Today in Dhaka I got a sneak preview of the exhibition being arranged by Nobel to celebrate 30 years of prizes won by Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank as microcredit has networked the world with the most successful tool for ending poverty

What amazed me was the range of citations from all over the world - Grameen is no mere banking innovation epicentre- indeed one of its earliest prizes was for village architecture. When you become a loan member of Grameen you also adopt 16 decisions which the village women voted for in developing community and sustaining their children- clean housing design/maintenance being a key topic


Of all the citations, I was most astonished by the type of language used in the citation to Dr Yunus for winning The Gandhi Prize . Here it is:

Gandhi Peace Prize 2000 Citation : Grameen bank, Bangladesh

There are few institutions that inspire faith in humanity even in the an environment of material greed, soulless careerism, exploitation and pursuit of naked power, institutions that live with the credo that “small is beautiful” even when the world is being besieged by the philosophy of the big. They are the institutions that live with a soul committed to fighting the inroads of global homogenization, seeking to provide succor to the deprived yet diligent common people and proving that unity can work miracles even in an age of growing individualism. The Gandhi Peace prize 2000 is being awarded to one such institution which has been helping the marginalized masses to reject charity and to master their own destiny instead. It has been helping them tap their innate capabilities of entrepreneurship, thereby bringing them hope confidence and cheer. Here is a fraternity of perseverance and service that promotes dignity and adherence to truth. Here is development which enabled millions of women from poor households to acquire a new meaning in life. Here is development with a human face which is not populist but people-centred and which promotes self-help and self-respect, values dear to Mahatma Gandhi.

Professor Muhammad Yunus, economist at the University of Chittagong, probably did not know that he was launching a revolution when he started his action project and lent a small amount of money to a poor woman to help her build her own life. The success of this experiment gave birth to Grameen bank. This bank radically reversed conventional banking practices with their emphasis on collateral security, practices which has given rise to the witticism that the best way to get a loan in convince the banker that you don’t need one. Here is a new banking system in rural areas that is based on mutual trust, solidarity, participation, peer monitoring and accountability. Its operations indicate the faith of its founding father, Muhammad Yunus, that if financial resources are made available to the poor on terms and conditions that are appropriate and reasonable “these millions of small people with their millions of small pursuits can add up to create the biggest development wonder.” The success of grameen bank has won international acclaim and emulation. With its participatory approach, emphasis on women entrepreneurs, women’s empowerment and employment creation, the microcredit projects have come to be hailed as a very promising approach to poverty eradication.

Mahatma Gandhi gave the world a talisman “Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too0 much with you apply the following test Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man whom you have seen and ask if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his life and destiny? In other words will it lead to Swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away”


Grameen bank, Bangladesh is an invitation par excellence, which passes the test with great elan

Dear Gandhians

(Bill Ashoka, Sunita City Montessori Lucknow, Ganesh Bhasha Nomadic Peoples, Modjtaba Aga Khan University, Mostofa Intern Yunus Forums Dhaka, Muftah omagine.com, Paul Global Reconciliation Network, Stan Beyond Fair Trades, Phelim Satyagraha Productions)

cc London ER debating groups Sofia/Leslie (Africa's peer to peers), Maria (Hub), Tav/David/Guilhem/Yan (Espians), Alan Mitchell (Transparency mapping), Anne Sustainability through Photosynthesis Architecture/Agriculture, Lindsay LeadersQuest, Gavin/John Simpol, Nick Be The Change


LAUNCH SCHEDULE FOR QUESTIONING GANDHI'S 7 EDUCATIONAL WONDERS

London is publishing a learning guide within 2 weeks for continuous debate by thousands of networkers starting with a first thousand meeting on July 21 http://wiki.espians.com/User:Entrepreneur76

2007: It only matters that the 7 paras below are near enough to start a debate. They come from a study of how Gandhi transformed my maternal grandfather from judge who imprisoned him to scribe of the legalese of the new India's constitution in the 1940s. And also from some learnings or mislearnings I have osmosed from your works.

