[All] Changing the Game! Attend the Third Mayor's Forum Series Event!

Alisa McClurg alisa.mcclurg at sympatico.ca
Thu Jun 9 09:51:16 EDT 2011 

 
Hi,
 
Just sending a message telling people about the third Mayor's Forum Series
event. Hopefully see some of you there!
 
Cheers,
 
Alisa McClurg
Chair (Waterloo Mayor's Event Committee)
TransitionKW
 
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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Ours is a time of radical transition - a transition in human thinking, as
well as a transition in the availability of energies and resources for our
use to survive and thrive on this planet.

With this in mind, please join us for the third event of TransitionKW's
"Mayor's Forum Series on Building Resilient Communities" on Saturday, June
18 from 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (registration at 9 am).


Register
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=18f9da993b&e=8ac68c66d1> here now!	

Try to register as soon as possible, and encourage others to register right
away, so we can arrange catering, tables, and so on. (Note: The event will
be held in the Turret at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. We have
been able to further lower the ticket price for the third event, including
lunch, to $15, with a 20% discount or more for those who need it.)

Why Register?

The Waterloo Mayor's Forums on Building Resilient Communities have been
created as a space of coming together to investigate: 

*	What is resilience? 

*	Why does it matter to us, and why is it such a hot topic everywhere?


*	If we want it, where do we go from here in building resilience in
ourselves and our communities? What strategies make sense? 

This work will continue at the third event on Saturday, June 18 - but it
will not end then!

Inspired by the work of the first two events, the groundwork is emerging for
a local-to-global movement of Intentional Community Resilience Building and
the calling into being of a whole Intentional Sector within 'the way things
are,' based on the Resiliency Thinking Assumptions (see below).
 
We've begun to notice that our current answers do not seem to be working
very well - neither in the present, nor for the future as we understand our
prospects. The clock is ticking on the world-as-we-might-hope-it-can-be.
 
The core question for all humans is always:


 	 'Given how we understand our situation, what actually make sense
for us to do now in order to survive and thrive?	

So again, join
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=5db7dec5ff&e=8ac68c66d1> us on Saturday, June 18!

What Ideas are Taking Shape?

Emerging from the strategic conversations of the first two events is the
articulation of the Resiliency Thinking Working Assumptions:

To build resilient communities for the kind of future we now anticipate, a
resiliency thinking approach assumes we need three changes: 

*	A culture shift to valuing collaboration over coercion, and to
practicing the management of coercive dynamics through collaborative
thinking-together. 

*	Experience and skill in communication, planning, and
conflict-handling that supports open-minded, open-hearted hearing of one
another. 

*	A new architecture of participation in our communities capable of
supporting community-wide collaborative learning, thinking, and action
together among all members and across all the sectors and areas of action
and concern. 

No amount of work in separate silos of food policy, energy use, planning,
transportation, health, the economy, etc. can lead to sustainable futures
without the paradigm shift in how we organize our meaning, our valuing, and
our relating with one another in order to be able to agree about and
collaborate on 'What it makes sense to do.'
 
So if these assumptions make sense to you, then how do we go about creating,
designing, nudging and nurturing such core changes in our communities?
 
To explore these questions, join
<http://mayorsforumseries-june18.eventbrite.com/> us on Saturday, June 18!
Please remind anyone you think will be interested to sign up. And if you
can't be with us in person on June 18, you can still participate in the
ongoing process by tuning in to the websites www.resilientwaterloo.ca
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=fccca324eb&e=8ac68c66d1> , www.resiliencythinking.org
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4ba
a153a&id=a51f221fd4&e=8ac68c66d1> , and www.transitionkw.ca
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=08ecdce0e0&e=8ac68c66d1> .

What Insights Have We Made?

We are coming to understand that the long-term resilience of any human
community will require of us as individuals and as a communities 

*	the available full power of all our shared human intelligence, 

*	a shared set of core common values for human communities, and a set
of working principles that employ and embody those values, 

*	a reliable, agreed-upon, constantly tested and updated body of
knowledge to base our action in; knowledge that confirms our choice of
values as sound, 

*	adaptability, flexibility, collaborative capacity, and context
sensitivity on the part of people and their communities, and 

*	everyone's engagement in a consistent, disciplined, and encultured
learning process for designing, nudging, and nurturing a desirable vision of
a human future, based in that knowledge and those values and principles. 

Here are a few captured quotes from the strategic conversations of the
second event of the forum series:
 

 	 
'You can't ignore the hurt of someone else' - Eleanor

'A community version of global warming to melt the personal landscape' -
undocumented

'A radical intimacy that embraces imperfection.' - James

'I want to see the word empowerment reclaimed by people.' - Trudy

'The importance of reflective interactivity.' - Brad

'I could see that talking about things at this high level was going to
affect the way we were thinking about all this. It was affecting what we
were valuing because we were naming it.' - Emma

  
Meaning is all we want; choices are all we make; relationships are all we
have. 
- Sandy Shuman in Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The International
Association of Facilitators Handbook, ed. Sandy Schuman
 
 Organisms organize. Human organisms organize meaning.
 - Wm Perry

Other Partners
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Laurier Students Public Interest Research Group (LSPIRG)
 
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=de29694aba&e=8ac68c66d1> Waterloo Public Interest Research Group
(WPIRG)
Social Planning Council of
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=7d645dece7&e=8ac68c66d1> Kitchener-Waterloo
Upstart Collaboratory for Collaborative Culture
<http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa
153a&id=29bf1a2fe1&e=8ac68c66d1> 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 to come to this
event. We are aiming to make this event as environmentally resilient as we
can.

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