This is my now weekly dump down to capture my wanderings and of my way too many open tabs. Weeds or green manure whats been catching my attention and holding my interest online this last week.
What I really want to work on:
Managing Your Impacts on the SDGs and the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact… learn how to assess and improve your company’s contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the SDG Action Manager — a new impact management solution that enables companies to take meaningful business action and track progress through dynamic self-assessment, benchmarking and improvement.
How to use Doughnut Economics as a tool to aim of meeting the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. The DE Action Lab is thriving with tools and stories.
The Doughnut’s holistic scope and visual simplicity, coupled with its scientific grounding, has turned it into a convening space for big conversations about reimagining and remaking the future. It is now being discussed, debated and put into practice in education and in communities, in business and in government, in towns, cities and nations worldwide.
Ireland in the Doughnut, National Doughnut Explorer by the University of Leeds.
I’ll write a specific post on the emerging Irish Doughnut Economics Network soon.
READ
Data & Ethics Report September 2020
SDG 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
A systems approach to the SDGs & the need to reframe SDG8 A conversation between Fritjof Capra and Daniel Wahl
The role of art in driving systems change Engaging more people in the circular economy discourse. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation on medium. Video below.
Journal questions on values via Cristín Leach.
“…I started my own bank” Anne Boden Starling Bank.
Minister Harris Announces €5 million COVID-19 fund for teaching and learning reforms. Each institution should identify one key contact for this fund within their institution. The contact details of this institutional lead must be emailed to Fund2020@teachingandlearning.ie by the Registrar/Vice-President for Teaching & Learning, or equivalent, of the institution no later than 12 noon on 16 November 2020.
Humanity & social justice in Ireland
A Love letter to Children of Direct Provision products for sale, cool designs great colours T’s, hoodies and sweaters.
Windows4Opportunity is a powerhouse of charities and organisations with one common goal, providing access to education for people living in direct provision.
Technology
The master UX ideation toolbox 10 tools to unleash creativity from anyone.
All Ireland Smart cities Forum
Using systems thinking to unlock value and drive sustainable performance in city regions https://resiliencebrokers.org/
VIDEO
Came across this on Twitter, fascinating chaos into order with sound vibration. Via several people into my timeline, The video is based on the experiments of German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni (“father of acoustics”), born in 1756 you can read more here.
EVENTS
What is Development? Comhlamh 30 – 40 minutes learning event. On my list to do.
Spirit of Canada Dialogue Project – exploring and teaching how to facilitate hosting polarity in yourself and in a group. Co-create the concepts of how we will engage the dialogue participants across the country for a brave and wise Canada who can lead in the complexity of the 21st Century. I’ve signed up for learning how to. From Kara I learned about Flourishing Futures.
I briefly joined an Unconference last weekend called Flourishing Futures — a 3-Day, Global Event for Facilitators & Changemakers. I was really drawn to the event through the framing:
This is not the time to go our separate ways. Instead, let’s combine our genius, passion, and spirit to serve an interconnected, volatile world. So, we invite us all to consider:
- What are the issues and opportunities for creating a flourishing future together?
- What kind of future do we dream of, and how will we collaborate to get there?
- What awakenings will we spark? How will we build and share? How will we sustain and amplify our impact?
We invite you to a caring space to envision a flourishing future and to unite around projects and actions that will take us there!
A real unconference using open space technology giving time to the conversations and progressing them over three days. A really broad group of people, amazing facilitation and holding of the sessions and tech. It was the first time I’d used QiqoChat so that was curious too. Eventbrite page.
Someone shared this at the unconference, yes it resonates.
My last exhibition in 2014 before the car collision was called Head, Hand and Heart. 3 makers a potter, glass and felt maker coming together with soul. I showed my large developing abstracted text drawings for the first time along side felted landscapes and Christmas decorations of beaded and needle felted baubles. A lifetime has passed along the road since then.
Roisin Markham 
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