1st Festival of the New Society #BeyondPolarisation

1st Festival of the New Society, #GrassrootsManifestoes and #BeyondPolarisationInPolitics  being held in 2020.

The Festival of the New Society, #GrassrootsManifestoes and #BeyondPolarisationInPolitics* is to be held #1stto5thSeptember every year; this year by Zoom + postcards etc snail-mailed to participants by Refuge Tree Woods host. 

(Paul Crosland with Marshall Rosenberg at an event which he organised with Mediation UK and NVC-UK, May 2006)

During a particularly hot 2017 July (which was cooler in the wooded Ancient Woodland valley of Refuge Tree Woods, in Wales, with its refreshing stream, etc) a preliminary retreat was led by Alobhin.

The most notable talk there was given by Andy Slack and is available via the #PoliticsAndBuddhistEthics101 playlist:

2020 Programme 

The first three of the 5 days to be a daily talk on (mould-breaking) Triratna inspired themes for 1hour, with the remaining 30minutes of the session allocated to discussion with the other two speakers from the first three days:

Tuesday 1st Sept 

11am Alobhin - Title to be announced - though undoubtedly including A Vision for The Festival of The New Society as a vibrant network of those working beyond left-right politics and inspired by the Bodhisattva ideal.

Wednesday 2nd Sept 

11am Paul Crosland

 “Level-Up (Y)our Life” (talk outline below) 

Thursday 3rd Sept 

11am Andy Slack (TBC)-#PoliticsAndBuddhistEthics101 revisited in the light of recent Labour Party Election defeats and change of leadership.

Friday 4th Sept 

11am

Chaired Discussion between the Zoom audience from any of the previous 3 days

Saturday 5th Sept

11am

3x15minute talks from the 3 Speakers as to what we each take away from the 1st Festival of the New Society followed by panel discussion & networking next steps discussion including setting up Facebook group onto which to load the Zoom footage of the 1st Festival 

Talk Outline:

Level-Up (Y)our Life -being delivered on 2nd September by “Paul BasicIncome Crosland”* Independent Parliamentary Candidate, Hastings and Rye, 2019-2029(?) -promoting #GrassrootsManifestoes etc

Intro: Whose Life Is It Anyway?

1. Join any two (safe-ish) “cults” & distill the differences. 

Or (intensive) Pressure groups, Alternative Health groups, Stop5G?.

2. Build a model of Integration that works for you, 

so that your disparate parts cohere, widen and deepen you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%23MoveForwardMoreTogether

3. Stand For Something (in the spirit of Educate, Agitate, Liberate.

eg when I was asked to declare in a workshop a lifetime ago what I stand for I proclaimed “I stand for Generosity” & that memory I’ve made into a sort of backbone or return to my heart.

4. In Receiving Feedback (which may well include imprisonment): “I don’t know best, we know better”

Develop your own version of what excellence looks like in hearing others’ response to how you appear to them, at your “best” & “worst”. Recollect when you changed your views and keep that antidote to polarisation alive. Remember that leadership requires taking others’ in and following too.

5. Repeat 1 to 4 (3 times?)

6. From the Reactive to the Creative

https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/search.php?q=“mind+reactive+mind+creative”&s=0&at=audio&r=10&b=p(I recommend starting with the 1967 talk of this name: free buddhist audio : Mind: Reactive And Creative “

7. From the Creative to the Communitarian -“Educate, Agitate, Organise” & Matching Energies etchttps://youtu.be/25ctvXZS59g

8. Ensuring that the Communitarian empowers the True Individual:https://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=94

9. In Touch With The Transcendental


10. The Festival of The New Society, beyond polarisation, via “Grassroots Manifestoes”, “Deeper Accountability” and #WFAMIP?

*For further info, Facebook message me -“Paul BasicIncome Crosland”, text me on Zero7807-066-202

& email me at paul.crosland{at}gmail.com


Also https://Twitter.com/paulcrosland &https://Twitter.com/2066Country

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 * Aspiring to establish these hashtags for The #FestivalOfTheNewSociety: , #GrassrootsManifestoes , #BeyondPolarisationInPolitics and #FOTNSgmBPIP