Hello all, If you are a fan of NonViolent Communication and would love to have a fun and accessible animation that explains it to others (like the Story of Stuff<http://www.storyofstuff.com/>), please vote for this project below. Thanks!
*Friends, supporters, and practitioners of NVC, can you imagine a world where millions more people understand empathy as we do, and practice NVC?* Here's an opportunity to contribute to the possibility of a web-based NVC animation video that could potentially reach many millions of people. This is based on voting for proposals, so you can directly affect this, and also invite others to vote. *Voting ends DECEMBER 1st so if you choose to support, please act quickly.* (Currently, we are number 1 in our category (Peace and Non-Violence), but barely holding on to being in the top 20 over all. Only 300 people giving 3 votes each could push us in to the top spot.) *HOW TO VOTE:* 1. Please, follow this link <http://youtopia.uservoice.com/users/new> to sign up by filling the boxes, choosing a password, accepting the terms and conditions and clicking on "sign up". This must be done in order to cast votes. 2. You will be sent a confirmation email to the address you submitted. Reply to that and you are now all set to vote! 3. Go to <http://youtopia.uservoice.com/pages/33750-peace-non-violence>. If you like what you read, you can give "Conscious Communication for Change" up to three votes! 4. Since this grant is in stiff competition, would you check inside and see if you have willingness to take an extra moment to *forward this message to your NVC friends*? Any lists that you are a member of that you would be willing to send this to? Anyone else you imagine would be excited to support this? Thanks for your support. Jared Finkelstein, François Beausoleil Conscious Communication for Change MORE DETAILS: I am excited to let you know that Jared Finkelstein, a participant in our leadership program, is partnering with Francois Beausoleil, a graduate of the leadership program, assistant, then co-trainer, and certified trainer. They are applying for a grant from Free Range Studios to produce a web-based animation teaching viewers the concepts and skills of NVC in the style of Free Range Studios highly successful Story of Stuff. <http://www.storyofstuff.com/> This can be an amazing opportunity to bring NVC virally to more people, and all you are asked to do it click and vote (instructions at the end of this email). Just like the Empathy Gap voting that the NVC community got mobilized to support a year ago, we are hoping that many people will pass this along and many votes will be cast in this way. Since this grant is based on voting, without your vote and support it's unlikely to succeed. So, if you like this idea, please mobilize all the lists you mobilized last year. We got in top in our category last time, and that power can possibly make this happen. The grant proposal looks like this, and can be found in the Peace and Non-Violence category. Conscious Communication for Change BayNVC - Non-Profit - www.baynvc.org Can you imagine a world in which everyone matters and people have the skills for making peace? Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the practice informing this vision, nurtures responsibility for our choices and feelings, and the capacity to meet others with empathy. Mutual understanding and care for our shared human needs can then provide a foundation for connecting across our differences to resolve conflicts with ease. Collaborating with Free Range can increase visibility for the tools and consciousness of NVC, allowing many more people to wake up, transform their habitual responses to life, and contribute to a world that works for all. -- "Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." ~ Mary Oliver www.wovenessence.net www.easilyamazed.com/blog * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
