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BeTheChange May 2006

The following notes are in short form and not meant to be a report. It will be useful to attendees of BeTheChange 2006 and may stimulate ideas in others.

* indicates personal thoughts/notes

John Whitmore

Capitalism doesn't work. Is it wrong? Is it flawed?

3 richest people have more wealth than the bottom 600,000,000. If one feeds a horse enough oats, some will pass through to the sparrows: J. K. Galbraith.

40,000 people per day die from starvation.

There are more slaves today than 200 years ago.

Be judgemental, with compassion – Dalai Lama. Be inclusive. Critical thinking.

“Reformed sinners” ... Gates, Soros, ...

* JW's comments are a useful wake up call but do not recognise that the problem is without the system and that money may be a proxy for ethics which we have to choose. Money itself is not the problem. Relative to history these benchmarks may not be so divergent eg a pharaoh had everyone beneath him and many of them were slaves.

John Duggan

Gazeley (WalMart).

“Servant leadership”

Not impressed.

Oneearth.org the power of one. Great video

John Wallis

Don't measure GDP, measure wealth.

We're still talking about money!

Because the oil price is rising, change is motivated ...!

We're currently consuming 1.2 planets. If we raise wealth in developing countries to the same level as the UK we'd consume 3 planets, and if to the same level as the US we'd consume 5 planets. To raise the minimum consumption of all people to $ 3 per day while maintaining the current income distribution, we'd consume 15 planets. We can not grow ourselves out of the problems of poverty and inequality.

Well being has a low correlation with increasing wealth, and a huge correlation with relationships and being valued. People with high levels of well-being have life expectancy increase of 7 years.

Education works if experiential and team based.

Bernard Lietaer

Intentional economics.

* Astraea: framework with language analysing what is and should be: applying integral thinking to economics.

Intentional economics, * incorrectly, blames the money system: “we are programmed by our money system”.

Room for improvement?: business and investment leaders sit around, often during presentations, talking to each other. Not interacting with others that could benefit from their interest, support and encouragement. In fact behaving like traditional leaders!

Sure there are increasing choices, but this is what successful leaders/capitalists say to justify their behavior.

EPRIDA

Climate change: spike today if time scale is 1,000 or 450,000 years.

Peak oil is a denial of information like that of the tobacco companies.

Soil is depleted and needs life.

Historical evidence from story of Caspar de Carbahal and Francesco de Correleana. Cities with permaculture. No stones, just compacted earth.

10% addition of low temperature charcoal. Terro Preto do Indio.

* “Do it in China” because it is not controlled and low cost.

Also carbon is sequestered.

* Make micro-decentralised units. 10 ton units. Talk to Chinese forest guy?!

Biomimicry needed. Conventional economics is linear not cyclical.

Also comment on Terra.

Dollar collapse: Robert Reuben Chair of Citibank, Paul Volker, Paul Stigliz, Paul Krugman, Bundesbank, Lietaer.

* TPB: energy is the currency. money is metaphysical. It is a concept. A virtual reality. The value of energy (as in E=mc2) It represents an exchange of energy in a quantum way which is why change is our individual responsibility. I believe that to bring human behaviour into line with natural law biomimicry is essential. Does this not suggest that our currency must become energy?

Leaders Quest

Lindsay Levin (and Sue Cheshire)

Cedar City Campus where businesses do the teaching.

* * *

Business can not be responsible - evidence supports this, and all other criticisms. But, business is driven by individuals ...

There is a concentration of wealth.

* “A difficult choice”

* “The Pretender”

* “Honesty”

Stan Thakera

Indigenous people ... do not own land. But are responsible for it. Land rights campaign. Depressing but hopeful.

Playing a game of monopoly?

Capital must become benevolent capital.

The relationship of capital to labour is unchanged or worsening.

“Just Change” organisation

* Work with Pestalozzi?

Power is the measure.

* Buyer decides the price. Donationware.

Ghandi model of development – grameen.

Q & A

20 year horizon for change.

Big system change?

War is keeping capitalism alive.

Investment is flowing to gold. Heroin is financing dollar strength. Northwoods.

Switch to Euro.

Avoid evolution of conflict currency zones.

* Humble. Humility ...

Jill Hicks

Death is beautiful. It is lovely. Saving the unknown. Being alive. Compassion and understanding.

Scilla Elsworthy

Oxford Reseach Group. Peace Direct.

No More Violence

in act

or word

at home

or away

Cycle of violence: shock – fear – grief + anger – bitterness – revenge – retaliation ->

Male vs Female

Actively make peace

Kirkuk – citizens liaison centre – no security bombings ...

Interconnectedness. Hot spot there - > ripples here.

“10 civilians killed for every combatant”

Remove the weapons.

BTC – nourishing the soul

“in our lifetime” oil tech sustainability may anger

Women's Circle

Energy! Be yourself. Conscious. Just a minute.(justa minute.org) Bell of silence.

GlobalPromise.org.uk

Q & A

Believe in conflict resolution

ministryforpeace.com

Make teaching fun. with business, with authorities – police, judiciary, coucil, accountants, lawyers, cleaning, waste management, environemnt, garden, planning, factory, cimmunity, special needs.

Funding for education?

Breaking The Ice

* One drop at a time ... fills the glass.

Media contributes to a problem of perception. Humanise the news.

Parent's forum for dealing with death of children.

Make it real to learn from it. Tough learning.

Politics is the problem.

Expectations environment.

Remove labels

Celebration of diversity.

* Can you be a christian if you are not an atheist?

many gurus (teachers). in each of us is a guru.

