Social Creator Network: 2013

Friday, November 1, 2013

Organizing for Understanding Freedom and Sustainability

We had a spirited session at the Intro Evening on Tuesday, October 29, 2013.

Thanks to those of you who came to one or both meetings in October, and for your interest.

We have since launched a website for an agency where members of our association will represent us and our projects. Our sponsored ad for the Intro Evenings ran in the first issue of Rapture - a newspaper dedicated to bridging spirituality, science and art.

Starting on November 11 at noon we will have the first Interim Meeting at the same location, (25 Sandale Gardens in Toronto near Sheppard and Bathurst - see Googlemaps for detailed directions ) and will begin identifying the best means to become an association that takes advantage of opportunities for –

moving the world agenda forward based on members’ existing projects and spheres of influence,
determining a self-sustaining and integrative direction for humanity where all can contribute and no-one is left behind,
promoting innovation in terms of how society adopts new learning and insights,
revealing convincing means for society to understand the consequences of actions taken,

At this Interim Meeting November 11, I am looking forward to showing you and discussing the actual business model - as developed to date - on how we organize as a self-organizing system.

Some of us have contacts in other parts of the world that are working on great projects and who could benefit from collaboration. Consider bringing an outline of these projects on November 11.

At the moment we are -

a mutual support network that looks at areas of overlap amongst what we are already doing to advance scientific, spiritual, business, and psychological understanding.

I hope you can make it out for part of the day on November 11. Let me know if this works for you by emailing ucitytoronto @ gmail.com.

There will be two further Intro Nights on Wednesday November 13, and Thursday Nov 28 to which you are free to invite friends with projects for a society that works for everyone.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Idle No More, Pachamama, Unify Toronto

There is a big free day of event in Toronto on Saturday.

Building a New Relationship hosted by MUSKRAT Magazine
Ellen Gabriel, Naomi Klein, & Arthur Manual moderated by Carla Robinson
7- 9 pm, OISE auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West, St. George Subway Station

free.

This is part of NATION TO NATION NOW: THE CONVERSATIONS
Posted on March 18, 2013 on indigenoussovereigntyandsolidarity.wordpress.com.
Schedule:
Saturday MARCH 23, 10 am – 9 pm.
Free.
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West, St. George Subway Station

1000 am Opening & Remarks – Wanda Nanibush
1030 am Robert Houle, Leanne Simpson on Anishnawbe Nationhood
1130 am Aaron Detlor and Bruce Elijah on Haudenosaunee Nationhood
1230 pm Donna Ashamock, Beverley Jacobs, Sylvia Plain on
Indigenous Women’s Leadership

130 pm Lunch (brown bag lunches provided, while supplies last!)
200 pm Defenders of the Land remarks – Shiri Pasternak & Crystal Sinclair
215 pm Arthur Manuel and Russell Diabo on Canada’s First Nation Termination Plan
330 pm Norman Matchewan, Sheelah McLean, Brenda Small
430 – 630 pm Dinner Break (not provided)

700 pm Muskrat Magazine remarks – Rebeka Tabobondung
710 pm Ellen Gabriel, Naomi Klein and Arthur Manuel and Chelsea Vowel/âpihtawikosisân via Skype on Building a New Relationship moderated by Carla Robinson.
An event organized by Idle No More Toronto, the Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Network, Muskrat Magazine, and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto:
NATION TO NATION NOW

Idle? KNOW more!

Featuring conversations with good hearts and minds working for change.

There is a lesser known movement in town called Unify Toronto, that has met for about year. They were inspired by Occupy, and other movements, notably Pachamama Alliance.

They are getting a new series of dialogues started at King and Dufferin streets, which explores new forms of facilitation and organizing amongst associations and corporations. It is hosted by Peter Jones of the Ontario College of Arts and Design University, OCADU. Please contact pjones@faculty.ocadu.ca for more info on upcoming events.

I'm going and will propose that these dialogues result in a larger alliance that supports the work of visionaries who want to implement a new kind of society.

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Social Creator Network

Contact 416 531-8500, or

email biznouveau@gmail.com

CHANGE THE WORLD

ONE NEIGHBOURHOOD

AT A TIME

Remember how your brain helps coordinate your actions?

Your neighbourhood without a brain is a vegetable.

Your neighbourhood will look smarter, and act very differently when it has a brain... N'est-ce pas?

