The followings are letters that bring together a description of a community development process for neighbourhoods in need of better security.
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Pasted from: Re: A Community of Practice at:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyfranogi/message/1836John,
In case there is interest in Community of Practice, here is a link where there is a continuous flow of very potent information regarding CoP. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger's various sources of info comes around regularly as well as many others.
By browsing through, there is a huge wealth of info that offers CoP
ways and tools to link with one another:
http://www.stratagility.com/aggregatorFrom what I understand so far, CoPs come about as a result of a need to communicate amongst already existing companies and/or operations. They are always attached to a box of a specific context and interests, no matter what the subject being discussed is about.
They all seem to become limited in time by silo restrictions instead of managing distance elimination.
Here at Minciu Sodas, we communicate for the sake of eliminating the distance that keeps humanity from the clarity of sanity and from the transparency of love in one another's life practice. we do so by holding each other accountable to ourselves.
As a result, the community is not limited by "a" practice but on the contrary, we eliminate the barriers between all practices to go on growing organically The Faculty of Living, where all sciences, faculties and knowledge come to find a common ground of natural nutrients and fertilizers, dipped in a constant irrigation of pure currents of thoughts and imspiration.
Perhaps are we blazing the trail for all communities of practice to find the connectivity into the community of living...
Benoit
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Pasted from: Money minds and learning from each other at:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyfranogi/message/1841Pam,
What I note in your response, is how you set the tone for a time of online intimacy. When you use the "rub minds" expression, along with the flow of your thoughts brings into a moment of inner and joyful climax. Your frustrations forces the spontaneity of the instant to jump out at us and you leave us with the urge of anticipation to connect again with the responses!
To me, you response to Andrius by taking to yourself animales an online live-love session. The kind of simple, wholesome, in-the-moment penetreation of self within self, touching all selves, because relevant to your live humanity...
Such manifestation reveals the energy of pure delight of being partaker of the organic produces from the Orchards of Thoughts.
Such connectivity fuels our focus and such dispositions inspires individually while tuning the meaning of each group.
Such is the mind that can use money without abuse nor confuse because trust is never in question.
Such is the current that lives on to drive the community cuurency I belong to and it lives from well beyond what money can add up to.
The materialisation it produces reaches with much deeper satisfaction than where any roots of depression and recession do.
Yes Minciu Sodas is organically growing live-love online. Just come and feed on and feedback, it is all current and happening.
From my end, your letter Pam is an example of the clean zone of intimate comfort that we are cultivating with God, between Helen and I that we call the classroom of Spiritual Hygiene 101. Witnin such zone, relating is clean because of complete trust and openess.
The limitations of our contact are geographical but we hope that our online live-love continuity will materialise dreams into reality of relief for her and her people in Tanzania, while providing a trail of experience for anyone to draw from.
Can the classroom of Spiritual Hygiene 101 become a space where the current is generated online with inter-personal passage from stranger to family until trust is set to be functional, for the sake of materialising community currency from thoughts to initiatives, throughout the lab's connectivity?
...all blessings be with us all...
Benoit Couture
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Pasted from: Time currency
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyfranogi/message/1846Dear John,
I will certainly understand if you send me a reply saying that you dont have time for such long letter, but just in case, here is a description of how I am positioned to serve the cause of community currencies or complementary currencies or cc.
Being myself a near illiterate when it comes to understanding money handling, I thank you for your file. It has initiated me very well to new possibilities or maybe I should say, it has introduced me to a practical opportunity in the potential of renewal.
Here is a practical scenario for which I seek the theory that can be applied successfully in the development of a community-prisonner policy to serve as a mean to accomplish the healing sought out by the correction of rehabilitation. Under The rule of Law, the term "paying his debt to society" is used to claim that justice gets to be served.
A friend of mine owed 300 dollars of various traffic tickets. He was arrested and sent to jail for 6 weeks. These six weeks costed society around 6,600 dollars, calculated from the cost of 60,000 dollars a year for his time in jail.
This is beside the cost of his arrest and of the time in court. While he is in jail, he meets up with old bodies, he does not have to pay rent, he gets his 3 meals a day and when he comes out, he is only better educated to return stronger on the scene of the underground economy during a nice day at the end of winter.
That ain't justice for anyone, no matter how smily my friend ends up being.
Everything I read in your file points to the possibility of using an economy of co-operatives such as you describe, in order to settle social tensions into an investment of mutual community-prisoner benefit, as opposed to go on punishing ourselves as taxpayers for the sake of seeing justice being laughed at.