If there is something missing at the 7 dimensional level or something that starts up a wrong line of questioning in what I have scribbled please tell me. Otherwise as we will use these 7 paras as input to transparent and continuous online and worldwide discussions, we can continuously find better expressions of these sustainability clauses

At the end of fallibility's 7 worst years for beginning a glocal century, I am stuck with the role of being chief amateur fool of education. I regard what I have come across in my daughter's 3rd grade US catholic curriculum as a mortal sin as it requires her and her peers to learn parrot fashion definitions that destroy all true social and transparency dynamics of healthy economies and true entrepreneurial leadership. I do not accept its system as being remotely goodwilled enough to sustain any being.

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007’s 7 educational wonders of Gandhi

1 You can tell how sustainable the world’s systems are by mapping what (content) and how (modalities structured) each community educates its youth. Gandhi’s own examples: he was on a lifelong quest for useable learning for himself- he couldn’t find a usable university curricula in Mumbai so he went to London; when he got to London he was dismayed that teaching of the world’s professional rules involved initiation into a drunken old boys club every evening; though he persevered to qualify from the 1880s Bar of London as a barrister, it was only in his late 30s (when trown out of a first class train carriage) that it wholly dawned on him that his profession was part of S Africa’s and India’s problem not its solution. From that day on he explored (ten years strategising, 15 years scaling up through practising systemic entrepreneurial revolution, 15 years legacy-making) a program to activate systemic communal searches for truth and peace which he called Satyagraha. 007 is the centenary year of actioning this learning revolution.

2 Both the natural and the peaceful way to entrepreneur a revolution towards sustainability of your “nation of communities” is to plant a revolution in schooling that is both replicable through and customisable in every village. It is replicated by designing a system where the parentally most trusted person in each community is an educator who also has a thirst for curricula of health and cross-cultural love. Customisation needs to ensure that youth have every access to what will be vocationally relevant for their future starting with sustaining the community and empowering the wish to bridge communities as well as any worlds their lives travels through.

3 There are 3 primary educational paradoxes lurking wherever a place is being subjected to a colonial system that is externalising out more than it is giving back. 1 The standard curriculum governed across the nation will not be compounding the sustainable interests of its peoples. 2 Even those who bear goodwill to the local people’s from abroad –eg charities -are likely to fail to understand components of the ruling system - what they believe is precisely right knowledge which is in truth compounding loss of local human sustainability. 3 All the smartest resources, professional monopolies and media examples of good life are likely to cause a huge frustration as youth grow up because under the ruling system they are never truly accessible to those who genuinely wish to most deeply serve their community’s sustainability.

4 Love and courage's cross-cultural collaboration values are best experienced before children reach puberty . And both family and schools need to openly and iteratively agree their role in this search for knowhow that liberates us - enables us to select which future changes we (as people not machines) need to version when

5 Peer to peer learning methods -and their most culturally co-creative open sourcing - are vital the more a vocational curricula/apprenticeship is in great future demand but little local historical supply.

6 All sustainability crises that can compound the destruction of a civilisation are embedded in how and why and what education does to our children

7 The networked 21st century difference is that all civilisations' sustainability is collaboratively in each other’s pockets. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

That’s why the learning crisis and the sustainability crises are intimately interconnecting. The entrpreneurially and system curious now have at least 24 years of maps confirming Einstein's predictions and Gandhi's warnings that it is unlikely that any of the world’s children will reach century 22 unless the world transparently convenes around learning crises and benchmarks how to:

resolve the learning crises of the poorest, most digitally disconnected, least well resourced in terms of natural or peaceful empowerment.

NEXT 7 WONDERS - coming soon: probaly first at facebook.com and a group such as

Where in the world are the 7 sustainability wonders of children’s education being rehearsed most deeply is the next map to invite world citizens to openly collaborate around.

Chris Macrae: Bethesda near DS (usa) 301 881 1655 – May you flow a great Independence Day Whatever that May Be.

London's most sincere Gandhi association - nominations welcome- please compare with this benchmark http://www.gandhifoundation.org/committee.html ...

Do you know of an open network that is working 75 years up Gandhi's action learning curves for productivity and peace between peoples? Will it contribute to the revolutions of globalisation and death-of-distance networking which 22 years of research logged by Scots, Brits, India 1 2 3, Commonwealth & others 1 2 into webs 1 2 3 of entrepreneurial revolutionary journalism demonstrates 6 billion people coordinated aropund 2 million global vilages are desperately singing out for? Are any governments listening or are they too powerful to be bothered with crises that spiral out of grassroot communal gravities and nature's evolutionary need for diversity to wave?

