News from Pioneers of Change - April, 2005
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>NEWS FROM PIONEERS OF CHANGE
>April, 2005
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"If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together." -- Australian Aboriginal Woman
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>>Welcome to April 2005!
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Welcome to the April version of the Pioneers of Change newsletter!
The new year continues to bring with it significant challenges and change for Pioneers of Change. The Chaord Group has been engaged in some deep dialogues over the past weeks with regards to Pioneers of Change and the future directions of the Network. There is a deep feeling that a time has come for a renewal of the Network.
Danielle Bowler who has served for a year on the Cultivation Unit has relocated back to her home town of Perth, Australia. She has left Johannesburg and her position on the Cultivation Unit to move on to exploring her spaces for pioneering. We will miss her as part of the team and for her constant contribution to the growth of Pioneers of Change as a member of the C.U. Danielle will continue to be involved in Pioneers of Change on a part-time basis voluntarily.
The Arts for Social Change learning journey was held in Johannesburg and proved to be a great success. A brief write up can be found below. Find the beautiful summary document on the Pioneers of Change website: http://pioneersofchange.net/communities/arts/learningjourney2005info/
Creating a shift in any system is complicated. We’re learning that as we work to create shifts and changes with Pioneers of Change… as we continue to ask how we can be more effective in serving this network? How can this network increase the impact that it is having on the planet? What tools are needed? What conversations need to take place? Who’s going to lead them? Many questions to be answered and explored.
Our excitement in doing this work is being connected to each of you that are on the same mission to co-create new ways of being in our world. We want to be able to tell your stories and share your innovations throughout the network. Please keep us informed of your on-going work. Email us at cultivation@pioneersofchange.net with stories and reports of your work and we will use our email lists and web-site to share your stories and exciting work with others.
Best wishes,
The Cultivation Unit (Sera and Dumi)
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>>IN FOCUS: ARTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE LEARNING JOURNEY
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Arts for Social Change Learning Journey, Feb-Mar 2005, Johannesburg South Africa: A Reflection
How can theatre help teach teenagers about hiv/AIDS and abuse? How can visual arts help save children from human trafficking? How can street carnivals turn one of the world's most dangerous parks into a safe zone? How can craftmanship turn waste into beauty and generate income for the unemployed? Answers to these questions were among some of those discovered by the 20 pioneers from 11 countries who gathered in Johannesburg from February 25 to March 6th 2005 for the Arts for Social Change learning journey.
The journey was about coming face to face with serious social challenges and discovering the role the arts can play in overcoming them, but the spirit of it was about much more than the means to ends. It was about the artists' approach to life, an unfolding, a calling, turning wounds into capacities, connecting across cultural and social barriers. Delighting in disorder. Making something out of nothing. A world where garbage is always a resource - there is no waste in art. A powerful history of a struggle against apartheid fueled through music and theatre, rooted in an even more ancient tradition of story-telling. It was a playful journey, while also being a journey beyond the comfort zone. Africa at its best.
During the 10-day journey, the 20 participants visited 8 different arts organisations in Johannesburg as well as a number of sites across the city. In addition, they shared their own work with each other, and on Saturday the 5th of March, they offered a total of 13 workshops along with South African pioneers to a wider group of 80 participants at the "Arts Day" held at CIDA City Campus in the inner city of Johannesburg. The "Arts Day" was a burst of learning and sharing, where people were exploring different art forms and their own creativity. Workshop included "cartoon accounting", "arts for child development", "street theatre", "jewelry making", "gumboot dancing", "biodanza" and more...
We are have collected all the documentation of the journey in the form of writings, drawings, photos, and video and the output is available on the website now. http://pioneersofchange.net/communities/arts/learningjourney2005info/ We look forward to hearing what you think. ~Mille Bojer
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>>Events
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A Call for New Leadership 18th of April 2005, Ljubljana, Slovenia
We invite you to come and explore with us cutting edge leadership theory with an international group (Margaret Wheately and Tatiana Glad-Engage!Interact). The purpose of this workshop is to discover what practices of leadership will support you in finding your way in these uncertain times.
Questions we will more deeply explore include: -What kind of leadership do we need in these uncertain times? -How can we best engage and involve people (our stakeholders, our employees) in our organisations and activities? -What does it take to build more organic and human structures, to access our organisational intelligence and find more creative opportunities?
We invite managers, entrepreneurs, and “change agents”. Our diversity will enable us to see and understand different views and approaches that can help us put new leadership into practice.
For more information contact Alenka at alenka@novelus.org
"Changing the Game" workshop, 26-27 April, The Netherlands
Do you question current systems and structures? Are you prepared to play an active role in creating new approaches to change? Changing the Game is a global dialogue series, currently being hosted in as diverse places as Nigeria, the United States, South Africa, Europe and more. The dialogues explore the visible and invisible rules we play by in our organisations, communities and society - and comes to the Netherlands in a 2 day workshop offered by Pioneers of Change and Engage! associates and apprentices (www.engage.nu/interact
The Art of Hosting, Canada, the Netherlands and South Africa How can we create safe learning spaces where strategic and meaningful conversations take place in order to create comprehensive and innovative solutions for the problems that our world, organisations and communities are facing today? How can leaders encourage collective intelligence and creativity to emerge? We offer The Art of Hosting that can help you to explore and develop your own competencies. We invite leaders, trainers, teachers, entrepreneurs, politicians, consultants, pioneers - people with the courage to let go of control in order to achieve better cooperation and results.
Contact us for the full invitation...
