World Service Responsibilities of Londoners to the Future and of the Peoples Economics

20 years ago, so I understand, Sir John Whitmore used to convene MayDay what is leadership lectures. They were restared around London BeTheChange branch of worldiwde gandhi alumni in 2004. Colin Morley and Sir John took the lead in inviting networkers for the future of London and all societies sharing Gandhi's vision. On the third day Colin Opened space in the Friends House (Euston). In 2006, the third year of BeTheChange, Colin is no more able to quake our waves and circles of spirit because of the tragedy of 7/7 . Here however are the main empowerment debates his weblog asked us to continue exploring for all humanity

What's empowerment? Academics Be the Change Brands Community Building Creativity Cynics and Critics Dreams and visions Enlightenment Evolution Experts Fun Gurus Heros and heroines Leadership Links and resources My personal opinions News comment Open Space Practice of empowerment Service Profit Chain Sustainability Theory of empowerment Tools Types of empowerment
when?
April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003
Why?
Open Space Time to think Self Directed Work Teams Spiral Dynamics Community Building Ken Wilber Facilitation Participatory Appraisal Commander's Intent Process Work Andrew Cohen The Luck Project Holotropic Breathwork Motivational Quote Of The Day Types of Empowerment
why? not!
Bogus Empowerment Arguments against empowerment The end of empowerment Unions against empowerment Dilbert The Office
how?
Blanchard, Carlos & Randolph Boje and Rosile Conger and Kanugo W Edwards Deming Mary Parker Follett Gershon and Straub Dr E Goldratt Kimball Fisher Eric Trist

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We the medi conference is coming to London - with participants like this seems to be an event not to miss


We Media Global Forum
The We Media Global Forum Site
ContributorsAlan AbbeyFounder, Abbey ContentIsraelAkwe AmosuSenior Policy Analyst, AfricaOpen Society Policy CenterEduardo AvilaEditor, Barrio FloresJohn BellCreative Director, Ogilvy PRjbell@mediacenter.orgFlorian BrodyDirector of Marketing, A9.comPhilip CesseEditor, artslivres.comFranceJoan ConnellOnline Editor, The NationJudy FaberAssociate ProducerCBSNews.comVanessa FabianoShortcut.comDenmarkKoonal GandhiPresidential Management Fellow; Investment Funds Analyst, OPICBirdie JaworskiBeauty DishHugh LevinsonSenior Producer, BBC RadioUnited KingdomChris NolanFounder & Editor, Spot-OnBrian ReichSenior Strategic ConsultantMindshare Interactive CampaignsRick RobinsonOnline/Wireless Media & Community ConsultantIrina SlutskyReporterGeekentertainment.tvNichelle StephensNichelle Newsletter

The Power of UsThe We Media Global Forum brings together the trailblazers of the connected society - the thinkers, innovators, investors, executives and activists seeking to tap the potential of digital networks connecting people everywhere.
Conducted at and hosted by The BBC and Reuters in London, the 2006 Forum includes a series of keynote, general and small group conversations and workgroups, as well as networking receptions and a World Café - a global "town hall" meeting with Web, satellite, television and other avenues of participation from around the world.
Who Attends? Inaugurated in New York in 2005, We Media gathers about 300 international participants: senior executives, decision makers, storytellers, artists, investors and innovators from media, advertising, public relations, marketing, news, entertainment, finance, telecommunications, technology, philanthropy, government, NGOs, social activism and academia.
They come together to learn from each other and to think about, explore, be inspired by and build upon the shared knowledge and the collective intelligence of the connected society. Their collective efforts spawn new ideas, information, services and businesses.
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS TO DATE
Tom Glocer, CEO, ReutersMark Thompson, Director General, BBCRichard Dreyfuss, Actor and ActivistWadah Khanfar, Director General, Al JazeeraCarolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian NewspapersPaul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm (via satellite)Richard Sambrook, Director of Global News, BBCDave Sifry, CEO, TechnoratiJean-Marie Colombani, Chairman and Publisher, Le Monde
And.....
Rafat Ali, CEO & Editor, Paid ContentNikesh Arora, Vice President, European Operations, GoogleAngela Beesley, Board Member, Wikimedia FoundationTimothy Balding, Director General, World Association of NewspapersJeff Belk, SVP Marketing, QualcommEmily Bell, Editor-in-Chief, Guardian UnlimitedDavid Brain, European President & CEO, EdelmanGeorge Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times of London Merrill Brown, Founder & Principal, MMB Media LLCSuw Charman, Executive Director, Open Rights GroupJean-Marc Coicaud, United Nations University, New YorkAdam Curry, podcaster, Curry.comDan Gillmor, Author, We The MediaScott Heiferman, Founder and CEO, Meetup.comSue Howard, Executive Director, Australian Broadcasting Corp.Jeff Jarvis, Blogger, Buzzmachine.comRhami Khouri, Editor, Lebanon Daily StarDr. Michael Kraig, Stanley FoundationSunil Lulla, CEO Times Global Broadcasting Co. Ltd. Rebecca MacKinnon, Co-Founder, Global VoicesBertrand Pecquerie, Director of the World Editors ForumShoba Purushothaman, CEO, The NewsmarketKaren Stephenson, President, NetformBill Weiss, CEO, The Promar GroupEmma Williams, Director, Digital Content Coalition

