Social Creator Network: Thank You messages

There has been a lot of activity to date, and a lot of people to thank -

Frank Vetere for his valuable feedback while coaxing the Mid-Markham MuSE website into form. Gracie!

Paul MacLean, chair of PARA - Palmerston Area Residents' Association, for bicycling, for his super generosity in helping make my neighbourhood more liveable, and for help in outlining the important, often under recognized role that resident associations play so that things work for everyone.

Nick D’Aleandro of Nicksvizions for being such a networking maniac, the bug in the ear of the Columbus Centre, and his unwavering attention while this baby went from in the clouds, to off the ground, to hitting the road. Here’s hoping he never gets a job in daycare.

Tim Grant, co-founder of greenteacher.com, chair of Harbord Village Residents' Association for caring about future generations of kids, and for his willingness to share invites for upcoming courses with the membership.

Mama D’Aleandro, for her pastries and really kneading to cater our Columbus Centre events with great consistency without any dough for 6 years. May her cookie trays never buckle.

Kimberly Curry, executive director, Seeds of Hope Foundation and so many other volunteers for caring so much about society, our well-being, green roof tops, and for donating office and production space for the QUEEN EAST Agency at Yonge and Wellesley. And David Walsh and Sister Susan founded 6 St Joseph House as a centre that expresses their love for creativity, community and compassion. Thank you for being so hospitable when it comes to our events over the years.

Catalina Bayarres and Paul Acuna for caring so much for the light within communities, and for bringing so many of us closer together.

Mike Layton, and the city councillor’s staff, for helping look at how we all can benefit arts groups. Thank you, Mike, for studying the science of ecology at university, and serving on the board of a creativity hub at YOUNGPlace.

Norm Whyte, Cathy Carnevali and the rest of the board at Bay Cloverhill Community Association for leading the way by planting in ‘bioswales’ so city trees thrive and people breathe easier on Bay Street. May the new parks in that area renew us! Thank you for your amazing AGM’s and sharing our updates with your members.

Jim Morrison, for his patient accounting of the benefits of collaborative villages.

Art Bloom and Jiri Dvorak for sharing their great tools and insights during Social Creator sessions. What we learned continues to make a difference in many of our lives.

Robin Preboy of Women Arrive for uncovering souls, goodness and light, helping to facilitate our courses, and being a midwife to burgeoning concepts of what can work in communities.

Reverend Lindsay King of the Family Life Foundation for promoting a broader understanding of money as one means of exchange, and ‘community’ as the assurance that we seek. You continue to inspire wholeness and well-ness.

Hugh Reilly and the crew at ThatChannel.com for helping us to get the word out. May your knitted hat stay unfrayed forever.

Adam Kuzmin for helping to get a park at Yonge and Wellesley, and videotaping our early collaborative village events. What an eye!

Ryan Diment for making tool libraries for Toronto that we can all share in and save money, and for leading the way for organizing in the Yonge-Wellesley neighbourhood.

Hilton Mijovick for inspiring us and weaving words and relationships together in magical ways.

Josh Townsend for clearing people's fears forever, knowing tons about software tools, and typing real fast on computer when others are busy.

Miss SUZETTE for helping inspire us to laugh and play at our events and keeping the dream of deadlines forever alive in our heads. May the farce be with you, dear!

Ross Regan for listening, and making the going easy when it could have been tough.

David Shelly for volunteering his huge creative talent to benefit communities, coming up with Social Creator as a name, and with a logo.

Ava Goodman for painting that’s about caring for our ecology, volunteering at Pottery Road, and helping with collaborative villages.

Calvin Clarke and Teresa Tolak for their offerings of music, poetry and lights at our intro nights.

Gadi Foltys and Group Energy Facilitation, for writing the sound track to a better world, and nurturing the collision of people’s inspiration, so well, and with such finesse. His ongoing collaborations are creating a shift in North Toronto so we’ll all see a society of delight.

Columbus Centre for sharing their boardroom, library and Divinci's with us for 6 years. That was really Verdi good of them. We couldn’t have asked for Mozart, or Wagner. But, believe us, we will be Offenbach. We’ve always had a Gounod experience and left with great Felini of gratitude for their graciousness.

Freshslice Pizza for their unswerving dedication to slicing yummy pizza, and for their bountiful catering of our downtown events. These people really know how to say cheese.

Ethelrida Zabala-Laxa for inspiration and her heart to be reckoned with, keeping us juiced up at the intro nights. Click on her name and she will sing for you.

Social Creator Network

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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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