In other words, the day that we can create the community zone of transparency and clarity among neighbours who meet within the trust that we all have the power to access the service of health-education-correction, then we have arrived at the starting point of what we need to live as opposed to simply be surviving the cycles of social distances errupting into violence.
Let the framework of the Rule of Law be there to accomodate
health-education-correction into the culture of reconciliation and inner as well as outer healing. This what is known as Restorative Justice. The practical question I seek to answer is: "How do I invest 32 years of experience of free lance social worker in such a way as to activate its currency?" Here is how I made my point to the Alberta provincial government a few years ago, during a public commission seeking inputs on how to reform the justice system of the
province.
ADDRESS TO THE ALBERTA JUSTICE SUMMIT
I come before you tonight from a background of 28 years of living among what the present justice system describes as the underground world. After a deep spiritual awakening at 16 years old, I spent 24 of those 28 years tending numerous individuals who had erred on the wrong side of life itself and as a gradual result, on the wrong side of the Law; by tending the causes that brought them on the wrong side of life, many have entered a healing journey that brings them in line with justice.
One important observation I wish to bring to your attention from my past experience in relation to the justice system is that the perception leading Louis Riel and his comrades to rise up against the established justice of his time is very much alive today. (Louis Riel was hung to death by the Law and he is now recognized as a father of Canada's confederation)
The same frustration from injustice that led them is now brewing in a much larger number and it is much broader in its cross cultural reach. Today's method to vent such frustration is the underground economy. It is a good indicator of how real and powerful this Louis Riel type of attitude is. To consider the Louis Riel movement as a bunch of outlaws without giving due consideration to their cry for justice, until it was too late to talk, was the authority's mistake: we can't afford to repeat it.
During my 24 years I've had the opportunity to deal with people from near the top of society all the way down, below the bottom, far beyond the threshold of sanity. Equipped with a grade 10 to sail such uncharted waters I have grown very thirsty for a time of collective, sober reflection and I'm starving to see from such reflection the blueprint of a plan to build a model to demonstrate what a universal, healthy, just and peaceful community looks like.
The Alberta government is launching the courageous attempt to raise the issue of justice. Sometime between now and the summit, I hope that the members of the committee will come to see that the task at hand will not be achieved simply by fixing or by improving the legal system, but that what is also crucial is to heal the sense of justice.
Because of the amount of discontentment, the short term approach requires to look at the system within the present conditions. The medium term requires a commission to research a process to channel that modern Louis Riel phenomenon.
This would involve a brain-storming process among the interested parties. This process would involve the creation of a non prosecutional zone. Such an endeavour would provide the "Louis Riels" to come and negotiate their translation from out of the underground into the daylight. This translation involves the chartering of the responsibilities and obligations to counterbalance the rights and freedoms.
The ones in the underground who would be against such a proposal do not have any "Louis Riel" in them. They are very few: very few but very powerful and their reign of terror and enslavement is far, wide and deeply reaching.
Alberta is young and determined but we are a child of a bigger family and our sense of justice and the structure we have for it is intertwined in the bigger picture. Therefore, the medium term approach, although done and sponsored in Alberta, must conduct its research with the national scope in mind.
As a result of the commission's findings the interested parties will then be in a position to draw the blueprint I spoke of, providing the long term insight and direction needed to cleanse the system from the lies and their consequences in the history of our province and nation.
The charter of rights and freedoms opens up with two lines that say: "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of the Law". So far, since Mr. Trudeau brought to Canada the basis for our national justice, we have been so busy with the rule of the Law, that we left the preceding statement on the walls of our nation as a sort of an ornament
collecting dust. As a result, we have entangled ourselves in red tape just to make sure that we really are free.
The origins of our judicial problems are historically rooted in a chemistry of agreeing to disagree and of mostly procrastinating the science of agreeing to a further date.
Not knowing how to agree is the main cause for the Canadian
society's ills from the family to the community, from the community to the province and from the province to the nation. Rights without responsibilities and freedoms without obligations is keeping us going in a downward spiral.
The medium and long term approach I'm suggesting could go a long way to heal such a constitutionally challenged state of affairs. This is why the key to my suggestion is to develop the practical applications of "the principles that recognize the supremacy of God".
Based on our national history, it is clear that without His justifying process, there is no justice. Let's first discover
justice from Him and learn to grow in our co-working with Him. Who knows? We might just be silenced by His glorious presence long enough to finally learn to agree.
To society, justice is a destination to be reached. To the individual, justice is a gift to be nurtured and cultivated. To government, justice is an expression of the authority that ensures the balance between the individual's growth and society's journey. Benoit Couture
So what I hope by giving you this John, is the picture of a river bed, that constitute an opprtunity for the current of reconciliation to rise from the bottom to top of the currencies of the waters in all human activity's direction. I'm talkin about the direction of the uninterrupted YES to LIFE flowing to irrigate the fields of communal opportunities.
