[All] Register and See Incredible Video of First Mayor's Forum Series Event!

[Alisa McClurg]

Dear GREN,
 
Please find below the details on how to register
<http://mayorsforumseries-may7.eventbrite.com>  for the latest Mayor's Forum
Series event on Saturday, May 7th. Along with an incredible video
<http://resilientwaterloo.ca>  of what happened at the first event. Exciting
things happened last time. Hope that you can come to the next one!
 
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
 
Cheers,
 


Alisa McClurg
Chair (Waterloo Mayor's Event Committee)
TransitionKW
519.746.7238
 <http://www.transitionkw.ca/mayorsforumseries.html>
http://www.transitionkw.ca/mayorsforumseries.html
 <http://resilientwaterloo.ca/mayorsforumseries>
http://resilientwaterloo.ca/mayorsforumseries
 
TransitionKW is part of a global movement working towards local community
resilience.






Mayor's Forum Series on Building Resilient Communities - Strategizing
Towards Resilient Community

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Join us for the second event of TransitionKW's "Mayor's Forum Series on
Building Resilient Communities" on Saturday, May 7 from 9 am - 4:30 pm.



 
    Register
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=ff03a6fbcd&e=8ac68c66d1> here  
 

Please register as soon as possible, and encourage others to register right
away, so we can arrange catering, tables, and so on. (Note: We have been
able to lower the price for the second event, including lunch, to $20, with
a 20% discount or more for those who need it.)
 
The first event of the Mayor’s Forum on Building Resilient Communities has
set the stage!
 
See and hear for yourself the energy, thinking and spirit of the first event
in this
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=bff310df24&e=8ac68c66d1> 7 minute video, put together by Fred
Hunsberger. Hear Mayor Halloran, Trudy Beaulne and others of the 50 people
attending the first event. 
 
See
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=bff310df24&e=8ac68c66d1> 7 minute video.

Visit
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=caf81bfa42&e=8ac68c66d1> www.resilientwaterloo.ca!
 
This new website
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=f14e62cf0e&e=8ac68c66d1> www.resilientwaterloo.ca is being developed
by the
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=a1864e8e72&e=8ac68c66d1> Upstart Collaboratory for Collaborative
Culture Designing in order to support the development of a dialogue
infrastructure for an ongoing, exponentially expanding, community-wide
conversation specifically around a resilient Waterloo that will continue
past these events and allow increasing numbers of the Waterloo community to
engage in the ongoing ‘rich and complex web of conversations’.
 
You can
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=3cda97dc86&e=8ac68c66d1> sign up on the website for Resilient
Waterloo News updates to make sure that you always know what's going on with
Resilient Waterloo and the Mayor’s Forum Series on Building Resilient
Communities.
 
What Happens in the Forum?
 
Watch the video, and go to
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=d21baa4a43&e=8ac68c66d1> www.resilientwaterloo.ca for much more of
the thinking, background, resources, hopes and intentions leading to the
creation of these events.
 
Find out more about the kind of dialogue forms we are using such as World
Café, Open Space, Conversation Café, Dynamic Facilitation that allow
collaborative thinking-together as communities.
 
What is Possible in the Forums?
 
At the first event, Trudy Bealne of the Social Planning Council of
Kitchener-Waterloo articulated what these Building Resilient Communities
gatherings seek to make possible:


 	 ‘Together we can co-create the community we want, the society that
we want, and the world that we want to live in, and want our future
generations to live in.
 
‘The reality of our lives as human beings is really precarious, and most of
you recognize that. We don’t talk about it out loud. The fear that must be
driving most people right now is something that is actually a barrier to
coming up with effective solutions.
 
‘Our real potential is in creating the environment in which we live. And we
have both the right and the responsibility and the opportunity to do that in
ways that are effective. I’m curious enough to wonder what that will look
like, and I’m impatient enough to want to get on with it!’	

 Mayor Brenda Halloran delivered the challenge: 

 	 ‘We have to change things. The world is in a state of transition,
and for me a community always has to be changing and evolving and
transitioning. How do we help each other? Where do we find the resources in
our community to build community together?
 
‘Where are we going to? What do you want to do? ... I’m here to just be that
working-with-you person and carrying this message out to the community,
because it’s a pretty exciting message.’ 	

For more thoughts, go to
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=5641e7e3a1&e=8ac68c66d1> http://resilientwaterloo.ca/TheForumVision.


 
 Register
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=b3360b3280&e=8ac68c66d1> here  
 

What’s the Intention of the Mayor's Forum Series on Building Resilient
Communities?
 
This forum proposes that:
 
A resilient community in today’s world is one that can think together, that
knows what it values most deeply in common, that can organize its meaning
(knowledge and understanding) and its caring (what it does and doesn’t
value) and its relating together (how we view and treat one another). It
does so in such a way that it can act coherently and wisely together in
circumstances of change, shock, opportunity, stress, and recovery from the
unexpected. 

 	 ‘Resilience is a dynamic process that describes how any ecosystem,
that may or may not include humans, maintains itself and its integrity over
time. Resilience as such is not a value. What do you want to be resilient?
Resilience just describes whether a particular system can maintain itself.’
 
‘And what kind of community is it we want to have maintain itself over time?
What is core enough that will allow it to maintain itself over time? What do
we value?’ - Jean Robertson	

Only collaborative, consciously co-intelligent communities can make
available the resources we most need at present - the amazing and powerful
resources of collaborative human thinking-together of every concerned person
about what truly makes sense to do for our survival and well-being as
people, as a species, and as a planet. 

 	 ‘We’re not individual thinkers - we’re always thinking together.
We’ve always been co-intelligent – we haven’t always noticed that. But what
we’re doing right now is becoming consciously co-intelligent.’ - Jean
Robertson	

This forum allows us to experience

*	other people who are thinking deeply about and working for our
common future, 

*	this collaborative co-intelligent human thinking-together, 

*	new forms of dialogue, decision-making and conflict resolving that
support this thinking, and 

*	an architecture of collaboration within which we can continue to 


1.	strategize about our future, and 

2.	strategize about how to build this kind of dialogue and
thinking-together into all our communities - in Waterloo, or in any
communities of any kind or size from family to neighbourhood, from sector to
governance communities. 

It can start in many places, it can start in any community on any scale, and
it can start now.
 
We can do this.
 
We are beginning –
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=d7358cc2c4&e=8ac68c66d1> join us! And invite others you think would
like to come or know about it.


 	 
'I’d like to really encourage everyone here to find that friend you have
that would laugh at you for being here. Find someone you know who does not
share all those values we discussed today, or at least would say, ‘Yes, I
value that word’, but that word means something different to them. Encourage
them to come to the next forum.' - Neil Cavan

Other Partners
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153a&id=6e7dc77108&e=8ac68c66d1> 

Laurier Students Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG)
Waterloo Public Interest Research Group
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=e453969e7e&e=8ac68c66d1> (WPIRG)
Social Planning Council of
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153a&id=a73d7ac52e&e=8ac68c66d1> Kitchener-Waterloo
Upstart Collaboratory for Collaborative
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=01cbae933a&e=8ac68c66d1> Culture Designing

Sincerely,

Alisa McClurg
Chair (Waterloo Mayor's Event Committee)
TransitionKW
resilientcommunities at transitionkw.ca

p.s. Please try as possible to walk, take the bus, carpool, use Grand River
Carshare, or take other alternative means of transport when coming to this
event series. We are aiming to make this event as environmentally resilient
as we can.

TransitionKW is part of a global movement working towards local community
resilience.



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