About SEED 2012

SEED 

= Sustainable Economy Education Developing

 est.  June 2010    

This blog here is currently being re-edited to give you also a history of SEED and it many seedlings Please bear with us, enjoy what you find and come back to check for more! For just now find out here what we are up to this year!

 Autumn 2012 - The Circle Council Practise Sessions

 Part of a democratic free learning community; no  monetary costs, just good will for transformational learning

Fortnightly Thursday mornings, 9.30 - 11.30 a.m. in room 2 at ALP {Adult Learning Project }, Tollcross Community Centre, 117 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, EH3 - 9QG

11th & 25th October
8th & 22nd November
6th December
(t.b.contined in 2013)

Today we are living in exciting and very challenging times:   only by building a community of people who dialogue on a ‘power with’ basis can we manifest true equality and response-ability, and with that build a healthier happier society. Because: In order for mankind to arrive at whole-making decisions in this so broken society, we need to learn and master decision making from a higher common ground. The “Circle Council” method, a practise as old as mankind, is a very powerful and transformational way for learning to develop the necessary response-able faculties of deep listening and whole picture seeing.

Come along to our Circle Council Practise (CCP) sessions this autumn and winter (2012 -2013), where we combine the learning of transformational conversation with the studying of radical modern texts by authors who offer revolutionary insights for healing the ills of our society, esp. our economy.

We have chosen two texts:

“Dare to Care” by Louis Bohtlingk, Ernie Robson, Hazel Henderson

Check it out on googlebooks here:

"Dare to Care, a collection of ideas and initiatives to change finance as we know it, is a platform for global citizens to work together and maneuver through the world economic and financial crisis. The ideas presented within-of changing our mindset from a money-first to a care-first attitude-are meant to stimulate thoughts about our current monetary system and economy and how we truly want them to function."

 

And then

“The Survival Manual” by Ross Ashcroft  & Mark Braund

 check it out on Amazon here

"A deeper look at the issues raised by the acclaimed Four Horsemen film. As the global economy veers from crisis to catastrophe, people have finally had enough. Billions are denied effective access to an economy that has been hijacked by vested interests. The people who caused the financial crisis suffer no loss, while the innocent majority see their living standards fall, or pay with their jobs. But it doesn't have to be like this. By equipping ourselves with a better understanding of the crisis and its root causes in a fatally flawed economic system, not only will we be better prepared for the challenges ahead, but we will also find the motivation to work towards real change. The Survival Manual points the way to a saner future. The need for change has never been more urgent, but the conditions have never been more favourable. With hope and belief we can build a better world, and create a civilization fit for human beings."

 

             

  In spring and summer 2012 SEED collaborated with members of the Occupy Edinburgh Initiative to explore and learn more of the Circle Council method. We met in and around Leith.

We run fortnightly sessions of practising the method whilst studying the very valuable booklet "Consensus through Conversation" by Larry Dressler (see excerpt here http://www.larrydressler.com/media/dressler-excerpt.pdf ) and on the alternate weeks another circle met to focus on Circle related aspects of Healing and Circle Principles, following the booklet "The Seven Whispers" by Christina Baldwin. (http://www.peerspirit.com/books-thesevenwhispers.html)

We have been a small group, but we have learned a HUGE amount, and hope to transfer soon onto this blog some of the feedbacks from these sessions.

For the autumn term we now have come back to ALP, and started our outreach with this plan:

 

If you can't wait for this blogs update on what happened in previous years, visit the SEED forum  and the related Occupy blog section.
Please enjoy what you find and come back to check for more once we have it here in a more succinct way!