June 26th 2010, Rose Diamond
I have just passed a happy couple of hours reading all the good news from Yes! Magazine, http://www.yesmagazine.org
I decided to copy this extract from an article by David Korten “The Big Picture: 5 ways to know if you’re making a difference.” http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-big-picture-5-ways-to-know-if-youre-making-a-difference
This is so relevant to building a Whole New World, if we want a new world we have to each start living it today. Here is what David Korten has to say:
” This is the model I think of when I think about what it will take to build the New Economy—one based on fulfilling the basic needs of people and planet—that we need. It’s also the way that that economy is already being built: step by step, in creative and surprising ways, by people looking for alternatives to a system that isn’t working for them.
To bring down the institutions of Empire, we must begin to build the rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy. These must be lived into being from the bottom up.
So how do you know whether your work is contributing to a big-picture outcome? If you can answer yes to any one of the following five questions, then be assured that it is.
- Does it help discredit a false cultural story fabricated to legitimize relationships of domination and exploitation and to replace it with a true story describing unrealized possibilities for growing the real wealth of healthy communities?
- Is it connecting others of the movement’s millions of leaders who didn’t previously know one another, helping them find common cause and build relationships of mutual trust that allow them to speak honestly from their hearts and to know that they can call on one another for support when needed?
- Is it creating and expanding liberated social spaces in which people experience the freedom and support to experiment with living the creative, cooperative, self-organizing relationships of the new story they seek to bring into the larger culture?
- Is it providing a public demonstration of the possibilities of a real-wealth economy?
- Is it mobilizing support for a rule change that will shift the balance of power from the people and institutions of the Wall Street phantom-wealth economy to the people and institutions of living-wealth Main Street economies?”
A Whole New World is aligned with all five of these questions and I’ll be exploring them on the A Whole New World Radio Show with some of my guests over the next three months. Join me at 1pmET at : http://www.realcoachingradio.net/content/live-studio-call-vip-show-hot-line-303-872-0503
Information about weekly guests will be posted on the Events page on this site.
