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The guy who ran into the yoga circle

Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:00pm 1 Comment

My friend was telling me how they were doing a yoga circle at Occupy when a guy, in his 50's, ran into the circle shouting "this is not what the revolution is about". He kept yelling into the circle. The yoga teacher guided everyone to stand strong in warrior pose, and beam out light. They chanted the sound of OM.

Wow I was thinking, this is a totally different scene than doing yoga in a yoga studios with their buddha statues and soft music and beautiful wood floors.

Then, my…

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Occupy as a new societal model and ways to improve it

Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:00am 4 Comments

Occupy is modelling a new socio-economic political system.

And there are a number of facilitation techniques that could help the flow in this system, things like Open Space Technology, World Cafe, Theory U, Appreciative Inquiry, Gift Circles, Heart Circles etc.

Here is an article by me looking at how these facilitation techniques can be used at Occupy to help it run better.

And not only run better they actually subtly change the socio-economic political process... For…

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At 12:33pm on November 4, 2011, Occupy Cafe Stewards said…

Welcome, Mud!  We love active occupiers (and puppies!) here at Occupy Cafe. Tell us--what are the conversations you're most excited to have with fellow Occupiers about the movement?  With those who wish to support the movement?  With "the rest of the world?"

You can share your thoughts here in the "Welcoming Inquiry" section of our Forum.

And if you haven't done so already, please register for our Cafe Calls the next two Mondays.

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Regular Calls are no longer being held.  Below is the schedule that was maintained from the Fall of 2011 through Jan 10, 2013.

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