Check out our new initiative in collaboration for education in neighbourhoods that is all about creativity, Self-awareness and wholeness. This is what cities need if we are to return to sustainable living.
http://newcampus.wikispaces.com/Vision%2C+Mission%2C+Objectives

Participants in the Social Creator network have met in Toronto, Canada since June 2008.

We started to advance each other's projects for a world that works for everyone, creating the society that we want where we have most influence - in our neighbourhoods.

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A social creator is someone actively collaborating to bring about a society in which everyone contributes, benefits, and prospers. As a social creator you have one or more research projects, or heart-felt initiatives that fulfill your values.

We emphasize how self-awareness brings greater freedom to individuals, plus... how a shared Self-awareness introduces greater team spirit and freedom into any network of collaborative individuals.

Some people already participate in what we feel is an international social creator network. Countless groups have arisen spontaneously around the world to act in random ways unaware of the rest of the network. The Social Creator network in Toronto works to bring Self-awareness so that an underlying unity within this planet-wide activity becomes readily apparent.

We introduce greater Self-awareness within the international network by giving names to, and celebrating two different economies emerging within the movement. We can break down the now familiar term, creative economy. (See the work of University of Toronto professor, Richard Florida. Ontario factories are no longer the economic engine of Canada. The Ontario government and City of Toronto hired Florida to look at how to move society beyond economies based on manufacturing).

We coined specific terms, the coordination-based economy of mutual fulfillment, and the healing economy of conscious evolution. These are present now to move society beyond creativity and towards evolutionary competence.

These terms define two significant levels of exchange and production occurring under the umbrella term, innovative economy.

We have developed specific visions, objectives, strategies and event production methods for the two major levels within the innovative economy. Which national or municipal governments offer that?

Practical visionaries are drawn to the Toronto's Social Creator events. Some feel inspired to invite friends, daughters, sons and elders.

Hoping to see you there!

What if we re-designed society for everyone to be able to contribute, benefit and succeed?

Those who benefit most from the resource industries and manufacturing society are investors. Economies that rely on investor loans are less important for our shared future than the small, emerging economies based on human values, and more effective ways of organizing.

The Human Potential Movement, started by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers in the 1950's and 60’s, still has relevance today. It grew out of the recognition that we all have the potential to be our best and become fully alive. It promoted ideas of individual fulfillment.

A Social Potential Movement, that respects and celebrates the individual's contribution to a fully vibrant society, is necessary NOW.

It was primarily Maslow who moved the focus of psychology away from mental illness to emphasize our potential. Let's move our focus away from inflating the security of a relatively few investors to emphasize the healthy side of society as a shared enterprise.

Ecstatic Business Practices (EBP)

Introductory sessions on organizing neighbourhoods within a creative economy

Get with the flow - discover soulful or animated action

Benefit from understanding today's emerging economies, and where they are heading.

Understand your opportunities and greatest contribution within today's economies.

A NOW Magazine article, called The Secret of Occupy, reviewed an activist conference. Here are some quotes:

"The best-attended workshop Saturday was Occupy Neighbourhoods, where facilitator Andrew Owens codified an Occupy organizing manual. Unlike project management, he said, Occupy encompasses many issues at once and relies on the spontaneous and heartfelt initiatives of individuals.

“We are an expressive movement,” he said. “People do what they feel moved to do... It’s not linear. It’s not ‘Let’s do this campaign and then this one.’ People contribute what they want to contribute.”

Soon enough, discussion turned to the possibility that Occupy might try to run some of the social services lost to the austerity knife. “We are creative; we can find our own solutions,” one woman said.

“No one can tell you a vision is too big or too small,” Owens emphasized.

And that, as Leonard Cohen would say, is “how the light gets in.”

Ellie Kirzner, editor, NOW Magazine

VISION and MISSION

Vision Statement:

A consciously evolving society now prospers from the uniqueness and value of each individual and, in concert with nature, understands the consequences of its actions.

Joyfully cultivating and embellishing our welcoming neighbourhoods, we’re seeing goodness, beauty and understanding reflected back to us.

Children and animals playing safely. Elders helping develop the wisdom of younger leaders.

Neighbours engaging in local exchanges of food, skills and talents. Through music, stories, song, and dance neighbours expressing sorrows and celebrating lives together like a warm, respectful family.

Mission:

We are a collaborative network that supports individuals incubating and transforming their social and ecological ideas into realization.

In developing a more enlightened society we are looking at coordinating social, economic and local coordination activity in neighbourhoods internationally.

Note: A mission is 'who' we are as a group. Which inherent approach we love and take towards our vision because it is based on our values and the roles we perform.

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