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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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by BillSeitz
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Sep 6, 2008 1:15 pm |
The Uplift Academy is holding a workshop to design a Pattern Language. Richard P Gabriel will be leading, and Jerry Michalski will be part of the group. Note the success of the WORTH [Womens Empowerment Program] in Nepal. WomEn in Nepal face tremendous problems of poverty, and social standing. Rather than "solve" these problems, however, they focused on teaching women how to read, save their own money, and gain some autonomy. These women then went on to lobby for roads and clinics, and then tackled issues like alcoholism, domestic abuse and sex trafficking. They "dissolved" problems by amplifying the Core Value-s of the women... There will be an abundance of patterns of uplift, particularly as the system scales up into larger and more inclusive groups. The issue will be ways of filtering and distilling patterns, building reputations of which work best in which contexts, and ways of understanding the generativity and interaction between the patterns.
http://www.nooron.org/know/uplift_linguistic_shell/uplift_pattern_language
see also Appreciative Inquiry.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog