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We have Supported community transformation for 29 years. We needed a more co-evolutionary approach to support
transformation,so after 5 years of practical investigation, combining somatics, process work, with our organizational development
and social movement learning background - here we go - as the Movement Center for Deep Democracy! Mission: Facilitating
healing and cooperative organizing to assert, connect and realize mutual health and wealth in the world with no more need
for war within and war against each other. Vision: a future in which every person feels welcome, supported and engaged everywhere,
and in which we all share responsibility for healthy relations, sustainable practices, resilient communities, shared peace,
real justice, and commonwealth in a regenerated common earth. How
we work The Movement Center works to catalyze the transformative capacity of people, organizations,
and change networks to effect meaningful and substantive accelerated change in the social structure. We offer a “movement
space” to support deeper awareness, more aware movement building, stronger support for our movement building efforts,
and more effective movement facilitation through the spaces in which we normally get stuck. Our uniqueness is our blend of backgrounds and capacities that form our leadership, which we in
turn offer to you at a great price, tailored for your purposes, and offered both efficiently and effectively by the wisdom
of synergic design we craft with you. The Center’s
core belief is that with deep democracy we can and will better realize a range of progressive socal changes that have been slow to come, painful to wait for. We share processes that accelerate
the pathways of change in individual and group knowledge, attitude, and behavior. Where are we coming from, and how is it different
in the field? Arnold Mindell is credited with coining "deep democracy". As founder of the field of Process-Oriented Psychology
in the 1970s, through which he came to awareness of the significance of deep democracy as the foundation for process work
(in the 1980s), we owe an intellectual and practical acknowledgement to Arny. We both got introduced to process work in 2001,
Zea through Martha Sanbower. Sam, through Zea. Since that time, Zea has gone through (still-in-process) the MA in Conflict
Facilitation and Organzational Change at the Process Work Instiute in Portland, Oregon. Though her studies there, she has
had the opportunity to learn about the Lewis Method of Deep Democracy, in South Africa, and study under Max and Ellen Schupback,
founders of the Deep Democracy Institute. Sam has been working with, healing with, and learning from indigenous communities since 1983, so
various indigenous ways of knowing are part of our intellectual and cultural architecture as well. We have both come from
3rd and 4th world perspectives, and this distinguishes us, significantly, from our peers in the field. We see the diversity
we spring from as a gift to the movement for deep democracy. We are not in competition or concert with our peers, but we share
a vibration - a songline - that calls forth deeper and deeper democracy. We start from the same place in this way, and connect
from differnt sources to issues on the surface, the dreams underneath that surface, and the essence as living systems - human
beings on mother earth, that unify us all fundamentally.
NEW! "Ujima 2.0" is the Movement Center for Deep Democracy.
The Movement Center has birthed the Embody Deep Democracy Action Team, which is offering a series of 1 day intensives
in 2012 to advance deep democracy!
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