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NEEDS Doorn

1. Cooking meant asking for help. It is a community activity.

2. There were many opportunities to deepen insights, thinking of the future

3. Answering the question: ‘what can we do for others?’ all the ideas mentioned in the Circle of 17-activity were valuable

4. Circles of 17 touch the essence of the Earth Charter. The activity is useful to repeat in the near future in our own context.

5. We were invited to be creative by going into nature and to spend some time with a tree. Although going into nature is normal for some of us.

6. The activity with the time capsule with The Letter to the Future gave us awareness of Time. It is a powerful exercise. Useful in adapted form in many situations.

7. We can do beautiful things together, although sometimes it may be difficult to cooperate. Working together creates good memories, happy moments, the beginning of beautiful things

8. The stories were very important

9. We created a beautiful friendship. We should keep the network alive. We should come together every year to support each other in our EC-work

10. We intend to celebrate EA-day in our country

11. How do we make the connection between EC and SDG’s stronger?

12. Presencing in the Theory U-model became practice in our group awareness.

13. Meeting in person is so much more important than meeting virtually.

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This book was our source of inspiration. Highly recommended.

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This book was our source of inspiration. Highly recommended.

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The Strength of a Tree to Be

Amidst the tall trees in the forestry estate, I sit beneath one specific tree. To feel, absorb and see this beech tree. The tree, like many growing high to the sky inspires me. The fragrant smells of Earth and forest, the melodies and whistle calls from the bird community. The baby tree seedlings alive with gentle movements from a breeze.

What inspires me from embracing this specific tree is a tremendous strength to be, grounded into the Earth and connected by the roots in a greater community of life of trees, a part of Mother Earth. Giving out tremendous lifeforce, yet solid unto itself in complete strength, as it extends to the sky, an extension within the network of life, of the Earth itself.

What did the tree possibly whisper to me? “You too are the Mother Earth, a part of a greater universe of communities of living entities. Stay strong, stay connected, your feet on the Earth and your spirit in the sky. It is through this connection and groundedness that you too can grow strong. The greatest strength comes in being, To be.”

– Tonia Moya

Exercise for: NEEDS methodology session led by Wim Oolbekkink, June 30, 2022, The Netherlands

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What a privilege to connect with you !!
I am so grateful to you all.

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Sherlien Sanches, one of our host team members, with her mother and sister. Sherlien presented her urgent dream and plan, after she said farewell to her work with Earth Charter The Netherlands, to build a knowledge and Wisdom centre on indigenous heritage. We support you Sherlien

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Story of the cathedral in a different context.

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Story of the cathedral in a different context.

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This is my contemporary version. Please send yours!

Story of the cathedral II

Recently I was on holiday in the same city my ancestor visited many years ago. The pleasure with which he had walked about there, as he had described it in one of his diaries, was quite understandable. The city was still buzzing with life and many people were on their feet and busy in many ways. I was curious about the cathedral. As I approached the square, the crowds increased even more. My gaze was drawn to the cathedral, but it was concealed by huge screens. Just like long ago, there were a lot of workmen chopping stones, all kinds of craftsmen walking around with tools and you could tell they were working on a big project. It looked like a major restoration. I approached a man who was dividing a worked block of marble into two pieces. He didn't exactly look happy. “What are you doing?” I asked him in my best Italian. “Isn't that clear yet,” he replied. "Come with me." He took me around the square and behind the scenes. I was shocked. They were not restoring the building; they were breaking down the cathedral! Walking back to the square I began to understand the man.

A little later I saw a group of workmen who were having a lot of fun. Not only did they work well together, but they did it with joke and pranks and turned their work into a game, or so it seemed.

“Why are you having so much fun while you are tearing down a cultural monument?”. “Walk along and I'll show you. It's just around the corner over there," was the response. We crossed the square, round the corner where many more stonemasons were hard at work.

“Look,” said the man, “since the cathedral was completed, the church has tried to maintain the spirit of cooperation that existed at the time of construction. Eventually, this did not work. Over the years, the cathedral became less and less of a place to connect people. And that's what it was meant for, right? Now, across the river there are people we can see, but we must travel hours and hours to get there. In the past, for all sorts of reasons, it never got around to building a bridge until now. And look, across the river they're doing the same thing. We build to meet. This is how we reshape being connected.”

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I AM

I am and I am here, in my present, with you.

I offer the best I can give all the time.

If the wind comes and move my branches, that's fine.

If the bee comes up and takes the pollen, that's fine too.

If there are a caterpillar who is hole my leaves, that's fine.

