Monday

Potted http://StLeonardsSharing.info Manifesto

1) Keep coming back to the values of "caring and sharing"
2) Where there is difference, build understanding and trust
3) Practice seeing "my" property/wealth as belonging to the community
4) Honour the "5 ways of well being": Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning & Give
5) Value community learning opportunities eg "Hastings Pier Fire Justice Fiasco"/ "We Need To Act If We Want Justice"
6) In responses to all conflagrations develop creativity & flexible nonviolent (direct) action
7) Earn our care in later years by acts of service this week
8) Generate support structures for all with as much wisdom and compassion as we can foster for self and other/world.
(http://StLeonardsSharing.info)





























Do you know the difference between a conflict and a dispute? The second requires two people actually expressing the inevitable rubbing up of conflicting strategies; the first does not.
Are you using the energy of conflicts/disputes well such that you are getting better results and less violence (disconnection/demand/deserve thinking/denial of responsibility) each time. To do it differently this time try the free on-line walk-through of your situation via http://CommunicatingNeeds.org

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

& the Care4Care.mov message (from Prof Heinz Wolff) that I'm taking personal responsibility to deliver to 19,000 doors in Hastings & St Leonards is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_MZZnJhsvI
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What do you make of the #2066 #Timebanking Gallery?
(We're based at Southwater Area Community Centre, TN37 6LA).
You might, for example, come along to discuss or play "Yes to What? The #2066 #Timebanking Game".
The Gallery is open Mondays and Fridays from noon-6pm (or later by request).

To register your interest and thereby hasten the convening of meetings for the 20+ other locals who are interested in moving this forward for the welfare of all: http://stleonardstimebank.blogspot.co.uk/p/welcome-register-page.html
And 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

Sunday

4 door knockers 4 a more caring & sharing Hastings

Recruiting for 4-6 weeks (starting August 1st 2014 & provisionally repeating in 2015)
4 door knockers 4 a more caring & sharing Hastings
(& http://StLeonardsSharing.info)
Also 'Pay It Forward Pedicab' drivers
- bringing people between the sea & http://2066.info Gallery

Monday

May all our work be sanctified


With Dad yesterday. I reviewed the folder featured in this little YouTube film:


Dad said that the phrase "My Work" sanctified what it is I do. Unfortunately he meant this as a "put down". My "lift up" reflection is that I would love everyone to sanctify their work, whatever they do, whoever recognises the work with money or Timebank credits or whatever.






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Canary Wharf Moonset:


Extract from Brighton & East Sussex Triratna Buddhist "Sangha Day" talk:


Vajrasattva in the countryside & on the train into London Bridge:


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Radio 4 programme on the Sharing Economy - note to Freelending CIC co-director

Wednesday

The recipe, so far







Take one Imperfect Idealist
And add him to Hastings
In the wake of the 2010 Pier Fire
Stir in a family drama,
A couple of IVF eggs
And beat vigorously
With the milk of human kindness.
Heat gently on a griddle
Then describe the product of this riddle
As the sea etc wears the rough edges away.








Sunday

How the #2066 #Timebanking Gallery launch has been presented in the Hastings Observer

2 mentions (December 2013 & February 2014):



20th December 2013:
"WHAT FOSTERS COMMUNITY?

ONE thing that struck me in the letters page (Observer, December 6) was the s**t being thrown back at the council for a campaign that hardly looks likely to encourage behaviour change.

Similarly there was a poignant doubting of the council having undertaken due diligence in relation to the Jerwood Gallery as fostering a sense of (united) community. Thanks to your letters, the over-arching question raised seems to be: “What communications and what art (galleries) foster community?”

Success lies after a number of failures, but only if we as a community can articulate what went wrong. As a critical commentator (on sussexcommunity.blogspot.co.uk etc -as featured in your Tweets of the Week recently) and the main creator of social media about the pier fire (and the subsequent “Pier Fire justice fiasco”), I certainly question time and time again what any of us, in the midst of these disputes, are learning about community development?

