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Once a year Conversation Cafes and co-hosts organize a week when everyone, everywhere is invited to sit down in small groups to consider together the most important questions in the world today. We live in challenging and complex times. No one knows THE answer, but everyone holds a piece of the answer. You can say your piece during Conversation Week. We, and the world, will be all listening.Read the Blog!
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- Globe & Mail: A Little More (Civil) Conversation
- Conversation Week in Second Life
- Discuss the Top 10 Questions Here
- Question 1: How can we best prepare our children for the future?
- Question 2: What does sustainability look like to you? How do we get there?
- Question 3: How do humans need to adapt to survive the changes predicted for this century?
- Question 4: How do we shift from “Me” to “We” on both the local and global levels?
- Question 5: How can you, as Gandhi said, be the change that you want to see in the world?
- Question 6: What kind of economic structures can best support a shift to sustainable living?
- Question 7: How should we re-invent the political process so that people feel that they have a voice?
- Question 8: What kind of leadership does the world need now?
- Question 9: How can we balance our personal needs with the most pressing needs of our community and the larger world?
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To learn more about ways to promote conversation, check out the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation.
1. Buy local foods either from a farmer, farmers market, farmstand or ask your grocer to supply local foods. Join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program where you pay in advance to have weekly food baskets to eat. Food security is essential for everyone.
2. Turn off the TV. Attend one public meeting a month. Choose a civic issue - a land use decision, debate or controversy, an environmental issue, whatever - and follow the local debate and discussion on the issue.
3. Write letters, emails, faxes, or phone your local, state and elected officials about what you learned and decided about the issues you studied. Tell your friends and neighbors to do the same. Your elected officials cannot read your mind. You must let them know what you want them to do as your respresentative in government or other organizations.
We need a revival of civic and community engagement in the already organized and operating organizations and governments we have in place. We need “civic literacy”, so that everyone can participate in making decisions. And we need to ask for this to happen.
Turning up and speaking your mind is half of the work. The other half is determining reasonable and workable solutions to sometimes very complicated and difficult problems.
It’s the work that must be done if we are to create the changes that we are wanting and talking about in our conversations.
Authenticity counts. You need not be an expert in any thing, but you must be willing to learn, come to a conclusion and work to tell others about why civic participation is important. We can talk about ideals for forever and it is everyone’s right to do so, but we are missing the opportunity to make the community and systems of governance better if we do not do our part - whatever that is, however small or large.
Thanks for the opportunity to contribute and thanks to all who are participating.
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