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Many people
and organizations in the world are doing good, important work. Below we
make reference to some that we are aware of. Those that are newly placed
on this list are designated with a NEW button at the beginning of the
description or link.
If there were 100 people on earth (www.luccaco.com/terra/terra.html)
Appreciative Inquiry Resource List (www.serve.com/taos/appreciative.html)
Asset Based Community Development Institute (www.nwu.edu/ipr/abcd.html)
Berkana Institute (http://www.berkana.org/)
Big Mind Media (http://www.bigmindmedia.com/
Caring Institute (http://www.caring-institute.org/)
Catalysta (http://www.catalysta.org/) An online education seminar connecting high school and university students from around the world to explore social issues and collaborate on community-based projects. Catalysta's premiere topic is 'Our Water', a subject that may currently escape popular attention, but whose relation to such issues as scarcity, globalization, disease, and world conflict cannot go unnoticed for long.
A principal focus of Catalysta's curriculum is to enhance student's empathic, collaborative, and social participation skills. In order to achieve these goals, we are inviting individuals such as yourself whose work centers on the development of the complete person, to contribute one segment to a column entitled 'The Weekly Experience'. 'The Experience' is dedicated to providing students with activities that encourage empathy and self-development and that can be carried out either individually, with fellow classmates, or with peers online.
Catalysta's fall semester begins October 1st. Schools from Bethlehem, India, Italy, Kenya the UK, and the US have expressed interest in participating in the fall's premiere term; the number of schools will expand during the spring term. No fee is charged to participating schools.
Chaordic Commons (http://www.chaord.org/)
Common Purpose (http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/) Common Purpose is a UK wide non-profit educational organisation which aims to link the talents of leaders across all sections of the community. Common Purpose is about leaders. Not just elected leaders. Not just business leaders. Not just established leaders. But all leaders. From all sectors of society.
Common Purpose helps people in leadership and decision-making positions to be more effective: in their own organisations, in the community and in society as a whole.
We offer a
range of programmes for leaders of all ages, backgrounds and sectors, and
websites for citizens who want to take the lead, people who dream of
changing the world (or their part of it).
Co-Intelligence Institute (http://www.cii.org/)
Coalition for Self-Learning (http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/)Coalition for self-learning is an ad hoc group of individuals and organizations that has been coming together on the Internet for three years to discuss WHY we learn, HOW we learn, WHEN we learn, and WHAT we learn. We have tried to think outside the school/teach/ educate box and to go beyond "fixing the schools." We have recognized that the way we learn shapes, as it is shaped by, the society in which we live.
Crooked Trails
(http://www.crookedtrails.com/) A nonprofit community
based travel organization working to help people strengthen their
relationship with the planet and its diverse cultures through experiential
education and responsible travel. We work in cooperation with
non-governmental organizations and indigenous people to facilitate
cultural exchanges that allow visitors and host's opportunities to share
in each other's lives. We offer programs to Nepal, India, Peru, Vietnam
and Thailand. Included in all our programs are home stays, work projects
and adventures such as trekking, snorkeling and sailing.
Cultural Creatives (http://www.culturalcreatives.org/)
Dialogue to Action Initiative (www.thataway.org/dialogue/com/com_intro.html) An initiative that keeps leaders in dialogue and deliberation informed, involved and inspired. The site offers ever-updated news, resources, ideas and events of interest to dialogue leaders, as well as a popular e-mail discussion list, information about organizing dialogues, and strategies for moving from dialogue to common action.
Engage! InterAct (www.engage.nu/interact/) Engage! Interact is a training organisation that encourages people to look to the benefits of difference and diversity, and to help them work together to promote and celebrate the values of respect, co-operation and creativity. We are committed to a way of learning, at all levels and all stages of live, in which the learner takes responsibility, supported in that process by his or her facilitators/trainers and peers. Learning to reflect critically, being open-minded and acting decisively, in relation to a set of clear moral values, is essential if we are to realise a successful multicultural society, active and democratic citizenship and a dynamic self-empowering knowledge-society.
