Eight keys to spiritual growth and social change for a community thriving with vision, heart and innovation:
1. Shift from what’s dying to what’s being born: discover the new world of practical visionaries all around you
2. Understand the big picture and the higher evolutionary plan: find your part and get engaged
3. Make your livelihood a social change strategy: be a spiritual warrior, an innovator, a living example
4. Invoke the magic of your soul: explore the new world within you and make friends with your subconscious
5. Turn within to find a source of spiritual strength: develop a regular meditative practice to receive clear guidance
6. Clarify your higher purpose and vision: create a mission, practical strategy and right timing
7. See money as a spiritual asset: trust in the abundance of the universe—and be practical and wise
8. Transform duality and conflict into a higher synthesis: find common space between two forces
(from the Visionary Leadership Training - www.visionarylead.org)
1. Shift from what’s dying to what’s being born: discover the new world of practical visionaries all around you
2. Understand the big picture and the higher evolutionary plan: find your part and get engaged
3. Make your livelihood a social change strategy: be a spiritual warrior, an innovator, a living example
4. Invoke the magic of your soul: explore the new world within you and make friends with your subconscious
5. Turn within to find a source of spiritual strength: develop a regular meditative practice to receive clear guidance
6. Clarify your higher purpose and vision: create a mission, practical strategy and right timing
7. See money as a spiritual asset: trust in the abundance of the universe—and be practical and wise
8. Transform duality and conflict into a higher synthesis: find common space between two forces
(from the Visionary Leadership Training - www.visionarylead.org)
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YOUTH EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT (The Golden Dawn of the Golden Children is Now)
www.generationwakingup.org
www.youthlink.org
www.oneworldnow.org
www.pioneersofchange.net
www.worldspirityouthcouncil.org
www.youthactionnet.org
www.globalyothconnect.org
www.nextgen.ecovillage.org
www.teenempowernment.com
www.gonextgeneration.org
Free Items / Share Postings / Resource Economy, etc...
www.thealternativeeconomy.org
freecycle.org
bewelcome.org
justfortheloveofit.org
foodnotbombs.net
freifunk.net
unlibrary.com
reallyreallyfree.org
onelovee.org
sustainablepost.org
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A Living Example: the Evolver Action Council
It is time to awaken to our potential as conscious co-creators of a re-evolutionary society. We're calling a gathering to discuss visionary community projects, from open permaculture communities, to free community schools, to the living learning center and open-source research facility of the SoRC ( Sanctuary of Reawakening Consciousness - http://www.thesorc.bbnow.org ).
Our intention is to discuss specific projects, in the context of a broader community vision, to:
-pool and cross-network resources and skills
-gain traction and get projects rolling
-shape our projects to address community needs
We invite:
-Idea-Generators
-Visionary Artists
-Community Organizers
-Grantwriters
-Investors
-Permaculture Farmers
-Scientists, Builders, and Engineers interested in sustainable community design
-Healers
-Community members interested in contributing and learning
Do you have a vision for a community project? Skills and experience you'd like to share? A plot of land to build on, or money or other resources you'd like to channel into the flowering of community centers for developing more enjoyable, just, sustainable ways of living?
You are welcome to this discussion, brainstorm, and networking session where we hope to begin to organize to the next level of emergence as visionary leaders and co-creators.
In the San Francisco Evolver Spore Gatherings, we'll come together as a community to co-create a multimedia art happening featuring sound, movement, and visual art components. We'll break up into three teams (visual, sound, movement), each with a conductor/director with a vision inspired by something they've experienced in a vision. We'll provide the materials and a minimal bit of structure for the teams, the rest will emerge. In playing together, we'll explore the collaborative process by experimenting with some alternative organizational/collaborative structures, such as the Holographic model of collaboration.
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The Great Questions and Subjects:
• Building Intentional Community: history, legalities, ecovillage founding, sexuality, spirituality, and diversity in community, creating community wherever you are, and opportunities to meet representatives from communities from all over the country who share a wealth of experience, skills, and stories.
• Cooperative Culture Building, and Building Community “With Intention”: cooperative games and skill building, learn about consensus decision making, pattern language, social permaculture, and more.
• Building Resilient Communities- what does it take to strengthen your local economy? To create community in an urban environment? What kinds of programs are available for students to live more cooperatively and to work together to educate beyond the classroom? How can we set up systems for sharing resources such as vehicles, tools and equipment, and community gardens?
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Great Perspectives and Quotes:
All possibilities of change begin with self alignment and gather momentum with creative ideas. Through assessing local resources and talents and those willing to play in a new way can get the ball bouncing. It is so important to rediscover ...what are the resources in ones local environment. Support local producers and find ways to live in better relationship to local community. Gather together to play and pray more. Enjoy the process because there are cosmic energies that will change the system and what is important is for those who desire change in their hearts to be ready to connect to the wisdom of the Earth as the ancient people did. As the old systems crumble, the new energies will guide those whose spiritual awareness is the highest. Then the new adventure will unfold with love as the guiding force for our actions. - Maika Sun Eagle