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<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hello
GREN!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Although I know
some of you, I have not attended any of your meetings so I'm sure there are
many of you I haven't met. In any case, Susan Koswan suggested last week that
I join your email list though last week, so I thought I'd take advantage of
this to let you know about an event series I've been helping
organize.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The event series
is called the "Mayor's Forum Series on Building Resilient Communities" and it
is being organized by <EM>TransitionKW </EM></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2 face=Arial>in partnership with Mayor
Brenda Halloran of the <EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">City of
</SPAN></EM><st1:City><st1:place><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Waterloo</SPAN></EM></st1:place></st1:City><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">, LSPIRG, WPIRG, </SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and the <EM>Social Planning
Council of Kitchener-Waterloo. </EM>It is planned to occur
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Arial>this spring on three Saturdays, falling on April 2, May 7, June 18.
</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To provide some background,
<EM>TransitionKW </EM><SPAN class=557353518-16032011>is
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA>part of a larger worldwide
"<st1:place><st1:PlaceName></SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA>Transition</st1:PlaceName></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA><st1:PlaceType>Town</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA>" movement (<A
href="http://transitionnetwork.org/">http://transitionnetwork.org</A>) that
started in the
<st1:country-region><st1:place></SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA>United
Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region></SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA> and is gaining traction in <st1:place></SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA>North America</st1:place></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA>. In keeping with the mandate of these initiatives, we are focused
on enhancing our local ability to be flexible, resilient, and responsive to
changes in a manner that optimizes our capacity to thrive over the
long-term. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">As the
title of the series suggests, our goal with these events is to foster
community resiliency<SPAN class=557353518-16032011>. By </SPAN><SPAN
class=557353518-16032011>resiliency, </SPAN></SPAN><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA>we mean the ability to adopt to changes, challenges, and stresses,
whether they be environmental, social, and/or economic.</SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></st1:PlaceName></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We understand that
there is the potential that people may feel inundated with event requests and
wonder why this event would be worth their while in attending. While there is
no 'silver bullet' towards addressing many of the community challenges we now
face, this event series aims to help steer us on the right track by
encouraging a more 'holistic' approach for achieving local resiliency.
T</FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=557353518-16032011>hrough </SPAN><SPAN class=557353518-16032011>bringing
people together from diverse backgrounds (i.e. from not-for-profits,
neighbourhood organizations, businesses, government staff,
councilors, and students) and interests (i.e. transportation, food,
energy, water, poverty, housing, and health and safety), we hope that we can
pool our talents and resources around this goal and as a result be more
effective in our efforts. More importantly perhaps, achieving the goal of
resiliency requires a shared vision of what kind of a community we'd like to
achieve, and therefore significant community interaction, if we are to be
truly successful.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA"
lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=557353518-16032011><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Further details on the event
series are provided below. Feel free to email<SPAN class=557353518-16032011>
</SPAN>me<SPAN class=557353518-16032011>/have others do so with
</SPAN><SPAN class=557353518-16032011>any </SPAN>questions. I should mention
that as much as possible, we're trying to get the word out quickly. The
first event of the series <SPAN class=557353518-16032011>as I mentioned
</SPAN>is Saturday, April 2nd, which is just short of two weeks
away!<SPAN class=796541213-21032011> (If people could sign up by Tuesday,
March 2<SPAN class=557353518-16032011>9</SPAN>th, that would be best, for
logistical purposes).</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Take care,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Alisa
McClurg<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Chair (Waterloo Mayor's Event
Committee)<BR><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">TransitionKW</SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></EM></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="http://www.transitionkw.ca/mayorsforumseries.html">http://www.transitionkw.ca/mayorsforumseries.html</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><SPAN class=557353518-16032011><EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">TransitionKW is
part of a global movement working towards local community
resilience.</SPAN></EM></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN><SPAN
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style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">You're invited to the
