Shift Happens
From RCC 2007
Contents |
Shift Happens -- Inhabiting the Thrive Mind
Who's here?
- ArthurBrock
- BrianKerr
- Carol Placer
- Conal Elliott
- Dharma Dailey
- Forrist
- John Abbe
- Marie Deatherage
- Michael Buland
- Michael Maranda
Alternate titles
- "World Undomination"
- "Currencies of Power"
Freeform notes
JohnAbbe's notes == top of right column of [1], he is giving a freeform explanation of this set of ideas.
"Thrival instead of survival" -- what Bruce "Flatware" Sterling might call preserving the broadest range of futures.
Consciousness is a resource -- enables fantasy, delusions of grandeur, etc. and imagination or strategy for real change.
Power is a resource -- allows you/we to develop power over situations, or power with situations. (connection to nonviolent revolution and activism)
This power shift is the shift that happens. John Abbe has a list of assumptions of power with / power and culture.
ProcessArts: co-creation, Consensus Polling, Citizens' Initiative Review Process, jury processes (see 12 Angry Men), wisdom councils.
Nexus for Change is a conference in March on process, organized by some of the editors of [http://www.amazon.com/Change-Handbook-Definitive-Resource-Engaging/dp/1576753794/sr=8-1/qid=1170480625/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3043231-1809716?ie=UTF8