Similarly, the Pier Charity Community Shares Scheme only raised a third of the requisite pledges in the first two thirds of the fundraising time.

Failure is looming and the charity is bound by its word in its prospectus to return all money if, as seems all too likely, £500,000 is not raised by January 4, 2014. Can we learn better this time without throwing too much s**t around?

As for the best value for money (community) art in Hastings and St Leonards, I experienced it last Saturday on the Hastings Urban Bikes Illuminated Ride to the North Pole - December 7, 2013 (Google that or find the film on HUB’s Facebook page).

With three interesting locations near the seafront opening their doors and offering drinks to brightly lit cyclists who were following the Christmas Ska coming from a bicycle-trailer-sized sound-system, this co-created community art mobile instalation cost participants nothing and was a joy to behold. Thank you once again to High Tides Cycles, Marine Court for mulled wine and The Admiral Benbow run by Philip Oakley on London Road for all the fun of the fair and Apple Juice, as well as the Rock-a-Nore Pole secret venue.

Peace and goodwill to all men, women and children, whatever role we all take from time to time in fouling or using foul language, blaming or taking responsibility.

And a Happy New Year with the Hastings Pier Fire & Community Development Art Gallery set to open in St Leonards on Saturday, February 1 too.

PAUL CROSLAND
Chairman
St Leonards Sharing Consortium
Southwater Area Community Centre
Stainsby Street
St Leonards


http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/letters/what-fosters-community-1-5761092

7th February 2014:
"THANKS FOR HELP TO FEED THE NEEDY

CONGRATULATIONS to the Seaview Project (on the corner of Hatherley Road and Southwater Road), as reported by you in the Observer (January 31), for raising more funds to feed marginalised individuals.

Thank you also for your separate article about the Museum Art Exhibition of photographs of service users and the touching comment, “They’re my family”.

Unfortunately you may have once again inadvertently spread confusion about the name of local buildings. The Southwater (Area) Community Centre is a separate building less than 70 metres away and distinctively “Salmon” coloured.

Here, next to Platform 2 of Warrior Square station we only occasionally provide free meals. One such date is Saturday, February 15 when a new gallery is opening; previously advertised as the Hastings Pier Fire and Community Development Gallery (as per a letter in your paper on December 20).

For political reasons the gallery name has greatly changed; it is the #2066 #Timebanking Gallery. Vacancies exist for performers and life models for every day the gallery is open. A folk singer from Scotland (http://SusannaOrrHolland.com) is due to perform the free gig after the free buffet on February 15 for those who have booked by texting confirmation from Zero7807 70 66 202 or registering on http://stleonardstimebank.blogspot.co.uk or on the [Action for Hastings Happiness] Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Action-for-Hastings-Happiness/205287996172754?ref=ts&fref=ts]

Thank you again for this opportunity to correct things and announce a new phase of Community Projects in the Gensing area, north of Warrior Square station.

PAUL CROSLAND
Chairman
St Leonards Sharing Consortium
Southwater Area Community Centre
Stainsby Street
St Leonards

http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/letters/thanks-for-help-to-feed-needy-1-5862888




Radio 4 programme on the Sharing Economy - note to Freelending CIC co-director http://bit.ly/1fqs05K

