compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion

penny on - BE someone

even more so - now (can't believe it's 6 years since)

that its official that Gaiam - IS

the new parent company of zaadz

so without further ado lets just -

Listen to the children ...

they are saying ... Your Planet needs YOU !

First posted by Michael Grove @zaadz on August 17, 2007 at 11:30

As Homo sapiens sapiens emerged within the early human world approximately

40,000 years ago, it seems that Homo universalis – one who incarnates

the ever-unfolding Universe Story – is emerging now among us.

This emerging type of human is not a new religion, or a new ideology, but

the new being within each of us being called out precisely as the planet

reaches its limits to growth and hovers between evolution and extinction.

It is more important than ever for us to be together in resonance, in

the field of our own conscious evolution – especially while separated

consciousness wreaks havoc upon the ‘birth-torn’ Earth.

It is time to nurture this metamorphosis within ourselves, so that the

deeper reality of our emerging potential can express itself more

fully through us, as us, and as a new norm.

To use the butterfly analogy: we are ‘imaginal cells' crossing over

from the disintegrating body of the societal caterpillar, entering the

brief period of metamorphosis to become something never experienced

before on this Earth. In this “chaos window” we are recreating and

re-assembling ourselves, finding our new vocations and being

intuitively guided as to our emerging functions and structures.

One by one we are forming the still invisible new body, preparing

for our sudden appearance as members of a societal butterfly.

This is Real Time Evolution. Not about it, but AS [IT]

Rights and Humanity is an international not-for-profit organisation contributing to development, peace and environmental sustainability through the realisation of human rights and responsibilities.

Education

Penny On is being led by young people. The issue is urgent and important so it needs new thinking, new logic and fresh eyes. As part of Penny’s school enrichment programme, young people get to choose where funds get allocated, they’re learning about the most effective solutions to poverty at the grass roots level, they’re learning from the heroes and heroines of the voluntary sector who work behind the scenes to tackle deprivation, exclusion, marginalisation and environmental issues.

Inclusion

Our pilot programme is focusing on twinning, bringing together grass roots communities and working in partnership with a wide range of specialists in both local and international development. The principles behind Penny On transcend politics and religion, they resonate with people at an emotive and humanitarian level. Common goals call for common sense and collective intelligence. There is an old saying … none of us are as smart as all of us !

Community

The young people get to see first hand the scale of the challenge, seeing for themselves the most effective strategies and become involved in building awareness, raising funds and getting to the heart of the problems that affect their community. By twinning grass roots communities we foster peer to peer relationships between ordinary people who are often “in the problem” they know first hand through their lives about the reality of deprivation and exclusion. These heroic people are the experts who hold the key to eliminating poverty from the grass roots up.

Environment

Nature sustains us, it feeds us, protects us and nourishes us. When we work with nature we can create solutions to poverty that empower people, that support life, economy and community. Working with nature means encouraging bio-diversity, thinking beyond the current accepted norms and towards greener, self sufficient and abundant environments. Here’s how 5,000 people benefited from natures solutions.

The full text Severin Suzuki's speech at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit

Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to go to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Their aim was to remind the decision-makers of who their actions or inactions would ultimately affect. The goal was reached when 12 yr old Severn closed a Plenary Session with a powerful speech that received a standing ovation.

more information on http://www.davidsuzuki.org

SO what's needed now I would propose [IS] a paradigm switch in[DEED]

Mankind's role is to fulfill his heaven-sent purpose through a

sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.

Morihei Ueshiba

Mitchell High School was originally Hanley High School which the designer

of the Spitfire, R.J. Mitchell attended. At the age of 16 years he gained an

apprenticeship at Kerr Stuart & Co. of Fenton, a locomotive engineering

works - at the end of which he worked in the drawing office at Kerr Stuart

and studied engineering and mathematics at night school. In 1917 he

joined the Supermarine Aviation Works at Southampton, and the rest

is history, so to speak. Hanley High School was renamed Mitchell High

School, in honour of its connection with its illustrious student.

Mitchell High School and Penny-On

This note aims to address two questions of particular relevance to the
Penny-On project, and is based on a recent visit to Mitchell High School.

The two questions are:

1. What’s so special about what’s happened at Mitchell High School
during the last five years?

2. What value can the Penny-On team bring to the Mitchell project and the wider community of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme?

What’s So Special About Mitchell High School?

