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Together
Bound a Gathering of the Mad
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Introduction
Why: The
time has come for an ambitious large-scale event which calls upon all the personal
skills and energies we can collectively bring into focus. The challenge is simple: ourselves
together- in the form of a wide range of concerned people of every perspective, whatever the
degree of opposition or harmony, rationality or irrationality. The processes will be carefully
designed to facilitate the expression and weaving together of these contrasting modes of
operation: discovering the subtle pattern which connects what we each consider vital.
We intend to create
an empty central space into which the unexpected can be born. But this is
essentially a self- organizing event, despite the careful attention which will be given to
processes. Much will be left to the responsibility of participants acting in the light of the
spontaneous inspiration of the moment. This is a high-risk creative experience for those who
believe this to be the price of real collective breakthrough.
The event should
be the most exciting and testing you have ever attended: part work, part fair,
with joy and despair, drama and paradox - truly a healing dance of life in its deepest and most
ambiguous sense. For those committed to change, it could be the most significant. The event
will not only be a catalyst for change, it will be an expression of it. Things will not be the same
afterwards - especially for those who participate.
1. Frames that Work?
