Reflections on Time and Space workshop

• Work on anger, hubris and despair is important as these paralyse us
• Remember the way forward should be built not on fearful reaction but on loving enaction.
• Look for the third space in all things – i.e. between two binaries there is always the place of the real where life is lived and change is built.
• Remember that Tinking is doing (action based) and Dreaming is becoming (process based).
• To learn people need to feel loved – thus to attack people reinforces patterns of resistance, they need to be drawn in to sustainable work via shared and loving engagement
• People also need to feel safe, affirmed and expanded by the experience

Ideas for the future:

• Have a travelling sustainable celebration caravan workshop
• Develop a relationship between Maleny and Ed
• Look closely at Sustainable Maleny – what can we learn? Also build links. Check this initiative out at www.sustainablemaleny.org

Book List

Transformative Story Work:

Hal and Sidra Stone: Voice Dialogue Work

Echart Tolle: A New Earth; The Power of Now

Esther and Jerry Hicks: Power of Attraction

John Seed: Thinking Like a Mountain

Empowerment Work

Julia Cameron : The Artist’s Way

Joanna Macey: World as Lover, World as Self; Coming Back to Life

A New economics of Being

Paul Hawken: Blessed Unrest; Natural Capitalism

Hazel Henderson: Ethical Markets

Riane Eisler: The Real Wealth of Nations

William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle

Books on Futures

My website:

www.futuresevocative.com

I particularly recommend Sohail Inayatullah’s Questioning the Future and his Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) Reader

For those with an interest in education I also recommend the forthcoming book

Marcus Bussey, Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevic (editors) Alternative Educational Futures: pedagogies for Emergent Worlds. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers

You can check on www.sensepublishers.com/ for availablitiy

Other websites to visit

See the link page on my website

www.metafuture.org

www.proutcollege.org/

www.bfi.org/ – also read about Buckminster Fuller on wikipedia

Mandala workshop

Put up a sketch of the mandala schema on a white board or piece of paper. Simple outline written with this information.

Take the number of people in the group and make mandala outlines for all bar one (n-1) mandala’s as in Deleuze and Guattari’s formula[1].

The outline is: Divide the mandala into three concentric circles or regions. Divide the mandala into eighths. People sit in a circle with crayons or colour pencils in the middle. They can choose some to work with. Put a mandala outline in front of each with one person getting the blank sheet. Tell all that the blank is an important reminder that there is stillness amidst business and that when they get the blank sheet they should sit in contemplation until asked to move it on. Participants then:

1. Have x minutes to fill in any three sections – one from each region of the circle.
2. Pass this on to the person on the left who then fills in another three sections
3. Keep the process moving rapidly until finished.
4. Put all mandalas up on a wall including the blank

Participants can then:

1. simply look at them
2. discuss them
3. discuss the experience
4. write comments around the mandalas
5. stand before one and tell the group what they see; what it tells them; why they are standing there, etc…

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