It all comes from Health-Education-Correction hosted to be served and to serve our wellbeing on earth as it is in heaven...
When it comes to setting the tone in the neighbourhoods for the policy in the passage from the underground translation into daylight of the Louis Riels, I volunteer to be the spearheading case study number one along with my family, so long as healing and reconciliation are the point of it all and that the spearheading does not get compromised by burreaucracy.
While I practiced free lance social entrepreneur at our own expense, I also accumulated a debt to the Canadian taxpayers of about 36 years worth of direct criminal activity and another 65 by association.
It all has to do with marijuana and narcotics consumption. I maintained this purposely in defiance to the rule of ignorance and indifference that dominates the world of addictions.
In Canada, we are currently going through a transition where the economy of war lords and weapon traders have managed to eliminate what seemed to be coming under the previous government, which was the removal of confrontation regarding marijuana users.
Now we are right back into the war again in the name of security and most of society understand by now that this has nothing to do with
health or social concerns, but rather with the domination of the social order under the Rule of Law and that any debates or dialogue all become political of the worst kind.
And yet, there no better means available for social securuty than to find the way to connect into reconciliation as I proposed to the Alberta government. Many, many of the Louis Riel and Robin Hoods of the underground are smoking weed world wide.
If there is to be a coming together of some sort, we just need a way to guarrentee that we are not going to be stuck trying to negotiate with the sherrif of Nothingham but rather, with King Arthur. He knows where we are coming from and he enjoys our company in parties!
Because you are from Whales, here is how I put it as a suggestion for her majesty's consideration:
"Perhaps that her majesty could get the new game in town going. The game is to seek to find and to heal the Robin Hoods cross-generational modern bond. Here is
who they are:
…Spheric Knighthood
of
Humanity’s Round Table
In British terms, the knights represent the noblest of chivalry. They are the ones who are sovereignly appointed to serve and to protect with all the passion of their personal devotion to God and king or queen as the case may be.
Since Camelot, the British monarchy and the knights of the round table have been adapting to the deeper calling of justice and of peace, while chivalry went on a quest of its own, looking for new ground to grow roots with. It reached beyond the realm of the Empire, and has now covered the whole sphere of the Earth.
Having been forced to survive the underground rule, chivalry is sprouting back from upon the Land of Emmanuel, with knights who are equipped to serve and to protect the universal completion of personal and mutual community care.
The round table we work from, is to inspire and to ease in the consensus of living freely with and for all who choose to host chivalry’s sprouting Royalty. The torch of Faith we carry is ignited to radiate the peace caused from the Solemn beauty of Being human who answers the ancient voice of humanity’s youth in the fluid adaptation of common sense, united by the Glory of our Father in heaven...amen! Benoit Couture
…cleansing our vision of the Crown…..
For now, "Live8" is still an open window of opportunity, opened up to purify our vision of humanity's majesty and to learn to wear the glorious Crown of our unity.
Here is a One on one on one campaign for the spiritual experience of
unity to deploy itself in sync with Live8 or another window to follow in time.
The vision of justice and of love has tailored through 5 centuries of history, the basis of a model to serve humanity from, grown from the Canadian context and on to all continents.
The model is one of socio-cultural healing, for individuals, family and communities to transit in serenity from self-destruction
to self-control to self-government. The investors join me, my family and community to inspire Canadians out of the present difficulties we are in, to cultivate the microcosm of family-community simplicity, growing from the world wide conversion of the war on drugs and into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. This will be done by generating the alliance of restorative justice with community mental health at the basis of community development. By doing so day to day, we will ease the ministry of reconciliation at the centre of the private and public sectors, by emerging from
the two and into the personal sector, where closets and backrooms from the old order of decision making dissolves in transparency and open source knowledge management.
The existing networks of people who serve health, education and the
environment will join to define and to engage the practices and disciplines that best contribute to spiritual unity and sustainable community health and development. In order to draw the attention and participation without causing mass disruption, the campaign will gain the public favour from a host, whom because of the drama goes by the name of NAF TA, which stands for: North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive. He serves to embody the search for spiritual unity until the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation serves the personal-communal-local-spiritual deployment among the Aboriginal
nations, the English and the French at the core of multi-culturalism, rising as one with the project titled ...cleansing our vision of the Crown...