Why not publish goodwill (hi-trust) entrepreneur guides out of every locality the same ways that restauarant or hotel guides are published? 1 WHY LONDON SUGGESTS THIS Sustainability, Social, Service Economy, Action Learning, Humanitarian and Entrepreneurial Networkers here are FED UP. Over 251 years, we have currently over 10000 people connected around the culture of the royal society of arts and coffeehouse challenges on particular social change themes and benchmarking synidicates to tomorrowscompany.com, and for a century longer we have had quakers open community circles http://yourgandhi.blogspot.com ; we have thousands of people connected around a Gandhian Be The Change Network; we thought we had 20000 people linkedin around www.ecademy.com until it changed its policy from world social to commercial; because of the open source English language and being the intersection of commonwelath cultures, we have active branches of most social reformation worldwide networks eg www.collapsingworld.org - founded by doctors and youth. Our Nation's leader Queen Elizabeth used her end of 2005 tv broadcast to ask us all to debate whether humanity is turning on itself; our people own the largest public broadcaster and world service media; our British school of economics for at least 140 years advanced systemic entrepreneurial maps and future history debating scripts with at least as much multi-cultural humanity as any other leadership debating centre on earth but what we don't have is a highly transparent and interactive publication format for seeing where goodwill entrepreneur projects and communities are that is as easy to search through as a good restaurant or hotel guide; we suggest every locality should join in experimenting how to make this a worlwide mapping format Publishing Goodwill Entrepreneur Guides out of every city is the British Summer's hottest conversation topic among London networkers, and everywhere we can reach- how do we connect if your region's people share this heat?

At http://worldyear.blogspot.com we take nominations on what people would\lie each day to commemorate as a walk and talk day - uniquely we feel spet10-16 should be a connecetd walk and talk week

here's a conversation opener on what we are trying to map (openly interconnect) around the world

If there's one periond of the whole year that desrves a week of connected days, we propse this to be it
september 11 global recociliation for obvious reasons

spetemeber 10 for locally taking stock of global future histories - a genre that my father's whole career at The Economist was spent on raising big 360 degreesquestions before rushing to one degree answers; its time the West inparticular elarnt that it is not scientofic to believe that a 360 degree question has one perfect answer; instead ir shoul map out a checklist of yin & yang potential conflicts, whose systemic answers both involve innovation a way of including what at a lower level understanding seem to be opposites and interating eg long future periods of time (one way that can insure you have space to include more than one answer - ie in the next few months all we can resolve first is this but we must never stop changing until we have got close to this big goal -eg how can we make poverty history everywhere; how can we end corruption everywhere; how can we ensure sustainability everywhere recogising that failure in even one locality will start off a nwtork linking war of ebil) - tese are all 360 dgree questions)

we propose september 12 to 16 could be every city's 5 -day colaboration cafe festival - the most critical cafe catalogue of each day would naturally vary by place

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here's a bit more on collaboration cafe with a particular lens of what several of us are flying back to Lodon to host in collboration cafe there, but I hope you can see the need for such na festival is vibrant anywhere that a city's people want to stand up for cross-cultural peacemaking and helping to sustain each other through thick and thin which is the communion and community that all major religions seem to me to agree on when they talk of a god that loves; I am only a mathematician (with a lot of logical sympathy for a practical leader of faith like Gandhi) not a deeply religious convert to any single faith but I can feel good neighbours with all gods of love, and the need to open space to reconcile if there are peoples anywhere who worship a god of hate -and putting 5 days aside for that is probably the minimum needed for a city to build and annually renew respect for all comers, and map out the next 360 days of projects to make that walk not just talk; in somewhere like London where are luck to have a world service public broadcaster for and by the people- thsoe 5 days could be inputs into programming content the epople most need developed over the next 360 days, and of course this could be put on the net as a 360 day discussion group inviting citizen correspondents from everywhere to say snap if an emrging London project interests them, and to share with London their priority projects that London does not seem to have on its radar without more help to see the world of society's greatest needs

The impact of cafes (one hour open meetings but on particular crisis invitations - ie truncated open spaces) where invitations are past through all changemakers networks has never been higher. Especially in London as a model for the future of all open cross-cultural cities and villages as social sub-networks - a reconciliation of enduring urgency forced on us by 7/7 and the recognition that government over many years has failed to wholly integrate cultures at the grassroots in ways that people and local communities must take charge of.

