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TRUE WEALTH

Seeding a resilient new culture together

 

We are in transition from the crumbling old ways – an unjust economic system, unsustainable energy and farming practices, top down institutions – to a new world co-created from a new consciousness and according to a new set of values which honours the interdependence and sacredness of all life. This transition challenges each of us to wake up, step up and participate in building a new culture together.

 

You may be worried about the kind of world your children and grandchildren will inherit as a consequence of natural disasters, the collapsing economy, the ongoing degradation of the environment, and all the other social ills so glaringly apparent today. Perhaps you're a change agent and no matter how much you do you feel you can never do enough. Or you may be at a point where you'd dearly love to contribute some positive energy to your community and you're not sure how to get started. Or you're a social entrepreneur, living your passion and experiencing this time as a thrilling roller coaster ride of innovation, creativity and transformation.

Whoever you are, and wherever you are in the process of contributing to positive change, this is a demanding, confusing and perilous time to be alive. Yet there are abundant gifts and riches to be found when we consciously and actively participate in co-creating the new. These are the gifts of having a powerful purpose and being connected with a growing movement of passionate people all over the world working at the unfolding edge of social change. Deep soul friendships can blossom within this context and even the tensions, inherent within the creative process itself and emerging as we build co-creative community, are rich with potential. The gifts of expanding consciousness and inner freedom, creative self expression, discovery, contribution and the joys of giving and receiving, are a priceless common wealth. Choosing to actively participate in conscious change-making can transform doubt and fear into fulfilment, peace of mind and personal and collective growth. Surely this is true wealth? 

 

If you're looking for inspiration, information, encouragement and the company of kindred spirits, welcome to A Whole New World! We started a voyage of discovery in 2011 with our teleseminar series AWAKEN THE WHOLE NEW HUMAN in which we explored the psycho-spiritual process of conscious awakening.

Now we turn our attention to inspired actions and community initiatives happening locally and globally. We have invited just a few of the pioneering people who are initiating changes to the foundations of our collective life to share their experience and wisdom with you. Down-to-earth and life renewing ways of living together which help to build community, empower individuals and stimulate the flow of prosperity, are spreading rapidly across the world . These include alternatives to the mainstream economy in the form of complementary money systems; Transition Towns; permaculture, or the conscious design of ecosystems for sustainable food growing in harmony with nature; ecovillages, holistic education, and a host of other initiatives, all springing from the same fertile ground of positive change .

Becoming actively involved in the process of positive cultural change calls out from us all a constant need to become the Whole New Human, by uplifting our skills in relationship, communication and the creative process.  Having taken a look at some of the essential physical foundations for sustaining life, we will then go on to explore the essential personal, interpersonal and creative skills and practices needed for a new culture to grow and prosper. We also offer opportunties to extend your skills and co-create a supportive learning community.

 

Whatever your views about the significance of 2012 there couldn't be a better time than now to really give everything we've got towards the creation of a whole new world. Please join us to explore the TRUE WEALTH that exists within us and grows between us when we contribute our time, skills and care to co-create a resilient new culture and community, locally and globally. 

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TRUE WEALTH: Seeding a resilient new culture together 

A Teleseminar series

All times are New Zealand time. (10am NZ is 9pm UK or 4pm ET on the previous day.) For other times go here:  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

 

WEEK ONE

 

Friday 10th February at 10.30 am ( 4.30pm ET, and 9.30pm GMT on Thursday 9th)

  Introduction to the series:  The making of a new culture maker

  Rose Diamond  is co-founder of A Whole New World. A lifelong whole person educator, author and global citizen, Rose has helped people, including many community and organizational leaders, in diverse contexts and several countries, to become creatively empowered. Her passion for transformational learning began in the early 80’s when she trained as a Gestalt therapist, a dynamic whole person approach focused on awareness, presence, the power of the imagination and moving through blocks in the creative process. Rose integrated these experiential skills into all her work in personal and professional development and discovered a gift for innovation and synthesis, contributing new approaches to training in community and health education. In the early 90’s Rose made a conscious decision to follow her creative process wherever it led her and gave up her successful therapy practice, consultancy business, home and everything familiar, to live in the remote Scottish Highlands and write her first book. This was the beginning of what she came to know as her Soul Journey, an inner and outer adventure which brought her to New Zealand in late 1994. Not long after she arrived in the South Island, she received a vision which morphed over the years into its present form as A Whole New World, a global transformational learning community and online publishing enterprise focusing on new culture making. Following the publication of her second book, Living your Passion: How Love-in-action is seeding a Whole New World, Rose ventured into online learning, interviewing and Deep Discovery Conversations.   

