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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you, Diane. I will take a close look at this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am (absolutely) convinced that the “circle” format holds some extremely powerful and effective organizing principles, that people who want to help change the world through collaboration and holistic principles should “know by heart”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is the primary organizing power in the universe, and if we get in-synch with it, we might have a shot at doing really great things across all kinds of borders and boundaries and the divisions that plague the world today.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What we want in the world today – is “convergence towards unity” – we want to “program” it, encourage it, invoke it, convene it, facilitate it – across all sectors, all languages, all cultures, all academic and scientific disciplines.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We need to define those principles in general, we need to see them in very fluent and adaptive/context-specific terms – and we need to open the doors to collaboration and TEAM work in every way we can.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=947 height=580 style='width:9.8645in;height:6.0416in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D6DDB7.E5D0D330"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bruce Schuman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Santa Barbara CA USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net">bruceschuman@cox.net</a> / 805-705-9174<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.origin.org">www.origin.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Diane Sue <dianesue524@hotmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 28, 2020 9:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'ChatAction List' <chataction@communitymagic.org>; bruceschuman@cox.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ChatAction] Global scale study circles<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Hi Bruce,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Thanks for sharing this powerful article. This aligns with the new direction of Tedx with Ted Circles and with the discussion circles associated with Catharine Wilkinson's and Ayana Johnson's newly-launched All We Can Save project. Global and local discussion circles have so much potential for changing mindsets as well as creating community. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Diane<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-circles"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-circles</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;min-width: 424px' id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVkLmNvbS9hYm91dC9wcm9ncmFtcy1pbml0aWF0aXZlcy90ZWQtY2lyY2xlcw.."><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:solid #C8C8C8 1.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:9.0pt;overflow:hidden' id=LPImageContainer348728><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-circles" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=240 height=126 style='width:2.5in;height:1.3125in' id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://pl.tedcdn.com/social/ted-logo-fb.png"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt' id=LPTitle348728><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-circles" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;text-decoration:none'>TED Circles | Programs & Initiatives | About | TED</span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-height: 100px;overflow:hidden' id=LPDescription348728><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666'>TED Circles is an open platform of small groups that meet for conversations about ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=LPMetadata348728><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ted.com"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>www.ted.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:white'><a href="https://www.allwecansave.earth/project">https://www.allwecansave.earth/project</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;min-width: 424px' id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWxsd2VjYW5zYXZlLmVhcnRoL3Byb2plY3Q."><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border:solid #C8C8C8 1.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:9.0pt;overflow:hidden' id=LPImageContainer673670><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.allwecansave.earth/project" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=240 height=106 style='width:2.5in;height:1.1041in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebc37dbec91a568efb29db6/t/5fc66226eaf37e3b647676f5/1607978533175/Frame+2.png?format=1500w"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;border:none;padding:9.0pt 27.0pt 9.0pt 9.0pt'><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt' id=LPTitle673670><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.allwecansave.earth/project" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;text-decoration:none'>The All We Can Save Project — All We Can Save</span></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;max-height: 100px;overflow:hidden' id=LPDescription673670><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#666666'>The Challenge. The climate crisis is a leadership crisis. Conventional climate leadership has been unable to move society beyond lukewarm concern and insufficient action.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=LPMetadata673670><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.allwecansave.earth"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif'>www.allwecansave.earth</span></a><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#A6A6A6'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> ChatAction <</span><a href="mailto:chataction-bounces@communitymagic.org">chataction-bounces@communitymagic.org</a><span style='color:black'>> on behalf of Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <</span><a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org">chataction@communitymagic.org</a><span style='color:black'>><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 28, 2020 3:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'ChatAction List' <</span><a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org">chataction@communitymagic.org</a><span style='color:black'>><br><b>Subject:</b> [ChatAction] Global scale study circles</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=xmsonormal>Today, I’ve been working though the ideas and vision of Duane Elgin. His vision is so in-synch with everything I am doing. He was working with Jim Garrison in the 1990’s<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Right now, I am particularly excited about his ideas for “Study Circles”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>In this PDF, he outlines the basic principles behind Study Circles – which I tend to see as the most powerful organizing idea in the world, and probably the master-design for the emerging new world – if there is to be one and we survive our initiation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Take a look at this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><a href="https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/global_consciousness.pdf">https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/global_consciousness.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>This is not newbie stuff. This is master vision from the masters, written in simple and highly intuitive terms.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>And what is exciting for me is – the entire framework is written as a series of questionnaires – surveys. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Duane Elgin worked with “electronic town halls” for years. Maybe this is the new design for a vast electronic town hall. That would be my dream.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Malini – I actually think this meets all your standards. I think that is probably true for just about everybody on Chat Acton. This IS an “action path” – maybe the most powerful collective action path ever possible – and maybe the only way we human beings could possibly move forward together in a way that converges into wholeness and ONE.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Duane Elgin:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><a href="https://duaneelgin.com/">https://duaneelgin.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><a href="https://choosingearth.org/">https://choosingearth.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><a href="https://greattransitionstories.org/">https://greattransitionstories.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Bruce Schuman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Santa Barbara CA USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net">bruceschuman@cox.net</a> / 805-705-9174<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><a href="http://www.origin.org">www.origin.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>