I AM

My flowers are here with all their potential and I offer them to Nature... this is the cycle of Life.

I have all the love for you and for everything around us.

I do not judge the storm when it appears, nor the lightning.

I don't think if you are a good person or not, I offer you my shadow whoever you are because I am here now and you are here now. That is all. No more words, only our silence... and our Love.

(Talking to a beautiful chestnut tree in bloom)

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Work done by students in Portugal.

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Activity Land Art / Earth Charter

Presentation of work proposal in the classroom and result of student work in Portugal.

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Tonya depositing the capsule for the future 

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Paul closing the capsule for the future 

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Marta puttong the letters inside the capsule 

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Dick rolling up the letters to introduce them in the capsule 

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Some pictures from this powerful exercise coordinated by Wim

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https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/deep-time-walk-earth-history/id1163814608

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone

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This is the visualisations of being like water, it is from the course positive workplace activism developed by Undercover Activist, cofounded by Veronique Swinkels

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This is the visualisations of being like water, it is from the course positive workplace activism developed by Undercover Activist, cofounded by Veronique Swinkels

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Find a quiet space where you can close your eyes and listen to the audio. When you are finished, take your journal and describe what thoughts and images came up. You can draw or sketch, whatever works best for you. Think about when you felt strong. And when weak? What else happened? Read by Veronique Swinkels

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Visualisation Be Like Water Module 2 | Undercover Activist by Undercover Activist

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Find a quiet space where you can close your eyes and listen to the audio. When you are finished, take your journal and describe what thoughts and images came up. You can draw or sketch, whatever works best for you. Think about when you felt strong. And when weak?

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When you will start A revolution ; start to use art. Be an artivist

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When you will start A revolution ; start to use art. Be an artivist

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Story by Artist (Victor) : you see an iconic image of a water bottle which is scaled up to emphasise the weight it carries in this image, also because of using iconic images of objects I am able to choose different colours without loosing the recognisably of them which results in a sort of surreal environment, you wonder what universe this is from.

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Reflections of juni 30.  1. Cooking together is also about asking for help

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Reflections of juni 30.  1. Cooking together is also about asking for help

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2. Storytelling was A red treat
3. Timecapsule is A powerful exerise together with the singing ceremony
4. Connecting together
5.  Bringing the EC into the SDG agenda
6. Getting ideas how to reach out to young people
7. Connecting with Nature
8. Cookiing is also a matter of reconciliation.
9. Paul Lubbers mentioned the earthcharter Social network. That could be helpfull to Connect en build the friendship.
10. Intentionaly meet each year in person on EC day

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Reflection time

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ACTUEEL:
# DIALOOG OP DINSDAG: SDGs BEYOND CORONA
Nederland heeft verbinding nodig. Tussen generaties, thema’s en experts. Daarom organiseren de Worldconnectors in samenwerking met Earth Charter Nederland een serie van online bijeenkomsten waarin steeds enkele SDGs centraal staan. Gekeken wordt naar veranderende partnerschappen en de relatie wordt gelegd naar de nieuwe werkelijkheid. Wat verandert er door de Corona-crisis, waar liggen bedreigingen en waar liggen kansen voor het behalen van de SDGs?
Belangrijk doel is verbinden van de twee netwerken (onderling en met elkaar) en opdoen en ophalen van perspectieven voor een (eigen) visie op de toekomst. De visie is verankerd in de waarden en principes zoals bijeengebracht in het Earth Charter. De bijeenkomsten worden vooraf gegaan door een korte online enquête om de temperatuur te meten
Iedere bijeenkomst gaat van start met korte prikkelende bijdragen  van 2 of 3 speciale bijdragers. Zij zullen ingaan op de specifieke SDGs die centraal staan en een doorkijk geven vanuit de huidige situatie de toekomst in.
Een impressie en conclusies uit de bijeenkomsten worden doorgegeven aan de volgende (estafette-effect). Waar relevant wordt verbinding gelegd met de Global Goals Accelerator bijeenkomst van 4 jaar geleden.
Verslagen en presentaties van inleiders zijn te vinden op de Worldconnectors website en de rubriek ‘blogs‘ op de website van Earth Charter Nederland.

