Below is the final part of the commentary on my presentation to the national SOFiA conference .....and here again is the link to the full presentation: http://prezi.com/bq9cuhninz0f/awakening-faith-in-an-alternative-future/
I concluded the presentation by reflecting on
the incremental nature of the U shaped journey. It is not a “final answer” in
one parse but a set of practices which one keeps practising!
Appendix:
A short excerpt from CHOOSING
TO ACT contained in Walk Out Walk On:
A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now by Deborah Frieze and Margaret Wheatley
When I was traveling in India, I became
excited about the upcycled crafts the learners at Shikshantar were creating. It
aroused the entrepreneur in me, and I dreamed up a business of importing
upcycledjewelry, handbags, and sculptures, which I pitched to Manish. Not only
would this bring additional income to Shikshantar, I proposed, but it would be
an excellent wayto share their story and the important work of upcycling, the
practice of reimagining our waste, with a U.S. audience that needed to wake up
to its own wastefulness. Manish was unimpressed. My proposition would merely
reinforce a culture of consumption in the United States and of dependency in
India: Upcyclers would be required to craft their creations for the tastes of
another place.
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