websites: http://cyberjournal.org, http://www.QuayLargo.com/Productions ============================================================================ Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:23:38 -0700 To: "Nasrudin O'Shah" <•••@••.•••> From: Rosa Zubizarreta <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: I want to be a Dynamic Facilitator! for those who are interested, information on Dynamic Facilitation workshops is available at http://www.tobe.net . These are the workshops that Jim Rough, the founder of DF, teaches in Port Townsend, Washington, a few times a year. I will be teaching some classes in Dynamic Facilitation here locally, in Sonoma County, starting this fall. If you are interested, you can contact me at this e-mail address. thanks, Rosa ============================================================================ Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 16:16:41 -0700 Subject: can the walk express itself as a movement? From: Bob Glotzbach <•••@••.•••> To: <•••@••.•••> Hi Nasarudin, In your July 10 communique, you referred to global society as a community. Community empowerment to me and my partner has its limits in the size of place where only real community can happen, a very small town or the neighborhood in a city. Any larger connection depends upon a confederation of communities in some sort of coalition. Maybe you are referring to the same thing. We have been working on a systems approach to community, "The Elements of Real Community," for some years. These elements are place, as a noun, Consciousness, as a process leading to community empowerment, and participation of citizens in a place in its economy, governance, communications, celebrations (including spiritual), and health and safety issues. We hold that the role of the community activist, an individual or a group, is to bring about consensus among the citizens of a place through processes designed to bring together rather than separate. We have worked with Community service, Inc. in Yellow Springs, Ohio, home of Antioch College, in delineating some of these principles. One of the chief architects of citizen consciousness and participation in community was Arthur Morgan, whose book the Small Community, written in 1942, still has some guiding principles for us. I also worked with Peter Gillingham for a number of years in Intermediate technologies and Local Resources. Peter was a colleague of E.F. Schumacher. We would like to have a dialogue pursued by interested parties on the whole notion about community activism and the proper role for community activists. What is the consciousness of the citizens in your town about community and what is the participation in civic life? How active are you in your community? Bob Glotzbach ============= Dear Bob, Many thanks for sharing your experiences and learning with us. Are you involved in a real community at the moment, or are you mainly describing ideas that you and your colleagues have developed? Can you say more about the role that citizens play in governance? And how do activists go about achieving consensus in the community? thanks, nasrudin ============================================================================