Are you interested in 120 dollar pledge for catalytic communities times open spaces?

[Michael Herman]

thanks for posting this, chris.  theresa is a friend of mine, as well,
and i have also already pledged.  theresa, catcomm, and also this new
program called pledgebank, are fantastic programs.  i'm glad to second
your invitation here.  michael







On 12/27/05, Chris Macrae <wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear Harrison cc Open Space List
>
> I am wondering if we can find a few people who will make 120 dollar pledges
> for Theresa Williams Catalytic Communities initiative at www.catcomm.org. A
> deep community project based in Rio De Janeiro, with potential impact
> replicating societal projects worldwide and linked through the Washington DC
> region where Theresa was brought up and her parents live
>
> Why could Open Space people be particularly interested?
>
> ...AS well as working as the local hub and community meeting place for people
> who are have grassroots community-up innovations to space, catcomm has
> developed the virtual infrastructure to catalogue collaboration projects from
> any society that are ready to be replicated across orther societies facing the
> same challenge. I have always thought that quite a large number of open space
> activations are missing the trick of replicating what one community learns
> across other facing similar challenges. To achieve this perhaps one of the
> deeper dynamics needed is to review those open spaces that their facilitation
> clients want worldwide propagation for from several lenses. Conflict resolving
> initiatives of most interest to people in S America may have a different
> pattern from those that interest social chnage agents in USA and so on. WE can
> only see the practical patterns of this by iteratively championing local
> translations of social bariiers as well as cataloguing stories form all around
> the world of open space. Perhaps one day we could dream that every media
> organsiation had an open space correspondent as well as the 50 less
> interesting to me correspondents that most newspapers or tv stations field.
>
> I feel there is a multiplicative bridge between catcomm and open space but
> perhaps we will only discover all the practical ways of making the most of
> catcomm and oopen space worlds if a few people take out a pledge and then
> start cataloguing which of the open spaces they know of also want to be
> replicated to any community facing a similar conflict barrier. If you read
> this in 2005 and have questions please feel free to ask them of me and
> Theresa. A fulfilling 2006 to all of us.
>
> Back in London Queen Elisabeth has turned into a social activist. In her
> annual Christmas message she asked every Briton to debate whether the evidence
> of 2005 is that "humanity is turning against itself" and if they conclude so:
> to adopt one way of intervening in 2006. Sounds like catalytic community
> project hosts and open space agents will have a very demanding year.
>
> cheers
> chris macrae wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
> http://project30000.blogspot.com
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Thank you once again for signing the Pledge!!  I just want to drop you
> a quick note to share with you our current situation.  154 people have
> now signed the Pledge, and we need only 45 more!!
>
> But, as you know, we have only five days to meet the Pledge for the
> Pledge to be deemed active.  I would like to encourage each of you
> who've already signed the Pledge to reach out to one more friend this
> week and encourage them to join us.  If 1/3 of us are successful, we
> will have met our goal, and every single one of us will have been
> instrumental in making that possible!!
>
> For the Pledge visit http://www.pledgebank.com/catcomm.  For more
> information about Catalytic Communities visit www.catcomm.org.        For the
> Campaign Countdown blog visit http://catalyticcommunities.blogspot.com.
>
> Thanks, once again, for your support!
>
> Warmest wishes,
> Theresa
>
>
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