URL: www.ratical.org

Interests:

Sharing what i was given studying with Mary Lou Williams for 8 months starting 9/1/79 in NC; volunteer helping Gary Fredrick @ Shoreline Middle School teach kids learning to play piano/read music (4 classes, 5 days/week (!) -- this spring there were ~140 kids being so touched), starting to teach piano, building ratical.org; helping community currencies get started in Santa Cruz; learning how to leave SGI after 13+ years and finding a 3/4-or-less-time job i can ride my bike to so i can be in Gary's classes all five weekdays; helping MillennialGoods get off the ground; promoting seeing wholistically.

Topics and themes for Conference:

Ways to enable more of the world's marginalized people to communicate with and participate in such consciousness-expanding efforts as this one provides. David Korten's "The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism" provides a RICH springboard for exploring articulation of such questions as "What kind of world *do* we want?" For example, the last half of Chapter 6. Embracing Life's Wisdom -- System Design for a Post-Corporate World -- offers an exceedingly relevant framework to discuss, pick apart, expand upon. Learning what people attending are engaged in and brainstorming strategies for "accelerat[ing] the evolution of tools and technologies which can help people understand, digest, and creatively respond to the various ecological crises ... plagu[ing] Earth" is what i'm looking forward to. The ongoing connections made from participating in Carol Brouillet's Feb Gathering have expanded me greatly and linked up with many more people building a sustainable civilization. i look forward to this July gathering for accelerating such connectedness and linking up with more and more innovative "expanders", designers, and inventors.

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