 

 

 

Saturday February 11th at 11.30 am:  How I survived the end of the world in Aotearoa    

Laurence Boomert  has worked on environmental and community related projects over the past 20 years and was the founder of the NZ Environmental Business Network during the mid 90’s. He is a board member of the Living Economies Trust, http://www.le.org.nz  and runs a website called the Bank of Real Solutions www.realsolutions.org.nz which gathers community can-do stories from around New Zealand. He recently founded the New Economics Party with Deirdre Kent, http://www.neweconomics.net.nz  Laurence contributed to "Fleeing Vesuvius: Responding to the effects of economic and environmental collapse" published by Living Economies in 2011.

 

 

 

 

Sunday February 12th at 11am:   Healthy Money, Healthy Planet

Deirde Kent is a New Zealand grandmother of 13 who lives and gardens in Otaki, North of Wellington. She has been an environmental activist, a maths teacher, a Values Party candidate, Tauranga City Councillor, Director of ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) and has always liked to question underlying assumptions and beliefs. She is the author of two books on campaigning and lobbying.  Her book, Healthy Money, Healthy Planet  - developing sustainability through new money systems was published in 2005 and is now being translated into Hungarian. Her passion is to inform people how the money system we have inherited contributes to worldwide environmental and social problems,and to promote the concept of multiple currencies issued without interest. She was a founding  trustee of Living Economies, an organisation set up for this purpose. She cofounded Transition Otaki and the Otaki Timebank and has recently co-founded the New Economics Party.

 

 

 

 

Monday February 13th at 10am:  Community Currencies; stimulating the flow of reciprocity, livelihood and abundance.

Our  panel will share information about, and their experience of, three different community currencies:

HANDS ( How about Non Dollar System), OOOBY(Out of our own back yard) and TIME BANKS.

Joanna Piekarski H.A.N.D.S. is a Local Employment & Trading System that's been thriving in Golden Bay for more than two decades. Joanna and her partner Ro have been active members for 12 years, having both bought and sold over 15,000H in goods and services. Joanna has served for nearly eight years as HANDy messenger, a networking and communication role for facilitating trade among the 450 members

 

 

 

Pete Russell is the founder of Ooooby, an Auckland based online social network of food gardeners making weekly home deliveries of locally grown food. Pete had earlier cofounded and managed Source Food Australia, and is now working on building Ooooby into a nation wide local-food movement. www.ooooby.org

 

 

 

 

Emma McGuirk     Emma attended a Living Economies presentation on Time Banking at the 2010 Permaculture Hui in Raglan and was so inspired by this presentation, and Edgar Cahn's seminal work No More Throw Away People, that she hasn't looked back since.    She is now conducting a three-year research project on Time Banking in Aotearoa towards a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Otago.  As part of her research, Emma is contributing to communication between Time Banks through visits in person, and the TBANZ website. Emma is a founding member of the Dunedin TimeBank, and has also written a short play for radio that discusses monetary reform.

 

 

 

 

WEEK TWO

 

Friday 17th February at 10am:  How to prepare your home and your community for a currency crisis

Theresa Carter, has been involved with Transition Ireland and Northern Ireland for the past 5 years. She has been raising awareness of our over dependence on fossil fuels and the effect they are having on our planet. She is also a member of FEASTA and an Environmental Pillar of Social Partnership representative at county level. She lives in a small village in the middle of Ireland with her husband, 5 children, 4 hens, 1 rooster, 1 cat and a dog, aware of the "brick wall" humanity is headed for.

 

 

 

 

Saturday 18th February at 11.30am:   Education for Sustainable Practise and Genuine Wealth                                                           in the Community

Bryan Innes & Joanna Pearsall are co-founders and trustees, with Lisa Isherwood and John Ham, of Awhi Turangi Trust, a bi-cultural Trust set up to care for the people and land of Turangi. The main action of the Trust is  developing a centre of sustainable practise "Awhi Farm" for people to come, share and learn about permaculture, growing food, building simple shelters, community, regeneration and living abundantly without debt. Otago Polytech will be working with Awhi farm to bring the Certificate in Sustainable Practice ( NZQA Level 5) to Turangi in 2012.  "Permaculture Aotearoa", A new trust, founded by Joanna, Bryan and Trish Allen (formerly of Rainbow Valley Farm) is the vehicle for organising the next Australasian Permaculture Convergence, to be held in Turangi,NZ 11-15th April 2012. www.permacultureaotearoa.co.nz   Joanna and Bryan have been involved in education for sustainable living since the early 1970's and have been teaching permaculture design since 1996. They  are the creators, organizers and Directors of the Ecoshow, a national event to bring together business, government, community and individuals working for sustainability.  They have designed an interest free community finance system, based on reciprocity "The Genuine Wealth System"  which is currently in use by various groups in New Zealand, each with its own aims. Bryan and Joanna have an eco-consultancy,  advising anyone, or organisation, interested in working towards sustainability. They also sell useful tools on-line for sustainable gardening and farming "Middle Earth Tools" and teach the "Art of Scything". www.ecoshow.co.nz 