Then, in partnership to the BBC, they become the electronic eyes, ears and voice to release the microcosm into the macroscopic adaptation,
For the direct approach I used on the subject to her majesty, queen ElisabethII, here is an open letter addressed to her from April of 2006:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A4414457Can you see John a strategy to generate a cc that can work as a socio-cultural healing policy between authorities and subjects? Such question is when I arrive at inventing terms like the Faculy of Living, or expressions like the Recovery Road from self-destruction to self-control and community self-government and "translating the resources that go into the war on drugs into the victory over stress and the human compulsive nature", and "The Personal Sector where mature people of all people go on growing, inviting the neighbours from out of the peer trappings wooven into the tensions between the codes of silence of the private sector and official secrecy of the public sector. Without generating trust, there is no way of maintaining peace.
To help understand how I view the invitation to establish a cc with the help of all sides of the neighbourhoods, you can look at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A7390578 You can scrool down the page to:
"Policy development on Canadian national unity". Thank you for your time which I pray that you can bank for all of its worth to us all!
,,,all blessings be with us all...
Benoit Couture,
Terror-anti-terror is the tension held in place in the subliminal regions of our minds, so that the power of domination never ends.
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Pasted from: Social Operating System's synchronicity reaching for Economic freedom
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyfranogi/message/1832John, John and all
John Waters wrote:
"I wish I could see a general solution. Unfortunately all I can see are small-scale, localized ad hoc solutions in like tiny islands in an ocean of chaos. That doesn't mean that solutions don't exist, of course.
That's why I continue to lurk, straining to hear the small voices of sanity out there."
And then John Rogers wrote in Society's Operating System: "It's not rocket science and yet we manage to massively complicate matters with money!"
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyfranogi/message/1830So to deal with how complicated matters have become, the syncronicity that I see needed is twofold; one is like the spread of an inner fire from the few to the many, lit up into inspiration at many spots on earth, like the Global Villages idea, and the other is a sudden calm which will reach the One Village scenery, like a deep stillness befalling a great big lake under a beautiful sky of infinite horizons, like what fighting peacefully can do through holistic helping as highlighted by Janet so well.
So for the sake synchronicity's momentum building, here are some links to someone's work, who has made it a life time goal to hear the samll voices such as mine, for the sake of bringing on the one voice of peace, systematically for the six billion people, without destroying anything nor anyone in the process.
He and his dad have had to learn to live up to the title of "future historians" and he now lives for the sake of providing a future his 10 years old daughter!!!
http://www.omidyar.net/user/u494644901/news/0/6/When I read him, I get the sense of this very real and possible opportunity that human intelligenge can respond to quickly and efficiently in simplicity and with joy abounding for all. Here are some of his calls to sanity:
http://project30000.blogspot.com/http://worldentrepreneur.net/http://worldentrepreneur.net/_wsn/page5.htmlhttp://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/2006/12/delhi-grn-2004-gandhi-2007.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A4205819http://clubofahmedabad.blogspot.com/1999/12/ways-you-can-collaborate-with-club-o\
f.html
These are, but a few of his ongoing work. The beauty of the man is how you
can learn so much directly from him.
Also, there is Jeffrey Sachs who is an economist advising the UN Secretary General on the Millinium Goals. So here is a link to a post I made to invite on a Canadian site where Jeffrey Sachs was a conference speaker. In that letter, I mention my dream for participation and collaboration:
http://www.canada2020.ca/blog/progressive/in-connecting-to-jeffrey-sachs-canada-\
2020-lecture/
Then of course, there is Andrius Kulikauskas, John Waters, John Rogers, Tom Wayburn, Steve Bosserman, Kevin Parcell, Janet Feldman, Pamela McLean, Jeff Buderer, Franz Nahrada, Markus Petz, Eric Schneider and many others grows the impulse in me to scream out to the powers that be...
How can Minciu Sodas, Chris Macrae and Jeffrey Sachs come into synchronicity in such a way as to initiate an emrgency response team, ready to be dispatched with the complete equipement needed to "attack" human misery by raising the inspiration and the foundation of health-education-correction?
And also,
How can we go about to consolidate the passage of sanity's dreams into reality, in the topology of a universal dance, where melodious synchonicity moves us in position of balance and harmony, away from the oppression of current money handlings?
Speaking at such a level of complexity in 2006 as what we do, calls for the lead to be given from people who have experience in conflict resolution. The kind of people we need, are those who are already involved on the front lines of the diplomacy of good business deployment and humanitarian relief and who's work simply need to have our personal attention and our collective focus to support the move in the direction that sanity calls for.
Benoit
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See also: "17 months of focus building at Minciu Sodas" at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A14311694
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