Six years ago, before the arrival of Debbie Sanderson, Mitchell High School
was a fairly typical “failing school”. Situated on the edge of the
Bentilee community, near Stoke-on-Trent, the school draws from a
catchment area that has many unpromising features, including high
levels of long-term unemployment, crime and drug use.

In the five years since Debbie’s arrival (in 2002), the school has made enormous strides, including the following key features:

• High levels of engagement with the local community;

• Provision of adult learning services to well over a thousand people;

• Extraordinarily sophisticated information systems, including the deployment
of over 150 “thin client” terminals to pupils’ homes in the community;

• Achievement of special status as a Business and Enterprise Academy.

An Epicentre for Education and Enterprise

The key to Mitchell’s success is that it has established itself as an epicentre for education and enterprise, not only for the pupils but also for the
wider community. This is all the more extraordinary, given that many
of the families from which the pupils are drawn have experienced
several generations of unemployment.

The irony, of course, is that the Stoke-on-Trent area has a long history of extraordinary commercial activity, itself being enormously influential in the development of the pottery industry during the industrial revolution. However the last hundred years have not been kind to the area, with dramatic declines in both the pottery and coal industries.

If Mitchell High School can provide the catalyst for a new generation of entrepreneurs in the area, its service to the wider community will go way beyond that of any normal school. It has the opportunity to spark a transformation across the entire Stoke/Newcastle conurbation.

The Role of the Penny-On Trust

This last point introduces one of the opportunities for the Penny-On team to
make a big difference in the Stoke/Newcastle area, which is to
publicise and propagate the success of Mitchell High School. If we can
capture and then disseminate the key lessons from Mitchell, to other
schools that face similar challenges, we can play an invaluable role in
ensuring that Mitchell is viewed by other schools as a valuable
resource and a beacon, to be engaged and learned from, rather than
viewed with suspicion and resentment for “making them look bad”.

Work has already begun to engage young people from other parts of
Stoke/Newcastle, with a view to sharing the lessons from Mitchell with
them. Martin Dewhurst has met with a group from a youth club in Chesterton, and a similar initiative is underway in Trentham.

A key point about Penny-On is the way in which it calls on young people to adopt a “giving” orientation to the world, rather than a “getting” orientation. Young people gain an understanding that there are people in the world who are much less fortunate than themselves, and that, by their
efforts, they can make a big difference
to the lives of those people. This is a world away from the
“entitlement mentality” that can all too easily affect a community such
as Bentilee, which has experienced relatively severe economic
conditions during the 20th Century.

Community-Level Engagement is Key

One of the principles of Penny-On is the principle of connecting communities. Any money raised by Penny-On will always be spent either in the local community or in another specific, known community in the developing world. It will never disappear into a general pot, its destination and purpose to be determined by an unknown bureaucrat.

The implication of this is that the people in the community that raises the money will always have sight of where that money goes, ensuring that they retain psychological ownership of the outcomes, whether those are in the UK or elsewhere.

From the standpoint of the community in the developing world that receives the funds, there is also a big positive impact. This is money that comes with love, from a specific group of people,
giving the recipient community a clear message that they are known and
cared for, by a group of people they’ve never even met.

IF you watch AQUAL: A Graphic Presentation
and then select to watch from the menu The Pattern That Connects
Holons - AQUAL to Spiral Dynamics - ALL will BE revealed.

AQAL: A Graphic Presentation

THE CHILDREN are WATCHING and "LISTENING"

for THE INTEGRITY of OUR ACTIONS

"The integral worldview gives us an understanding of culture that allows us to begin to

address the global cultural problems that are at the heart of pretty much every problem. What I mean is that every problem in the world has its solution at least partially in the raising of consciousness. And that's what the integral worldview does more effectively than any other worldview before it - it can literally raise consciousness at every level."

Steve McIntosh

ALL hail ! to my dyslexic friend and to Jon Symes & Phil Turner for their book
and particularly Ron Monnier for creating the superb copyrighted
"centre-piece" image at the top of this zBlog for the children.

Gaiam(*Zaadz) = Seeds Growing into Flowers -

are those Flowers now to be sold for PROFIT !!!???

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penny on - BE someone

Listen to the children ...

they are saying ... Your Planet needs YOU !

Rights and Humanity is an international not-for-profit organisation contributing to development, peace and environmental sustainability through the realisation of human rights and responsibilities.

Gaiam(*Zaadz) = Seeds Growing into Flowers -

are those Flowers now to be sold for PROFIT !!!???

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