10/17 Connecting for Compassionate Action

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Comment by Gina Salá on October 23, 2009 at 10:05pm

Om Ah Hum..I feel so blessed to be in community with you all, and grateful and honored to share song at the closing of this event. What is staying with me is the palpable sense of resonance of all of these wise and strong hearts and minds, listening and sharing with such respect, such care, such courage. Waves in resonance build and grow, and this is what is happening in this flow. It is a vibration of Love. It feels like life, when one molecule and another forms and begins to pulse together. Possibilities are infinite. Thank you for being in this resonance and helping to create a world more wonderful for all, and for so inspiring and touching me with your truths. I have great hope in this time of transformation because all is vibration strong vibrations makes change. Om

Comment by Susan Bradbury on October 22, 2009 at 4:19pm

Hello All, I just received the Oct. 2009 Ode Magazine and see p. 32-38 on Karen Armstrong, Charter for Compassion I loved seeing everyone last Sat. Susan Bradbury, Bellingham

Comment by Jon Ramer on October 20, 2009 at 1:33pm

Here is an album of just the open space session topics. There is also a discussion with links to most of the conveners.


Find more photos like this on Compassionate Action Network

Comment by anne morgan stadler on October 19, 2009 at 3:27pm

I look forward hopefully to seeing Session Reports posted here, with information about any initiatives that are continuing...a la Tim Anderson's post below.

Thanks Jon. I really appreciate the list of sessions with the IDs of people one can contact!!!

Comment by Tim Anderson on October 19, 2009 at 2:00pm

Sociocratic Seattle Implementation Meeting, with a Introduction to Sociocracy and Next Step Together

Please help us spread the word through your trust vectors!

Monday, October 19
Tuesday, November 10
Monday, November 23
(hereafter, twice a month, various days)

6 PM Intro to Next Step Together and Sociocracy (Dynamic Governance)
7-9 PM Top Circle Implementation Meeting
We will work towards having Seattle Top Circle meetings where eight people represent the entire Seattle population sociocratically. For now, everyone is invited. Please bring along anyone interested in building critical mass and democracy, but, the bigger their social network, the more people they represent, the better! Invite the mayor, the governor, your minister, your state rep, your union president, etc.

Agenda:
~ Trust Matrix survey
~ Seattle’s Next Best Idea contest
~ Starting a Sociocratic Party
~ Connecting with the Compassionate Action Network
~ Report and discussion on building a database/website
~ How to film and share films of NST discussions with well know people
~ Monopoly-like Sociocracy board game
~ Your agenda items
~ Getting to know one another
~ Social time (pot luck)

See www.NextStepTogether.Net

Directions:

3323 33rd Ave SW, Seattle
Take the West Seattle Bridge to Harbor Ave/Avalon exit (NOT Harbor Island!)
Left at light (Avalon)
Immediate jack knife right before the Luna Cafe (unmarked, but it's Manning)
Immediate left up hill (Manning still, but the sign is AFTER the road) (do not go out onto the big road, Admiral)
Follow road (right, left, right-no choices) up the hill until you see a yellow mansion and a dirt road straight ahead.
Park. Careful not to block the road -- don't park on BOTH sides.
We are the big brown rambler with the red front doors and three car driveway.

Comment by Susan Burns on October 19, 2009 at 11:02am

Comment by Susan Burns on October 19, 2009 at 8:07am

Jon, The education meeting was combined: I joined Andrew Himes to convene his session and Andrew and Mike Seymour combined their sessions. The very rich comprehensive discussion was recorded by Jim McGinley. Sara Lee, I am thinking it might be good if we had a follow up meeting for the whole group on 10/31 in the morning in person and over the phone.

Comment by Jon Ramer on October 19, 2009 at 3:44am

OK. We have uploaded photos from the gathering including images of all the open space session topics... enjoy!


Find more photos like this on Compassionate Action Network

Comment by Jon Ramer on October 19, 2009 at 12:08am

There is a word document uploaded above. Here is an alphabetical .list of the sessions with links to the people who hosted those sessions so you can communicate with them directly. There are a few with missing names and links. Help me reach them!

