The year 2009 was a year of research, contemplation, and writing, and there were few posts at this "IPCR Community Journal #2".
One major work-in-progress has been underway, and is nearing completion. It will be an update to "The IPCR Workshop Primer". Some of the new pieces which will go into that document have been posted at my worldpulse.com journal (at http://www.worldpulse.com/user/1111 ).
There are four outcomes of the work-in-progess process which are "stand by themselves documents", and worth noting here:
1) "The Twilight of One Era, and the Dawning of Another" (at http://ipcri.net/images/The-Twilight-of-One-Era-and-the-Dawning-of-Another.pdf )
2) "Call for Papers": Requesting Assistance with Creating an "Introduction Section" for Document "Calling 'the better angels of our nature': How Community Visioning Initiatives and Spiritual Wisdom Can Increase the Likelihood of Solution-Oriented Activity in Times of Great Challenges" (at http://ipcri.net/images/Call-for-Papers-complete-text.pdf )
3) A new, very comprehensive "Links" section for the IPCR Initiative website (at http://ipcri.net/images/117-Starting-Points-Links.pdf )
4) A revised and updated version of a core IPCR document "Brief Descriptions of The Eight IPCR Concepts" (with many relevant footnotes) (at http://ipcri.net/images/1-Brief-Descriptions-of-The-Eight-IPCR-Concepts.pdf )
Also worth including here is an excerpt from the "Contact" section of the IPCR Initiative website, which references posts I've made at my Facebook page:
"Special Note (dated August 16, 2009): As a way of providing more information about myself (Stefan Pasti, Founder and Outreach Coordinator for The IPCR Initiative), I have made series of posts on my Facebook page. These posts include excerpts from earlier writings, reflections on rare family keepsakes, a more detailed autobiographical sketch, etc.) A journal entry listing the titles in that series of posts is accessible at my worldpulse.com journal (see "Sharing of a More Personal Nature...." at http://www.worldpulse.com/node/12372 )."
This post is a brief update on the IPCR Initiative.
I invite readers to contribute comments here in the way of descriptions of resources, links, blogs, etc. which they believe would be relevant and helpful people with interests that are similar to those expressed in the above mentioned documents and web pages.
With Kind Regards,
Stefan Pasti, Founder and Outreach Coordinator
The IPCR Initiative
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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An Introduction to The IPCR Community Journal #2
Welcome to The IPCR Community Journal #2.
The IPCR Community Journal #2 is a place where people who would like to assist the efforts of The IPCR Initiative (and people working along similar lines) can contribute constructive comments, resource recommendations and links, relevant news, and suggestions—and to relate relevant personal experiences.
I also invite people who would like to assist the efforts of The IPCR Initiative to visit The IPCR Community Journal, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ipcri/
There are two main differences between this "Community Journal #2" and the yahoo group "Community Journal":
1) This "Community Journal #2" is more informal-- posts in this "community journal" are not going to be quoted or excerpted for use in the "Highlights from The IPCR Community Journal" section of the IPCR website, as with the yahoo group "IPCR Community Journal"
2) The "blog" formatting here allows for extensive links, which are included to encourage a wide range of discussion.
I will be posting commentary, references to resources, and other information relating to The IPCR Initiative here. However, I encourage readers to think of this "Community Journal" as a kind of open forum, where they may respond with comments related to the post I have made, or simply make their own constructive, responsible, and courteous comments. I hope this approach is useful to the efforts of the visitors to this site.
Here is a basic overview of The IPCR Initiative...
The IPCR Initiative is aware of an urgent need to build bridges and increase collaboration between diverse communities of people; both as a response to the implications of global warming, ecological footprint analysis, and the “peaking” of our finite supplies of oil—and to be proactive about individual spiritual formation, interfaith peacebuilding, and the creation of ecologically sustainable communities.
The IPCR Initiative is an accumulation of documents, resources, and observations brought together to support the propositions that we—collectively—have both the need, and the potential, to be
a) much more organized and deliberate about “… bringing to the fore what is often hidden: how many good people there are, how many ways there are to do good, and how much happiness comes to those who extend help, as well as to those who receive it.”
b) much more multifaceted and participation-friendly in our approaches to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability
c) much more resourceful in the use of the accumulated storehouse of wisdomand “embodied energy” which is now accessible to us.
There are many important initiatives which are critical to overcoming the challenges of our times, but which are not quite “coming through the mist as much as they should be.” The IPCR Initiative can be very helpful in exactly these kinds of circumstances, as The Eight IPCR Concepts encourage and facilitate a “constellation” of initiatives by which the best (in the view of the participants using these processes) associated with individual spiritual formation, interfaith peacebuilding, community revitalization, ecological sustainability, etc. can bubble up to the surface, be recognized as priorities, and therefore be brought forward as appropriate recipients of peoples time, energy, and money. Many people can realize the wisdom of deliberately focusing the way they spend their time, energy, and money so that their actions have positive repercussions on the goals listed in the IPCR Mission Statement, and on many or all of the “105 related fields of activity”. As the ancient Chinese proverb says: “Many hands make much work light.”
One of the most persistent ironies in life is that with so many opportunities to provide real assistance to fellow human beings—and with the potential for such assistance to result in happiness “to those who extend help as well as to those who receive it”—there are still many, many people in this world who cannot find a “way to earn a living” providing such assistance.
The IPCR Initiative can help to remedy such an unfortunate irony by helping to create “caring communities”, which are defined here as follows:“Caring communities” are communities with residents who are aware of thedepth and range of the challenges of our times, and therefore do their bestto take actions which will have positive repercussions on the fields ofactivity described by the IPCR Mission Statement goals, and on otherrelated fields of activity.
Peacebuilding in its most compassionate form is not a competitive field of activity. Viewed in this light, the most valuable forms of peacebuilding will nurture, support, and sustain the development of an infinite variety of other forms of peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecologically sustainability initiatives. The IPCR Initiative is an effort to nurture, support, and sustain peacebuilding in its most compassionate form.
For a more complete understanding of The IPCR Initiative, and the resources provided by The IPCR Initiative, please visit the website of The IPCR Initiative, at http://www.ipcri.net/.
With Kind Regards,
Stefan Pasti, Founder and Outreach Coordinator
The IPCR Initiative
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