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Al Gore at Tomorrows Company
Thursday 30 March 2006, 5.30pm to 8.30pm

300 people attended the Tomorrow’s Company 2006 Lecture given by the former US Vice-President, Al Gore. The audience was inspired and challenged by his presentation and included business leaders, NGO representatives, governmental officials, environmental campaigners, and MBA students from across the world. He stressed the need for companies to work in partnership with others to combat what many regard as the greatest challenge facing the planet. John Manzoni, BP’s Group Managing Director and Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, chaired the lecture and led the discussion that followed.

The challenge now is clarifying precisely what is the business contribution to tackling climate change and that will be dealt with in our next publication. If you would like to find out more about the publication that is being produced to follow up the lecture please email david@tomorrowscompany.com

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Climate - Be The Change but which way?

Rick (Robert), have you be invited to this in a flowing role?

Nick: since my father and I's 1984 book on death of distance's 7 collaboration waves: climate change sustainability has depended on:

1 photosynthesis energy replacing carbon energy - Rick is epicentral to that map- as scripted in our 1984 book 1

2 getting top professionals and CEO to understand that nature's networks demand that one industry's global waste is another's input (ie the externalisation must be internalised maps of Ray Anderson that Colin brought over to London last year)

3 empowering education of 9 year olds up about flows, networks systems of sustems of systems so that they never get controlled agian by someone who emasures a flow with a number - a bit of a tricky syllabus until the BBC promotes social entrepreneur olympics or is closed down: but where in the USA micro-finance and social entrepreneurship are retranslating Gandhi into american - see 4 hemisphere's model at http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com

so who are your speakers? are they in one of these dynamic flows? have climate wave revolution mapmakers 1 2 3 missed a trick these last 22 years?

cheers
chris macrae

http://social-entrepreneur.blogspot.com and mac ids of http://worldclassbrands.blogspot.com

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Quoting "Nick Hart-Williams (Be The Change)" :

With Be the Change just a week away, we wanted draw your attention to some
of the most exciting elements over the next few days ­ and as always ask you
to tell your friends and colleagues. The full timetable is now up on the
website (http://www.bethechange.org.uk) - and attached here. And though the
Sunday Symposium is sold out, there are still tickets for Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.

On the Saturday morning of Be The Change (May 13), we¹ll take a look at what
climate change really means for us ­ and at how education has to change if
we¹re to have any chance of turning back the impact we¹re having on our
environment. The day will be filled with people buzzing with ideas and
relevant experience ­ but for now, let me tell you about the two giants who
will lay out the central issues for us. As it happens, they are both
academics ­ but there¹s nothing academic about what they have to say.