1 A Banquet of Simplicity: Buddhist perspective on compassionate living
1.1 Reverend Cheen

2 A continuous chain of empathy from early childhood through teen/adult years
2.1 Jim McGinley

3 An appeal for compassion for the extremely rich and powerful
3.1 Roger

4 Art and leadership a model of contemplative and compassionate action
4.1 Doug Banner
4.2 Sky Burn

5. Attending the Parliament of World Religions

6 Bellingham Compassion Movement
6.1 A model of compassionate leadership
6.2 Skye Burns
6.3 Doug Banner
6.4 Susan Bradbury

7 Bridging the left/right divide...
7.1 How to bring civility to our differences - trans-partisan alliance and global Citizen journey
7.2 Susan Partnow

8 Call to Caring
8.1 Margo Adair
8.2. Elaine

9 Charter for Compassion launch November 12
9.1 Reverend Cheen

10 Compassion for America and Americans
10.1 Rich Fisher

11 Compassionate education/global education
11.1 Andy Himes

12 Compassionate Gift Exchange
12.1 Anil

13 Compassionate Listening
13.1 Practices to cultivate and deepen your practice
13.2 Susan Partnow

14 Corporate Soul
14.1 Compassionate action in business
14.2 Lem Putnam

15. Cutting carbon emissions 80% by 2020 in the Northwest

16 Dialogue: education, schools, youth, compassion
16.1 Mike Seymour

17 Discussion: what tools/resources do people need/can be shared through online means to support self- organizing groups
17.1 Rennie Keates

18 Exploration: changing the limits of what's possible in the structure of taxes
18.1 Viki Sonntag

19 For the Grandchildren
19.1 Rich Henry

20 Global free-hug day
20.1 Don't wait - smile and hug today.
20.2 Eddie Griffiths

21. Hearing our personal and collective stories of separation that have created immobilization

22 Help build a healthy community by balancing personal practice and supporting community
22.1 Larry Jacobson

23 How could we advance this shift? IONS
23.1 Jun

24 How to move money towards compassionate actions
24.5 Armen Moradians

25. Invitation to gather and learn how to connect with source and understand the available connection with universal consciousness

26 Meditate your way to compassionate action
26.1 Reverend Cheen

27 Mindfulness in prisons
27.1 Connecting with compassionate communities to encourage volunteerism with the Freedom Project
27.2 Joanne Conger

28. Network for Cambodia

29 Next step together, Sociocracy, Love Army, Dynamic Governance
29.1 Tim Anderson

30. Nonviolent communication transforming enemy images

31 Promote weekly moment of silence for nonviolence, in schools, businesses, everywhere
31.1 Kevin McKouen

32. Radical civility: discourse with civic/academic leaders using the Little Red Book

33 Rethinking Violence
33.1 Ari Cowan

34 Rules regulations public-policy design
34.1 Using compassion for those least able to conform to the rules, the poor
34.2 Roger

35. Sacred Activism book by Andrew Harvey

36 Safety Net
36.1 For those in need, for ourselves
36.2 Locally, Discussion could include music
36.3 Elaine

37 Self-Sufficiency prepare for any contingency
37.1 Rudy James

38 Social media for CAN initiatives
38.1 Jeris Miller

39 Sourcing Guidance Contemplative Wisdom and Fierce Compassion
39.1 Joel Levey

40 Teaching/holding compassion in presence of fear
40.1 Jody McVittie

41 The spiritual gift of a terminal diagnosis. Healing ourselves and our beautiful Earth
41.1 Rich Henry

42 Thinking creatively together
42.1 Ham Hayes

43 What does compassion in the workplace look like?
43.1 Liz Russell

44 White people stepping up for racial justice
44.1 Bill Aal

45 WTO +10 where we you then? where are we going now?
45.1 Bill Aal

Comment by anne morgan stadler on October 18, 2009 at 6:58pm

Thank you dear Convening Circle...and Conveners of sessions...!!!

What was our work on Oct. 17th? It was answering the question: How do we inspire and support compassionate action in ourselves, our communities and our world?...by connecting for compassionate actio

AND in the Fisher Pavilion on Oct. 17th, I experienced an amazing harvest of on-going work, new work emerging, a gift exchange of heartful initiatives, joyful tender embraces, and a restless stirring to do MORE, BE MORE, invite and nourish new connections. I was surprised by the new (de) lights from Boise, Bellingham, Bellevue, Seattle, Issaquah, Alaska!!, Vancouver, Tacoma, and thrilled by the atmosphere of cheerful, quiet determination to do compassionate action in places as diverse as Cambodia, schools, prisons, religious institutions, corporate life (to name only a very few focal points of the 50 offerings!).

I was grateful for the spirit of Yes! and support of all of YOU who invited, helped set-up, brought your beauty and practice of compassionate action into service of CAN: our resilient, connecting, gentle web of relationship and Self-organizing possibility. (When I use the capital "S" I mean Source-organizing--for (I believe) that is what sustains our creativity and alignment in the flow of life force that fires compassionate action.)

To those of you who couldn't be with us face to face because of illness or other commitments, I felt your presence and valued your gifts!

We made a "joyful noise" into the world!! And many of us unleashed practical initiatives that CAN's networked web and its users will continue to support, strengthen and nourish.

Thank you dear "kindled spirits"*! Let the fires of love burn brightly! anne
(*bow to Rennie for that sobriquet!)

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