Imagine this as a leaflet that you receive - or preferably deliver - with an open heart and a cup of tea

Dear Neighbour

I believe in community and with your positive response to my brother’s suffering we could have a wonderful community here at no cost; just a little mutual care.

My family is trying to get a bicycle for my brother for Christmas and it’s harder than you might think. Part of the difficulty is that he’s been diagnosed as having a type of terminal cancer that affects the choice of bicycle. Maybe he’ll be able to handle a mountain bicycle for now, but after the last attempt at surgery it will be a fold-up bicycle that will work best so that friends and neighbours can drive him to a favourite lake for him to cycle round as a break from being under mum’s roof all the time. You know how it is? Families under pressure? Anyhow, it’s not just a bicycle my brother needs; it’s a community and a community is, for me and him, defined by how much it cares and how much it shares. 

I’ll be calling round to talk to neighbours about streetbank.com

This is a place where you can find whatever items and support you need for free; like a community tool store with advisors to hand. The problem is that the whereabouts of the bicycle racks for cars, camping equipment, fancy dress for parties etc is hidden until we put it on streetbank.com or freelender.org or similar. Then we not only have a local resource for unexpected needs, but we also get to meet each other and believe in each other again, for love grows from connections such as I’m suggesting.

Please don’t wait for me to call round about the availability of a bicycle at your house. Instead please give yourself this Christmas by opening the door of sharing and putting items that may be of use to others online. If you’re worried about what might happen to your stuff, take deposit money (or favours/work) from people until each person has established enough trust. If you don’t use the internet allow me to help add the items on your behalf that your neighbours will appreciate being behind a nearby friendly door at their time of need.

My name’s ... and my number is ... When we next meet I do hope it is to find creative ways to help all those in our neighbourhood who could benefit from just a little bit more caring and sharing...

http://streetbank.com

http://freelender.org

The Director of Action for Happiness came visiting

- he was hoping to find a formula to copy the success of the local Action for Happiness group, and wider St Leonards Sharing Consortium, both of which I had founded. Before leaving he told me that he put the success down to “the Paul Crosland effect”. Over seven years later and I’ve still not been asked to begin a self-cloning operation!

At the time I was funded by a credit card & a benefactor who became that because of seeing how I handled criticism. May at least one of the half dozen projects alighted upon in this diverse group discussion relate to what you do for others ...and stimulate constructive dialogue between us (Text first please on Zero7807 066 202).
Anyhow, here’s the film from the heyday of my innovative version of Community Development Work (self-appointed!) in Hastings and St Leonards on Sea:

http://CommunicatingNeeds.org

Engaging Off-Road Bikers Around Sheffield

http://twitter.com/PaulRestorative

If you wonder what this is about or want to give any reaction, please text or preferably phone - Paul Crosland Zero7807066202

1st Fruitful Haiku:,Wild Strawberry Pip, Lodged in Molar Regions, Eviction Next Week.

How to get to a better life (for all) Choose breath, long, satisfying and curiously searching; especially when instant reaction serves no one Choose to unpack the bag with the kindest kind of rummaging that can be mustered when flustered* Choose vulnerability and "staying in discomfort long enough to figure out what's really going on"** Choose compassionate enquiry and count our blessings; being loved and/or able to love is a wonderful world Deepen same-sex friendship through acceptance and appreciation of difference, revealing dialogue and pregnant pauses Choose meaning, mystery and myth; finding the holy grail in the home hearth*** Take heart and choose the weather that's actually happening, rather than fight the storm Identify with the sky-like nature of our min d rather than identify with the passing clouds of anxiety or depression or envy**** Only at the very end, choose death. *And jettison some flotsam and jetsam **Brene Brown, Woman's Hour, 4th November, 2015 ***A number of stories have this theme, the earliest I remember and can reference is at the end of this, to me, wonderful Arthurian talk: http://www.freebuddhistaudio.com/audio/details?num=OM584 ****Sarvananda, Meaning in Life, p73 [default email footer] Paul Crosland Director, Mediation Support Ltd Tel Zero7807 066 202 [Tshirt:] Is The Pope Catholic? Do Buddhists Sit In The Woods?  [Reverse:] #FreeRange #Buddhist Woodland Sculpture Park -nature, art, community (108 shares available)

Visions of sharing the woods for sculpture, aerial walkways, Welsh valley zip lining, retreats and relocating the freelender Mind Body Spirit Library - Yurt cafe

To change your relationships to money, time and community for the better, please read/watch this blog or just phone/text Paul for a chat:
Zero7807 066 202

Let this become an increasingly viable location for the 2020 Festival, adjacent to Refuge Tree Woods, South West Wales

To change your relationships to money, time and community for the better & receive opportunities to co-create a more caring & sharing life (in a "Team-Based-Right-Livelihood") phone/text Paul for a chat: Zero7807 066 202

& the Care4Care.mov message (from Prof Heinz Wolff) that has been formative in practice and strategy development for Mediation Support Ltd is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_MZZnJhsvI
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If not leafleting or litter picking around your street or helping with running the freelender.org Mind Body Spirit library, how would you like to earn your first 15 Timebank hours etc.(& what service/events would you most like to spend your Timebank credits on?) Tel Zero7807 066202

For a general introduction to Timebanking from one of the national organisations who commissioned me to create a social media strategy for them, see: http://timebanking.org.uk

Steps towards the 2020 edition of The Festival of The New Society being held in Carmathenshire

The Small (Woodland) Festival of The New Society: 1st-5th Sept each year. Express interest on 2066.info

The 1st Background Filmlet

Lobbying for Russell Brand at Buddhafield Festival 2015

http://youtu.be/_pTKXFap4m0


http://youtu.be/Wl92_hMoXV4



http://youtu.be/DJr2NTUPvBI

See http://buddhafield.com

Wait for pier fire justice

The Hastings Observer has published an edited version of a letter I submitted and given it the headline "Wait for pier fire justice goes on": http://sussexcommunity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/wait-for-pier-fire-justice.html
Follow the link for the full version.