Chris: If Brits were whispering a 5 line conversation opener about this opportunity I wonder what it would be.
Benoit: I suggest something along the lines of:
"England has taken the best of Europe to the farthest extremities of the world and England has also dearly suffered to protect the world from the worst of Europe. From Avalon to the return of the King of kings, the world monarchies have now received lessons of grand humility when needed and of humble grandeur to express the solemn beauty of being servants of the justice and of the peace that secures liberty. Because of Great Britain, all languages of the earth are now offered a practical guide to self-governing to live out the universal Faculty of being human. Because of the Commomwealth and because of the entity of terror-anti-terror working at circling the earth under militarization, humanity is given the opportunity to end the repeat of history's worst memories and to restructure the distribution of wealth with integrity and equity. Canadians are inviting her majesty, Queen Elizabeth to join us in the company of the BBC, to preside over the gathering of the Permanent Pepople Summit to officialy launch"...cleansing our vision of the Crown,,,", with the help of Mr. Bush, President of United States of America and of Benedict the 16th, head of Vatican. As we do, we shall behold the rise of Britania and of Europe's inheritance, joining with the inheritance of Asia into humanity: The muli-culture of humans, rooted in the glory of unity...YES into AMEN...
Here is a personal blessing for her majesty to enjoy in her peaceful secret chamber between Elizabeth the little daughter of God and the Queen at a great moment of history. May this blessing reach the depth of reality from you, your highness to with Mr. Bush and to Benedict the 16th...
Family blessing
Oh young lives, granted from heaven to us parents and who painfully suffer with us and because of us, the discovery of spiritual maturity! The difficult upbringing that we’re being through, has been and will forever be inexcusable in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world. It is so, that we may all be trained in God’s power to forgive and to free us from what He forgives, as we learn to pray, to praise, to be thankful and to rejoice no matter what, in the blossom against and because of all odds. May we each live on by ongrowingly knowing God’s Fatherhood to us, where we each seek Him from, to where He seeks to be hosted within and amongst all of His own, in the quietning stillness of His Holiness to adore Him from! Dear spouse and children, the present of our lives comes to us from a specific dictation, grooved in the people of our past, and scripted in a future of the Life, as we radiate the spiritual-organic journey of the…
…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 in Christ-Jesus by His Spirit in the Glory of our Father in heaven...amen! Benoit Couture


Benoit Couture , 10 July 2005 @ 15:18 PM
Thanks for the courage
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
I have engaged shortly after 9/11, into a personal campaign, to denounce the fact that terror-anti-terror is one and only one entity in need of its confrontational division in order to extst. As it says beside my name: "stay at home dad". As such, I reacted to the threat that this event represent to the very meaning of "home" on the whole scale of humanity. I began proceeding, based upon my life experience, to deploy the microscopic socio-cultural potency that this position can contribute, once fully activated in maturity. The value of this societal position is yet to be recognized, supported and completed in the communal fabric. So I proceeded since Feb 2002, insisting to remain in the position of stay-at-home-dad-citizen-voter, trying to develop a niche as a social enterpreneur. The preceeding postings of this thread are touching the simplicity needed to quietly emerge in unisson and to draw away from feeding the entity. The post by you Gillian, compelles me to tune in with your music by quoting: "The just shall live by faith." The name of my campaign is: ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and invites the populations of Britain, Canada and Europe as a starting point, to join in the experience of spiritual unity and to deploy this experience with a socio-cultural healing movement rooted and growing from personal inner justice and serenity. Are we hearing the call with enough clarity to renew our response from this thread and on to spreading the seamless reconciliation of humanity with eternity in the face of our here and now?... For further relevant readings about this week's strike from the entity of terror-anti-terror visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A4415546?s_fromedit=1 Let the search of wisdom to rise in completing maturity from here on...wisdom from England...

