Post by Stefan Pasti on Jan 5, 2014 22:52:42 GMT
As described in the 5 page introduction to the Tipping Point Action Campaign:
Community Good News Networks—can be created by bringing together elders and young people, and asking them to send notecards of gratitude and encouragement—and invitations to visit—to people who are making genuine contributions of good will in the local community or region. By this process, young people (who are in the process of becoming responsible citizens) can learn how to identify—and can experience first hand—the special qualities of inspiring role models in the community.
In that 5 page introduction, mention is made that this idea came from a document of The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative (also built up by this writer). The document--"Brief Descriptions of The Eight IPCR Concepts" provides a longer description of the Community Good News Network, and some additional workshop ideas.
Here is that longer description, with the additional workshop ideas:
1. “Community Good News Networks”
“Community Good News Networks” is a name for participation by local community residents in an ongoing process of actively discovering, sharing, encouraging, and creating good news, for the purpose of “… bringing to the fore what is often hidden: how many good people there are, how may ways there are to do good, and how much happiness comes to those who extend help as well as to those who receive it.”
One way to begin creating “Community Good News Networks” is as follows: ongoing intergenerational programs—programs that bring together elders of the community with young people (ages 5-18) of the community—are created at appropriate meeting places such as local places of worship. Such intergenerational programs would include the following activities: 1) collecting and sharing good news articles, stories, etc., and making contributions to “Good News Reference Resources,” specific to local communities and regions 2) sending notecards of gratitude and encouragement—and invitations to visit—to people who are making good news in the local community or region 3) inspirational sharing meetings featuring “good news makers” from the local community or region.
As more and more good news is discovered, shared, and created, participants can give special attention to identifying the “good news makers” who live near their specific meeting place. A local “Community Faith Mentoring Network” could then be established to facilitate matching people of all ages with “faith mentors” in their local community.
Summary Statement: Even now, as you are reading this, truly inspiring contributions of genuine goodwill are being generated in a variety of ways—and in a variety of circumstances—by countless numbers of people in communities around the world.
Related Fields of Activity—intergenerational projects, positive news, solutions journalism
Example Question for Discussion:
When future generations look back into the past for examples of peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability, what do you hope they will find?
a) What individuals, organizations, or institutions will such future generations rely upon to provide records of peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts of the past—especially peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts at the local community and regional level?
The document "Brief Descriptions of The Eight IPCR Concepts (where this description came from) can be accessed from the IPCR Initiative webpage at cpcsc.info/the-ipcr-initiative/
Community Good News Networks—can be created by bringing together elders and young people, and asking them to send notecards of gratitude and encouragement—and invitations to visit—to people who are making genuine contributions of good will in the local community or region. By this process, young people (who are in the process of becoming responsible citizens) can learn how to identify—and can experience first hand—the special qualities of inspiring role models in the community.
In that 5 page introduction, mention is made that this idea came from a document of The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative (also built up by this writer). The document--"Brief Descriptions of The Eight IPCR Concepts" provides a longer description of the Community Good News Network, and some additional workshop ideas.
Here is that longer description, with the additional workshop ideas:
1. “Community Good News Networks”
“Community Good News Networks” is a name for participation by local community residents in an ongoing process of actively discovering, sharing, encouraging, and creating good news, for the purpose of “… bringing to the fore what is often hidden: how many good people there are, how may ways there are to do good, and how much happiness comes to those who extend help as well as to those who receive it.”
One way to begin creating “Community Good News Networks” is as follows: ongoing intergenerational programs—programs that bring together elders of the community with young people (ages 5-18) of the community—are created at appropriate meeting places such as local places of worship. Such intergenerational programs would include the following activities: 1) collecting and sharing good news articles, stories, etc., and making contributions to “Good News Reference Resources,” specific to local communities and regions 2) sending notecards of gratitude and encouragement—and invitations to visit—to people who are making good news in the local community or region 3) inspirational sharing meetings featuring “good news makers” from the local community or region.
As more and more good news is discovered, shared, and created, participants can give special attention to identifying the “good news makers” who live near their specific meeting place. A local “Community Faith Mentoring Network” could then be established to facilitate matching people of all ages with “faith mentors” in their local community.
Summary Statement: Even now, as you are reading this, truly inspiring contributions of genuine goodwill are being generated in a variety of ways—and in a variety of circumstances—by countless numbers of people in communities around the world.
Related Fields of Activity—intergenerational projects, positive news, solutions journalism
Example Question for Discussion:
When future generations look back into the past for examples of peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability, what do you hope they will find?
a) What individuals, organizations, or institutions will such future generations rely upon to provide records of peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts of the past—especially peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts at the local community and regional level?
The document "Brief Descriptions of The Eight IPCR Concepts (where this description came from) can be accessed from the IPCR Initiative webpage at cpcsc.info/the-ipcr-initiative/