Summer of
Living As One. . .and re-directing history
04 July 2018
"To get something you
never had, you have to do something you never did."
~ Anonymous
"God doesn't overtly
act in the Book of Esther.
People do."
~ Rabbi Arik Ascherman (Purim, 2014)
"Things don't change;
we do."
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"When the leaders get
stuck and they're no longer able to effectively lead, that's when the people
lead."
~ Steve Kalishman
Director, Citizen Diplomacy Initiatives
Today is July 4, 2018 -- Independence
Day here in the United
States
We insist on our citizen-freedoms of self-expression and creativity --
imagining and implementing a life, nation, and world that includes and works
for everyone.
Yet some of us easily slip into our self-interests and limited clans --
forgetting others and even our high, fulfilling destiny of service "for
the people."
All the people, beyond borders.
Because all is one -- one people, one Earth, one
future -- the knowledge that frees us to be our best, to make the wisest
daily decisions, to thrive and excel with everyone's collective genius and
gifts.
Today
1. Living As One in North America
2. Living As One in DR Congo, Africa
3. Enrichment
What good listening does
A new song for our immigrants
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Living As One
In North America
This summer in the midst of headline-grabbing human
failures, human successes in relationship building continue to be the
new hard news.
Yet we cannot depend on only traditional, tragedy-oriented news agencies to
inform us.
This summer across North America -- sometimes invisible in popular media
-- youth from the Middle East and other out-of-relationship
regions around Earth will get heart-connected and Dialogue skill-empowered in
summer camp-like programs including:
Artsbridge (Tennessee)
https://www.artsbridgeinstitute.org/summer-leadership-program
Building Bridges (Colorado)
https://buildingbridgesshift.org
Creativity for Peace (New Mexico)
Global Youth Village (Virginia)
http://www.globalyouthvillage.org/participate/global-youth-village-summer/
Hands of Peace (Chicago and San Diego)
Kids4Peace (Massachusetts, North Carolina, New
Hampshire, Ohio, District of Columbia)
Seeds of Peace
Another is Kids4Peace Jerusalem
whose co-directors are Palestinian Tareq Samman and Jewish Israeli Meredith Rothbart, a "dynamic
duo" whose own lives are models of how
people change to increase their identification that includes (not just one's
own but) everyone.
READ their stories at http://www.k4pjerusalem.org/people
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Living as One
In DR Congo, Africa
Africans with albinism traditionally suffer the worst kinds
of prejudice, stigma, rejection, humiliation, physical brutality,and
even death.
Elesse Henoc Bafandjo, one deeply motivated citizen of very modest
means, has gathered all his courage and imagination to find successful ways of
bringing albino and non-albino women, men, and youth together for a
history-changing, shared future.
Elesse is a citizen-leader for our times, worth
emulating.
He shows us how "to get something you never had, you have to do
something you never did."
READ, and VIEW May, 2018, photos and video at http://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriadrcongo.htm#15
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Enrichment
A. What good listening
does
Listening is the most underrated of
leadership, life, reconciliation, and community-building skills.
Lack of listening leads to disconnection from learning, creativity, and
especially each other.
Otto Scharmer describes how quality listening helps
us connect with a larger reality, become our better selves, and co-explore for
the best possible future for oneself and others -- all of us.
Four levels of listening
Otto Scharmer
8-1/2 min video
B. A new song for our
immigrants
HOME
A song for our immigrants
Rita Glassman
June 2018 - 4-1/2 min
https://www.facebook.com/rita.glassman/videos/10160440521530705/
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