25 July 2005 @ 11:13 AM
Guardian Obituary of KB member Colin Morley - part 2
Ms Gillian Bush
He was still sharing his enthusiasms and his joys with huge numbers of people, stimulating all who met him, right to the moment of his death.
There are some fine tributes at the Be The Change website, which give some idea of how many lives he touched, and in such a positive way.
If you ever see the Martin Luther King "Who do you want to have a one to one with?" advertisement again, on some show called The 100 Greatest Adverts, that was Colin - showing us a hero, inviting us to raise our goals as human beings, to acknowledge that all men are brothers.
More recently he was involved in Rights and Humanity. It would be fitting to remember him by contributing to this attempt to build a better world.
• Keith Clarke, Putney

BeTheChange @ KB @ London @ Delhi @Empowerment

Benoit Couture , 25 July 2005 @ 20:30 PM
Obvious question
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Dear Guillian,
Collin meant so much to so many people that the moment of sadness is a moment to understand and to join in closer to one another who are in the same life pursuit as he was. Why dont we take his essence and move on to accomplish it ourselves, those of us who clainm to care for what he stood for? From what I am reading from the admiration of all who write of him, there's got to be enough inspiration and direction to get on with overcoming evil with good! What is missing? Or are we just here to demonstrate how helpless humanity can go on being? IS IT NOT TIME TO GO FROM SEEKING TO HAPENNING, dear new world of Europe and Americas?

25 July 2005 @ 23:32 PM
peace be with us
Ms Gillian Bush
Benoit from where I am your first paragraph is not right; your second paragraph asks whether there are actions I should be taking or helping people take that I am not. Leave that with me.

Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 00:12 AM
My mistake
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Guillian, I apologise if it sounded too directed but in the same desire to see positive change happen, I seek to ask the questions as if I were Collin, who died and who could say: "Dont waste time on me, take up the torch yourself and run with it".

So keep up the good work Guillian of seeking to apply Collins life work to your own and to ours. I was trying to drive his memory into actions now, while we are converging in the middle of strong emotions. But it is certainly not to reach negative grounds. Again, my apology, as I speak to us all, through the names involved here and that includes me.


Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 07:59 AM
time to be -part 1

I spent some time thinking do I want to try to answer the peculiarity of Benoit's question and if so is there a simple whole way to do so without boring others in this thread who may feel its context peculiar.
On balance as someone who does not value lurking - ie emotionally you are either in a learning community (its Q & A) or out of it but not sitting on its fence - I'd better try, fumbling attempt as it may be. The best way I can make this attempt is to recap on a recent breakthrough many of us have openly making:

CONTENTS
1 Knowledge of system spin as being dynamically equivalent to what sustainability exponential is being compounded around here
2 How do you construct your own valuation survey of system spin
3 Testing whether your survey applies to organisations and to people and any system in-between

1 If you have done any learning on people systems you will likely have heard the pattern rule : to know a holistic view of impacts, every system is already spinning- discover if its spinning virtuous or vicious spirals. Sustainability analysts find it valuable to translate this into the equivalent frame: any system is compounding a future exponential around it of growth or decay

2 If we get that far in construct logic: a breakthrough seems to be why not construct your own survey of system spin? It can help you and your communities see what is spinning sustainability or decay; and then decide whether your choice is to avoid getting connected into decaying systems or whether you are up for intervening with the goal of turning one such system round. It is up to you to sift through how you survey this because context matters. Having spent many years reporting emotional intelligence of intangibles my survey bias includes some profiles like:-does this system reward or destroy those who spend a lot of their time connecting in it: does this system proagate hi-trust or loow trust relationships? does this system nurture openness and courage needed to learn, chnage and innovate as oposed to just performing in an unlearning way?

Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 08:00 AM
time to be - part 2

I hope you can see from part 1:
that the choice of questions (more here) does become personal for you to make (what you value) and looking ahed to 3 - it is possible to imagine the same questions applying wholly to organsiations or people or any intermediary dynamic such as networks
Mathematically, one other advice is: choose your value questions to be independent of each other rather than correlated (ie answering the same characteristic of relationship health). By doing this you can forecast future imacts with a model that is multiplicative in direction. Supose for example you surveyed 2 organisations and one was 10% ahead of your standard on compounding each of trust, courage-openness and person's time invested and the other 10% below. Then so far with those valuation factors, one systems' exponential is on a compound growth path of 33% (1.1*1.*1.1) the other on a decay path of 27% over the next few years.

