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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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- 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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For me, it’s “Follow the energy.” Go to where your heart and gut pull you.
oops - Kai, Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Heather, Vancouver, WA
What I’ve learned trying to live my own life by the rule of thumb Kai’s expresed…is that I don’t always clearly discern the voice of my “true self” from the noise my ego makes…and that I can mistake a voice of my ego for that of my true self…and then have to make a course correction when I “wake up” to the knowing that I’m being and doing in ways that don’t have integrity and authenticity…I become aware of that icky feeling somewhere in my physiology of, “Rats, I’ve made a mistake…again!” And, “Darn, now I have to do and be differently”…which often feels not so good before it begins to feel better.
That what people call “God” is nothing but your conscience and the only thing that one should be answerable to.
That it’s always better to try to do some good things, than to not try.
Tish-Alexandria, VA
The “…so far” is a key point. It implys that we are still learning and growing. I learned that people, humor, religion, family, and friends are very important! I also became aware of the selfishness of some of my previous choices and motivated to do more to touch others. I am still feeling like an island when it comes to global impact. Yet I know that I was truly impacted and motivated through our conversation!!!! Proof enough for me! I look forward to our next conversation!
Island County, Washington, a Conversation Café with teenagers:
The overall theme of the conversation was “respect.” It is so important to realize that every person has a story, and that their story influences how they think and move through the world. It’s also important to see that no one has all the answers, certainly no one has “the” right answer, and that to respect someone enough to listen to them may end up offering you the information you need to succeed. Finally, respect is understood differently by different cultures - even in the American culture, there exists an “adult” culture and a “youth” culture — so it often takes an open mind and a lot of forgiveness just to come to understand how to respect someone in a way they can appreciate.
We can never and will never be somebody we are not. Even when we try to ‘morph’ ourselves to be that someone we are not, we only come out realising (much stronger)that deep down this so-called new identity will never take root.
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