>>"When are the classes taking place?"<<
There will be weekly classes, taking place on Mondays at 9.30pm (GMT), starting on 21st September.
>>"Do I have to attend live?"<<
No, it doesn't matter if you can't attend live. The classes are recorded and you will have access to the recordings.
If you want to ask a question, you can send it in before the class. Send it to: peter@inspirationflow.net
>>"Do I have to attend the whole year-long program?"<<
*"Either you're not sharing your gifts adequately.
Or you're not valuing your gifts adequately."
In poor regions like Sudan, or Greece, in some respects it's exactly the same - people have gifts to share, but maybe more importantly than lack of money, if there is a feeling of complete disempowerment, then lack of money is interpreted as meaning that they are utterly helpless.
This helplessness is expressed as submission to the 'economic forces' as defined from outside.
When we don't feel helpless and are able to recognise our gifts then we recognise our 'wealth' (in spite of lacking money) and, just as has happened in parts of Greece, we may create an alternative currency to exchange our gifts, independently of outside economic forces.
In other words, we create our own economic 'language' to express our gifts.
This is just a simplistic answer but I hope it helps to demonstrate the universality of the principle.
My friend Tiago Chabert explained another aspect very well:
"In chronically poor places you can be sure of one (or both) of two things: someone is preventing people from "sharing their gifts" (trading) or someone is forcing people to "share their gifts" (forced labour or confiscation of wealth)."
Another thing worth mentioning is that 'poor regions' can fall under two categories - exploited, or badly organized.
For example, a country or region that is rich in natural resources but in which the local people do not have access to the resources or to compensation for the removal of the resources, is an example of the first category.
The second category would be, to make a very simple analogy, if a group of nomads settled in a place where they have no access to essential resources without having to spend all their time working in extreme effort to just barely survive. Sounds like a scenario that any intelligent person or culture would avoid... and yet it is this scenario that many people are living.
Few of us choose a naturally rich environment to live in, and therefore are dependent on resources from outside the social environment or the ecosystem.
Many poor regions however are places where there used to be an abundance of resources, but then production of essential goods became centralised in other locations and importation became popular, then the supply chain eventually broke down and the access to resources from outside became limited. By then, often the skills to produce locally or the rights to access local resources has become limited, so despite the presence of resources, there is 'poverty'.
So the solution in this case is to create pre-conditions for resiliency (just in case supply chains are broken or interfered with), which is partly about maximising self-sufficiency (not individually - which would be an unnecessary amount of work, and not much fun - but communally).
This is what much of the Transition Town Movement is about and also the Permaculture approach to designing sustainable, resilient, thriving environments.
The solutions to 'poverty' and to 'poverty-consciousness' are in practice not exactly the same on an individual level and on a societal level. But the principles that are applied would to a great extent be the same.
Ultimately the solutions on a larger scale have to involve the application of system designs that take whole communities into consideration and involve voluntary cooperation.
There are additional challenges but also advantages of working together in larger units. This is where 'Sociocracy' and the 'Dragon Dreaming' team-building and community-building methodologies can be very useful.
There will be weekly classes, taking place on Mondays at 9.30pm (GMT), starting on 21st September.
>>"Do I have to attend live?"<<
No, it doesn't matter if you can't attend live. The classes are recorded and you will have access to the recordings.
If you want to ask a question, you can send it in before the class. Send it to: peter@inspirationflow.net
>>"Do I have to attend the whole year-long program?"<<
No, it would be beneficial to experience the whole program as many different processes will be covered during the course of the whole year, but you can unsubscribe at any point. Just write to peter@inspirationflow.net and request to be removed from the program.
Note: You need to provide a 21-day notice before the next monthly payment is due, or you will be charged for the following month.
>>"I understand the 'thriving principle'* in theory, but how does this apply in poor regions?"<<
*"Either you're not sharing your gifts adequately.
Or you're not valuing your gifts adequately."
"How does this apply in poor regions, like Sudan?"
This helplessness is expressed as submission to the 'economic forces' as defined from outside.
When we don't feel helpless and are able to recognise our gifts then we recognise our 'wealth' (in spite of lacking money) and, just as has happened in parts of Greece, we may create an alternative currency to exchange our gifts, independently of outside economic forces.
In other words, we create our own economic 'language' to express our gifts.
This is just a simplistic answer but I hope it helps to demonstrate the universality of the principle.
My friend Tiago Chabert explained another aspect very well:
"In chronically poor places you can be sure of one (or both) of two things: someone is preventing people from "sharing their gifts" (trading) or someone is forcing people to "share their gifts" (forced labour or confiscation of wealth)."
Another thing worth mentioning is that 'poor regions' can fall under two categories - exploited, or badly organized.
For example, a country or region that is rich in natural resources but in which the local people do not have access to the resources or to compensation for the removal of the resources, is an example of the first category.
The second category would be, to make a very simple analogy, if a group of nomads settled in a place where they have no access to essential resources without having to spend all their time working in extreme effort to just barely survive. Sounds like a scenario that any intelligent person or culture would avoid... and yet it is this scenario that many people are living.
Few of us choose a naturally rich environment to live in, and therefore are dependent on resources from outside the social environment or the ecosystem.
Many poor regions however are places where there used to be an abundance of resources, but then production of essential goods became centralised in other locations and importation became popular, then the supply chain eventually broke down and the access to resources from outside became limited. By then, often the skills to produce locally or the rights to access local resources has become limited, so despite the presence of resources, there is 'poverty'.
So the solution in this case is to create pre-conditions for resiliency (just in case supply chains are broken or interfered with), which is partly about maximising self-sufficiency (not individually - which would be an unnecessary amount of work, and not much fun - but communally).
This is what much of the Transition Town Movement is about and also the Permaculture approach to designing sustainable, resilient, thriving environments.
The solutions to 'poverty' and to 'poverty-consciousness' are in practice not exactly the same on an individual level and on a societal level. But the principles that are applied would to a great extent be the same.
Ultimately the solutions on a larger scale have to involve the application of system designs that take whole communities into consideration and involve voluntary cooperation.
There are additional challenges but also advantages of working together in larger units. This is where 'Sociocracy' and the 'Dragon Dreaming' team-building and community-building methodologies can be very useful.
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