Humankind's
Calling:
Returning
home to each other
22 August 2015
"The Call of
This Moment and of all moments
is to seek the
light and to face the darkness
within and
without, with unflinching honesty
and unswerving
devotion to journey at least a little each day
toward
enlightenment living in love, fearless, joyous and free
in service to this
glorious and wounded world."
~ Rev. Canon Charles Gibbs
http://www.revcharlesgibbs.net
"Today, if we
have no peace, it is because
we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
That man, that
woman, that child is my brother or my sister."
~ Mother Teresa
Meet some youth and adults who are
serving.
Remembering each other.
Healing.
Together.
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IN JERUSALEM
Home -
Ha Bayit - Al Bayt -- http://thebayt.org -- broadcasts a strong vision
from its new community of Palestinians and Israelis -- Muslims, Jews,
Christians, others -- in Jerusalem.
"The golden trail towards peace will begin from the People.
Our initial goal is The Humanization of The Other."
"Cleaning the Hate" for the streets of the land is their theme, while
meeting to "take self-responsibility" for creating "unity
between the people who live in this land."
VIEW them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D7%94%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA-HOME/451264108362100?fref=nf
In STORY and PHOTOS, a woman participant of Home - Ha Bayit - Al Bayt publishes
how "right wing" and left wing" are flawed and inadequate, and "the
best path towards peace is the humanization of the other" -- returning
home to each other.
Looking
beyond pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli affiliations;
Let's
choose to be Pro-Human instead
Jerusalem Online - 21 August
2015
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IN NORTH AMERICA
Two high
school seniors
-- a Muslim and a Jew -- inspired their faith communities to converge and pray
in public together at the State House in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Their interfaith prayer was to show that Jewish and Muslim communities in Rhode
Island are committed to having productive dialogue.
Jewish August Kahn said: "We want to show that there's a group of people
who are willing to foster and promote interfaith dialogue and come together to
understand each other."
Danish Azam, 17, said the two got the idea after
watching a video online that showed a small interfaith group praying in Los
Angeles, and their goal was to draw a larger group to a public space.
SEE "Ramadan in Los Angeles" at http://traubman.igc.org/messages/686.htm)
This STORY and PHOTOS are at:
Jews,
Muslims worship together in Providence in
interfaith
service organized by two Wheeler students
Providence Journal - 16
August 2015
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150816/NEWS/150819462
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IN SUMMER CAMPS
August 2015
concluded dedicated summer programs that unite youth and young adults around
principles of interdependence and communication excellence.
Some of many are:
Creativity for Peace (New Mexico) -- http://www.creativityforpeace.com
Hands of Peace (Illinois and California) -- http://www.handsofpeace.org
Kids4Peacwe (US) -- http://www.k4p.org
Kids4Peace (Canada) -- http://kids4peace.ca
Kids4Peace (Jerusalem) -- http://www.k4pjerusalem.org
Seeds of Peace (Maine) -- http://www.seedsofpeace.org
Parents Circle - Families Forum (Palestine-Israel - 2013 video) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaD4Go7wmd8
Building Bridges (Colorado) -- http://www.buildingbridgesshift.org
Legacy International (Virginia) -- http://www.legacyintl.org
Disabled Children Camps (Israel - article) -- http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Summer-camps-offer-hope-for-peaceful-coexistence-411417
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WE'VE MISSED THE POINT OF
NETWORKING TO
CREATE COMMUNITY
New
social research
identifies a set of four counterintuitive principles that are critical
to collaboration success and offers insights for how citizen-driven can ensure
collaboration impact dramatically greater than the sum of the individual people
or circles.
1.
Mission before organization growth
Focus
primarily on the sacred mission and high principles, not on short-term
expansion
2.
Manage through trust, not control
Build
partnerships based on inclusiveness that dignifies everyone and inspires
creativity, while surrendering control and micro-managing.
3.
Promote others, not yourself
Affirm with
humility other people and the larger family of global endeavors, while
surrendering celebration and elevation of only oneself and specific project.
4.
Build constellations, not stars.
Network in
common vision by sharing resources to build small circles of interconnected
partners, rather than garnering resources for being the star or center of the
universe.
Based on a decade of research developing detailed case studies of a
range of successful networks, the authors have identified this common set of
counter-intuitive factors that are essential to effective networking for
maximizing intended outcomes.
READ the full report in PDF format, available for you at:
Four
Network Principles for Collaboration Success
Jane Wei-Skillern
University of California at
Berkeley and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Nora Silver
University of California at
Berkeley
in The Foundation Review -
2013
http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=tfr
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