| This site is growing into its new wiki space. We are proud to invite you to explore it and contribute to the building of the online part of our community! If you are new please check out A Welcome for information about participation in ABC. If you aren't a member yet please email brandon at abcglobal dot net with a few words about your connection to the work here. Several pages on this wiki are not created by members of ABC, as this is not required to contribute a user page, so voices here do not always reflect consensus. Frontpage NEWSBoard alum and beloved friend, Michael Mansfield, wed the love of his life, Randy Swearingen, once again! But this time, thanks to the Supreme Court of California, the Oakland ceremony on June 17th, 2008 was as legal as it was beautiful. Video, article, and pictures here. Please make sure you add any page important to you to your "Watch page" list under the "More" menu above. | | Needing attention:
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Iris and Brandon joined several others at Berkeley Cohousing for a Community Weaving workshop provided by Cheryl Honey of the Family Support Network. Brandon would love for there to be a long-term partnership between ABC and FSN, so please consider clicking over to their website and signing up in their database as a Good Neighbor. ABC has this super user-firendly wiki and FSN has a fabulous database with associated tools for really making community happen on the ground. If you participated in this group, please follow this link and contribute your notes and ideas to the support page here.
This year, Brandon brought the process arts and conflict facilitation skills to Texas to the United Methodist Church General Conference and is now assigned through ABC as the Executive Director of Aiki Extensions.
Leon and Patricia are both continuing to facilitate a Deep Listening group and contribute to the East Bay Chapter of the Network of Spiritual Progressives.
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PeopleGreen If you power down, use less, and localize... then you are "Green". If you speak with compassion, listen deeply, build community on purpose, and support others who do the same... Then you are PeopleGreen | AsIn an open inquiry methodology based on Ph.D. work in cultural mythology and Archetypal (Jungian depth) Psychology for the purposes of cultural criticism, social justice, and peace education involving Building Community BC
| and MNv Healing our idea of conflict (usually something to be avoided) involves redefining peace as conflict done well. Learning to do conflict well is a martial art and requires a determined and rigorous approach to nonviolence.
A martial art called both Aikido and "The Art of Peace" is the only traditional martial discipline worldwide designed by its founder for just this purpose from philosophy through application. |
Culturesmith Process Arts sophistication leads anywhere there are people to culture being made as an artifact, through corporate consilodation, A culturesmith engages the and works to build system processes that are fully sustainable, i.e. PeopleGreen, don't take the easy way out, and realize today that tomorrow's resources were spent yesterday. | |||

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