COMMUNITY CURRENCY CREATOR
CIRCLES:
the "CCC Circles"
This Picture I just found on a friendly blog kind of puts it in a nutshell what the CCC circles are about:
keeping warm together on top of a cold world, creating currencies relevant for what ever the needs of this time and place and its people are.
keeping warm together on top of a cold world, creating currencies relevant for what ever the needs of this time and place and its people are.
CCC circles will be held several times during our Coming Together festival in the PCAA, the Library and the Yurt.
They will employ three means for exploring our CCC potential :
(not necessarily in this order:)
They will employ three means for exploring our CCC potential :
(not necessarily in this order:)
- watching or looking
- creative writing or drawing
- calling the circle - a form of creative conversation empowering our solution receiving capacities
- watching documentary film footage together, or reading select articles of magazines or websites, all materials to do with showing to us how the current financial system does not work and what alternatives currently people around the world are exploring s solutions
- guided creative exercises, which can be translated into writing or drawing, or both
- Circle Conversations, the past and future way of consensus council
who is facilitating?
It will be peer2 peer facilitated in accordance with the Peer Circle Principles laid out in the work of Christina Baldwin and others.
The participants are invited to do some research around the Peer Circle ways and grow into peer facilitators.
Initially our festival co-ordinater, Anneruth Strauss, together with 2 or 3 other local people experienced in this or similar way of working, will 'call the circle', 'invite to centre', 'hold the rim', 'open and close', and so on.
If possible more and more people will become familiar enough with the principles so that the 'leadership in every chair' practise can emerge, and the rotation of roles (caller, guardian, scribe) can become fluid and free.
The participants are invited to do some research around the Peer Circle ways and grow into peer facilitators.
Initially our festival co-ordinater, Anneruth Strauss, together with 2 or 3 other local people experienced in this or similar way of working, will 'call the circle', 'invite to centre', 'hold the rim', 'open and close', and so on.
If possible more and more people will become familiar enough with the principles so that the 'leadership in every chair' practise can emerge, and the rotation of roles (caller, guardian, scribe) can become fluid and free.
what do expect as outcome?
Number one:
there is no 'expectation', just a wish.
So we start each session with a wishing well...
But to write all this up here now would be taking away the joy of discovery!
What would YOUR wished for outcome be?
My wished for outcome, one that is alive in me just now, is:
that we listen for and create together a community currency that can go a little way towards and is well annd truly part of what Daivd Korten refers to in his book "From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth"
One planned outcome of the CCC circles is certainly to have poems or prose, and/or drawings to share on last day of our 'Coming Together' festival, on Sunday 11-9-11, between 4 pm and 7pm, on the festival end bash, where Tina Bryson and her team will also perform the play 'It's a Matter of Intere$t' by Linda Scotson, and where Lilian Brzoska's workshop will have yielded more drama and song on the current credit crunch or debit brunch...
So, the aim of these 3 strands is to bring joy and cutting edge as well as real wealth and good chill and cheer to Penicuik and District, all Real Wealth outcomes which lead us now into the best future.
there is no 'expectation', just a wish.
So we start each session with a wishing well...
But to write all this up here now would be taking away the joy of discovery!
What would YOUR wished for outcome be?
My wished for outcome, one that is alive in me just now, is:
that we listen for and create together a community currency that can go a little way towards and is well annd truly part of what Daivd Korten refers to in his book "From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth"
One planned outcome of the CCC circles is certainly to have poems or prose, and/or drawings to share on last day of our 'Coming Together' festival, on Sunday 11-9-11, between 4 pm and 7pm, on the festival end bash, where Tina Bryson and her team will also perform the play 'It's a Matter of Intere$t' by Linda Scotson, and where Lilian Brzoska's workshop will have yielded more drama and song on the current credit crunch or debit brunch...
So, the aim of these 3 strands is to bring joy and cutting edge as well as real wealth and good chill and cheer to Penicuik and District, all Real Wealth outcomes which lead us now into the best future.