Technology is bringing the youth of Detroit and Palestine together in
conversation. Young media makers in Palestine and youth from
communities of color in Michigan engaged in parallel workshops that
introduced digital stories, music videos and murals. A recent
videoconferenceheld during the Allied Media Conference in Detroit
linked the two groups of young people and allowed them to share stories
about their lives, how they feel about how they as a group are
perceived, and the daily struggles they face. This conversation is a
beginning which may, one day, weave peace out of shared hopes and
dreams. See and hear their stories at the US-Palestinian Youth Solidarity Network.
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
Someone was
telling me recently that some of Buddhist temples in Japan are guarded
by two fierce-looking demon-like figures. These guardians of ‘Truth’
are known as ‘Paradox’ and ‘Confusion’. These days, paradox and
confusion seem to be states I alternate between in my quest to discover
who I am and what future I want to create. If I’m not confused, then
I’m trying to embrace something that defies intuition. My ‘truth’ seems
elusive.[ Read More]
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Worth watching is an 8-minute videotape of Severn Suzuki's speech at the 1992 World Summit in Rio.
Daughter of renowned environmental scientist and author Dr. David
Suzuki, a 13-year-old Severn spoke on behalf of the Environmental
Children's Organization (ECO) and silenced the world's leaders with her
message. What have we done and what will we do to respond to her call
for responsible action?[ Read More]
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
My daughter wrote a blog yesterday ( A World of Performance)
about how technology can move us further and further away from
human-to-human connections. I thought “Wow, I would never have thought
about that at her age”. Her reflections about what is happening to us
as human beings were insightful, but also very useful to me. I have
been promoting use of technology to connect people and never imagined
that it could also divide us. Now I can be more rigorous and prudent in
balancing the risks and rewards.[ Read More]
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 By Lauren Selman | Bio
This
past weekend, I was hiking with a couple of co-workers of mine in the
beautiful Grand Canyon National Park. As we were walking, one woman
posed the question, "Is our society changing or is it our awareness
making it look worse?" I didn't understand what she meant at first, but
as we continued to talk, she was speaking to the concept of perception.
For example, people have been making 'at home 'drugs for a quite a long
time, but now that it is known that they are making them, does it make
society worse or just seem worse because we can now see it?[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
How does it happen? It starts with a conversation. A while back, Cecile Andrews, our local Seattle author of The Circle of Simplicity,
explained to me how the women’s movement changed the story on gender
and unleashed the long suppressed power of the feminine. It started
with discussion circles in which women came together to share personal
stories. As each woman spoke her truth, a larger truth was revealed for
all to see. The prevailing story that the key to a woman’s happiness is
to find the right man, marry him, and devote her life to his service
was not true.[ Read More]
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
As many of you know, I view aging, and the rest of life for that
matter, as a series of conversations. In my work, I try to show people
that if we can observe ourselves and our world through the lens of
language, we can see that everything we think and experience occurs in
the context of some interpretation or another. For most people most of
the time, our interpretation is that there is a ‘real world’ out there,
and if we could only understand it and control it (and ourselves), then
we’d be okay and win whatever game we’re playing. Of course, in this interpretation (called the Cartesian paradigm),
people (that means us) are objects and our conversation about aging is
basically that we wear out like our cars and eventually aren’t useful
any longer.[ Read More]
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I spent a good chunk of my life learning to be reasonable. In business,
the mantra for any proposal was always: “Is it practical?” It seemed to
me that reasonableness (and its sister practicality) were virtues.
People who were unreasonable or impractical seemed to be
exceptions—they came across as flaky, dangerous, occasionally lucky,
unpredictable, disconnected, loose canons and, above all, they weren't
team players. When I turned 50, I came upon a quotation by George
Bernard Shaw that hit me between the eyes and totally changed my
approach to life and, in particular, my future.[ Read More]
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Bill Plotkin's latest book, Nature and the Human Soul, offers a
model for human development rooted in the natural world. Calling on the
stories of elders Thomas Berry and Joanna Macy, Plotkin
evokes a strong sense of a lack of maturity in a culture dominated by
adolescent desires and habits. In this book, this pyschologist, ecotherapist and wilderness guide
defines eight stages of life--Innocent, Explorer, Thespian, Wanderer,
Soul Apprentice, Artisan, Master and Sage. Plotkin leads the reader to
the possibility of a society that is sustainable, cooperative and
compassionate through personal and collective evolution. His strategy
for living calls for our evolution into adulthood so that we mayachieve enduring societal change. A challenging read for elders of any age who are interested in a better world.
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
Profound social change takes place when an
important cultural story changes—and the impetus to challenge imperial
rule rarely comes from within the institutions of Empire. Democracy
took hold when we replaced the story of the divine right of kings with
the story that the powers of government derive from the will of the
people. People of color and women won recognition of their full human
rights only as the civil rights and women’s movements successfully
exposed the fallacy of the story that people of color and women are
less than fully human. Recognizing the full humanity of all peoples
opens us to a deeper understanding of what it truly does mean to be
human in all the rich potentials that our human nature embodies.[ Read More]
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