Walter Logeman: Journal
Ah, more recent news (October 2010) and it confirms that there is a plan, to build and to oppose the dam.
Meridian has the project on first base by obtaining the required resource consents from the West Coast Regional and Buller District councils. In March, commissioners decided, two to one, to grant the consents. The Department of Conservation (DOC), Forest & Bird and Whitewater NZ are appealing and the Environment Court is expected to hear the case in 2012.
This is a good little article – May 2010 – is there later news?
DOC holds fire on Coast dam appeal | Stuff.co.nz:
“What have Meridian got up their sleeve? Are they going to change the scheme? Are they going to find a lot more land to offer or pay out, which has been done before? We don’t know.”
I am appalled at the prospect that one of the last unspoilt rivers in New Zealand has been given government blessing to be damned for hydro power. ( A report by Mike McGavin detailing the April 2010 decision. Decision) . We just saw Craig Potton Rivers DVD episode that shows the river and exposes the threat.
The Mokihinui is in the heart of country where I have tramped and camped, just south of the Whangapeka. I love this land. Google Map. I can’t bear it’s destruction, the country should not loose this land, the animals including endangered native snails and fresh water eels and fish will loose their habitat, trees will die, the permanent loss of trees and the building and concrete will add to carbon to the atmosphere.
Damming this river rides rough-shot over New Zealand culture and Maori traditions as the Craig Potton video makes clear. Meridian (the NZ state and who else?) are a power to reckoned with and will spare no efforts as what went on here with money to Iwi might indicate: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637348 Sounds like a case of divide and rule.
This dam will happen to our shame, we can stop this dam! Stop the Mokihinui dam, save the Mokihinui river. What to do? This is what I have in mind.
A list of action ideas and links follows, at the end a link to the Lake Pedder tragedy.
The next and needed social network will have the the following qualities:
Purposeful
The ethos will be present and overt. There will be a statement of vision and purpose about equity and compassion.
Strategic
It will aim to bring together the activist left, the digital communication forms and specialist communication and relationship skill groups.
Process Orientation
Respectful of difference in vision and desired outcomes. Strong on adherence to principles of process. Dialogical.
Sustainable Organisation
There will be a balance between being stable and being able to evolve by the actions of participants. Overt governance.
Systemic
Relates to a principle of isomorphism so that the same principles apply at the micro level operate at the macro. Enact principles consciously at all levels in the system.
Principled
Overt guidelines on privacy, transparency, confidentiality.
Ideology
Loose endorsement of charters and manifestos. Eg Compassion, Imediatist.
Digital and Physical
The system will foster effective online and face-to-face participation all within the framework of defining next actions that adhere to the ethos.
Distributed
The leadership is distributed via chapters and hubs and the digital information is not all be on one server or central hub or on one platform. (Diaspora)
Open Source
(Linux)
Not for Profit
(Wikipedia) (Linux)
Global and Local
Dialogical
Will have overt guidelines for effective participation. (Dynamic Facilitation) (NVC) (Imago) (Psychodrama)
I wonder how many other people decided to look at alternatives to flickr?
I’ve made a new photo page.
Looks OK – it is all on my own server… but keep a copy as well. I see there is a pluging to import flickr data. However it is not all that social, or is it? it has comments and it must be easy to share stuff. Hmmm using the Internet, that is social.
and pasting an image here is easy!
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919
I want to take a photo of one of Moreno’s maps – to contrast.
Have been listening to the audios and thinking about the sociodrama workshop I will be conducting at the Auckland Psychodrama Conference 2011 on the Zeitgeist. “Listening to the Spirit of the Times.”
Who shall survive and all of JL Moreno’s work looks to a future. Sociometry is the science of the future.
As I became socially and politically conscious, the future loomed large. “We shall overcome”, “Times are a changing” the counter-culture loomed large and it drove me forward (in the ’70s) into a utopian future that crashed both psychologically and socially.
Psychodrama arrived just at that moment in my life in in 1979. It filled my “me generation” needs as well as the counter-cultural needs. It was able to offer repair needed from the pain of the 70s but hooured the visions of the 60s.
And psychodrama did indeed flourish in the eighties in Australia and NZ. I think because Max and Lynnette Clayton of course but also because of the zeitgeist.
Psychodrama offered better social tools than yuppies and better psychological ones than traditional therapy.
I am constantly using the following ideas in my work with couples. I’ve made these notes from a Marshall Rosenberg page, book or lecture on YouTube.
I’ve integrated this thinking and it is very helpful in generating lead-lines as I coach people.
Richard Bolstad & Annie Currie quote Antony Williams (Williams, A. The Passionate Technique Tavistock/Routledge, London, 1989) on role. I have usually simply said thinking. feeling & action.
NLP in Action – Transformations NLP:
In Psychodrama, a role is said to have five components: context, behaviour, belief, feeling, and consequences (Williams, 1989, p 58)
I still like the word thinking here, “the story I tell myself”
Context is needed, it gives the sense of a flow.
Consequences gives a sense of the role in flow. Reminds me of Marshall Rosenberg and deciding if a request was really a request or a demand. it depends on what happens when the request is refused, if threats follow etc then it was not really a request in the first place.
On the basis of that how about:
Components of a Role