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Permalink Reply by Nick Wilding on April 20, 2009 at 15:00

Many thanks Jane for posting this up... I'm just finishing the next 'newsburst' with mike and helen and will point folk to this conversation to help generate traffic.

I think it might help people to contribute if you were able to give a bit more thinking of what worked that you want to build on from last year, and maybe a bit more detail on the elements and flow between them that are already in place so we can get more of a sense of what questions and particular elements you are inviting input into?

By the way, a friend just sent me a review of events from the Fetzer Institute (I'll attach it here) that I've skimmed and it looks fascinating...

Cheerio for now
NIck

PS just updated the books list on this site too, with some of tony's suggestions...

Attachments:

• Fetzer PosFutures MovementBuilding.pdf, 3.2 MB

Permalink Reply by Jane Stoneham on April 24, 2009 at 14:04

Thanks Nick, We'll be posting up more content just as soon as we can so folks can get a clearer idea of where we'd most welcome input. I like the Fetzer post, looks very interesting, I look forward to reading in more detail.

Permalink Reply by Kate Braithwaite on April 22, 2009 at 11:52

Thanks Jane
We would love to be involved in the planning. One way we could achieve this is through Kirsty! As part of her professional development, she could spend a week with you in July/August - or whenever is best for you - to learn from your team and contribute ideas.

We will certainly plan to be there for the duration of the Sense of Place event

Willie Roe, Chairman of Highlands and islands Enterprise would like a spot and he is inspirational speaker - with loads of excellent examples from his part of the world to draw upon. And an announcement to make too about HIE's involvement in Carnegie's work. Will it be possible for you to issue an invite to him?

Permalink Reply by Jane Stoneham on April 24, 2009 at 14:16

Kate, that is music to our ears, and I can guarantee that we will be taking you up on that kind offer (yes that is the clattering of sensory hooves that you can hear heading towards you from the distant hills). We'll have a much better idea of timings in the next few weeks once we've done some more detailed planning so shall we get in touch then to make more specific plans?

It's excellent news about Willie Roe. One of things on our to do list is desiging the invites and we'll be in touch soon to talk about lists of folk to invite and which ones should go from us and which ones from you. More to follow on all this soon.

Permalink Reply by Kirsty Tait on April 24, 2009 at 15:11

Sounds ominous!!! Seriously though I am really looking forward to it. Make sure the sun shines for me please or maybe we will be in a darkened room plotting and planning for the whole week and I won't see anything anyway!
Have a lovely weekend!
Kirsty

Permalink Reply by Hazel Stuteley on April 25, 2009 at 14:20

Hi everyone.....it was a joy to present after Ron Colman recently. I just loved everything he said...specially 'gross national happiness'! I took him to Beacon and Redruth and he reckoned folk there were really happy! I vividly remember when they werent so a true testimony to what they.ve achieved for themselves with a bit of help from C2! I.ve written a piece, a bit of an update on C2 sites and my thoughts on why a lot of interventions fail to produce 'people' outcomes inspired by something Tara wrote in 2006. Great to see so many old friends at Rural Sparks award....hi Nick... and to meet new ones...other winners were so inspiring....could they present at S o P ? Expect you.re already on it Jane.
Will attempt to post my 'blog' ...apologies in advance if I fail!! XXXX
PS taking extended trip ( May to Sept) in motorhome to explore properly our sceptered isle. Will be at ABCD conf in Liverpool....doing workshop on TR14ers...probably camping in car park!