This is such a huge subject that I neither have time nor space in this weblog medium to do justice to all the questions that live cafes have raised and how all the major crises of lost sustainability and distrust between different local and global groups of peoples are being made ever more conflicted by national government- whose monopoly rule over public service budgets in the most vital areas like safety, media, health, education, peace is disastrous when most of the challenges facing us are as world citizens (interlocal waves that are made worse wherever a Blair of Bush make decisions like a Canute) or wherever 2 party politics one-dimensionalises issues that need 360 degree diversity of transparent public dialogue

We will have a special series of cafes in the Islington area all of sept 11-15 - email me for a full calendar; and if you only read this after sept 15: I will be happy to after action debrief on you what we learnt from the dialogues and where next we will be restaging them. I will also be putting a lot of the learnings from our cafe series at these weblogs which are inter-related . chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

http://worldcitizen.tv - this looks as ways we citizens can perform communications experiments to show that huge investigative journalism contexts are being missed (biased out) by the BBC, and debates how to rectify this

http://worldentrepreneur.net which focuses on the source of good news out of America in terms of supporting the world's poorest with 30 years of mapping what social projects have resolved crises in one local community and can be replicated as interlocal franchises

http://worldeconomist.net pulls together these latest practical banks of learnings and connects this back with my father and my future history book on death of distance in 1984 which forecast that economics as a worldwide discipline would need transforming between 2005-2105, as much if not more than when James Wilson founded The Economist to keep questioning how economics could sustain peoples through the industrial revolution

We also has http://worldapprentice.com given that folk of every age need to start blueprinting a revolutionary new curricula and modalities of education for all our children if we are to time warp through sustainability's inconvenient truths. At time of writing I am still waiting to hear whether I will get accepted into the first wave of 2000 people being trained by Al Gore on how to present his inconvenient truth slides. This first wave rehearsals and start of an amazing change network takes place In Nashville towards the end of September
http://www.theclimateproject.org

The RSA's and Starbucks and BBC action network coffeehouse challenge in 2006 has been much more interesting in London this year as its been permitted to brew as a summer long festival rather being constrained to a one-month (May schedule)

CAFES & OPENSPACERACE 1 2
God bless all who host and attend cafes - seeds and real-people crossroads to the huge virtual networks that can be multiplied if each person's social network can be interfaced with each other person united in hi-trust and wish to raise questions about a global crisis context before we rush for any open answer

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latest example:
message to open space networks and those who encourage taking a deep breathe at large communal meeetings

There's a doctor at imperial college london who has developed a gizmo you connect to your pc that trains you to breathe leve (or reduce anger, fear). There are physiological reasons why we can only be at our most open, loving, fearless if we can control our deep breathing!

I first heard about this at a 500 people convention in 2004 in London on what would Gandhi collect together as ideas if he was around to host meetings in big cities http://www.bethechange.org.uk

Depending on what base year you count from, 2004 was either London's 1st Be The Chnage or the 73rd. At the open space facilitated by Colin 1 2 3 Morley (1952-2005), I started up the project of change the BBC which you can see more details on here or join our communal action group here. I believe that the world's largest public broadcatyer is the last jewel in the crown that the UK has in serving the world, and changing towards global village sustainability of the sort that Gandhi led his life for.

see the interview of generationim leaders at skoll world social enrepreneur championship oxford april 06
http://www.socialedge.org/events%20resources/032106/algore.html

see the world's best project jam web at ashoka's www.changemakers.net or if you believe the net generation is open sourcing a better example, please do give us the bookmark to study, collaborate around
http://gameschangers.blogspot.com
http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com http://yourgandhi.blogspot.com

The Walter and Water in Everyone
help scots networks of social entrepreneurs at what we can transparently question best because of family clan and worldwide links (75% of us live outside Scotland!) : isn't it in any scot's vested interest to http://clubofscotland.blogspot.com acquire the shareholders list of The Economist and start surveying them on their visions for 21st C economics - if you have a "must include" question, tell me what it is in very simple words please not complex academics. perversely the biggest shareholders are Quakers in one corner and the Rothschilds in the other, who knows what jams in between? Ones I personanly wish to guillotine like captal one credit cards have been infilitrating their ways in of late but then who's economics is the world to be ruled and compounded exponentially http://exponentials.blogspot.com by and why doesnt the BBC train every journalist to start with this question until you can give me a simpler one.... why did a scot invent with the tv as an open space social tool, and the British people invest 50 billion pounds in my life to see how that tool could serve the world only to spend more money and time on spectator sports than anything that might help smarten all our kids and survive all our tomorrows?