Foundation for Global Community (http://www.globalcommunity.org/) Here at the Foundation for Global Community, we have been engaged in a series of discussions this summer, started because of our increasing concerns about the future of our country, of humanity, and for life on Earth.
Questions to
Stimulate Discussion about our Current Situation
1) What do you see as
the most important issue(s) facing the United States?
2) What do you see as
the most important issue(s) facing humanity?
3) Has your thinking
changed because of the events of the past year?
4) What do you think
is/are the root cause(s) of the important problem(s) you see?
5)
What solutions do you see to address these problems ?
6) What other
questions should we be asking ourselves at this time?
From The Four Directions (http://www.fromthefourdirections.org/)
Future Search (http://www.futuresearch.net/)
Gather the Women (http://www.gatherthewomen.org/) This is a momentous time in history...when women all over the world are feeling the call to take a bold stand and demonstrate the feminine face of leadership--leadership based on the underlying principles of harmony, peace, balance, partnership and cooperation.
Heartland Institute (http://www.heartlandinstitute.com/) Heartland Institute was founded in 1995 by Patricia and Craig Neal with the belief that business and organizational life are the conduits and delivery system through which a global renaissance is occurring. By linking personal growth with organizational transformation, individuals can achieve their greatest dreams and organizations can serve the greater good.
Heartland Institute works to discover the untapped resources of spirit and creative energies in individuals, businesses, and organizational life. By bringing greater purpose and meaning to work, we ultimately achieve the highest levels of productivity in our organizations.
Hazelwood House A place of extraordinary peace and beauty in the heart of the South Devonshire countryside in England. There are 67 acres of woodland, meadows, riverbank, and orchards. Hazelwood was home to our first From the Four Directions practicum. It is a place of life, health, energy, and people. It is excellent for groups to gather in, as well as for individuals. Contact 01548 821 232 for more information.
Institute of Noetic Sciences (http://www.noetic.org/)
Institute for the Study of Convergence and Emergence (http://www.isce.edu/) The Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence is a non-profit research institution located in Boston and the Netherlands. Our mission is to promote pragmatic dialogue concerning the areas of networking, emergence, and complexity studies with the aim of assisting practicing managers in the complex task of managing. We are assisted by a consortium of professionals drawn from industry, academia, management consulting, and the non-profit sector.
Leaders Quest (http://www.leadersquest.co.uk/) -- Leaders Quest provides experience-rich, cross-disciplinary development for international leaders with a drive and passion to lead responsibly in the 21st century. Leaders Quest is grounded on a strong ethical foundation. We believe that as leaders - whether from the commercial or not for profit sectors - we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to make a positive impact in our world and among our fellow citizens.
Joanna Macy (http://www.joannamacy.net/)
National Youth
Dialogue on Peace and Violence (http://www.peacebook.com/national/index.html)
New Futures (htpp;//www.projectlook.org) New Futures (formerly Project LOOK) is a neighborhood-based organization that works with children, families and communities, because we believe that to foster successful children, we must also strengthen families and invigorate neighborhoods. Sacred circles, participatory action research, and Capacidad (a process of identifying natural helpers and supporting leadership development) are used within communities to help define what matters to the community.
New Stories (http://www.newstories.org/)
The New Underground
Gathering (htt//:www.newunderground.org)
connecting underground efforts to build "new story" foundations. What are
the things you do because they're necessary in our current society, but
are incongruent with the way you're working to make the world a better
place? We're inviting you to come to N.C. to create the stepping stone
foundations and combine our energies. We're a larger voice than ever
before, but we're divided by our disciplines and organizations. We have
the tools and the means to start a new, more encompassing conversation if
we step outside the hierarchy and separateness of our old
structures.
Northwest Earth
Institute (http://www.nwei.org/)
Open Question
Circles (http://www.awakeningcommunity.org/) The purpose of this
simple, powerful process is to help us realize our own deepest needs and
values regarding a group, organization, community or activity that's
important to us -- and to discover needs and values that are shared by
others and held in common. These realizations can open doors to richer
relationships, insights and possibilities. Refer to web site for process
and effects.
