. We’re in a completely different place than we were one year ago," Jovanna Soligo, one of the members, says.
Gathering centred on cultivating reconciliation leaders transforms how participants see themselves, their work, the future
Wednesday May 18, 2016
An energy to discover and live into the full possibilities of reconciliation is still radiating days after a gathering in Whistler, B.C.
Video tidbits from a dialogue
Wednesday May 11, 2016
A dialogue on the topic of holding a generative field or space took place recently at the Axiom News studio. This post features several video tidbits (seconds-long clips) from that conversation.
Stories and art illuminate surprises, hopes and new possibilities
Tuesday May 3, 2016
The Peterborough Dialogues, an initiative of Axiom News, has been narrating the unfolding story of a new project in its hometown, called Community Mediation Peterborough.
As this project has come to life, often in surprising ways, the Peterborough Dialogues team has been illuminating moments in the journey through stories, art, poetry and video.
‘Our goal is to discover someone’s story. Our goal is not to fix anybody.’
Friday April 22, 2016
A circle of local citizens who are also aspiring media makers ended up in a deep exploration of the concept of Generative Journalism with Peter Pula at the Axiom News studio in Peterborough.
This is an edited and condensed version of a portion of the dialogue with one of the citizen journalists, active community leader Bill Templeman.
We begin with Peter’s answer to a question that had been posed to start the conversation: “How do you connect with and express the story within your soul?”
Generative dialogue & new narrative arts surface possibilities and commitments
Wednesday April 6, 2016
A fresh sense of possibility surrounds a pioneering community mediation project in Peterborough, Ontario this week. A summit hosted Monday by Axiom News wove generative dialogue and the new narrative arts around a discovery of the project's life-giving essence as well as what people are excited to commit to going forward.
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