The Netherlands, May 2-4, 2005
contact: arjen@engage.nu
Toronto, Canada, May 29-31, 2005
contact: tatiana@engage.nu
Johannesburg, South Africa, September 21-23, 2005 contact: sera@pioneersofchange.net
Seminar on Creative Process- and Dialogue Tools, May 24-25, 2005, The Hub - London A picture tells a thousand words
Facilitators Ole-Qvist Sorensen and Charlotte Rosenberg, Bigger Picture, Denmark Course organisers: Bigger Picture, Imagine Health, Learning House
Is for incredible people: executives, managers and other change facilitators who would like creative tools to conduct more engaging and inspiring processes, meetings and projects. Focuses on visual tools and graphic facilitation. The Same course is also held in Denmark Course One: April 29th + May 13th Course Two: May 20th + June 3rd
Fee: ? 625 + VAT
Ways to register:
Online – www.learninghouse.biz
Between Integration and Isolation Rotterdam, The Netherlands 7-11 September 2005 [Please Note the NEW DATES]
A Learning Journey about the Challenges and Opportunities of Immigration in 21st Century Europe
The learning journey will enable stakeholders to deepen their understanding and develop their own practices further. We will also explore the possibility for new networks to emerge which can create and inspire new insights, better tools and alternative approaches. Participants are brought together in order to go through a learning process together with the aspiration of sharpening and reframing their understanding of what it means to live with cultural diversity.
email moraan@pioneersofchange.net
Be The Change May 5-7 2005 London
We invite you to join us, in London, for Be The Change, 2005 – 3 days in May (5-7), full of deep conversations about critical global and local issues – in environment, in health, in business - with the likes of Vandana Shiva, Ray Anderson, Deepak Chopra, Elisabet Sahtouris and Richard Barrett – all working towards whole systems change and a world that works for everyone.
Here’s are just some of the highlights – full details (and booking form) on the website: http://www.bethechange.org.uk
Deep Democracy Training May 30 – June 1 2005 Cape Town, South Africa
The deep Democracy process differs from traditional problem-resolution techniques and classic (majority wins) democracy in that it doesn’t strive for compromise. Instead, it aims to build a real consensus across a group – a consensus which recognises and takes note of the wisdom inherent in the minority’s viewpoint(s), rather than simply ignoring it or overriding it. Different too, from the main emphasis of large group intervention methodologies, in that it focuses heavily on the emotional, rather than rational level and aims to heighten awareness at an individual and group level of the secondary, or unconscious, processes occurring, as these more often than not hold the key to real progress. Through a highly experiential approach you will gain awareness and experience of group dynamics, decision making in groups, identifying and resolving conflict, as both a participant in the group process, and as facilitator. Contact: sera@pioneersofchange.net
Spirals over the Netherlands - with Engage! InterAct
Following a tremendous response to the event that Peter organised together with Dr Don Beck on the Spiral Dynamics of Fundamentalism (see http://www.fotografyja.com/Spiralorder.htm for the DVD), a number of initiatives have emerged, taking place in Scheveningen, Netherlands:
- Dutch Summit 2 is being planned for April 29th - helping to mobilise the Netherlands to Integral thinking and practice - with Dr Don Beck. Contact arjen@engage.nu
- the Evolutionary Extravaganza will blast onto the scene in the evening of April 29th, with Tim Merry and Kongska, and a powerful blend of poetry, music, issues and conversation. Contact arjen@engage.nu
- There will be an advanced Spiral Dynamics Integral event with Don Beck May 1-3, focusing on building the capacity within a small group of people to facilitate emergence in the Netherlands. Contact peter@engage.nu
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>>Invitations
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Diversity Caravan
The Diversity Caravan is a virtual and physical project where people are invited to post sustainable change projects on a web site. Later a physical caravan will drive to the selected places (starting in South Africa) and document the projects by film, photo, texts or other material. With this documentation material the ideas can be shared with the rest of the world. Networks can be formed, leaders can get inspired, projects can be analyzed, and there are probably many more possibilities.
You can get involved by joining the mailing list by e-mailing caravan-join@lists.pioneersofchange.net or joining the physical caravan, please let me know if you're interested in any or several of these options.
More information please see http://pioneersofchange.net/ventures/caravan/
CAREER INNOVATION RESEARCH Career Innovation does research and study to help companies create more inspirational and meaningful workplaces. In recent years they looked into entrepreneurial culture, conversation gaps, inspiration in corporate settings and global career culture shifts.
Would you like to contribute your opinion to the research and gain access to an online career planning suite as a small "thank you for your time"?
E-mail szymon.komorowski@careerinnovation.com
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>>FINANCIAL MATTERS
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Pioneers of Change is an independent network that believes it is critical to retain a free and unbiased position. We also believe that financial barriers should not be a constraint to learning and engaging. As such we work hard at ensuring that our learning is available to as wide and diverse an audience as possible.
We invite you to make a donation to support us in our work. We encourage you to think of this donation as an investment into learning that has the potential of enriching all of our lives. If you have any ideas of individuals or organizations that might like to support us, let us know. sera@pioneersofchange.net
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>>SMALL PRINT
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What is Pioneers of Change?
Pioneers of Change is a global school and learning network supporting practitioners in their 20s and 30s who are working to be the change they want to see in the world. A Pioneer is anyone who sees that something isn’t working in the status quo and is questioning underlying assumptions and moving into new territory to create shifts in systems.
For more information on Pioneers of Change, see
http://www.pioneersofchange.net
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