Tuesday

About my "Buddhist Boot Camp" inspired videos

Latest reply to a commentator on my Buddhist Boot Camp inspired videos on http://YouTube.com/toothpaste007 "Thank you Luca, I have great respect and gratitude for Stephen Bachelor both for his books and how he is face to face as a teacher. "Buddhism without Beliefs" was my entry from a state of despair (with humanity)in the face of a relationship end to my love of the Triratna Buddhist order and discovery of Ambedkarite Buddhism in India (1956 mass conversion in Nagpur to the present day). "The Faith to Doubt" is another of Stephen's books I hold dear. My interest in Timber Hawkeye's one and only book - he has no others in the pipeline and is moving from Hawaii to California to train in being a signer (sign language not sign painting) is that he has some knockout (over-simplistic) ideas and I'd love the world to understand the basic choice between loving what is and fearing it that we encounter day by day. I love Sangharakshita's assertion (in The Relgion of Art) that the core value of Buddhism is fearlessness, and this fearlessness to me now, is the product of wisdom & compassion. Also I love "Buddhist Boot Camp - Repentance"; video of that name uploaded yesterday and the basic idea that the world would be better if we levelled out working for money to approx 20hours for each person (in The West); to which I suggest we also have an equal number of hours in our lives socialising in ways that exchange Timebank credits. All of this has to be conveyed simply to others (well, that's my chosen mission); what would it take for me to recruit you onto the team - money etc?"
















Thursday

Explaining the nature of the #2066 #Timebanking Gallery

The space is intended to be a hub for the engagement of local people in exchanging services through the principle of timebanking. The St Leonards Sharing Timebank aim is that at least 40 hours a week of doing odd jobs for each other are undertaken in the Southwater Area. Rather than just present this on http://stleonardstimebank.blogspot.co.uk I intend to present the community-building nature of this work through encouraging a greater flow of the community into a Timebanking themed Gallery, to be called the #2066 #Timebanking Gallery, where people will be able to borrow from 5 bookcases of Mind, Body, Spirit (& other books), engage in dialogue with the Gallery Assistant and possibly buy a number of items. The key items on sale are presently planned to be books about Community Development work, how people have learned to live well despite low incomes, how more equal societies are happier and how to engage better in Needs-based dialogue and co-create empowered communities. Photos that I had in a 2012 Coastal Currents exhibition and CDs of performers at the Timebank events will also feature.

A range of events will be regularly provided that will use the main hall for eg a folk singer or a training like that which approximately 20 people attended In September 2011 (Dialogue Road Map Training) & the chair of Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust, having been greatly moved by, said he would recommend to all boards of Trustees with which he was engaged. With the intention of demonstrating the much wider range of applicability of this training it seems best to also mention Stuart, a homeless guy who turned up at the Southwater Centre instead of the Seaview centre and was given accommodation by another of the event attendees. Stuart also valued the two day training, not just for the friendliness experienced and high quality of connection with others but for the learning.

Until the Timebank grows I can only guarantee the following opening hours for the #2066 #Timebanking Gallery:
Monday 1pm-6pm
Friday 12-8pm
Entry at other times will be based on appointment & I would also maintain the Mediation Service I run (http://telephonemediation.org.uk) from this space along with having the more private space for sensitive dialogue upstairs.

On a couple of Fridays a month I would intend to host meetings of Hastings & St Leonards Action For Happiness.

The value base of all activities is that they be carried out with "openness, accountability, and be focused on co-creating more caring and sharing community."

Kind regards
Paul

Paul Crosland
Community Development

#FreeRange #Buddhist
Curator of #2066 #Timebanking Gallery
The Imperfect Idealist
"Lend-It-All Man"
Action For Hastings Happiness 'Pay It Forward' Rickshaw Captain

Tel 0780 7066202
Twitter: http://twitter.com/paulcrosland
YouTube: http://YouTube.com/toothpaste007
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/my-email-footer-is-here-instead-of-on.html

Monday

Action for Hastings Happiness" Freelending, Timebanking & Community Share Gallery

"Action for Hastings Happiness" Freelending, Timebanking & Community Share Gallery."