3 So you then can test : does your survey apply to people relationships you make as well as valuing organisations. The variables in my survey appear to. But you can also refine your survey if it turns out that you come across a person whose relationships impacts are extraordinary as well as many views of that person. I will try and give some appropriate learnings in Colin's case in the next post, though do please accept my reason at this time and space is to select out positive dynamics of his impact that are most valuable because they as yet appear to be under-used by most networkers or communal interactors.

Before moving on 3 observations:
a) at this time on the loop of action learning, I would ask you for god's sake to learn (test the diversity of your experinece) before you act
b) Colin and I had spent most of our life exploring the dark side of global media; when its used to lie, dumb down or socially control; so we explored a common big picture; but we had different personal ways of doing so; though many people helped us see harmonies in linking in
c) I believe we also shared the view that today's greatest innovations and system transformations are wholly about conflict barriers and moving all peoples simultaneously and safely over them to higher integration of diversity- aka harmony. This is the Practice of Peace community renewal model that Harrison Owen has mentored thousands of Open Space Alumni in. Search Colin & Open Space

Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 08:32 AM
Learning orbits from Colin - partial sample

1) Colin had become deeply interested in experiencing Western approaches to collective consciousness training and consequential actions; in this we could understand how Open Space facilitation patterns conflict resolution and communal understanding. But I have never been able to get past my suspicion of other Western approaches to meditating or circular reconciliation flows of real-time communion etc whereas Colin was way ahead. In contrast, whilst not a practitioner I love the emotional intelligence "authenticity, deep context-led, open and fear-abolishing" consequences of what alumni of such Eastern sources as the Dalai Lama and Gandhi schools compound. Every time I met Colin we debated what were the missing links between us in this area, and agreed to defer to another round.
2 Colin as you can see from the links we have given in our recent posts was one of the most stunning successful social networkers of this age, at least around London and the contexts he was in. Anyone exploring the dynamics of social networks or community would find from his practice many clues; mind you Colin & I inspired by Meg Wheatley would talk about messy deep practice not theorised tidiness.

3 Having together studied mass media each with over a quarter a century of working practice, I believe we are both concerned to train children as well as adults on how to innoculate yourself from its spin. There are 2 joys: one sustaining, one destructing. Sustaining is about the joy of learning through an experience which makes your being able to make a difference. Destructive joy is about self-gratification. Knowing this: you can analyse any media's execution on you once you can feel the difference of those 2 communications intents. Call these value liberating or value chaining if you need. When researched, over 90% of mass mediated marketing, as currently practised, aims to waste people's development inviting self-gratification spirals not fufilment ones of joy. Colin more than I had knitted together at least 100 marketing experts who if they trusted you would help you change media use, whilst many of us are also caught up in professional conflicts that to make a living its easier to sell image-making rather than reality-making. One of Colin's great achievements , imo, was to have freed himself from needing any such dependency. Making him one of the most open communal advisers to enjoy being with.

4 I do not know of anyone who asked Colin for help on a humanly valuable issue to which Colin failed to reply in a truly modest way: however long it may take to be the change, I can help if we keep in touch and you deeply care

Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 11:09 AM
Fire of refinement
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Dear Chris and Guillian, I feel that this thread is entering in a zone where experience, knowledge and intelligence are being unveiled deeper and deeper into the simplicity of reality. One way that comes to mind to describe what I'm saying here, is that the learning curve of humanity's life experience as a whole goes from grossworking to networking. Thanks to both of you and to Collin's inspiration for having applied such graceful refinement to my experience from grossworking into networking. By the time you both took here, I am brought on to work through the experience in a more net way, in this wide open thread of England's Open Community. Thank you for such practical application of what you mean all along. I sure hope and pray that the 2 of you can spread the wings of such energy into the communal reality of all the big ideas and dreams being expressed here with such purity and clarity...

Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 12:39 PM
after a final word, next big questions

It would never be the spirit to exclude a big question if anything comes to mind or learning from what we tried to interpret absent of Colin Morley.
Otherwise, in searching for a final word through Colin & Open Space , I quickly came across this prescient blog entry of Colin's which will be pertinent if not forever, for as long as Londoners have lost our peace

Opening space versus activism
The Open Space email group has been discussing Iraq and anti-Americanism as have many other people. This is a dilemna that I have wondered about, particularly being part of the Be The Change organising team, where we found ourselves both wanting to stand away from blaming people or holding the space at the same time as wanting to persuade Americans to vote against Bush.