Be The Change by 2012

Londoners will never get so much attention as the Olympics of 2012... Do we want the 21st C to know us as more than a nation of sports spectators?

so what be the change movements would Gandhi ask us to flow out of London's world stage?

numbered links are to people mobilising direct intervention approaches; more discussion in this blog click down here

1 2 3 4 A Be the Change for peoples economics so all global villages are sustainable by trade, nature, health, cross-cultural love and any other humanly valuable flow

1 2 3 4 B Be the Change of media and community spaces celebrating diversity, youth's curtiosity, of facilitating society's adaptability not socially controling goverenace

1 2 3 4 C Be the Change of clean energy, clean water, clean air, clean living earth; abundnance of health

1 2 3 4 D Be The Change of Education for every age to multiply our collaboration competences through productive connections in real and virtual relationships we are entrueted to inteconnect; who are your deepest co-mentors through life and how do you help others find theirs?

1 2 3 4 E Be the Change of Hippocratic oaths of Leadership and professional advisers and their transparency as servants licensed by society with connecting futures that multiply goodwill's wealth and health for all

1 2 3 4 5 F Be the Change of the unique higher order system clues that Einstein rated only Gandhi as having mapped and practised for all future networked worlds. Do not waste Gandhian space with stuff, however useful, that is not relevant to grandmastery of peaceful revolution that 6 bilion beings now desperately all our human families are to sustain any children in century 22


Patron of London and The Commonwealth: Queen Elizabeth end 2005 speech to Commonwealth: please debate why humanity is turning on itself and stage or project experiments around every preventative intervention ....

To identify wholly with Gandhi, charter 1 2 Q&A around time's 3D:
A: history- can we map information that is wholly true to his history?
B: future- can we co-create futures his spirit would applaud?
C: Be Now: can we stand up and help be the trust-flow around that global village change context for humanity which people around you love most and want to actively open source through project franchises or leading other communal ways ahead

what do you feel its most vital to know about A?

A1 proof that folks like Einstein valued Gandhi more than any human being of millennium 2 and suggested his leadership models woul be even more critical to millennium 3's networked world

A2 why and how on his 3rd and last visit to London Gandhi invited the world to tell Britian how India will be Indepependent, starting 75 years of be the change celebration networks at the Quakers Friends House in London

B1 22 years of debates suggest its time to join up with Londoners in calling for the BBC to spend as much time and budget on Social Entrepreneur Oylmpics as sports. Deadline 2012 for achieving this or repealing the BBC and London's Games.

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What Be The Change would Gandhi Bring to London 75 Years On? ...why not open space and brainjam web2.1 across civic groups? Examples:

Beyond Education: As an investor in youth ventures 1- would not Gandhi build young person's hubs alongside schools. Hubs are social spaces where youth conceives cross-cultural projects in the community and the worldwide net selectively pledges microfinance

Beyond BBC: As the greatest media liberator of all time, would not Gandhi entreneurially mobilise the liberation of the BBC and world service from government to be be every people's voice and system inquirer. In 2006 can there be any bigger collaboration city story than London as pioneering test case for the future sustainability of every multicultural city?

As a lawyer who wanted to replace excessive top-down rules by facilitating cross-cultural human relationship empathy, Gandhi would be empowering everyone's courage to experiment with the truth of democracy 2.0. How do we beam all peoples simultaneously up to a higher order system of governance than the century's old now constituting the opposites of : freedom of speech, communal happiness, facilitating what people would sepnd their taxes on to sustain and include everyone's lifetime exponentials

As an investor in people before machines, he would have encouraged Queen Elizabeth to see local monarchy's roles in helping global humanity from turning on itself. Begin now by withdrawing licences for professions whose numbers and other valuation of organisations prioritise cutting people to invest in machines. Above all let's openly map how to remove from the Queens honours lists all those whose non-transparency and devaluation of goodwill forces leaders to be more afraid of yesterday's results than developing tomorrow's sustainbility exponentials.

