[Oe List ...] Archives Sojourn Report Spring 2013

Thu Jun 6 09:56:52 PDT 2013

Right, Janice and Jack – the Global Research Assemblies took months of
design, priority setting and preparation
and the results change all of us
and changed history along the way. I have been asked to help facilitate the
Microfinance Global Summit in Manila next October – 1000 people – focused on
the daunting goal of Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030. This will be a type of
Global Research Assembly which is consciously intending to “catalyze a
multi-sectorial movement to End Poverty. This is all building on the amazing
shift in the past 15 years as one billion citizens of the planet have been
lifted about the desperate level of earning $1.25 per day. Much of this
lifting force has been provided by the surging economies of Brazil, China
and India. The hitch in this advance is that the industrial base of the
current development has encouraged the rush to urban jobs and life
styles
which is not necessarily sustainable and clearly not environmentally
friendly. So celebrate softly as we all rethink more long-term approaches
that will sustain communities and planet earth. Anyone want to travel to the
Philippines in October? Go to the website:
<http://www.microcreditsummit.org/> www.microcreditsummit.org/ 

See-ya around the network / Sherwood à sherwoodshankland at comcast.net

From: oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net
[mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Jack Gilles
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:05 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Archives Sojourn Report Spring 2013

Sherwood,

Funny you should suggest this. The Archive Team has already started with the
first ones being two of the ICA's current programs, Accelerate 77 and the
Service Learning Project. Both will have their own Archive collection web
page as well as their own web page. We want a place to include the
background work and document how the program unfolds. For our Fall sojourn
we are going to work on at least two more; The ToP program and the GreenRise
Project that will document the "greening" of 4750. 

But what would be great if to do what you suggest. Getting our colleagues
who are doing new iterations of our programs and methods to document their
work for inclusion in the archives is right on target. Perhaps the way to
start would be to compile a list of what people are currently doing and then
see if there are duplicates/similar ones that could be combined into a
single collection. 

We will soon be getting out the dates and focus arenas for the Fall Sojourn
gathering, as well as a model for leading toward a GRA next summer. This is
rapidly becoming an active Research arm of the ICA. We need everyone's
support and we hope lots of people will come for one or two weeks this next
September.

Jack

On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Janice Ulangca <aulangca at stny.rr.com> wrote:

Splendid suggestion, Sherwood.  And bravo for the Archives Team report -
very exciting!   In our current inter-connected world, with so much stuff of
all kinds (accurate, inaccurate, slanted, transforming, etc.)  availalble to
those connected, we may once again have some leading-edge approaches to
share.  But ideally first we share with each other. Perhaps we can find new
ways to harvest the best, the universal, the transforming while keeping
access to enough detail to allow discovery of new gems.  We do not have a
Global Research Assembly dynamic at present. What if we did? Virtual? 

Janice

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From:  <mailto:sherwoodshankland at comcast.net> Sherwood Shankland

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Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:54 PM

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Greetings all around
 Thanks Jean and Rosemary and everyone else who is
chipping in on the archives access effort. You may already be doing this
but
I was thinking of “from this day forward” all of us who are designing and
facilitating events around the world could also be building the “current
archives”. So with a few common formats in which to document our events we
could do a tip of the iceberg description to be indexed and then reference a
summary document from each event that we do. The ToP Network has
occasionally used a “Case-Story” reporting format (Jane Stallman’s design,
perhaps others) for this purpose, but we are usually moving on to the next
gig and never really take the time to do a one-page summary etc. (but we
could!)

Let’s talk, I will be coming to Green 4750 in a couple of weeks
looking
forward to spending a couple of days with the archives team. More soon’

In Peace, Sherwood

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[mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Timothy Wegner
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:18 AM
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Archives Sojourn Report Spring 2013

(Jean Long and Rosemary Albright asked me to post this to the mailing lists.
What follows is a note from Jean with a link to the report.)

Report from Global Archives Team

What a wonderful journey the Global Archives Team – on site and off – have
been on this past year .At last fall’s sojourn event we had an imaginal
breakthrough relative to how we would  share the programs which were so
successful in enabling people and communities to take charge of their own
futures.

Our question had always been, “So we get these 200 file cabinets organized –
how do we share them with the world?”

The image of The Tip of The Iceberg answered that for us. As a huge iceberg
is underwater and not seen except for the tip, the thousands of Town Meeting
files would not be displayed on line – only chosen files, a video, a music
piece, and an imaginal intro explaining how the methods could be of use to
those who clicked on – only these would be in the “tip of the iceberg”.

If people wanted to know more, info about that would be included.

At this Spring Sojourn, we worked on getting the appropriate documents and
videos, etc .for Town Meeting, Accelerate 77, Imaginal Ed and Service
Learning. They are close to being available online. When they are we will
send all of you the link to see them and get back to us with feedback.

We left the Spring Sojourn program with 8 additional collections to create
“tips of the iceberg” for.

and we SANG – like we have not sung since the late ‘70’s. The spirit is
alive and well and working on projects for future generations.

What a crew! What a task! What a legacy! For more details, click here:

<http://wedgeblade.net/files/ICA_Archives_Spring_2013_Sojourn_Report-U-Draft
_4-24-2013.pdf>
http://wedgeblade.net/files/ICA_Archives_Spring_2013_Sojourn_Report-U-Draft_
4-24-2013.pdf

Jean Long

Rosemary Albright

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