Harrison Owen, the originator of Open Space has summed it up in a way that helps to clarify my thoughts a lot.

"Holding space and being an activist are two ends of a spectrum, and attempting to do both at the same time usually gets you in trouble, if not in schizophrenia. But the ends of the spectrum are always connected, and at any given time we (certainly I) find ourselves somewhere along the way. If my intent is to Open Space, I must let go as much as possible all thoughts of action, and a 14,000,000,000 year perspective can be very helpful. And when I choose to act, I must do so with every ounce of passion and talent at my disposal, even though I take up a lot of space.


Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 17:01 PM
Appeal to the true majesty of Britania (part 1)
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Here is a letter that was intended to be brought to the attention of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. This is a personal invitation to her into a dream of mine as a Canadian citizen, written so that its reality may reach anyone on earth as well. I invite her to a strategy, for Britannia and Canada to begin the ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... by the release of The Permanent People Summit into the Canadian reality, while she visits Edmonton on today and returns tomorrow on the 25th of May 2005, from celebrating the centennial of the province of Alberta, Canada .
Your highness,
History is moving and destiny is calling; we must answer! There is no legal nor even maybe a moral protocol to allow me to address you, your highness, other than my calling upon the mercy of Lord and to your grace, so that you may know of the vision I have been granted to carry so far. Like a pregnancy, there comes a time for the delivery. I have been in "THE" state of transition your highness, since 9, 11, 01, most likely the same state as anyone who is aware of the times. So in Oct 2001, I phoned the Privy Council Office of Canada from my stay at home, imbalanced life. I asked if I could have the following question answered: " Can someone with a not so good reputation, have a motion that actually gets implemented all the way to the Clerk of the Council, in the PMO and across the nation?" After a little probing, the receptionist became distinctly vibrant, as the lady insisted that I call right back if I had not gotten through to where she was hooking me up. After a few tries, I reached an analyst in the social think-tanking, two doors down from the Clerk's office. Once past my initial question, he asked what was my idea. My prep to this question was the following statement: "I, Benoit Couture, call upon the Canadian Mother and Father International Association to support my motion to activate the Role and Structure of the Privy Council of Canada into cleansing our vision of the Crown, by growing into the Faculty of Living, so as to consolidate the Canadian Heritage." And so after an hour or so of beautiful. casual, relieving and soothing brain storming, he said, and I love to quote: "...Mr Couture, I wish you...no, let me rephrase, I wish us all as Canadians that your motion gets implemented..." With this kind of wind hitting my sail, I lifted to glide on to the SUFA review. It is: Social Union Framework Agreement. It was signed in Feb of 1999 by all provinces except Quebec. The federal and the territories also signed. (continue on next post)




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Appeal to the true majesty of Britania ( part 2)
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
It was up for review in Feb 2002 and I sent my submission. They scanned it in, in an unreadable fashion. So with fire up my belly, I sent it to the PMO and to all relevant offices across the nation. I've been relentless since. Reminding Mr Klein, Premier of Alberta whom you will spend time with on the 23rd and to his staff and to the PMO and to the Privy Council that I am still at it, promoting Canadian unity from personal health and mutual completion in maturity, instead of propaganda. This campaign is a natural development of a totally unusual journey. It is by spontaneous feed and feedback that I operate. It is the reason I write to you this way, on such a short notice. Democracy needs to capture the moment in time and to mature rapidly from the leftovers of colonisation's motherhood as well as to be released from the grip of paternalistic federalism. As you well know from your sovereign position, Canada is where Britannia gave the French, Europe and the Aboriginal populations with an opportunity to demonstrate how the people and the Crown can get along just fine in the completion of mutualaty. Your highness, we are now in the era of the entity of terror-anti-terror. One does not go without the other. Because of this global crisis, time is ripe for the essence of Britannia to regain its voice from the time spent in the "Quietning Silence of patient wisdom", since constitutional monarchy came about. In the province of Alberta, your former Lineament Governor, Lois Hole, has conceived a legal embryo with the Premier Klein, to offer you and Britannia the possibility do so with all the beauty of sanctity and the simplicity of being. She extended the power of that experience to bring sovereign leadership in the daily decisions, where service was going astray from the well-being of the people. Democracy is ready for the completion of unity under the Crown with the crown, with all of God's children on the earth. The democracy of a mature people of all people needs to be deployed in full bloom by your invitation to Mr. Bush and to Benedict the 16th to join in Canada and to let the vision emerge together, from upon the Land of Emmanuel, in the celebration of the permanent Easter that's being granted to the inner person of each human by the Covenant of the Lord with humans. Please help seize the moment to make of Canada, the place where from the gates and walls of this entity of terror-anti-terror shall not prevail and shall be pushed backward from upon humanity's horizon! In closing this first personal and intimate letter to you your highness and to all of Britannia as a start, I enclose the lyrics of 2 songs to put the vision in context of your visit to western Canada, next week. (continue on next post)



