[Ailist] If you had one wish...Compassion

[Olen Jones]

Nick, Roger, et al,

I LIKE this idea.  Why not cast the net as wide as possible and put it
out everywhere.  Maybe we could use the "social media", like MySpace,
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.  We could create a Compassion page and
then start inviting everyone to join in the conversation.  I know there
are lots of other social media, and I'll bet in the listserve membership
we have the folks with the expertise in each one to help get it started.
The question, then, would be what do we do with all that wonderful data?
Would we want to collect it all from the various social media sources
and publish it somewhere?  Is there some graduate student who would be
interested in using it as the basis for a Master's thesis or Doctoral
dissertation?


Olen Jones, Community Relations
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National CORE
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:32:01 -0000
From: "Nick Heap" <nick at nickheap.co.uk>
Subject: RE: [Ailist] If you had one wish...Compassion
To: "Roger Davies" <rdavies at rtpcompany.com>,	"Appreciative Inquiry"
	<ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>
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Dear Roger and All

It occurs to me that, in principle, you could run a worldwide
appreciative
inquiry into "Compassion". Imagine people asking each other questions
and
telling each other stories about when they have given and received
compassion and what that felt like. As positive questions lead to
change,
just doing having these conversations would make a difference.

This might even lead to Appreciative Inquiry and appreciative thinking
becoming known and used in the mainstream of life. It would nice to read
about appreciative thinking and work in the popular media and on TV. It
might encourage more positive thinking and action. We have a lot of good
media in Britain, but also far too much negative and cynical stuff.

Any thoughts about how we might go about either of these things?

We could start by sharing our own stories via this list, I suppose.

Best wishes,

Nick

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