Gandhi - overall or timeless

1940s

1930s last UK visit - hosted the 1931 freedoms roundtable at the Friends

1920s includes development of ashram, and of university, at Ahmedabad

1910s includes 2nd time in UK arriving coincidentally day after start of world war 1 on a boat originally sailing from Natal to Mumbai

1900s includes start of 15 years mainly in Natal, S. Africa though voyages between Africa and India on several occasions

1890s included 1891 June 10 called to bar; june 11 enrolled at high court; june 12 sailed home

1880s included start of his years in London to qualify as a barrister

Born 69; 1870s

CLICK TO Share Stories from one Gandhi Net to another

latest example:
message to open space networks and those who encourage taking a deep breathe at large communal meeetings

There's a doctor at imperial college london who has developed a gizmo you connect to your pc that trains you to breathe leve (or reduce anger, fear). There are physiological reasons why we can only be at our most open, loving, fearless if we can control our deep breathing!

I first heard about this at a 500 people convention in 2004 in London on what would Gandhi collect together as ideas if he was around to host meetings in big cities http://www.bethechange.org.uk

Gandhi's biography makes it clear that he saw his life as full of globetrotting accidents:

for example there was he around the age of 19 believeing that there was no undergraduate subject usefully worth studying in India; so he did the almost unherad of thing of travelling from India to London to study to become a barrister; when he got to the bar of London in his diary he writes of huge disappointment: there was very little education in the 3 year course it was all one huge social networking circus; howver he did turn this to peculiar advantage while the main social network in Barrister town was English upper classes, Gandhi became an epicentre for the exact opposite: the wprld socila forum of his day- every diversity invited, the more socila your coincern as a buddying lwayer the better. It turned out that this network did attract a few foreign sponsors whoe were equally applaed at coming to study at the world's epicentre of law only to find mad dogs and englishmen spending more time drunk by noon than any other pursuit. I may have slightly exagerrated but nothing is as poigant as reading a 19 year old's view of travelling half way round the world to become edcuated in what had been asumed to be a vital and deep practice area, and to be inducted in what the Bar of London's training was all about circa 1880.

With retrospect Gandhi's whole life was about being an early global and local social networker so youth did enjoy the last laugh even if it took 65 years to compound its greatest acts. This fable also has many lines of inquiry todayt where professional teaching and practice gone globally haywire so that only the big get bigger is an inconvenient truth that worries me more about humanity's future sustianability than even climate which London has innovation networks that know the photosynthesis cure

C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net

At ER100, we invite nomination on the 100 people form history whose alumni networks are alive today and which every teacher of children show know about so she can connect kids at the right time and context challenge

example: George Fox
Quakers innovated a circular conversation method which inspires many open space networks today -and society's need for safe public spaces - designed round valuing every community's deepest cross-cultural flows. When powerful leaders of any type visited the community they were given the stage to speak and then politely questioned through the most collaborative team work process that a real-time audience can muster. Although this mediation system starts and ends with loving grassroots community, its network impacts around the world have been remarkable, and other ER100 nominees might never have got an audience in some of the world's biggest cities without the free and peace-loving social spaces Quakers Friends Houses have invested in. Quakers (whose ethical standards appear to be as high as any religion has codified but who prefer to make their number 1 rule every culture is welcome to join us in peace) have often helped people to communally test faith around space and truth as opposed to other man-made instructions that have at some accidenral moment of history divided religions, even those primary ones worldwide that started with the golden rule's dna:
uniting familial relationship reciprocity (do unto another what you would want done unto you and yours)

In a world where we are now offered so many virtual and real tools to converse, commune, network- experiencing one of the simplest real-time, large crowd dialogue methods early on can change a child's manners and self-confidence, as well as demonstrate cultural respect is walked and talked around here. Circular methods of staging a conversation are different to them and us podium methods; moreover their listening and speaking flows scale down to any group size as does the principle of hosting one person to speak while the others listen and then having the audience collaborate in teamworking Q&A

As well as Quakers circles near you; find our abouts servas who host likeminded people on their travels around the world; and ask yourself would Gandhi have been able to internationalise his mission to free India by staging a huge meeting in London (the lion's den!) without the Quakers Friends House