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Appeal to the true majesty of Britania ( part 3)
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Family blessing

…Spheric Knighthood
of
Humanity’s Round Table...

Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 12:19 PM
...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and Open Geospacial Consortium( part 1)
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
IN THE HOPE TO BRING ON A LASTING SMILE OF DEEP RELIEF FOR ALL CONCERNED WITH THE POWER
TO BE

The project of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... (cvC) comes at the tale end, in the history of one of the longest monarchy to ever exist, the Commonwealth. I come from the North American jewel of the British Crown, Canada. The times in which cvC is being introduced, is at a moment in history when humanity is faced locally and globally with the very continuum of human existance. Only nature has ever been able to send upon the collective awerness, signals of danger with such magnitude as what the war in Iraq and against terrorism is forcing the human reace to face. With the nature signals, we are only forced to address the return to narmal. This time, there is no return to normal for anyone. The norms and standards must be re-addressed to adapt with the recovery of good health and happiness. The concept of cvC is for the sake of being a user friendly tool of focus and of rally to promote and to train for the sharp reforms that Western populations are faced with, locally. Voters, taxes, force of Law and Legal Tender working together for the tender living. The image of promotion, is that of carachter who comes into existance for the sole puporse to embody the depth and the spectrum of the transformatoion we are faced with as citizens, consumers and voters with "free conscience". cvC must find the unisson resonance in the Spirit of God, from the Winsor family and demonstrate to humanity how we proceed from stranger to family. Canada is five centuries of history making between two of the worst enemies to ever inhabit the Earth: English and French. The odds were made more complicated with fifty-four nations who's existance dates back from before the ice age. This is a fact that is only beginnig to emmerge in the twenty-first century, and it is only starting to take on its significance in our understanding of the big picture of the human speceies. We are still far from having adjusted any of the wrongs that we go on doing by ignoring the wisdom of simplicity offered by Aboriginals from all over the Earth...(continue next post)



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...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and the Open Geospacial consortium (part 2)
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
For the promotion of cvC to work at rallying the focus and to infuse inspiration, we need to laugh and to cry together. Our national condition must be embodied with such an intimate and personal reach, that the message will go on and the messenger will vanish with the emerging reforms and the renewed distribution of common wealth. So here is a tale, to introduce the messenger of cvC.
He is born out the light that came from two key rivals from the big chess board. In French, next to the monarchs are the "fools". the same position in English is held by "bishops". Recently, the two found themselves stuck for quite a while, next to each other, waiting for the struggling players to finaly make up their move. And so, for the first time in history, the seriousness of the Anglais bishop was directly exposed and forced to endure the raw jokes of naked truth from the fool instead of hypocritical reverence. Likewise, for the first time in history, the fool has to endure blunt wisdom trown at him instead of continuous mindless laughter, until he is told to get out of sight. The players took so long to get back to the fools and to the bishops, that by the time they returned, there was no more chess board. The message had come to life and says that power and decision-making over human affairs is not made to be a chess game in the hands of hypocrisy and ignorance. And so, in order to embody with humour and wisdom the healing of the meaning, sraight out of a peculliar situation on the big chess board, I introduce to you the messenger of cvC. NAF. TA. North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive. Who is he and what is he after? Please see: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2911