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the world is heartbreaking every day and the world is beautiful every day and we have to pay attention to both

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[the cover of A consensus handbook by Seeds for Change, featuring the title in Orange lettering followed by an color drawing of 11 people working on the maintenance of a house]

I'm going to share this as a separate post for those that missed the ask: A consensus handbook by Seeds for Change https://seedsforchange.org.uk/handbook is a free and very handy guide to how to take decisions as a group without leaders or hierarchies. I'm going to drop the chapters here to show off just how much useful stuff it has. If you work with consensus, there's almost certainly a problem in here that you recognize and wish you had some answers to!

1: Making decisions by consensus What’s wrong with the democracy we’ve got? - Why use consensus? How does consensus work? - The consensus process - Key skills and values for consensus 2: Facilitating consensus The role of meetings in group work - What is facilitation? - Facilitating a meeting – Making meetings accessible - Taking minutes 3: Facilitating consensus in large groups Meeting the conditions for consensus in large groups - Processes for large groups 4: Facilitating consensus in virtual meetings Why have virtual meetings? - The tools for the job - Challenges of facilitating virtual meetings - A consensus process for virtual meetings 5: Quick consensus decision making Preparing for quick consensus - How it works 6: Facilitation techniques and activities Starting the meeting - Regulating the flow of the meeting - Encouraging involvement - Techniques for problem solving and tackling difficult issues - Prioritisation techniques - Activities for re-energising - Evaluating meetings 7: Troubleshooting in your meetings Our meetings take a long time - Time pressure - Our meetings lack focus - Our group is large and we don’t enjoy meetings - We’re stuck and can’t reach a decision - Too many ideas - ‘Steamroller’ proposals - How can we deal with disruptive behaviour? - What to do when someone blocks - Our group is biased towards the status quo 8: Bridging the gap between theory and practice Conflict and consensus - The life cycle of a conflict - Ways of dealing with conflict - Techniques for inviting collaboration Power dynamics - Step one: What are our feelings about power dynamics? - Step two: Diagnosis – what is actually going on - in your group? - Step three: Where do your power imbalances come from? - Step four: Work out some ways to change your power dynamics Other common issues - External pressures - Open groups with changing membership - What if you’re the only person who wants the group to change? 9: Consensus in wider society So how might it work? - Challenges, questions and tensions - How do we get there? - A final thought

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I'm grateful that I'm getting better at the front desk stuff at The Centre 🙌 It's lovely to be a part of the community there 💗

I'm grateful for coffee and delicious plant-based, flavoured creamers. I got a salted caramel one and a cinnamon cookie dough one 🤤

I'm grateful for the library and all of the offerings they have 🙏 Yesterday I signed up for a free course on Energy Medicine ❤️‍🔥 There are so many others I'm interested in that also cover alternative health. I'd really love to do the ASL ones too. Figured I'd try one out to start to see how it is ☺️ First 2 lessons are available tomorrow 🥳

Daily Gratitude

November 12, 2024

What are you grateful for today?

Welcome to my gratitude support group! All are welcome to be a part of the gratitude crew. Re-blog, write a note or send an ask as often as makes sense for you (just once, every day, twice a year, a few times a month— doesn’t matter!)

I tag parts of the crew almost every day. If you’d like to be on the tag list let me know.

All posts will be tagged ‘resiliencewithin’s daily gratitude group’.

Prompt (if you want): No prompt today.

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Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.

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The real pilgrimage is a journey into the unknowable. There is no path.

It is only by treading that the path is revealed. There are no stages of progress, and no destination. It cannot be traversed by steps, for it is a profound shift in consciousness, an irreversible expansion, subtle merging of the personal in universal.

~ Meeta Ahluwalia

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hey i saw you across the room at the devil's sacrament and loved your vibe

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an ornithologist pointed a microphone at a bird sitting alone on a wire and caught the sound of the bird singing a song at a decibel so low that it would be impossible for another bird to hear it, meaning the bird was singing quietly to itself I love life

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I think we all need some soup right now. Reblog to give prev a bowl of their favourite soup.

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On November 14, we'll be joined by Sophia Adams, a PhD student at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and BASIRA project intern. She'll show us Ms. Roll 1563, a 15th century roll of prayers in Latin and Middle English, including prayers to Mary, the Trinity, Jesus, and the name of Jesus, and several prayers to be said at the point in the Mass when the Eucharist is held up in view of the congregation.

Coffee With A Codex is an informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Register 🔗 :

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"Why are you still on tumblr, it's a dead site" Tumblr is the ONLY site that still works in the way of -Follow this person, see their posts- instead of -you stopped scrolling and stayed on this post for .2 seconds longer than others, here's 100 more posts like it- I hate algorithms. Tumblr has its many issues. But at least I keep my choice of what I see.

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Some very important insights and resources on where we go from here by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Take care of each other

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[drawing of a black and blue jellyfish saying “You don’t have to be productive all the time.” in a light blue speech bubble.]

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What's in the invisible universe? How can we best observe it?

Dr. Eleni Vardoulaki of the National Observatory of Athens will explore how scientists and citizen scientists collaborate to better study and understand our universe, November 12 at 2:30 p.m. EST.

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