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The meeting was facilitated by humorist and Improv expert Izzy Gessel who managed to keep the
creative juices flowing. He led a workshop the first evening which set the
stage for innovation and spontaneous activity. |
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Ethan
Zohn, the winner of
Survivor:Africa show who donated his winnings to
help Grassroot Soccer, made a short presentation about
responses to the
AIDS crisis. This ignited a flurry of activity on the
Omidyar Network. |
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Here Ethan is talking gibberish during the Improv workshop
with Angela Booker. |
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Jack Willis of Link TV
spoke of his long-held interest in positive use of broadcasting. |
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Tonya Gonzalez of the
Deliberative Democracy
Consortium volunteered to help with the next workshop in Washington, DC. |
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Leslie Hoffman of Earth
Pledge came by for a while. |
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Lars Hasselblad Torres from America
Speaks was one of the more active participants, both in person and on the
followup electronic conference.
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Daniel Morneau from Montreal added a bit of French to the
mix, and showed a trailer of his latest filmaking effort, 100 faces of Yoga. |
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Denise Lalonde brought here appreciative inquiry experience
to the workshop |
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WNET longtimer Wendy Bodden held songwriter/music
producer Steve English down so that he wouldn't float away in lofty thoughts. |
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Howard Greenstein looked after the big picture, registering
domain names in real time and getting blogspace to improve Ethan's google
ranking to point to Grassroots soccer. |
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Dean Landsman had lots of media experience to talk about. |
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" Dr. Kindness" Will Glennon had lots of experience to
draw on from leading the Random Acts of Kindness movement, and his latest
effort, Global Classroom
Connection.
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Ellison Horne showed a trailer from his Celebrating Solutions
idea as Angela Booker and Matthew Mahoney look on. |
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Will Thomson spoke of some creative efforts for democracy
with vote by issue. |
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Matthew Mahoney |
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Judy Glaser helped facilitate as well as screened an amazing
"We Are Family" video featuring children's characters produced by the
We Are Family foundation. |
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Jed Miller works with Web Lab, an online dialogue
platform for small group discussion |
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Angela Booker did an amazing job of getting notes down. |
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Britt Blaser, Dean Landsman, and Jack Willis look on intently |
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Jerry Michalski was told to use a dot to mark the important
parts of his presentation, but it ended up on his forehead. |
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Arthur Einstein was plotting an advertising campaign for a
better world. |
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Tom Munnecke
organized the workshop on an impulse one morning 6 weeks earlier, just to see
what he could do to improve the media's reflection of humanity. With no
media background, he got a comedian to volunteer to help facilitate it. |
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Ellison Horne presented his ideas about
Celebrating Solutions. |
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 Tom
Mandel and Robert Tolmach look like best of friends at the left
However, Robert's true obsession with
Glasses for Humanity can be
seen at the right. |
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Cameron Barrett seems to be interested in a particular date. |
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Andrew Raseij's home was a spectacular location
 for
the meeting |
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Many of the participants attend Jerry Michalski's annual
retreat, in which he gathers 60 or so Interesting People for a meeting with
no topic and no agenda. |
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... is from Earth Pledge |
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We met at Andrew Raseij's wonderful home in Greenwich Village
and enjoyed his hospitality. |
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Isabel Walcott stopped by, too. |
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Tom Munnecke took this photo
during his
Do Something moment in India which triggered his personal question, "What
is the simplest thing I can do to have maximum uplift for humanity?"
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