Our (virtuous) intentions in meeting here (virtually)?

The web is a battle ground for me, and I suspect in some way, for you too? Where the conflict is is in relation to what the web is for? My use of it is both about 'What can I grasp?'and 'What can I give?' When I engage with the web with an intention of giving, I experience open, expansive states. This I like much more than when I let the web ensnare my tendencies towards greed, hatred and confusion about what's most important now.

I list on this page only the sites on which I give the most; other uses of the web are confessed in www.theimperfectidealist.blogspot.com; but why would you want to read my confession?
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"When you can do nothing else, you can always give"
You can start giving:

1. by starting a difficult communication: www.peoplesjustice.org.uk
2. by sharing something you have: www.streetbank.com

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Comment on the use of technology for healing: www.restorativetechnology.blogspot.com

Be wryly amused about how I even try and bring the healing of 'being with nature'into a blog: www.whatkindofwater.blogspot.com
Be even more amused at Paul following the wry advice of a friend to create a blog of my newesr blogs!: www.paulsnewestblog.blogspot.com; a meta-blog, no less.

Call in at the "generosity Head Quarters" in Hastings (or take the virtual tour):
http://sussexcommunity.blogspot.com/p/mediation-support-ltd-at-southwater.html
Kind Regards
Paul

Thought for the day on Restorative Justice

Here is: Thought for the day on Restorative Justice 

from  “ordained Buddhist”, Vishvapani, from the Triratna Buddhist Community.

(For Your Information I am also working to become an ordained Buddhist within the Triratna Buddhist Community.)

And here are Vishvapani's other Thoughts for the Day

Vishvapani's website: www.vishvapani.org

NB When I last bumped into Vishvapani and asked him for a quick thought for the day, he said this in a deep (feigned Oriental?) voice:

"Body like mountain, Mind like sky, Be Buddha!"

"The Imperfect Idealist" - slight delay in publication

 The Imperfect Idealist series of Books:

1) The Imperfect Idealist & 40 other cases of Restorative Justice
[available on Amazon Kindle 2011, on request. Kindles can be requested via Paul's iShare Kindles blog or www.freelender.org]
2) The Imperfect Idealist gets over his wish to be understood (first)
3) The Imperfect Idealist and the 6 (Im)perfections
4) The Imperfect Idealist and the 3 Jewels (My relationship to the Triratna Buddhist Order)
5) The Imperfect Idealist at 66; looking back at 44 & 22 again.
[due out in the year 2032 in who knows what format.]
6) The Imperfect Idealist; 88 and not out. Howzat!

www.imperfectidealist.blogspot.com

Contents of this blog & an Introduction on film to Sussex People's Justice

Now this blog has grown much longer than intended to update you on the areas of Paul Crosland's work, the following (selective) contents have been added:

Please give the gift of an education for less than £1 per day
Restorative Technology Ltd's funding from NESTA
1,000 Benefactors in Hastings - and a decent "support & accountability system"
Clarifying my September 2011-2012 plans
The Peoples Justice Website; not just for people from Sussex!
A tour of the Peoples Justice site launched 5th November 2010
Have you voted for your £500k to be spent on incarcerating two arsonists yet?
...
Potted Biography for Paul Crosland

Introduction on film to Sussex People's Justice:

Please give the gift of an education for less than £1 per day:

www.nagaloka-dream-cycle.blogspot.com

I've just returned in 2011 from filming students at the Nagaloka Institute, Nagpur, India. The Men students share their visions here:
Ajit
Arya (in English)
Bishnu
Bhagwan (in English)
Bhijay (in English and in Hindi)
Hemlal
Kamal
Nikass (in English and in Chakma, with translation text provided)
Raj Shakya
Sujeet (with a translator speaking the English after the Hindi)
Women Students:
Prema
Pratigya
Prayenka
Seema
Soni
Sonya
http://nagaloka-dream-cycle.blogspot.com/p/funding.html
100% of your money donated through Mediation Support Ltd goes directly to the Nagaloka Institute:

If you want to support one or more students complete their year at the Nagaloka Institute (which costs £28 per student per month), you can pay into The Mediation Support Ltd bank account- Ask your bank to transfer into the Mediation Support Ltd account (details on request) or post a cheque payable to Mediation Support Ltd to:
Paul Crosland (Nagaloka fund c/o Mediation Support Ltd)
Southwater Area Community Centre,
1-2 Stainsby St,
St Leonards on Sea
E. Sussex
TN37 0SY
Funding request from Nagamitra for £28 for a student's monthly support

Restorative Technology Ltd's funding from NESTA

The National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts are funding a pilot project being provided by Restorative Technology Ltd

"The Restorative Technology Ltd wider vision is both to enable increased understanding between those involved in and affected by crimes and also to encourage responsibility being taken by all who can contribute to generating safer societies."                (Director and CEO -Paul Crosland)

The Restorative Technology Ltd (draft) business plan is here, and you can offer to support the development of this work by emailing Paul Crosland via the Mediation Support Ltd email contact form here.
If you are from a Youth Offending Team with a demonstrable record of high quality victim contact work (and/or a high victim participation rate), Restorative Technology Ltd may be able to offer in 2011 low-cost-to-user sessions in which the SafeGround software can be used for Restorative Justice staff to role play cases, communicating via video-messaging and text messaging.
For more about NESTA's Reboot Britain work; of which Restorative Technology Ltd's SafeGround project is one of the 12 innovations in delivery of public services, see here.

1,000 Benefactors in Hastings - and a decent "support & accountability system"

When I start to work in 2011 to raise standing order commitments in Hastings, it is important to me that my work is accountable to the supporters of the following organisations:
1) Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust
2) Freelending Community Interest Company
I propose an annual meeting at which I am held to account for my actions in Hastings in relation to the above organisations; held accountable by the 1,000 supporters of those two organisations whom I intend to sign-up.
Any other ideas welcome as to how, as an 'in-comer' I get the balance of accountability & support right for my work in Hastings?

Clarifying my September 2011-2012 plans

For the year from September 2011, I plan to give my time, prioritised as follows:

1. Developing the Peoples Justice Service and Mediation Support Ltd
2. Developing the Criminal Justice System's equivalent of the People's Justice Service with partner Youth Offending Teams (For this work, payment is from Restorative Technology Ltd)
3. Promoting www.streetbank.com in Hastings & St Leonards (supported by Freelending CIC, of which I am a co-director) 
4. Returning to active work as a Trustee of the RJC (after my sabbatical year)

The Peoples Justice Website; not just for people from Sussex!

The first three cases (in three days) on http://peoplesjustice.org.uk are as follows:

1. Hastings Pier Fire -a Hastings resident starting private communication with the "arsonists" (and selectively allowing some of it onto YouTube)
2. London (Haringey) 'ambushing by 4 youths'
3. London (Barnet), theft of cycle accessories

I hope that the planned Autumn 2011 BBC documentary about Hastings Pier will clarify what actually happened; helping the community move on from the rumour-mongering. To get questions answered and issues worked through is the contribution that the Peoples Justice Service is here for. Not just for the pier burning; visit the site to explore how to gain more control in the wake of a crime on http://peoplesjustice.org.uk

A tour of the Peoples Justice site launched 5th November 2010

Ironic that I was also a crime 'victim' on 5th November 2010, the website launch date. I am pursuing justice with the individuals (who I don't know) through the People's Justice Website and posting a notice at the site of the crime in East Finchley to incentivise their participation.