Responsible Wellbeing is a new perspective for conscious Citizens of the World. Fundamental Needs for all people, Environment, Global Ethics and Global Rights.
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🌱 Explore tangible solutions for a #RegenerativeEconomy! Our MOOC unveils alternative models in #agriculture, #energy, #healthcare, and #finance. Eegister for Toward Cooperative Commonwealth starting on 21 Jan 2024. ud.coop/vitfx #ClimateAction #SystemChange
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🚀 Gain confidence to tackle complex issues! Our MOOC empowers you to explore solutions and create sustainable change. Don't miss Toward Cooperative Commonwealth starting on 21 Jan 2024. Register today! ud.coop/vitfx #Confidence #SystemThinking #WellbeingEconomy
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Andy Horsnell @ socialenterprisesolutions.ca says the Synergia MOOC was "a real turning point in my professional life"
Orientation is underway, so if you register now you can jump right in and get acquainted with the course before Module 1 kicks off on 21 Jan ud.coop/vitfx
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📢 Orientation for our online course "Toward Co-operative Commonwealth: Transition in a Perilous Century" begin this Sunday 14 Jan!
Have you registered yet? 🙂
You can pay what you like, including $0
Register now: ud.coop/vitfx
ALT Graphic titled "Have You Registered Yet?" In the centre: an adapted #DoughnutEconomics graphic, with an image of a weave in the middle of the doughnut where the Basic Needs; Food, Energy, Shelter and Social Care are interwoven with Key Systemic Strategies; Reclaiming Finance, Reclaiming the Commons, Democratizing and Localizing Ownership and Sustaining Livelihoods. On the right: details of Synergia's free online course "Toward Co-operative Commonwealth: Transition in a Perilous Century": there are 8 modules, 2 hours/ hr starting 14 Jan 2024. It costs between $0 - $140 CAD. Masters level credits are available via Athabasca University, you can register at SynergiaInstitute.org On the left: titles of the 7 course modules and the bonus eighth module are listed.
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No matter your politics, it should appall you that the media outlets which claim to care the most about "misinformation" suppressed coverage of South Africa's case against the Gaza genocide, but fully covered Israel's defense the next day—intentionally denying you the full story.
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Over the holidays, enjoy 3 short, inspirational films with family and friends evolvednest.org/:
Breaking the Cycle (6 minutes)
The Evolved Nest (8 minutes)
Reimagining Humanity (12 minutes)
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It's #GlobalDonutDay today! And there's masses happening online - check out these events and tune in to hear from pioneering changemakers putting doughnutty ideas into practice where they are... let's get this on a roll... doughnuteconomics.org/global…
!! Join us on Monday 13th November for the first ever Global Donut Day (yes, really!), with community-led events around the world and more online. Here's to creating regenerative, distributive futures, everywhere. doughnuteconomics.org/global…
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I've been talking networks & learning communities today. They can have a significant impact in an organisation or system. They enable people to connect & share across boundaries. They shorten lines of communication. They help people to do what they know how to do & learn how to do it even better. But networks & communities don't just happen. They need to be nurtured & supported to mature & grow. They are typically worth the investment.
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How can we do transformative social policy and rapid decarbonization in a post-growth scenario? Don't we need growth to fund the transition? We have a new paper out in Ecological Economics that addresses this question. Free to read: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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"The first task of any society is surely to avoid the extremes of misery and frustration."
— E.F. Schumacher
centerforneweconomics.org/ne…
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In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.
“The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.”
He plots stories on 2 axes:
X: Time
Y: Good fortune / ill fortune
He goes on to say,
“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”
Point 1:
Stories have defined patterns.
In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey.
Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world.
Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes.
Each story, he said, fit one of the 8.
Point 2:
Vonnegut says,
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.”
To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer.
Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for.
Point 3:
End on a high note.
Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.”
The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it.
It’s called recency bias.
Lift people up and they will love you.
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“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”
I wrote this with @RobbieCrab. Follow him for lessons on storytelling + fundraising.
And I talk about creative storytelling. Follow @nathanbaugh27 for more like that.
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"Capitalism is fundamentally anti-democratic. Yes, many of us live in electoral political systems. But when it comes to the system of production, not even the shallowest illusion of democracy is allowed to enter." realprogressives.org/podcast…
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Here's something you should know about yourself: The more intelligent you are and the more education you gain, the better you become at rationalizing and justifying your existing beliefs and attitudes regardless of their accuracy or harmfulness.
bigthink.com/the-well/change…
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What is the ‘Non-Profit Industrial Complex’ and how does it affect social movements?
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ALT non-profit industrial complex
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This new issue of Monthly Review is out now, representing the most substantive instantiation of socialist degrowth thought to date. Available here (with articles released online one by one during the summer): monthlyreview.org/product/mr…
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Following Dana Meadows, sustainability increasingly depends on more and more people accepting the innate unsustainability of our externality-denying current system - and seeking to transcend it.
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We use energy and materials ultimately to deliver services to humans. But can we get similar 'services' by using less energy, complexity and scale? Kris De Decker returns to TGS to discuss 5 low-tech ideas appropriate for a more human powered future: youtu.be/4MYqRvm7vX4
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Here is the talk I gave in Paris at @ChangeNOW_world last week. Quite possibly the most spectacular stage I ever spoke from, and such fun to tell everyone about my recent, extraordinary adventure to 2030. youtu.be/paaroffs46c
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An introduction to the life and thought of Bruno Latour.
youtube.com/watch?v=hst1fWmH…
This provides an initial snippet of recorded video material; more can be accessed via the St John's timeline project for theology and philosophy: stjohnstimeline.hymnsam.co.u…
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Compassion is kinder and healthier than empathy.
Evidence: when we feel others’ pain, we often get overwhelmed and withdraw. When we feel concern for their pain, we reach out and help.
The point of compassion isn't to share their feelings. It's to care about their feelings.