Opening 1st Feb 2pm-6pm, then free meal followed by 7pm free gig from Susanna Orr Holland (from Edinburgh) launching her CD, "February" in her first East Sussex Gig. http://susannaorrholland.com






Core gallery opening times:
From Monday 3rd February 2014 to June 2014 summer closure period:
Mondays Noon-6pm (including Bank Holidays)
Fridays Noon-8pm
Gallery open at other times by arrangement - Telephone Paul Crosland on 07807 06202

Those who visit the SouthwaterArea Centre for the Freelender library are invited to read the books there. Having tried that, books of which there are multiple copies may be taken home.
Those who find the gallery opening times too limited at present are invited to volunteer to open the gallery at other times. Gallery Staff are recompensed in St Leonards Timebank credits, exchangeable for an ever widening range of services, rent payment and food within St Leonards.
The option of ordering your first book for delivery to your home at no charge exists via http://freelender.org - following which, to order extra home delivery of books at a time convenient to you, you will need to spend a Timebank credit, which can be earned in a number of ways including:
Fridays 7pm-8pm "#SouthwaterArea Community Development" mini filmshow - a valued opportunity to give feedback on the filmed work of Mediation Support Ltd & Freelending Community Interest Company
1st & 3rd Fridays 8pm-9pm "Action for Hastings Happiness" meetings
2nd & 4th Fridays 8pm-9pm #FreeRange #Buddhist led discussion on cultural & ethical regeneration in Hastings & St Leonards

http://additionalinfo.blogspot.co.uk

Kind regards
Paul






Paul Crosland
Community Development

#FreeRange #Buddhist
The Imperfect Idealist
"Lend-It-All Man"
Action For Hastings Happiness 'Pay It Forward' Rickshaw Captain

Tel 0780 7066202
Twitter: http://twitter.com/paulcrosland
YouTube: http://YouTube.com/toothpaste007
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/my-email-footer-is-here-instead-of-on.html

STOP PRESS: Lifecoach reminds me to refocus on helping others. THUS LESS CROSLAND pseudo art (in a search for belonging & redemption) & a RENAMING 1st Feb opening.
"Action for Hastings Happiness" Freelending, Timebanking & Community Share Gallery."

This is a team-based "right livelihood" as first announced at https://thebuddhistcentre.com/search/node/TBRL

#CommunityDevelopment GALLERY STAFF ALWAYS WANTED:
The recompense for the first 15hours with me is £75+15 Timebank hours (what this can be traded for includes 15hours from http://mariaarpa.co.uk*) + 75 #SouthwaterArea community shares (to be explained within the 15hours in the gallery). http://stleonardstimebank.blogspot.co.uk

*Endorsement from Hastings Pier Charity Trustee, Ray Chapman: http://youtu.be/O_y4dafXBok etc etc






Why perpetuate the blame game when you could take responsibility (having first expressed your pain with a simple 'OUCH': http://youtu.be/nVjDOKDl54s) ?

Wednesday

Work alongside me please in the gallery for a while


“HASTINGS PIER FIRE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Art Gallery” will be opened in St Leonards on 1st February 2014 by #FreeRange #Buddhist #2066 - as advertised on https://thebuddhistcentre.com/search/node/TBRL



GALLERY STAFF WANTED - Try a 15 hour contract, for which you get £75+15hours Timebank credits+100 SouthwaterAreaCommunityShares - AGM held on every anniversary of the Oct 5th 2010 Hastings Pier Fire



(Please submit your Art on the themes of the Hastings Pier Fire &/or Community Development)

More inspiration available from http://sussexcommunity.blogspot.co.uk



#FreeRange #Buddhist Action For Hastings Happiness ‘Pay It Forward’ Rickshaw ‘Captain’ & servant of the (wisdom & compassion?) machine that is http://YouTube.com/toothpaste007

Tel 0780 70 66 202

Four precious letters (OUCH): http://youtu.be/nVjDOKDl54s



And here’s what you can count on me for: http://additionalinfo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/my-email-footer-is-here-ins…



GALLERY STAFF WANTED - Try a 15 hour contract, for which you get £75+15hours Timebank credits+100 SouthwaterAreaCommunityShares - AGM held on every anniversary of the Oct 5th 2010 Hastings Pier Fire