Open Space Technology (http://www.openspaceworld.org/)
PeaceBuilding (http://www.peacebuilding.com/) PeaceBuilding.com is where the many pathways of human endeavor such as business, education, environment come together to better understand each other and share activities in a way that enables deeper connections and wider systemic awareness. This convergence among the pathways is represented symbolically in the PeaceBuilding Wheel. Due to the critical role of business and its profound inter-connection and effect on the other sectors, PeaceBuilding.com is focusing on PeaceBuilding Through Business at this time.
Peace Chat (http://www.rps.psu.edu/0209/peace.html) Peace Chat is a publication of research at Penn State. This link contains an article entitled Excerpts from "Dialogue in the Digital World" a research project by Amanda Wetzel. The following is from her work: "A new collective identity . . . forms when personalities, religions, and nationalities unite. When you bridge the gaps and accept differences between individuals within a group, a new identity is created."
Peer Spirit (http://www.peerspirit.com/)
Pioneers of Change (http://www.pioneersofchange.net/)
Positive Futures Network (www.yesmagazine.org/aboutpfn.html) A nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting people's active engagement in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world. PFN is the publisher of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, which offers a Discussion Guide Series. "When people gather in groups to talk with mutual respect and caring about the critical issues of our time, they create a powerful avenue for constructive social change." The staff of YES! magazine has prepared these guides to help you get started. We hope you'll find them useful.
The Principals' Center (http://www.principlescenter.org/) A safe place where
school leaders can confront issues met everyday while leading and managing
school communities. This is a place where education professionals can come
together to learn and share dreams and frustrations, to laugh and to grow.
We hope you will join our learning community and find strength, knowledge,
and excitement to meet the challenge of being a school
leader.
The Public Conversation Project (http://www.publicconversations.org/)
Red Victorian Peace Center Breakfast Conversations (http://www.peacearts.com/) The Red Victorian Peace Center is located in an historic Victorian hotel which survived the 1906 earthquake and played a prominent role in the 1967 Summer of Love. In 1977, Dr. Sami Sunchild came to San Francisco and began its transformation into a bed and breakfast Networking Center.
Today Breakfast Conversations happen 365 days a year at nine in the morning and are often personally hosted by Sami, who teaches entrepreneurship by personal example and dedication. She encourages her guests to talk about their own career commitments for a better world, to discuss their hopes, actions and difficulties along the way. They can share thoughts, feelings, and successes. Tens of thousands of people have participated in these international conversations. Drop-ins are also welcome; some are locals, some come from abroad. There is no charge except for the breakfast itself.
Seek2Know (http://www.seek2know.net/) The goals of Seek2Know are: (1) Promote the spirit of open minded free inquiry in all areas of human endeavors including alternative-integrative-holistic approaches to Self-knowledge, medicine, healing, science, technology, architecture, environment, space, performing arts, psychology, religion, forms of organization, education, work, recreation, life and living; (2) Pursue true freedom in all human knowledge, thought and actions with responsibility and realize the highest human ideals, aspirations and potentials in ways that honor and serve all life in the planet; and (3) Create a vibrant network of community among all forward thinking, positive and constructive initiatives that are taking shape at local, regional and global level; such initiatives will create a new vision and ultimately a grand human experience for all to participate in by receiving and giving freely!
Spirit in Action transforming the way we do change (http://spiritinaction.net/) Spirit in Action's vision is of a peaceful, just, and equitable world. It is a force for unleashing stories of hope and powerful visions of a life-affirming future to build a movement that embodies love, equality, justice, nonviolence, spirit, and respect for the earth. We do our work by linking with other social justice and spiritual activists to strengthen collective action for transformative social change.
Spirited Work--Whidbey Institute (www.spiritedwork.org) Spirited Work is a learning community of practice, engaged in deepening commitment to personal and collective transformation through service in the world. The purpose of the work is to build personal and collective capacity for healthy and productive relationships, organizations and communities for the sustainable evolution of earth, spirit and the human future.
