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Circles offer a relationship-based, community-driven response to poverty
Wednesday January 27, 2016
David Cooper is feeling renewed hope after seeing his fellow residents of Ashland, Virginia step up to support a unique poverty-reduction effort.
Event creates space for people in the room to design new possibilities based on what they can do and existing community assets
Monday January 18, 2016
PETERBOROUGH - A Jan. 14 jobs and local economy summit hosted by Maryam Monsef, Member of Parliament for Peterborough-Kawartha, offered a taste of what could be called deep democracy. People in the room co-discovered existing assets in the community, imagined new possibilities and considered their own level of commitment to bringing something new into being.
MP's town halls are flirting with new ways of inviting citizens into ownership of their future
Wednesday January 13, 2016
PETERBOROUGH - Canadian Federal Member of Parliament Maryam Monsef’s recent community gatherings in her Peterborough-Kawartha riding are modelling new forms of participatory process and citizen leadership. “I see citizens taking ownership of the question,” Maryam said, as over 120 citizens engaged in intimate conversations in circles of three at a January 11 town hall on jobs and the economy.
5 stories of hopeful shifts in journalism, neighbourhoods, politics, a faith community & the economy
Monday January 11, 2016
Last year we were thrilled to illuminate some incredible stories — stories that reveal our preferred future is already, in many ways, in the room.
We are actualizing something by how we’re meeting together: Peter Pula
Friday January 8, 2016
From outliers to renegades, pirates and solitary forest wanderers, a few words cropping up in an international dialogue on Generative Journalism and the New Narrative Arts hosted by Axiom News this week surfaced a shared sense of being on the edge of something — the thrilling but also often lonely and anxiety-ridden edge.
Directly linked to that, there was a pulsing theme of gratitude to have found one another — to have discovered companions or, better yet, fellow pirates, as Jocasta Boone said, for the ongoing adventure into the unknown.
Dialogues moving quickly to what neighbours can do to create the community they desire
Wednesday December 23, 2015
Neighbours in Peterborough, Ont. have been moving from isolation to community connection in a matter of hours. In small intimate groups they have been exploring their anxieties and fears and moving quickly to what they can do to create the neighbourhood and community they desire.
Non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring and equipping neighbours to connect
Wednesday December 16, 2015
When Christina Ashley bought her first home in Long Beach, California a year ago, one of her desires was to have close relationships with her neighbours. She heard about a unique neighbourhood-connecting event, the Citywide Pumpkin Party, held each fall, and decided to partner with her neighbours next door to host one in their front yard.
‘Yes, we have emergencies, but let’s declare a state of emergence:’ Jean-Louis Lamboray
Thursday December 10, 2015
Trapped in the snarl of traffic in Lille near the Belgian border due to new security measures a few days ago, Jean-Louis Lamboray lit up when his Spanish-speaking friend’s slip of the tongue cast the situation in a whole new light as she called it a “state of emergence.”
And what they can do for us
Thursday December 3, 2015
“I believe movements do what no other vehicle or container can do — they influence and ultimately change people’s opinions, beliefs, habits and what they think,” Canadian social entrepreneur and author Al Etmanski said in a webinar he hosted on thinking and acting like a movement yesterday.
Dialogic co-learning draws on gifts, energies in the room to shape the practice
Monday November 30, 2015
A sense that the field of Generative Journalism is being born in the moment emanated from last week’s MaestroConference call engaging people from five countries.
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