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This presentation was given by Peter Forrest at the AWTW discussion weekend of 1-2 September 2007.

Developing a multinational of communities

Overview from the Holistic Education Foundation

1.0 SCOPE

1.1 It is clear for all to see that the socio-economic and political structures on our planet have failed beyond repair. The urgent need for new systems is common knowledge, as is the inability of Governments to produce them.

1.2 Meantime, the innate human potential for positive self-development lies largely frustrated and impotent. In effect, the balanced progress of mankind awaits the appearance of realistic and practical alternatives to enable mass support for a new model for living.

1.3 Already there are huge networks around the globe representing enormous numbers of people in numerous communities. For instance:

1.4 Any new model must recognise and embrace the essential human need and desire for sustainable self-sufficiency, pursuit of creative talents and respect for life. By so doing, it will gain immediate and irresistible support from all quarters.

1.5 In designing solutions, however, we should be wary of ‘throwing out the baby with the bath water’. In other words, mankind has developed numerous excellent systems of management and production, which can be integrated into the solutions.

1.6 In effect, best practice can be assured by replicating these systems for the advantage of the many. To do so, we must recruit like-minded professionals to develop management structures and delivery systems to match those of the current ‘elite’.

1.7 Further, we must acknowledge that the people with the expertise needed to deliver the new systems already reside within local communities. Meanwhile, all too often, they have to leave those communities to ‘earn a living’.

1.8 In the process, we can refocus the direction and use of resources, including technological innovation, for the collective benefit and balanced progress of mankind and our planet.

1.9 Essentially, communities will enable themselves to replace current hierarchical structures when they pool their resources to achieve the bargaining power of huge corporations,.

1.10 The ‘oil’ of new and complementary systems of debt-free finance, or ‘asset-money’, can be injected to enable recognition of the neutral role of money, as a token or ticket for fair exchange of goods and services.

1.11 Current databases, that enable debt-fuelled financial systems, can, in due course, be replaced with new databases, that enable transactions between members using debt-free systems. Thus, the insidious control and power mechanisms of the banking structures can be nullified.

2.0 KEY OPERATIONAL ELEMENTS

2.1 Source and appoint the first executive and non-executive Boards to design and
manage a new operational structure, based on the development of interactive
community ‘hubs’, actual and virtual.

2.2 Integrate tgl.tv community search engine as the central software tool to enable
initiation and proliferation of the new system. ‘Network the networks’ to create
‘win-win’ alliances, interconnecting databases to link members and services.

2.3 Build prototype operational models with quality assurance systems to introduce
best practice to local hub developers and communities.

2.4 Employ local skills audits to enable local involvement at all stages from design through construction to governance with focus on ‘cluster power’.

2.5 Guarantee genuine member consultation to enable consensus on issues of
political process, aims, representation and management, based on the new
structures and objectives.

2.6 Enable formation of ‘hub faculties’ in ‘clusters’ of hands-on learning and
production. Cross-fertilisation of skills and services can develop organically alongside growth of mutual respect and cooperation between communities.

2.7 Give responsibility for delivery and quality of local services to local clusters. They
can maintain transparency through development of trusted local media. Typical clusters may be:

2.8 Recycle surplus funds from tgl.tv subscriptions, local economies of scale and communal systems to enhance community liquidity and cohesion.

2.9 Encourage and enable new systems of ‘asset-money’ (debt-free complementary credit systems) commencing with tgl.tv ‘L’ accounts.

2.10 Develop national and regional ‘Epicentres’ to focus and cross-fertilise best practice in hands-on educational projects, alongside research and development of new systems.

2.11 Produce alternative sustainable investment models and prospectuses to assist recycling of traditional currencies into the new system. Opportunities include:

2.12 Encourage research and investment into new energy and transport solutions,like zero-point energy and airships, as the permanent remedy to fossil fuel pollution.

2.13 Guarantee consultation with and appointment of indigenous peoples to design, guide and manage global ecological and community healing.

2.14 Initiate ‘global healing’ projects, proposed, selected, funded and managed by and between hubs and clusters. Opportunities include:

2.15 Fundamentally re-examine and refocus the concept, objectives and nature of‘education’ to embrace its original meaning, ‘to bring out from within’.

2.16 Release the exponential potential inherent in a creatively-founded global network of communities, bonded in common purpose.

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