Reflecting on Rankism, I am getting wonderful insights and I see a problem. Robert Fuller makes it clear that there are illegitimate situations of rank, and legitimate ones.
I follow up with a few thoughts and some quotes from Robert Fuller.
Dynamic Facilitation
Here is a Manual for Dynamic Facilitation.
Jim Rough’s book:
Societys-Breakthrough-Releasing-Essential-Wisdom
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The online manual is pretty good!
A sample follows.
Cameron Riley interviews Richard Moore
Just listened to Cameron Riley interview Richard Moore. Excellent podcast. A credible analysis of the geo-politics and a credible practical way forward – rare. I am now checking out “dynamic facilitation” dialogue. I love the way he speaks about doing dialogues as an experiment. Reminds me of Moreno’s sociometric experiments. These are not experiments ON people. This is people experimenting together, well that is what I make of it.
The state of the art for community dialogues has a way to go I think. I can see a sort of combination of Imago, NVC, Sociometry working to facilitate such a process. Couple and small group dialogues are hard enough, dialogues for social issues may be simpler. I like the way he proposes that a small group with diverse opinions, if they find a solution, it is likely it will be broadly accepted.
Hadron Experiment next week
This could be the most amazing probe into reality ever.
Pity if we were not there to see the results though.
In this interview with Kim Hill, Brian Cox assures me convincingly there is no need to worry & that the event next week is something important.
Socialist Aotearoa
If you’ve changed your lightbulbs recently or decided to get yourself one of those reusable green bags from Foodtown then good on you, but you may want to consider that although New Zealand has one of the highest carbon footprints per person in the entire world, the vast majority of our greenhouse gases are created by massive companies like Fonterra, Comalco / Rio Tinto, Solid Energy and Genesis Energy who have more influence over the New Zealand climate protection policy than you can shake a lightbulb at. So should we be concerned that these mega-polluting giants are the ones who get to tell Helen Clarke, Kevin Rudd and the rest of us whats good for the climate? We certainly think so and would like to invite everyone else who agrees to join us this Wednesday for the final day of the conference.
Afghanistan – not a good war – gathering some info.
I am figuring out why the hell we, New Zealand is in Afghanistan. Why it seems almost secret that we are there. Why Obama wants to escalate the war. Some links in no particular order.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hallinan.php?articleid=13242
By any measure, a military “victory” in Afghanistan is simply not possible. The only viable alternative is to begin direct negotiations with the Taliban, and to draw in regional powers with a stake in the outcome: Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, China, and India.
But to do so will require abandoning our “story” about the Afghan conflict as a “good war.” In this new millennium, there are no good wars.
Look at this link if you have a good stomach for atrocity.
Phil Goff 2005 on why we are there – he calls it Peace keeping – sounds like double talk to me. The news today about civilian deaths.
I was hoping to find more from the Greens. Its all a bit stale, and the upshot is that our involment is a token. there is this. And Keith Lock’s original opposition to the war in 2001. And his comments on rebellion of the New Zealand SAS make interesting reading! Here, and here.
Ok, it may be that New Zealand can keep out of the worst of it, but it is there alonside an invader. The are complicit even if the SAS has rebelled. I wonder what the deeper story is – who rebelled, what do they say now?
Scoop has a recent Govt press release.
Gwynne Dyer: Afghanistan – A war won and lost London Journalist via the New Zealand Herald – also last years, but has some analysis.
A bit more than a “Holiday Update”
Miranda July, edgy, provocative, loving & full of integrity:
Holiday Update
hello,
for those of you who are american, you now have a holiday. there may be times during this holiday where you feel a) not as happy as you had planned on feeling, b) like ripping someone’s head off, or c) fat.
this is because it is a holiday celebrating genocide.
Paris Breakfasts
Guess!
New Zealand rates fith when if comes to Psychodrama. Guess who comes first?
Google trends is great fun! and mist bare sone profound! uses. like there & how ho promote services.
The Peter Pinney philosopy of life
Got this image from Wayback machine:
The Flash presentation no longer works as far as I can tell.
A letter by his daughter from the flash story.