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[Do you know the site of newstories at
<a href="http://www.newstories.org/" eudora="autourl">www.newstories.org</a>
that Bob Stilger <br>
created (to give continuity to the work of <font face="Verdana">Robert Theobald on "Resilient <br>
Communities")?They have opened a Space for the sharing of messages<br>
about the 9.11 events. And are now thinking of opening a more ambitious<br>
Space. The wording of the "call for colaboration" I am forwording is <br>
very OST-like - Artur]<br>
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</font><font face="verdana" color="#800000">Hi folks,<br>
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New Stories, Big Mind Media, the Whidbey Institute, and others are launching an effort called CONNECT. I m looking for about 15 volunteers to pitch in and help organize the resource site of this effort. Let me tell you a bit about the effort, and then describe the work needed.<br>
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</font><font face="verdana">The tragic events of September 11 have precipitated a dangerous crisis and, paradoxically, an opportunity for something new and unexpected to emerge. Our positive response is called CONNECT, an online space which will link people who seek to bring what they most value to the issues arising from </font>September 11, 2001. We are opening space for the engagement of multiple patterns of making meaning from a diversity of cultures, spiritual, intellectual, and artistic traditions. <br>
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The site will be opening soon, and I will be telling you later this week how to access it. It will include links to high quality websites, art work, and learning environments from around the world. In addition, there are facilitated dialogue and conversation. In this space we will invite people to:<br>
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* explore our assumptions and fears as well as our deepest wisdom. <br>
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* connect with each other as human beings, with the hope that our humble explorations will help a more humane collective intelligence to emerge. <br>
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* understand the political, economic, social and spiritual forces that can make a difference at this pivotal moment in human history. <br>
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* develop a deeper understanding of the conditions that caused the current situation, and couple that understanding with our highest thinking, communication and action for co-creating a better world. <br>
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Where I need help is in collecting, sorting through, organizing, reformatting, and both archiving and foregrounding the stories, unpublished articles, poems, news references and links, and other resources floating out there. We ll use two excellent online tools Catalyst online conference and Catalyst online library </font><font face="verdana" color="#800000"> -- to manage our work.<br>
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I think I need a team of about 15 people who are willing to help with this. If you have skills at organizing materials and would like to help please let me know as soon as possible. By the way, this is a volunteer opportunity we re doing this with practically no budget.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Bob<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2 color="#800000">Bob Stilger, Managing Partner</font><font color="#800000"> <br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#800000">New Stories</font><font color="#800000"> <br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#800000">350 East 10th</font><font color="#800000"> <br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#800000">Spokane, WA 99202</font><font color="#800000"> <br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#800000">Phone: (509) 835 4128</font><font color="#800000"> <br>
</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#800000">Fax: (509) 835 4182</font><font color="#800000"> <br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#800000"><a href="http://www.newstories.org">http://www.newstories.org</a></font><font color="#800000"> </font><br>
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