Here's my spot to log what's going on here re: SKIP and How The little group around me is using SKIP as we Orient to "Health" around Taiwan
It's time.
It's time because a new journey is settling in and I'd like a place to document the journey that is laid out in front of me right now.
It's time today because I have a buddy who's joining on the journey.
“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
― G. K. Chesterton
We've spent the morning setting out our SKIP goals. We broke for lunch and here I am, claiming this real-estate as a place to document my part of this journey.
And thus I set out with this step #1.
What are the pieces of this puzzle around me now?
I've got a SKIP buddy. She and I both have lived through heartbreak stories that make it a no-brainer to invest ourselves in SKIP.
I'm bringing a
permaculture touch to 2 "old house" properties I have
- one in the north
- one in the south
I'm in the "Site Design" section of a Geoff Lawton
online PDC course, hoping to be able to pull together a full design from my property in the north.
I've been facilitating participative process for ... a couple decades, on large and small scale. Participative power is ... awesome. Mysterious. Wonderful. Definitely shifts things toward health.
I find my hermit-ish self in a leadership role now (shrug). I'm used to designing and hosting participative process for other people. Roles are clear when I'm neutral facilitator. Leader is another dynamic.
Now I look at my own community - 200-ish loosely interacting folks listening to each other, distributing leadership and sharing resources informally, all heart-centered.
A small group of us are setting out to create a formal relationship between this community and the government (allows banking relations to be clear and centralized so people can see how livelihood opportunities can play out.)
We've begun the process of becoming an Association - The Chinese name is about linking cultural activities with
Sustainable Development Goals.
This (when completed) will allow us to set up ventures and make it obvious that our "extra money" is not
profit but we're using it for all these
project now paid for as hobbies. We figure that the world (at least Taiwan) welcomes more of the kinds of hobbies we occupy ourselves with - mostly seeking out ways to use resources better.
Using SKIP for story telling in and around Taiwan. Linking it with the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and the more recent IDGs (Inner Development Goals).
it's all about opening doors to participate in distributed leadership good for the whole.
I have no clue right now how all of this will interplay in the next few months. I'm found of just moving with the life force showing up at the moment while keeping connected in the long-term vision. I kinda want to start this string of posts just so I'll have a place to look later and see how the heck did THIS all happen?
We're reminding each other to pay attention to the health present. As I see it, health is always present and flowing. We seem however to get so distracted by non-health. Our thriving network (more network than community) is organizing around building the world that wants us to be healthy, each person in their own way, with ample opportunities for grouping and leadership.
I'm keen now to see what else I write here. Or if anyone asks any questions because something I wrote caught their curiosity.
Off I go to tell my buddy I wrote my post!
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