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Hi Marcia,</div>
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Yes, ChatAction certainly seems to be a powerful Circle!!</div>
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Ted Circles started in September 2019. At the Ted Circle website there is a Ted Talk posted each month with related conversation starters. Anyone can sign up to host a circle or join a circle. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 29, 2020 8:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Diane Sue <dianesue524@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ChatAction List <chataction@communitymagic.org>; bruceschuman@cox.net <bruceschuman@cox.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ChatAction] Global scale study circles</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Hi Diane,
<div class="">Ted Circles is a little behind in times. Stan started our Chat People last June? HR started in May or June? Ted is just playing catch up LOL!</div>
<div class="">The material Bruce sent on Duane Elgin is spot on. It’s going to take me a while to read all the material but I can already tell he’s submitting well thought out ideas and is</div>
<div class="">a good source for info and ideas. Our Chat People is our circle. I hope we continue to talk over the ideas presented on HR. Our deep dives on a Saturday gives us the opportunity to develop other ideas.<br class="">
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<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>
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<div class="" style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt">Thanks for sharing this powerful article. This aligns with the new direction of Tedx with Ted Circles and with the discussion<span class="" style="font-size:12pt"> 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>
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<b class="">Sent:</b><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, December 28, 2020 3:00 PM<br class="">
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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>
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Right now, I am particularly excited about his ideas for “Study Circles”.</div>
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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>
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This is not newbie stuff. This is master vision from the masters, written in simple and highly intuitive terms.</div>
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And what is exciting for me is – the entire framework is written as a series of questionnaires – surveys.</div>
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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>
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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
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Duane Elgin:</div>
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<a href="https://choosingearth.org/" class="">https://choosingearth.org/</a></div>
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<a href="https://greattransitionstories.org/" class="">https://greattransitionstories.org/</a></div>
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