Transitioning the world through collective intelligence

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An opportunity for students to become partners (rather than clients) in new local and global learning ventures

Glad to become part of the Transitioner community!

Openworld (www.openworld.com) is a nonprofit, transnational volunteer and consulting network. We provide online resources for grassroots initiatives to awaken local assets and fund new learning and job-creation enterprises.

We are preparing a range of practical approaches to catalyzing such change, with a focus on expanding opportunities for areas with underperforming schools.

In many public schools, learning… Continue

Added by Mark Frazier on April 12, 2009 at 3:46am — 2 Comments

Ring of Clunk - A way to find out what's really true!

I am blessed to have found a life partnership where I learn and feel supported and accepted every day without fail. My wife is a musician and one of her gifts is creating and working with sound and music to help people find in themselves their inner wisdom.

Some years ago, I was working with a group of leaders that included her. It was a time before we recognized that we were meant to be together. This day was set aside for the group to develop a new purpose for their organization.… Continue

Added by Thomas White on April 10, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Human Systems - Life Long Learning

Dear friends,

For the fifth time, an exceptional Continuing Education in Soft Factors is going to take place in Switzerland. This two year long training not only allows one to acquire tools and practice in Leading and Coaching groups, but also open paths to new Relationships, by becoming aware of one's lacks and giving space to emergence.

Acknowledged with 60 ECTS, the Master of Advanced Studies HES-SO in Human Systems Engineering is composed of four Certificates of… Continue

Added by fabien on April 10, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Blowin in the Wind

As I awoke this morning, I had the Bob Dylan song “Blowin’ in the Wind” in my virtual headset. I could hear Dylan's raspy voice and haunting harmonica. I went to Itunes to listen to Dylan singing in his own voice, and I found so many layers of this song.

I was thinking of the great need to have answers to today's challenges and I heard Dylan sing, "the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind". I was reminded that the answers to all great questions don't come from my mind. My mind… Continue

Added by Thomas White on April 7, 2009 at 5:35am — 1 Comment

4.06.09 Beatles Power

Former Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr held a concert at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall to raise money for meditation in schools.

The Beatles raised worldwide attention to meditation with their trip to India 40 years ago. AP reports that at a conference, McCartney said the Maharishi had given them a "great gift... when we were looking for something to kind of stabilize us toward the end of the crazy 1960s."

"The concert, called “Change from within,” benefits the… Continue

Added by Roberto E Suarez on April 7, 2009 at 2:18am — No Comments

Another hidden and disastrous systemic effect of the rarefaction of money?

Interesting article on www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13403177

about “How poverty passes from generation to generation is now becoming clearer. The answer lies in the effect of stress on two particular parts of the brain.”

Would we all agree that the rarefaction of money is a key stress factor for the poor? If so this stress is likely to negatively affect the working memory of poor children, thus their abilities to rise above property. Another hidden and… Continue

Added by Vincent on April 5, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

For how long ?

For how long are we going to wait to see this kind of feed with free currencies ?

Check it out ! : Twittervision

Added by Amine Kabbaj on March 25, 2009 at 11:05pm — 1 Comment

Barter

I was watching a French TV show this morning on CANAL + CHANNEL ; they were talking about barter who generated about 11 billion dollars this year in the US !

People and firms will always find a new way of connecting, exchanging and go through a huge crisis like the one we are facing these days. Amazing !

it seems to be a nice source of inspiration for… Continue

Added by Amine Kabbaj on March 25, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Challenges of Community and Collaboration

Being an aficionado for collaboration, so much so that I've created a job for me being a Collaboration Ecologist, recently more often than not I've come to inquire into the question, "If, as seems to be the case, many if not most people and organisations in the world seek collaboration and want to become communities of mutually aided flourishing, how come it is not the greatest hit on Earth?"

Or as my friend Doug who's profession is… Continue

Added by Mushin on March 14, 2009 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments