Threefolding - Spiritual Freedom, Social Justice, Associative Economics

THREEFOLDING is an impulse that shifts challenges into opportunities, shapes practical social outcomes, forms healthy communities & reminds us of our spiritual intentions.

We'll explore: why our current cultural, social rights & economic systems are failing,

how this directly impacts on our Freedom to be truly human

& what we can do together to innovate positive change.

This is a highly interactive, thought-provoking and engaging workshop.

Apart from clear and succinct introductions to the themes, we will use some unusual tools: Storytelling, creative engagement, board games and a deep conversation.

Why Storytelling and creative activity?
Storytelling makes us adaptable, it expands the scope of our mental lives beyond the confines of our actual experience socially, physically, and in every other way. Storytelling provides a fluid unencumbered interaction and immediately creates human community. We are all experiencing an unprecedented techno-boom; information technology supplies us with more ‘facts’ than we can process, but without the wisdom, the insight, needed to interpret and integrate them into our lives, tying us more and more to materialism. Storytelling gives us the space and tools to integrate knowledge gained through intuition, perception and reason and it calms inner chaos. According to neurochemistry, our brain uses about one third of the oxygen our body can take up, when we produce, or experience the production of beauty, and it simultaneously releases highly beneficial chemicals - like endorphins, serotonin, oxytocin, etc. that have vital emotional and physical functions. 

Why Games?
We want to stimulate some great conversations and the games we use do this really well:
The Landlord's Game was designed by Elizabeth Magie for her economics students as a practical demonstration of those economic principles that enrich the few and impoverish the many.
Monopoly, retailed and patented by the Parker Brothers, is a stolen and corrupted version of Landlord's Game . The players' goal: to drive opponents into bankruptcy.

CoQuest and CoQuest Threat by Michael Howard: All great games of the past depend on competition. Team sports transfer this competitive dynamic from two individuals to two groups. And yet, each team exercises a high level of collaboration among themselves in order to be effective in defeating the others. This curious mix of collaboration and competitiveness is also found in business, politics and warfare. The prevailing assumption is that self-interest is deeply rooted in human nature that competition is unavoidable and, therefore, must be accepted as a fact of life. And yet, as self-interest only seems to intensify in today's world, more and more people aspire to live in harmony with all who dwell upon our living Earth. It may not be possible to eradicate self-interest entirely, but our very humanity depends on our striving to harmonize our own needs and aspirations with those of others. Michael's website: livingformstudio.org

The Social Puzzle is a puzzle that can only be solved by players giving away pieces to others. Look around, who needs what you have ...

Conversation: Conversation literally means to 'walk with or turn around with' Hamish, Gillian & Iris have worked with Theory U, and deep listening and understand the power of conversation to build a communal image and relationship to both ideas and to one another. Therein lies the seed to innovate change and new initiatives.