Prof. Tim Flannery, as he nears the end of his world book tour, has gathered
unprecedented praise for The Weather Makers - the one book which, his
reviewers agree, could persuade the world to tackle climate change head on.
The praise comes from Tony Blair, Robert Kennedy Jr., Jared Diamond and Bill
Bryson; from climate scientists Stephen Schneider and Thomas Lovejoy, from
the US heads of Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund; and from a host of
newspapers across the English-speaking world. And in Australia, he¹s
credited with changing the government¹s stance on global warming. What¹s
amazing about Tim Flannery is the combination of skills and experience ­
literally, a great scientist and explorer (ranked with Livingston by David
Attenborough), a brilliant writer (see the reviews attached) and a
compelling advocate of positive action by all of us. Towards the end of his
new book, he writes, ŒIt is my firm belief that all the efforts of
government and industry will come to naught unless the good citizen and
consumer takes the initiative....we are now the weather makers, and the
future of biodiversity and civilisation hangs on our actions.¹



Prof. David Orr, the man acknowledged to have taken the lead in
re-fashioning education to respond to environmental imperatives, presents an
uncompromising message. He believes we are facing Œthe end of education¹ as
we know it. ŒNo amount of tinkering with curriculum will adequately equip
students for what they must do ...This is a crisis of education, not in
education¹. David Orr is professor of environmental studies at Oberlin
College in Ohio. And he walks his talk ­ apart from writing several key
books around the subject of education and environment, he commissioned the
top Œgreen¹ architect, Bill McDonough, to design an absolute
state-of-the-art building to house his department at Oberlin.

In his seminal book, Earth In Mind, David Orr wrote of the possibility Œthat
in the long gestation of humankind we acquired an affinity for life, earth,
forests, water, soils, and place ­ what E. O. Wilson calls biophilia. That
is more than an interesting and defensible hypothesis. It is the best hope
for our future that I know. For real hope, as distinguished from wishful
thinking, we ought not look first to our technological cleverness or
abstractions about progress or one kind or another, but rather to the extent
and depth of our affections, which set boundaries on what we do and direct
our intelligence to better or worse possibilities. The possibility of
affection for our children, place, posterity, and life is in all of us. It
is part of our evolutionary heritage. It is embedded in our best religious
teachings. And it is now a matter or simple self-interest that we come to
realise the full extent of the obligations that arise from an alert,
thorough, and farsighted affection.

Against considerable odds, the outlines of a global ecological enlightenment
have begun to emerge....Still, I think H. G. Wells had it right when he said
that we are in a race between education and catastrophe. That race will be
decided in the classrooms around the world ­ and in all of the places that
foster intelligence, thought, and good heart.

So that¹s how the day begins! The rest of the day will be filled with a
panel involving David and Tim, plus others who are working to change
education; a whole series of presentations and challenges by some very
inspired young entrepreneurs; a long World Café discussion; and a final
presentation on Œevolutionary leadership¹ by Peter Merry.

For further information or to book: http://www.bethechange.org.uk
phone 0845-4585925 - email: info@bethechange.org.uk

posted by ... @ 11:21 AM 0 comments

Could we do a survey of anyone who loves Be The Change London - as to why? what do you get from it? how can we help multiply what you get?

I love Be The Change Ahmedabad - see here for news http://clubofahmedabad.blogspot.com of the Gandhi centenary October 2007 for all alumni most deeply inspired by Gandhi's cross-cultural transformations, you can also take a Gandhi certified correspondence course from the 1920 University he founded with the mission : knowledge is that which liberates us for the bargain price of 101 US Dollars

consider seeing Einstein's review of Gandhi's contribution to leadership at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com

have a look at the largest entrepreneur network inspired by Gandhi at www.ashoka.org (entrepreneur networks being the way my father and I have tried to collaborate towards an economics fit for 2 million global villages) for the last 30 years since my father started his trilogy on Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist

Whilst Colin http://www.empowermentillustrated.com/mtarchive/cat_sustainability.html

was with us I could ask him to ask BTC London how are you collaborating (and enabling your networkers to collaborate) with the likes of the above networeks and grassroots diversity movements; since his parting I have emailed the question several times to the powers that Be (London BTC) and not seen a reply

I sincerely hope your time is luckier than mine at chnage-navigating your way round London

cheers chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com
http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com

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