Waterloo</SPAN><BR><BR>
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style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><STRONG>Mayor's Forum
Series on Building Resilient
Communities</STRONG></SPAN></H1>
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style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG>Saturdays
April 2, May 7 , June 18</STRONG><BR><STRONG>9:30 am –
4:30 pm</STRONG> (registration 9:00
am)<BR><STRONG>Lunch
included</STRONG><BR><STRONG>Waterloo
locations</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3>
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class=h2><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">Strategizing Towards
Resilient Community</SPAN></H2><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">In the face of a future
of change, opportunities, threats, stresses, and
unknowns, this Waterloo-based, citizen-driven
<STRONG>collaborative process of inquiry and
dialogue</STRONG> asks:</SPAN><BR><BR>
<DIV
style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #505050; FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><STRONG>What
community-wide strategies can we develop that can be
wise, smart and powerful enough to serve our visions
of community resilient around the values that are
important to
us?</STRONG><BR> <BR><EM>‘Strategizing depends on
a rich and complex web of conversations that cuts
across previously isolated pockets of knowledge and
creates new and unexpected combinations of
insight.’</EM> Gary Hamel</SPAN></DIV><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"> <BR>You’re invited
to join in the<STRONG> Mayor's Forum Series on
Building Resilient Communities</STRONG>, an initiative
hosted by:</SPAN><BR>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><EM> City of
</EM><EM>Waterloo</EM> Mayor Brenda Halloran,
and</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><EM> TransitionKW</EM>,
our local TransitionTown initiative, along with <A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="#otherPartners">other partners</A>.</SPAN>
</LI></UL><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"> Come to one, two,
or all three of these day-long events in Waterloo.
While they form a process that will build on each
event, you can still come to only one or join in at
the later dates. We expect numbers of attendees to
increase at each event.<BR> <BR>This process is
using Waterloo as a core working example, and at the
same time we believe the learning and dialogue will be
useful in relation to any community of any size or any
geographical location.</SPAN><BR><BR>
<H3
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class=h3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
name=registerHere></A>How to
Register</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://mayorsforumseries-april2.eventbrite.com">First
Event</A><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN>:
Saturday, April 2, 2011</SPAN></SPAN><BR><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://mayorsforumseries-may7.eventbrite.com">Second
Event</A><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN>:
Saturday, May 7, 2011</SPAN></SPAN><BR><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://mayorsforumseries-june18.eventbrite.com">Third
Event</A><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN>:
Saturday, June 18, 2011</SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">Also:</SPAN><BR>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">Go to
</SPAN><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://www.resilientwaterloo.ca/"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">www.resilientwaterloo.ca</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">, hosted by <STRONG>The
Upstart Collaboratory for Collaborative Culture
Designing, </STRONG>to find out more about the
Mayor’s Forum Series, to follow the development of
the <STRONG>Mayor’s Forum Series on Building
Resilient Communities </STRONG>over the next months,
and to engage in online thinking together about a
resilient Waterloo.</SPAN>
<LI><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://eepurl.com/cYX9A"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">Sign up</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"> for the
<STRONG>Resilient Waterloo</STRONG> newsletter to
follow the process as it unfolds in the next three
months and beyond.</SPAN> </LI></UL><BR>
<H3
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class=h3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG>Aims and
Questions</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><EM>The aim of these
forums is to initiate an ongoing ‘rich and complex web
of conversations’ to explore and strategize around
these questions:</EM></SPAN>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><STRONG>How
</STRONG>can forum participants from many diverse
areas of community interest and activity work
together to assist and empower one another
effectively in all the various areas of our concern
and caring?</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><STRONG>What
</STRONG>needs to happen to insure that ‘we’ – the
community as a whole - really understand the
collective values and needs of the entire
community?</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><STRONG> What</STRONG>
common goals do we focus our energies on that</SPAN>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">are most
likely to generate in our communities the
qualities of life that we all value most highly in
living together,<STRONG> and</STRONG></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">at the same
time will give us the greatest or best buffers
against threats, risk, change or shocks?</SPAN>
</LI></UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><STRONG>How
</STRONG>as a community can we close the gap between
