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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN 
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=999424320-07062011>Just sending a 
message telling people about the third Mayor's Forum Series event. Hopefully see 
some of you there!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN 
class=999424320-07062011>Cheers,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=999424320-07062011>Alisa 
McClurg</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=999424320-07062011>Chair (Waterloo 
Mayor's Event Committee)<BR><EM>TransitionKW</EM></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=999424320-07062011><EM>TransitionKW is 
part of a global movement working towards local community 
resilience.</EM></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN 
class=999424320-07062011><STRONG>                                                                            <FONT 
color=#808080 size=1>   Mayor's Forum Series on Building Resilient 
Communities - Strategizing Towards Resilient 
Community</FONT></STRONG><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">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.</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">With 
                  this in mind, please join us for the third event of 
                  <EM>TransitionKW</EM>'s "Mayor's Forum Series on Building 
                  Resilient Communities" on Saturday, June 18 from 9:30 am - 
                  4:30 pm (registration at 9 am).<BR></SPAN><BR>
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                        style="FONT-SIZE: 24px"><STRONG><A 
                        style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" 
                        href="http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa153a&id=18f9da993b&e=8ac68c66d1">Register 
                        here</A> 
                  now!</STRONG></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">Try to register as soon as 
                  possible, and encourage others to register right away, so we 
                  can arrange catering, tables, and so on.</SPAN><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"> </SPAN><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">(<SPAN 
                  style="FONT-SIZE: 11px"><STRONG>Note: 
                  </STRONG></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                  style="FONT-SIZE: 11px">The event will be held in the Turret 
                  at <EM>Wilfrid Laurier University </EM>in Waterloo. 
                  </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                  style="FONT-SIZE: 11px">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.)</SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><STRONG><SPAN 
                  style="FONT-SIZE: 24px">Why 
                  Register?</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">The Waterloo Mayor’s Forums on 
                  Building Resilient Communities have been created as a space of 
                  coming together to investigate: </SPAN>
                  <UL>
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">What is 
                    resilience?</SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">Why does it matter 
                    to us, and why is it such a hot topic everywhere?</SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">If we want it, where 
                    do we go from here in building resilience in ourselves and 
                    our communities? What strategies make sense?</SPAN> 
                  </LI></UL><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">This work will 
                  continue at the third event on Saturday, June 18 - but it will 
                  not end then!<BR><BR>Inspired by the work of the first two 
                  events, the groundwork is emerging for a local-to-global 
                  movement of <STRONG>Intentional Community Resilience 
                  Building</STRONG> and the calling into being of a whole 
                  <STRONG>Intentional Sector</STRONG> within ‘the way things 
                  are,’ based on the Resiliency Thinking Assumptions (see 
                  below).<BR> <BR>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.<BR> <BR>The core 
                  question for all humans is always:</SPAN><BR><BR>
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                      <TD style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse"><SPAN 
                        style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><EM>‘Given how we 
                        understand our situation, what actually make sense for 
                        us to do now in order to survive and 
                      thrive?</EM></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">So again, <A 
                  style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" 
                  href="http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa153a&id=5db7dec5ff&e=8ac68c66d1">join 
                  us</A> on Saturday, June 18!</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><STRONG><SPAN 
                  style="FONT-SIZE: 24px">What Ideas are Taking 
                  Shape?</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">Emerging from the strategic 
                  conversations of the first two events is the articulation of 
                  the Resiliency Thinking Working 
                  Assumptions:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"></SPAN><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: #8b4513">To build resilient communities for the 
                  kind of future we now anticipate, a resiliency thinking 
                  approach assumes we need three changes: </SPAN>
                  <UL>
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: #8b4513">A culture shift to 
                    <STRONG>valuing collaboration over coercion</STRONG>, and to 
                    practicing the management of coercive dynamics through 
                    collaborative thinking-together.</SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: #8b4513">Experience and skill in 
                    communication, planning, and conflict-handling that supports 
                    open-minded, open-hearted <STRONG>hearing of one 
                    another</STRONG>.</SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: #8b4513">A new <STRONG>architecture 
                    of participation in our communities</STRONG> 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.</SPAN> 
                  </LI></UL><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">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.’<BR> <BR>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?</SPAN><BR> <BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><STRONG>To explore these 
                  questions, <A 
                  href="http://mayorsforumseries-june18.eventbrite.com/">join 
                  us</A> on Saturday, June 18!</STRONG> <SPAN 
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                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">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 <A 
                  style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" 
                  href="http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa153a&id=fccca324eb&e=8ac68c66d1">www.resilientwaterloo.ca</A>, 