 

 

Sunday 19th February at 11am:  Local food self reliance

Robina McCurdy  is a community development facilitator, organic gardener, permaculture educator & land-use designer. Robina has produced several environmental education and organic gardening resources and created many participatory resources for decisionmaking and collective action. She has taught and applied these powerful community building methods with households, neighborhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages & bioregions, throughout the world, culminating in her facilitation manual 'Grounding Vision: Empowering Culture'.  Robina is a co-founder, resident and Trustee of Tui Community in NZ and the pioneer of PLANET Organic and SEED educational programmes.  www.earthcare-education.org

 

 

 

 

Monday 20th February at 10am:     Modeling Resilience 

Joanna Santa Barbara was born in Queensland, Australia, and practised as a child psychiatrist in Australia and Canada. She taught Peace Studies at McMaster University, Canada and was one of the founding thinkers in the area of Peace through Health. She is now engaged in developing Atamai ecovillage, an innovative village in the South Island of New Zealand based on Permaculture principles and attempting to model resilience and partial self-reliance in response to climate change and peak oil.. She has a local radio show, Transition Towns, and participates in her  local Transition Towns initiative. Joanna continues to work with TRANSCEND and TRANSCEND Peace University and is a faculty member of the McMaster University Centre for Peace Studies, Canada and the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. 

 

 

WEEK THREE

 

Saturday 25th February at 11.30 am:   Occupying awareness

Woods Elliott   is co-founder of A Whole New World and for the last six years Woods and Rose have had a conscious relationship (sometimes from opposite sides of the world) in which Deep Discovery Conversations have played an important part. Reflecting on life threatening crises of different kinds in our own lives will be a starting place for a conversation to explore the interface between the creative process and the healing process. We will explore how crisis can be a doorway to personal and collective transformation, and how we can consciously choose to evolve.  

 Woods is a daily meditator, lifelong ponderer and author, and an artisan furniture restorer, who would love to see the birth of a new spirit- and nature-centered society, and eventually a whole new world.  Woods was born in the US and studied philosophy and art in college. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war, a civil rights, women's rights, and mental patients activist, and great admirer of native Americans. He earned a master''s degree in social work in '69 and pursued a fifteen year career in the mental health field in psychiatric, child abuse, relationship counseling, family therapy and correctional settings and became licensed for private practice in both New York and Colorado. By the late '70''s, he couldn't contain a midlife longing for fresh adventures, and migrated to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Here he taught himself home-based furniture restoration skills and had a love affair with Mother Nature, which stirred him into environmental activism, prospecting for gold and Indian artifacts, and cultivating an alternative lifestyle. Open heart surgery at age 49 opened his heart in more ways than one, and cast him onto a more spiritual path.His first finished book "Dazzlephrenia: a Gallery of Thought on Consciousness, Awe for Mother Nature, and Wonderment over the Dazzling Cosmos", is published as a full length e-book.

 

 

Monday 27th February at 10.30am    Ako-a-rongo, holistic learning

Birgit Baader, journalist and author, has been part of a research group of the Ministry of Education in Germany for 8 years exploring “alternative learning concepts” in order to enhance “Schulzufriedenheit” (satisfaction in school for teachers, students, parents) and learning motivation. She has written numerous articles and reports about the free-learning movement in Europe, and about the motifs behind homeschooling and unschooling and other alternative educational options. She is part of Ako-a-rongo, a group promoting peaceful education for all: http://holisticlearning.weebly.com/      www.birgitbaader.com

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WEEK FOUR

 

Wednesday 7th March at 9am:  Group skills for a resilient culture

Nick Osborne, Over the last 17 years Nick has worked in a variety of management, leadership, training, consultancy or activist roles with a range of organisations including Changemakers, Shell, Amnesty International, the Ecovillage Network and Transition Network.  He now works freelance as a Trainer & Consultant, as a founder of Response-Ability, helping people enhance their ability to respond creatively and flexibly to today’s challenging change and complexity.  Nick has been a member of Transition Glastonbury since mid 2007, helped develop a network of Transition groups in Somerset and is a member of Transition Training & Consulting, working nationally with communities and organisations since late 2008.  He has a written a course on developing group skills to support Transition in communities. Nick is currently developing ways to support all kinds of organisations to make a paradigm shift; to become resilient organisations which are able to continuously adapt to a changing world while playing their part in sustaining the social and ecological sytems on which they depend.  Nick lives in Glastonbury, Somerset and is passionate about his family, social change and surfing.  www.response-ability.org.uk

 

 

Thursday 8th March at 10 am:   The New Feminine Leadership

In this Deep Discovery Conversation Rose and Joey Walters will explore the creative process and how women and the New Feminine Leadership have an important and integral part to play in the making of a resilient new culture.

