Occupy Cafe2024-03-29T12:11:26ZJennifer Hazardhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JenniferHazardhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1554122912?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=occupy-your-neighborhood&user=39mmi7z5s7eum&feed=yes&xn_auth=noOccupy Cafe at your dining room table?tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-08-21:6451976:Topic:299982012-08-21T20:12:23.688ZJennifer Hazardhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JenniferHazard
<p>Dear "Occupy Your Neighborhood" Friends:</p>
<p>Hope this finds you all in fine fettle!</p>
<p>I thought about this group as soon as we got inspired during our design conversation for <a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/occupy-a-new-story-8-20-vital-conversation" target="_blank">yesterday's "Occupy a New Story" Cafe Call</a> with Jeff Vander Clute and Duane Elgin to invite participants to bring the conversation out into the face-to-face world. I know that everyone here has been…</p>
<p>Dear "Occupy Your Neighborhood" Friends:</p>
<p>Hope this finds you all in fine fettle!</p>
<p>I thought about this group as soon as we got inspired during our design conversation for <a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/occupy-a-new-story-8-20-vital-conversation" target="_blank">yesterday's "Occupy a New Story" Cafe Call</a> with Jeff Vander Clute and Duane Elgin to invite participants to bring the conversation out into the face-to-face world. I know that everyone here has been intrigued by this idea at various times, and in various contexts. Are any of you interested in playing with us here and now in the Cafe as we look to spread the idea of New Stories?</p>
<p>There's a template for the conversation at the link above, which mirrors the one we had together on the call yesterday. We think it's an interesting one to have both with people you feel aligned with as well as those you don't. Hopefully something juicy emerges that you also want to share back to the forum.</p>
<p>If this topic or approach doesn't grab you you, are there other ideas you might offer to help galvanize in-person dialogue that can weave together with our virtual conversation modes? Our core team (now seven strong) is very well aligned around the idea of developing this for the Cafe.</p>
<p>Cheers,<br/>Ben</p>
<p></p> Let's take this seriously!tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-01-07:6451976:Topic:206602012-01-07T20:25:53.215ZJennifer Hazardhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JenniferHazard
<p>Friends:</p>
<p>I would love to see us experiment with a series of "kitchen table occupations," using OC as a way to link them together into one large and powerful dialogue. We will have a nice juicy context in which to explore this coming up soon, as we launch a process designed to explore the human that is now mostly latent/dormant in the OC network. Having gotten a sense of the resources and energy available to us, we will then invite people to collaboratively design initiatives and…</p>
<p>Friends:</p>
<p>I would love to see us experiment with a series of "kitchen table occupations," using OC as a way to link them together into one large and powerful dialogue. We will have a nice juicy context in which to explore this coming up soon, as we launch a process designed to explore the human that is now mostly latent/dormant in the OC network. Having gotten a sense of the resources and energy available to us, we will then invite people to collaboratively design initiatives and processes that might have a powerful input into the evolution of the movement and on the ability of this space to serve it.</p>
<p>So how might kitchen table groups fit into this, and does anyone have a desire to help organize such a thing? Our intitial phase will involve interviews, so I'm imagining people who were excited by the process of being interviewed then being invited to host small gatherings themselves and thereby expand the circle of interviewees. Then that group is invited to continue meeting regularly over the course of the collaborative visioning and design phases of the process as well (this will run through February and perhaps into March).</p>
<p>Sometimes the kitchen table groups might work on their own, sometimes they might join a Cafe Call individually as representatives of their group, and sometimes the whole group might join a call together.</p>
<p>Anyone else excited by this idea? Anyone even paying attention to this group any more?!</p>
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<p></p> "Scavenging" for New Waystag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-12-06:6451976:Topic:154302011-12-06T01:02:57.981ZJennifer Hazardhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JenniferHazard
<p>In a discussion <a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/from-me-to-me-we" target="_blank">elsewhere on this site</a>, the following emerged today:</p>
<p>"...interested entities might collaborate on generating a list for a sort of scavenger hunt that individuals, families and intentional groups might conduct in their respective locales. The list would be comprised of agreements that, altogether, would directly enrich the lives of the parties involved (as long as commitments were…</p>
<p>In a discussion <a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topics/from-me-to-me-we" target="_blank">elsewhere on this site</a>, the following emerged today:</p>
<p>"...interested entities might collaborate on generating a list for a sort of scavenger hunt that individuals, families and intentional groups might conduct in their respective locales. The list would be comprised of agreements that, altogether, would directly enrich the lives of the parties involved (as long as commitments were sustained) and indirectly serve as action research on how many, in what variety, agreements it takes to stimulate jumping, with both feet, from the <em>old tracks</em> to the <em>new tracks</em> of being-in-the-bioregion (nature working)."</p>
<p>List development could be the focus of some of those dinner table conversations about which we once were excited.</p> Neighborhoods for Permaculturetag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-11-16:6451976:Topic:99532011-11-16T15:30:04.007ZJennifer Hazardhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JenniferHazard
<p><em>Economy of scale</em> acquires wonderful new meaning when <a target="_blank" href="http://www.occupycafe.org/group/design-that-s-life-enhancing-and-life-affirming">permaculture design</a> manages to transcend the sorts of discrete, privately-owned sites typical of urban and suburban areas.</p>
<p>Potential projects for neighborhood collaborations make excellent dinner table conversation.</p>
<p><em>Economy of scale</em> acquires wonderful new meaning when <a target="_blank" href="http://www.occupycafe.org/group/design-that-s-life-enhancing-and-life-affirming">permaculture design</a> manages to transcend the sorts of discrete, privately-owned sites typical of urban and suburban areas.</p>
<p>Potential projects for neighborhood collaborations make excellent dinner table conversation.</p> Resources for Dining Table Conversationtag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-11-04:6451976:Topic:50742011-11-04T15:35:30.607ZJennifer Hazardhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JenniferHazard
<p>Let's start a list of resources that could help organize and facilitate face to face conversation and action.</p>
<p>Let's start a list of resources that could help organize and facilitate face to face conversation and action.</p> If you were to design a series of small group conversations as a learning journey guiding participants toward a co-created vision of a thrivable economic system, what questions... (see below for more)tag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-11-04:6451976:Topic:52492011-11-04T13:31:37.932ZJennifer Hazardhttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JenniferHazard
<p>If you were to design a series of small group conversations as a learning journey guiding participants toward a shared, co-created vision of a transformed, thrivable economic system, what questions would you have them explore along the journey? </p>
<p>If you were to design a series of small group conversations as a learning journey guiding participants toward a shared, co-created vision of a transformed, thrivable economic system, what questions would you have them explore along the journey? </p>