Global Assembly Dialog
When groups talk people listen
The prototype Global Assembly Dialog is an experiment in participatory democracy on the web aimed at massively involving "We the People of the Earth" and leading to the formation of a nonviolent bottom-up Global Assembly with real power to build a world that works for everyone.The Dialog uses a web rating technology to vote on messages written by the partici ...learn more
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Created: Oct 18, 2007
Updated: Nov 11, 2009
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Joseph McIntyre
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Areas of Focus
Democratic Participation
(1436 people) | Globalization Impacts
(2072 people) | Democracy and Civil Society
(1960 people) | Business Firm and Organization Sustainability
(3027 people) | Agricultural Water Conservation and Management
(1199 people) | Rural Farming Communities
(1548 people) | Local Food Systems
(2860 people) | Leadership Training
(2497 people) | Agricultural Policy
(1263 people) | Climate Change
(4730 people) | Ecosystem Services
(1326 people) | Sustainable Agriculture
(4018 people) | Dialogue, Deliberation and Consensus-Building
(1939 people) | Community Participation
(3637 people) | Agroecology
(1166 people) | Land Stewardship
(1628 people)
About
I am the executive director of Ag Innovations Network, based in Sebastopol, CA. My personal mission is to support individuals, organizations, and communities unlock the potential for positive change towards a healthier and more vibrant society through careful dialogue and respectful exchange of views.
I believe we can help create a society that reflects our best hopes and desires by:
- Taking a wide view that considers both root systems and tip symptoms
- Protecting the interests of the future as much as those of the present
- Working to enable our communities and organizations to deeply know themselves
- Revealing deep assumptions that block creative change
- Bringing compassion to every situation we encounter.
I work primarily as a facilitator multi-stakeholder collaborations grappling with the question of how to make the food system sustainable. I am the primary facilitator for the Ag Futures Alliance movement in California.
I have a broad background that includes leading both non and for-profit organizations, study of steady-state economics (MA, U. of Rhode Island), and organizational/social change (MA organization development, Sonoma State U.). Mainly I try to live the spirit attributed to Mother Teresa: "to do small things with great love..."
I have a broad background that includes leading both non and for-profit organizations, study of steady-state economics (MA, U. of Rhode Island), and organizational/social change (MA organization development, Sonoma State U.). Mainly I try to live the spirit attributed to Mother Teresa: "to do small things with great love..."
Joseph -
Snuggled into my little pied a terre reading Margaret Wheatley.
A favorite quote from St. Exupery's The Little Prince came leaping into my mind:
"What is essential is invisible to the eye."
Thanks for the nudge to read this book.
See you next week!
Kate