Spectacular PROGRESS!!
OK I will attempt to find some balance between sharing the shear joy of this moment and how this very conscious choice is part of the process….the personal performance that sets a tone for the collaboration.
I need to capture this for my proposals first before I publish it here but I am working on a way to share this with you who are interested in the form of a podcast series.
Being the change one wants to see in the world is why Attention matters and quality Attention, Love and Creativity have real world value. Perhaps more importantly it is becoming clearer to me where this intangible economy <a href="http://comfusion.pbwiki.com/Source:Convergence">Converges </a>with the monetary currency economy to maximize social capital.
In a recent series of conversations with Desmond Green and his wife Dawn I have been reminded of something profoundly simple. This simple thing is something that I had originally discovered through my own experience more than 15 years ago. I had never forgotten this wisdom but somehow had not considered it in this broader <a href'"http://comfusion.pbwiki.com/Source:Context">context</a>.
What is amazing about all this is that at the time I had the experience it changed my life. It has remained a resource in my peace arsenal and I have called in countless time at a personal level. Which is to say a conscious focus and shifting of attention to this transformative experience.
http://comfusion.pbwiki.com/Attention
http://comfusion.pbwiki.com/Attention:Bilocality
http://comfusion.pbwiki.com/Project:what-is-peace
http://comfusion.pbwiki.com/Source:Acceptance
http://comfusion.pbwiki.com/Tarot:The_Fool
We have begun recording a dilogue podcasts series that captures the moments when these Elemental synergies revealed themselves as Ingredients in a just th e reicpe I was working on at that time.
Continued from last post…..
In the U.S. the group broadly identified as the creative class, appear to constitute 30% of the workforce according to Richard Florida, but skilled labor is not the defining element in this discussion. Rather, it is the conscious pursuit of perfection, fueled by creative passion, and personal satisfaction in work undertaken that brings artistry into play, so artists will be treated as a specific niche within the “creative class.” He suggests that they are emerging as the dominant force in the economy and can already be spotted by their impact in shaping regional economies. Sustainable economic growth flows where they thrive because they will search to find communities that inspire them, and for places clinging to old models the opposite is true because businesses will sniff out the creativity they need in order to innovate. Small and midsized businesses need the group that Florida denotes as the “creative class” in his book The Rise of the Creative Class to provide the creative services that used to be provided by in-house staff in the corporate model. But it is not only businesses which need what these creative individuals have to offer.
The concept of [radical] inclusion extends this to include creative classes overlooked in Florida’s analysis.
[Radical] Inclusion is when Attention is paid ONLY to inclusion…. SoulFood Tradition guides the way in making all feel valued and welcomed.
This discussion is distinguished from previous work exploring the creative class and low cash customers by embracing traditionally low cash communities and recognizing the value of intangible assets (creativity and attention).
Although I've been a bit quiet, there is much going on behind the scenes. Among the things in progress is the paper I've been developing about the context and lessons of Cultural Fusion.
The art pieces I'm working on are parts of large works mostly, and I am exploring carving printmaking tiles to more fully express what the series is about.
In that pursuit I have again revised the opening. This article is an excerpt from my paper/manuscript still in progress. The biggest change is that profit and social capital divorced :-( I was initially very sad about this, but alas social capital has a new love and it is a romance made in cyberspace!
“Every society, on every continent, regardless of ethnicity or socioeconomic conditions has contributed its own intellectual products to the collective out put of humankind, because the bringing forth of cognitive and creative impulses are as compelling as the bringing forth of offspring.”
Dr. Constance Hilliard
Intellectual Traditions of Pre-colonial Africa
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SoulFood:New Framework for Defining Opportunity Space
Creativity and social capital are made for each other. When they are united, it’s as if they’ve fallen in love. Social capital is the value inherent in interpersonal networks. Its amalgamation with creativity signals a radical redefinition of the global landscape as the key to unveiling new facets of success. And as with a genuine romance, the result is a dynamic shift, a shedding of the old and a reaching out to the new — in this case, to inclusion of intangible economies and experience.
Consider the “Source Arts” (or the socially conscious driven creative class) as a core boutique market to be empowered with CRM (customer relationship management) Strategy solutions that deliver on the promises of the relationship and experience economies to invest in a global emerging market. Furthermore, this paper concerns itself with how this can employ glocalization to address regional issues on a global scale. This is not meant to suggest a one off solution for every community around the world, but rather a conceptual and implementation model powered by the right network of technological and process systems solutions that harness the individuals’ creativity and affection for place to develop community remedies that evolve.