                  <A 
                  style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" 
                  href="http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa153a&id=a51f221fd4&e=8ac68c66d1">www.resiliencythinking.org</A>, 
                  and <A 
                  style="COLOR: #336699; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" 
                  href="http://transitionkw.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6bbe8ca003478b24d4baa153a&id=08ecdce0e0&e=8ac68c66d1">www.transitionkw.ca</A></SPAN>.<BR><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><STRONG><SPAN 
                  style="FONT-SIZE: 24px">What Insights Have We 
                  Made?</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">We are coming to understand that 
                  the long-term resilience of any human community will require 
                  of us as individuals and as a communities </SPAN></SPAN>
                  <UL>
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                    style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">the available full power of 
                    all our shared human intelligence,</SPAN></SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                    style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">a shared set of core common 
                    values for human communities, and a set of working 
                    principles that employ and embody those 
                    values,</SPAN></SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                    style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">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,</SPAN></SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                    style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">adaptability, flexibility, 
                    collaborative capacity, and context sensitivity on the part 
                    of people and their communities, and</SPAN></SPAN> 
                    <LI><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                    style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">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.</SPAN></SPAN> </LI></UL><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">Here are a few captured quotes 
                  from the strategic conversations of the second event of the 
                  forum series:<BR> <BR></SPAN></SPAN>
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                        style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                        style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                        style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></TD>
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                        style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                        style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
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                        style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #336633; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">‘<EM><SPAN 
                        style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You can’t ignore the hurt of 
                        someone else</SPAN></EM>’ – Eleanor<BR><BR>‘<EM><SPAN 
                        style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A community version of global 
                        warming to melt the personal landscape</SPAN></EM>’ – 
                        undocumented<BR><BR>‘<EM><SPAN 
                        style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A radical intimacy that 
                        embraces imperfection.</SPAN></EM>’ – 
                        James<BR><BR>‘<EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I 
                        want to see the word empowerment reclaimed by 
                        people.</SPAN></EM>’ – Trudy</SPAN><SPAN 
                        style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR><BR><SPAN 
                        style="COLOR: #336633">‘<EM><SPAN 
                        style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The importance of reflective 
                        interactivity.</SPAN></EM>’ – Brad</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN 
                        style="COLOR: #336633">‘<EM><SPAN 
                        style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</SPAN></EM>’ - 
                        Emma</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">  </SPAN></SPAN>
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                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><EM>Meaning is all we want; 
                  choices are all we make; relationships are all we have. 
                  </EM><BR>– Sandy Shuman in <EM>Creating a Culture of 
                  Collaboration: The International Association of Facilitators 
                  Handbook</EM><EM>, ed. Sandy 
                  Schuman</EM><BR> <BR> <EM>Organisms organize. Human 
                  organisms organize meaning.</EM><BR> - Wm 
                  Perry</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><BR><STRONG><SPAN 
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                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">Other 
                  Partners</SPAN></SPAN></STRONG><A 
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                  target=_blank><BR><BR><EM>Laurier Students Public Interest 
                  Research Group</EM> (<EM>LSPIRG</EM>)</A><BR><EM></EM><A 
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                  target=_blank><EM>Waterloo Public Interest Research Group</EM> 
                  (<EM>WPIRG</EM>)</A><BR><EM><A 
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                  target=_blank>Social Planning Council of 
                  Kitchener-Waterloo</A></EM><BR><EM><A 
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                  target=_blank>Upstart Collaboratory for Collaborative Culture 
                  Designing</A></EM><BR><BR><SPAN 
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                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)"><SPAN 
                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,0)">Sincerely,<BR><BR>Alisa 
                  McClurg<BR>Chair (Waterloo Mayor's Event 
                  Committee)<BR><EM>TransitionKW</EM></SPAN><BR><A 
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                  style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,51)">p.s. Please try as possible to 
                  walk, take the bus, carpool, use Grand River Carshare, or take 
                  other alternative means of transport <SPAN>to come to this 
                  event. We are aiming to make this event as environmentally 
                  resilient as we can.</SPAN><BR><BR><EM>TransitionKW is part of 
                  a global movement working towards local community 
                  resilience.</EM></SPAN><BR><BR><BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Module: Standard Content \\ --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- // End Template Body \\ --></TD></TR>
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