* “I don't know”

Teaching Freedom

How We Teach

Visualisations. Creative visualisations

My life's purpose.

* “I am a paper bag”

* “My story”

speak child

Help the teachers accept children

Use stories.

Wisdom tellers.

Fun. Laugh.

Learn from what: sight sound smell movement.

* Yoga : fast slow fast.

Chaos Pilots

“Life's Purpose” pulled to action. cosmic rhythm.

Cultural management. Work in wild situation.

Build capabilities.

Zones: comfort – stretch – danger

Sense: sleep – happy action – defense/preservation. *** problem with dropping too far, re SD too.

Values: compassionate, playful, realworld, streetwise, risk taking, balanced.

Competetnce, profile evaluation. Curiosity.

Head Heart Hand

Arne Ness philosopher ...

Tim Flannery

6.5 billion people growing at 0.1 billion per year.

At a constant density the atmosphere is 1/500 of the oceans!

50 million years ago the earth was uninhabitable because there was too much CO2. It was absorbed by vegetative growth which has ameliorated temperatures and climate volatility.

Frazer River, USA – fallen 6/15 last years.

“Huge moral imperative on us as end-users”

I the pioneers = USA BTC

David Orr

Advertising is founded on psychological manipulation - it appeals to the id, for 50 years it has been debasing human desires from higher aspirations to survival values – sex and consumption.

Children in US can recognise 1,000 corporate logos but only 10 plants and animals.

* “God put the coal and oil underground for a reason – to give us a climate”.

Centrifugal pressure to keep us indoors! Get people outdoors to remove 2 modern ailments: nature deficit disorder and biophobia.

* Build recyclable buildings.

Learn by teaching (highest retention).

As knowledge grows, so the interface with the unknown grows!

Two routes to extinction: destroy the planet or get evicted!

Choose life ... design failures from choosing virtual reality:

1:3200 product:use

11-70:1 fossil energy:food

$ 14,000/second spent on security

* “Heal the World”

* “All hands on deck”

* “Changing Vision”

* “Get a life”

Einstein “nature in its beauty”

* What to teach: all is one, violence is self-defeating, love

thoughts

Cut the pie differently: roi – inflation+ risk free, living, endowment. 25-30 years cycle, 5 year steps.

Money: Problems will raise the price of the stuff we don't like so we should invest in them now, which will make it worse. BUT once realisation takes hold (5 forces) then avalanche.

Experiential model to teach that we vote with money for the world we want.

SEAL emotional resistance to change, teach spiritual competence.

Education: “Jamie Oliver did it for food”

Assessment: where are you going? Values. Create opportunities for others. Self assessment.

See the cost of energy.

Network the schools.

Personal crisis? Global crisis? => opportunity.

Orgainsational footprint analysis. energy/food/bricks -> ORGANISATION or BUILDING -> pollution

* “Collateral Damage”

Teach: elocution, public speaking/reading, daily bread – reading.

The Millenium Generation

Do the right thing. Do it right.

Ethics in business Open Space

Compromise other's opportunities

ibe.org.uk cabe

stepping out – expose to social work

language?

women empathy love

Open Space

cluster and ripple effects

word of mouth is 10x advert

different strokes for different folks

what's going to happen to you if you change? down then up.

Money is OK

Dream like you live forever. Live like you'll die tomorrow.

Open Space is a pressure valve for passion.

* How do we engage the enemy?

* how to get past pride?

* leverage power?

imaginal cells for metamorphosis to the next level.

biopsychosocial profile

Mayan Calendar - Carl Johann Calleman

Rhythms of everything. Cosmic rhythms. Cosmic energies. Changing energies of creation

Pre-Colomian culture. Written and preserved. Classic period 0 – 900 CE then to 1300; Spanish arrival in 1526 resulted in decline. Few records left, and a living tradition survived in Guatemala.

Structure:

13 heavens and 9 underworlds: periods of time. Each of 9 transformation periods are made up of 13 energy filters.

Time periods: tun = 360 days kin = 1 day, 20 days = vinal ... factors of 20. Not astronomical. designed to model the evolution of consciousness.

No “time”. Stoneage people thinking in terms of billions of years created the model.

13 underworlds of this heaven:

3115 : 2721 : 2326: 1932 : 1538 : 1144 : 749 : 355 : 40 CE : 434 : 829 : 1223 : 1617 : 2011

Time and fire : earth : water and earth : warriors and sun : love : death : maize : rain and water : light : darkness : birth : dawn : duality

Parallel emergence: Egypt, Sumeria, Stonehenge, New Grange, Writing, Bronze age.

Writing. Linear. Masculine. Fanatic. Exclusion/separateness. Time vs moment.

. __________ O

Also, flipping of earth's magnetic field.

Crystalline resonance. Schuman resonance at surface = 7.5 hz 300,000 km/s / 40,000 km. lowest frequency of alpha waves

Globe: east is collective. west is individual

left brain = analysis, language, maths

right brain = synthesis, intuition, art

The World Tree

East West division through Rome.

1617 global power, scientific world view.

odd number heavens dualistic, even number heavens unified filter

Cosmic pattern: 7 days, 6 nights

Current underworld is national: sow, germinate, sprout, grow, flower, fruit.

Prior phase – barter. Current phase money.

National is dualistic

Cellular, Organism, Familial, Tribal, Cultural, National, Planetary, Galactic, Universal.

Matter, Animals, Monkey, Humans, Language, Higher ?, Individualistic, Intuitive, ?, Unity

Underworlds are superimposed.

Accelerate rate of change.

Rise of feminine and east

Breakthroughcelebration.com calleron.com

1999 – 2011!

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