Sustainable Connections (http://www.sconnect.org/) Sustainable Connections -
Affiliated with the national group, Business Alliance for a Local Living
Economy (http://www.livingeconomies.org/), Sustainable
Connections is a membership network of Northwest Washington local
businesses, farms, organizations, and individuals, who are
committed to
building a Local Living Economy. A "living economy" is a system that
sustains both community life and natural life, as well as long-term
economic viability.
The Sustainable Development Project (www.1sustainable.homestead.com) Sustainable Development is defined by the Sustainable Development Indicators (www.sdi.gov/reports.html) as "an evolving process that improves the economy, the environment and society for the benefit of current and future generations." The mission of the Sustainable Development Project is to research, educate and empower people to live in sustainable lifestyles.
The Teen Freedom Corps (http://www.teenfreedomcorps.org/) The Teen Freedom Corps (TFC) is a group formed in American high schools that is committed to encouraging, coordinating and recognizing high school student leaders as civic and community service participants.
Tipu Ake (Growing from within ever upwards towards wellbeing) (http://www.tipuake.org.nz/ ) A new Leadership model inspired by a small Maori school in New Zealand that has rediscovered its indigenous Maori wisdom and used it to make a self transformation against all the odds.
VBNK (http://www.vbnk.org/) VBNK's
mission is to be a centre of learning for the organisations and
individuals working for Cambodia's social development. VBNK seeks to
achieve this mission by being a Cambodian institute that generates and
shares knowledge and learning for positive social change. High, high-level
management services are the core activities by which VBNK serves social
development organisations.
Vision for a Better World Foundation (http://www.insurancealternatives.com/)
Water Water A Celebration (http://waterwater.org/)
Margaret J. Wheatley (http://www.margaretwheatley.com/)
Working With Oneness (http://www.workingwithoneness.org/) This site is dedicated to connecting with spiritual groups of all types who are working towards the emerging consciousness of oneness that is central to our human and planetary survival and evolution. Consciousness of oneness is an awareness of the unity and interconnectedness of all of life.
World Café (http://www.theworldcafe.com/)
Zen Peacemaker Order (http://www.peacemakercommunity.org/)
LifeWorks (una.nicholson@virgin.net) invites you to join our next Circle Practice weekend Friday 25 April, 7 pm - Sunday 27 April, 1 pm
This Circle weekend will be a workshop over three days inviting up to 10 participants to learn circle skills - skills that can then be applied in any situation: business, community organisations, personal growth circle or families.
"A circle is not just a meeting with the chairs rearranged. It is a return to an original form of human community, as well as a leap forward to create a new form of community" Christina Baldwin, Calling the Circle (1998)
Zoë and Una Nicholson have trained with Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea of PeerSpirit in PeerSpirit Circling. Zoe is a senior manager in the NHS and has been using and teaching circle within her work for the NHS and for LifeWorks for several years. Una Nicholson has trained in movement, dance and theatre and has been working with groups and group process.
We offer to teach you how to use PeerSpirit Circling to facilitate clear communication and teamwork in businesses and groups of all kinds. The weekend will immerse you in circle experience and will cover the following, basic tools for hosting circle, personal intention and interpersonal agreements, an introduction to the energetics of circle, how to deal creatively with tension and conflict. We intend for you to leave the workshop with a broad introductory understanding and experience.
The workshop will take place at: LifeWorks, 97 Holland Road,Hove, BN3 1JP Friday 25 April 7pm - 9.30pm , Saturday 10 - 5pm, Sunday 10-1pm Cost: £60 waged/ £50 low waged / £40 unwaged
We have one place left for the March Workshop Friday 21 March - Sunday 23 March, please call us if you would like to book this place. If you need overnight accomodation we can also help. To book your place please send a cheque payable to LifeWorks to LifeWorks 97 Holland Road, Hove, BN3 1JP.
If you have any questions please contact either Una or Zoe on 01273 205952 LifeWorks is a not for profit company dedicated to life affirming practices and peace around the world.