What is necessary to accomplish this how? After you have your list we design institutional structures that fulfill the vision.
1. To connect us and to create access,
- Identify and engage leaders, families, networks, organizations, institutions (including faith-based groups) who want to engage and who already are engaged in aligned visions
- To develop wireless technology (Brandon’s superman belt)
- Use all communication techniques available from personal to global (blogs, wiki, email lists, text messaging…)
- A list of contacts in a local area
- Set up a virtual address
- Facilitate conference calls (seek free international connections)
2. To facilitate cooperation
- Invitation(s) to participate
- Pathways to participate in discussions (teaching tools for group discussions, coalition building, meeting conduct, conflict resolution techniques)
- Ways to develop peer-to-peer networking (coaching, supports)
- Appreciation of individual and collective contribution (Mickki’s feedback system: stones, gems…, bananas – or some less tangible acknowledgement)
- Facilitate learning circles, networking committees, buddy system
- Capacity building supports that focus on growing and linking existing strengths
- Ask questions that listen to, engage and strengthen voices (individual & group) – developing a network of participatory dialoging process (Conversation Cafe, AI, Open Space, ToP?, Talking Stick…)
- Provide (find) a base or organizing platform that is bigger than any one issue. (that links voice, connections and pathways to resources)
3. To enable us to use resources more effectively
- Make a plan for desired activities, interlinking local, community, regional, national and global efforts
- Support environmentally sustainable pilot projects for replication
- Develop tracking methods and visual representations (i.e.: Blue Hat project and Grass Commons indicators) that provide necessary information and accountability
- A Shared Learning Exchange and Data Center, virtual library designed and developed by its users so anyone anywhere can find that they need locally, regionally or globally to accomplish their project goals (tools, resources, systems, partners, etc.)
- Develop targeted and alternative currencies and other pathways for financial resource exchanges
- Develop a training & consultant network that uses participatory methods to engage and empower the inherent wisdom of the local people.
- Encourage/facilitate challenge grants, loans, pooled funding strategies, and other financial opportunities
4. To provide disciplines to promote mutual success
- Establish branding of network and practices for co-creating and implementing purpose and guiding principles
- Develop organizing framework that is inclusive, accountable and replicable
- Establish networking practices for development of social ventures to support local organizers, Peace Centers and other work that embraces our mission
- Develop feedback-loops & effective communication methods (webzine, coaching supports, database that can input, organize, sort and return data – i.e. search engine, organization & communication tools)
- Co-create opportunities for generative leadership
- Co-create networking programs & opportunities (Worldwide Peace Forum, Peace Center Network, Social Ventures, Media outreach and training opportunities that connect participants into the network and strengthen relationships)
5. To promote work by consensus
- Asset mapping (what’s valued, needed, wanted based on current, past and collective experience)
- Encourage accountability (realistic next step that engages participants in discovery, implementation and evaluation)
- Conflict resolution and mediation techniques made available
- Necessary supports (on-line moderators, consensus tools, archive of best practices, community solutions/examples, training opportunities)
- Recognize achievement and results; celebrate & share success
- Design and uphold appreciative polices (change public policy, public trust doctrine)
6. To advance honest and open communication
- Design, facilitate and participate in media, events, forums, and focus groups
- Shared Learning Exchange and Data Center that hosts information, support services, resources, emerging technologies, etc.)
- Tools for sharing, documenting and replicating blueprints, upgrades and archiving knowledge, lineage of projects
- Track and use state-of-the-art communication tools
7. To attract educators and media professionals – talents and products
- Host and encourage barn raising activities (do something that has never been done before, i.e. Worldwide Peace Forum)
- Support media production in as many forms as possible
- Broadcast and distribute information
- Online marketplace, linked to conferencing and workshop opportunities
- Offer tools, products and services that facilitate united action (i.e.: use of 501c3, structure a funding pool and funding aggregator that invests in the shared vision)
8. To promote teamwork
- Teach teamwork, coalition building, and mediation
- Set up team business ventures, organizations, other collaboratives
- Set up an organizing framework (principle driven) for everyone everywhere to replicate what’s needed to actualize the world vision. (i.e.: Peace Centers, events, films, training, etc.)
- Provide on-going organizing services that support local organizers to grow the network
9. To advance innovation
- Brainstorm sessions
- Attract donors and volunteers
- Shared Learning Exchange and Data Center to analyze data, draw new conclusions, display innovation, publish emerging new technologies and pathways
- Set up demonstration projects
- Attract funding to stabilize and replicate use of innovations
- Create membership packages
10. To ensure balance of local and global
- Develop, co-create and design a world vision and supports so anyone can find what they need locally (tools, resources, systems, partners, etc.)
- Develop an interconnected network of Peace Centers and other organizing entities that link and act on the local to global vision
- Develop a network to educate the public on the global interconnectedness of human, environmental and financial resources
11. To ensure accountability
- Set up protocols and procedures for money transactions
- Set up solid checks and balances systems
- Set up verified credentials data bank
- Set up a network of people to verify credentials
12. To advance integrity and ethics
- Subscribe to our values and mission
- Replicate mission, values and vision with local initiatives
- Participatory evaluation
13. To enable each person or organization to activate the highest level of contribution possible
- Develop a network of coaches, marketing services and products to empower effectiveness skills (such as negotiation, decisiveness, and problem-solving)
- Provide spaces and activities for meet-ups, dialogues and peer-to-peer exchanges
- Encourage philosophic discussions (i.e. the power of intention, visioning, etc.)
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