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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 28, 2020, at 11:10 PM, Diane Sue via ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" class="">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi Bruce,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thanks for sharing this powerful article. This aligns with the new direction of Tedx with Ted Circles and with the discussion<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> 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. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Best wishes,</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Diane</span></div><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div id="appendonsend" class=""></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; 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font-weight: 300; margin-right: 8px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor673670" href="https://www.allwecansave.earth/project" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--themePrimary);" class="">The All We Can Save Project — All We Can Save</a></div><div id="LPDescription673670" style="font-size: 14px; max-height: 100px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 8px; overflow: hidden;" class="">The Challenge. The climate crisis is a leadership crisis. Conventional climate leadership has been unable to move society beyond lukewarm concern and insufficient action.</div><div id="LPMetadata673670" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(166, 166, 166); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.allwecansave.earth/" class="">www.allwecansave.earth</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 923.15625px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction-bounces@communitymagic.org" class="">chataction-bounces@communitymagic.org</a>> on behalf of Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" class="">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, December 28, 2020 3:00 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'ChatAction List' <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org" class="">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[ChatAction] Global scale study circles</font><div class=""> </div></div><div lang="EN-US" style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="x_WordSection1"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Right now, I am particularly excited about his ideas for “Study Circles”.</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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.</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Take a look at this:</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/global_consciousness.pdf" class="">https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/global_consciousness.pdf</a></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This is not newbie stuff. This is master vision from the masters, written in simple and highly intuitive terms.</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">And what is exciting for me is – the entire framework is written as a series of questionnaires – surveys.</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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.</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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.</div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Duane Elgin:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://duaneelgin.com/" class="">https://duaneelgin.com/</a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://choosingearth.org/" class="">https://choosingearth.org/</a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://greattransitionstories.org/" class="">https://greattransitionstories.org/</a></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Bruce Schuman</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Santa Barbara CA USA</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:bruceschuman@cox.net" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">bruceschuman@cox.net</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/ 805-705-9174</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.origin.org/" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">www.origin.org</span></a></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ChatAction mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:ChatAction@communitymagic.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">ChatAction@communitymagic.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://communitymagic.org/mailman/listinfo/chataction_communitymagic.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://communitymagic.org/mailman/listinfo/chataction_communitymagic.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>