Joey Walters is a transformational leadership facilitator, teacher and coach dedicated to fostering the emergence of heart-centred leaders, grounded in the balance of ‘feminine’ attributes such as intuitive wisdom, relatedness, nurturing and care for life. She left the ‘painful security’ of her leadership role in corporate life in 1996 after waking up to a desire to express herself more authentically. Joey is now weaving the learning from her most challenging experiences in business with many years of personal and spiritual development, including 10 years training in an Earth Wisdom Tradition with Medicine teachers from the Ehama Institute in New Mexico. She was ordained as an Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Counsellor by the UK Interfaith Seminary in 2002.  In 2004, she initiated the Women at the Heart of Leadership Community following her calling to provide a safe and supportive ‘learning oasis’ within which women could realise their authentic power, purpose and potential as feminine leaders and agents of cultural evolution. Since then, Joey has supported hundreds of women to reconnect with their feminine strengths and engage the transformation that empowers them to become authentic, generative leaders and bring their unique contributions to life in personal as well as professional contexts. She is a proud mother of two young boys and lives with her family in Scotland.   http://www.whlcommunity.co.uk/

 

Friday 9th March at 9am:   The Philosophy of Enough is Plenty 

Anne B Ryan lives and works in Co Kildare, Ireland. She is currently employed as a lecturer in adult and community education at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Her books include Enough is Plenty: Public and Private Policies for the 21^st Century (2009), Balancing Your Life: A Practical Guide to Work, Time, Money and Happiness (2002) and Feminist Ways of Knowing: Towards Theorising the Person for Radical Adult Education (2001). She is a trustee of Feasta: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, which is based in Ireland and has an international membership. Her website is at www.enoughisplenty.net

 

 

 

 

WEEK FIVE

Thursday 15th March at 10.30am:  Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood - designing for cooperation and sustainability

Robin Allison is the initiator and project coordinator of Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood, a 32-home cohousing neighbourhood in Ranui, West Auckland, that demonstrates leading-edge sustainable design with intensive community involvement. Earthsong was founded on a deep commitment to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable neighbourhood by growing a strong culture of respect, participation and cooperation, and incorporating the principles of cohousing, eco-architecture and permaculture.With a degree in architecture, Robin coordinated the development and construction phase of Earthsong, from developing the vision and group agreements around consensus decision-making, group process and design, to managing contracts, budgets and detailed oversight of the construction. Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood was a finalist in 2009 in both the World Habitat Awards and UN Habitat Awards.  www.earthsong.org.nz   Robin has been a fellow of the New Zealand Social Entrepreneur Fellowship for the last 5 years, and along with the other fellows is profiled in the recently published book "How Communities Heal", available at  www.nzsef.org.nz/howcommunitiesheal  She was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2008, researching sustainable communities in the United Kingdom and North America.

 

 Monday 19th March at 8am NZ time, noon PST, Sunday: 

Evolving Deep Transformational Community

In just a few years the internet has opened up the possibility of co-creating global communities with people of like mind, heart and intention. For those of us committed to the creation of a more enlightened world this freedom to meet in virtual reality has far reaching potential. And yet for every group committed to new culture making there is the challenge of how to transcend the limitations of self interest and old conditioning; to co-create a space together which is truly a container for evolving the new.  This conversation brings together participants from the second year of the Evolutionary Life Transformation Program led by Craig Hamilton. Craig teaches how to ground an emerging evolutionary spirituality in wholehearted active engagement with, and transformation of, our world. www.integralenlightenment.com  The purpose of our conversation is to explore what we have learned experientially about the essential elements which can provide a group container to enable such a transformational community to thrive. 

Christy Luke lives in Grand Forks, British Columbia, a small rural community on the border between Canada and Washington State, She has worked variously as  a journalist, gardener and college instructor.

Eric Heggen applies evolutionary principles to his work as a construction project manager. The concepts of aligning with the larger evolutionary perspective, embodiment of evolutionary care, and communication beyond ego are working together to create successful projects and in an evolutionary step for the frequently adversarial construction industry,  creating deep and cherished working relationships.

June Easton lives in Southern California in the USA and has worked for many years as a counselor, at various mental health centres, counseling centres and in private practice, She has lived in two different personal growth communities as well as being part of two different transformational virtual communities. 

 

 

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