# SPOTLIGHT REPORT NL
In samenwerking met Building Change, Partos, Worldconnectors, Foundation Max van der Stoel en Earth Charter Nederland, is het plan opgevat voor een Nederlandse editie van een SDG Spotlight Report. Waarom?
Veel mensen en organisaties kennen de SDG’s en zetten zich ervoor in. Toch blijft adequate Nederlandse actie om de doelen hier en in ontwikkelingslanden te behalen achter. Met een SDG-spotlight report willen we er daarom aan bijdragen dat deze agenda meer bekendheid krijgt en een overtuigende plek gaat innemen binnen het werk van de overheid en het bedrijfsleven. De SDG-agenda is niet perfect. Voor sommige gaat deze te ver, voor anderen niet ver genoeg. Maar voor de transitie naar een duurzame samenleving is samenwerking rond deze thema’s – in onderlinge samenhang - essentieel. De SDG’s worden nu nog te vaak gezien als een ontwikkelingsagenda voor arme landen (zoals de millenniumdoelen dat waren). De coördinatie op de uitvoering van de agenda is dan ook bij Buitenlandse Zaken belegd. Het is de hoogste tijd dat een vertaalslag wordt gemaakt naar een nationale strategie en landelijke doelen. Daarnaast moet ook beleid van andere ministeries dan Buitenlandse Zaken positief bijdragen aan het behalen van de doelen wereldwijd, of dit in ieder geval niet tegenwerken, om zo onze internationale footprint te kunnen verkleinen.
Zodra we de financiering rond hebben gaan we aan de slag en vragen we om input en medewerking.

Global Goals Accelerator versnelt de awareness en implementatie van de Global Goals in Nederland (en daarbuiten).

De Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) zien wij als een gezamenlijke verander-agenda die de wereld meer in balans moet brengen en ervoor moet zorgen dat niemand achter blijft. Dat kan alleen als we de problemen van vandaag oplossen met de inzichten van morgen. Vanuit een besef van urgentie en ambitie kunnen we een slinger geven aan de Goals.
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We hebben ook een Global Goals Accelerator kaartspel ontwikkeld, die we met jou of je team kunnen spelen. Heb je interesse? We kunnen een interactieve sessie 'in company' verzorgen met als doel te ontdekken welke bijdrage jij en je organisatie kunnen leveren ter versterking van de Goals.

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ACTUEEL: # DIALOOG OP DINSDAG: SDGs BEYOND CORONA Nederland heeft verbinding nodig. Tussen generaties, thema’s en experts. Daarom organiseren de Worldconnectors in samenwerking met Earth Charter...

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How Wolves Change Rivers [REMASTERED HD] - George Monbiot

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Working on the letter to the future

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Alide offered a special experience to connect with Earth via an oak tree.  This special installation was created by Zigola (Damanhur, Italy)

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Earth connector

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Please write your own contempory version.

A long time ago, one of my ancestors was traveling through Italy. One day he arrived in a beautiful city that was full of activity. He enjoyed the impressive buildings, the green sparkling parks and the wonderful weather. He walked from street tot street, from square to square. At one point he came to a square where people were chopping and grinding stones, where workmen called to each other, where they had fun, but where people also sighed and moaned. Our ancestor decided to take a closer look. The square turned out to be a gigantic construction site. Just in front of him, some workmen were shaping on a large lump of marble. He got the impression that they were splitting the colossus in two. Drops of sweat trickled down their faces. He asked the man closest to him what he was doing. The answer sounded irritated: “Do you see this gigantic pile of stones?” he replied. “It will take me more than a lifetime to complete chiselling them into shape. There is no end to it.” Since the answer did not invite my ancestor for further questions, he walked away until he saw another man with a smiling face and asked him, “What are you doing?” The man rose to his feet, first glancing with sincere joy at his colleagues around him. Then he pointed his finger in the air and saying, “What we do? I'll show you.” He led me to a large sign at the edge of the square. There was a beautiful blueprint. The stonemason proudly said: ‘We are building a cathedral!’.

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Amphitheatre

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Morning exercise

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Presentation of Earth Charter / Worldconnectors team

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Maarten Maartenshuis

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'Orality and Literacy', by Walter Ong (2002)

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'Orality and Literacy', by Walter Ong (2002)

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You can download this book here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://monoskop.org/images/d/db/Ong_Walter_J_Orality_and_Literacy_2nd_ed.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi0rOGG0NL4AhUixYUKHbPkCRMQFnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw371O70QC-gzv1mLlnvTbLN

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A very important message. The faces of the seventh generations are looking at us.

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More NEED on stage during earth charter celebration

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More NEED on stage during earth charter celebration

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INDIGENOUS WISDOM The Importance of Orality for a World in Collapse Literacy Literacy Walter Ong (2002) Writing = profound and concrete effects on cognitive processes and communicative modes, establishing a 'context-free' language = the discourse is detached from the author. The