what we say we value and what we actually do?</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><STRONG>How,
</STRONG>when we know our goals, can we then develop
strategies wise, smart, and powerful enough to serve
our visions of community - Waterloo or any other -
resilient around common values, in light of the
future?</SPAN> </LI></UL>
<H3
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class=h3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG>Who are
these forums for?</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">They are for you – for
anyone – if you</SPAN>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><EM>have a
desire</EM> for a more environmentally, socially,
and economically resilient community.</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><EM>wish to
work,</EM> and/or <EM>are already working,
</EM>within your community in meaningful and
powerful ways for your hopes and desires for the
future.</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><EM>want to
unlock our community potential to build a better
future together </EM>for ourselves and future
generations around the values that are important to
us.</SPAN> </LI></UL>
<H3
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class=h3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG>What will
happen?</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">We’ll explore and
strategize together in a wide variety of forms of
conversation, questioning, dialogue and
information-sharing. It will be a participatory
process that can include any or all of conversation
cafes, world-café, and open space or ‘unconferencing’
events. There will be short presentations, live or on
video, and artist and musician events. We will reflect
on our ongoing experience and plan for the future
through graphic recording and various forms for
capturing and re-presenting emerging
ideas.</SPAN><BR><BR>
<H3
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class=h3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG>Desired and
Expected Outcomes</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">The focus is on </SPAN>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">making
connections among the people who come.</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">thinking
together as a learning community around the future
we want and the goals and strategies that can serve
that future.</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">generating an
infrastructure for an ongoing, post-forum,
exponentially expanding, community-wide dialogue
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’. The
new website </SPAN><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://www.resilientwaterloo.ca/">www.resilientwaterloo.ca</A><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"> being developed by the
Upstart Collaboratory will available to support the
development of this dialogue infrastructure.</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">practice
tools for initiating empowering community
conversation and dialogue from the level of small
groups to neighbourhoods to regions and
beyond.</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">becoming
clearer about what our common goals are as caring
community members that can also serve our diverse
interests. Specifically, what do we focus our
energies on that</SPAN>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">will most
likely generate in our communities the qualities
of life that we value most deeply in living
together,<STRONG> and</STRONG></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">will give
us the greatest or best buffers against threats,
risk, change or shocks?</SPAN> </LI></UL>
<LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">participatory
planning: aspects of the form of the second and
third forums are not fixed, and will depend on what
happens on the first day. Attendees on April 2 will
be invited to help shape the subsequent days if they
wish. Early conversations with attendees are already
shaping the first day – you can contact us now if
you wish to be part of the current conversations at
</SPAN><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="mailto:resilientcommunities@transitionkw.ca?subject=Conversation">resilientcommunities@transitionkw.ca</A>.
</LI></UL>
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style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG><A
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name=otherPartners></A>Other
Partners</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://www.lspirg.ca">Laurier Students Public
Interest Research Group (LSPIRG)</A><BR><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://www.wpirg.org">Waterloo Public Interest
Research Group (WPIRG)</A><BR><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://www.waterlooregion.org/spc/kw/">Social
Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo</A><BR><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://www.upstartcollaboratory.org">Upstart
Collaboratory for Collaborative Culture
Designing</A><BR><BR>
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style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)"><SPAN><STRONG>Register
Now and Spread the
Word!</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></H3><SPAN
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</SPAN><A
style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="#registerHere">sign up</A><SPAN
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for the first day, Saturday April 2. <STRONG>Please
also forward this invitation</STRONG> through your
networks, and personally contact people you think
would want to be part of, or know about, these
events.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Alisa
McClurg<BR>Chair (Waterloo Mayor's Event
Committee)<BR><EM>TransitionKW</EM></SPAN><BR><A
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