Join the "BeTheChange!" Experiment - A World Community Conversation

[Discovery Fuel]

Wear a BeTheChange! T-shirt

Join the 'BeTheChange!' Project

, by DiscoveryFuel.com

This effort is about initiating a world community conversation regarding sustainability - to generate a deeper understanding of its purpose, and to trigger new forms of innovation that enhance (rather than deplete) the world we are leaving for our children.

We invite you to join us on this journey toward sustaining planetary well-being by applying creative new approaches to design, innovation, and collaboration.

• The first goal of the 'BeTheChange!' project is to instill healthy world-wide questioning about the world in which we live, and how we humans are embedded within it's ecology.

• The second goal of this project is to bring forth new ways for creating our cities, communities, and societies. Ways that enhance, rather than deplete, the earth-life-system we count on for every breath during our lives.

Through group dialogue, inquiry, intentional questioning, and sincere curiosity about others views and ways of thinking, we want to build a collective mind made up of ourselves, our friends, families, acquaintances, and business associates without judgment (that's the hard part!), or forcing our belief's upon another. One of the ways to begin this process is to place something in front of another that triggers a question from them. Objects embedded with a message can do this, but you must stay conscious of the inquiry's purpose.

Discovery Fuel decided to use the phrase "Sustain THIS!" as a common theme message to open up a wide variety of questions, and thereby conversations. Questions that start with who, what, when, where, how, and why are relationship connectors that can create a deep engagement with others. For example, you can ask: What brought you to that conclusion or point of view? Why is this important you? Who else do you know gets exited about this idea? How can your vision be best implemented? Etc., etc.

Use of imagery and art is very useful to pull on our human psyches. Images such as the SustainThis T-shirt image of the people holding the planet. What is happening in this picture? What story emerges as you look at the characters who are holding up the planet. What does the picture's shape represent? Simple but effective pictures like this are powerful tools for generating a deeper, more meaningful conversation with others. The key is to be sincerely curious about others that you come in contact with.

The 'SustainTHIS!' project plans to move into varied realms of action based on responses from you. So wherever you go (whether your connections take place in the real or the virtual realms (such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkeIn, etc.), practice raising healthy, intentional, curious questioning of others. And then get back to me with how it goes. I encourage you to email me, or ping me via my social media sites.

Better yet, join Discovery Fuel's unique online communities, which is where most of our powerful conversations will be based.

To join our unique Discovery Communities, which are all about creating generative dialogue, I suggest you check out our page called 'Be The Change' and see if any of the communities (listed there at bottom) get your juices going. To help with your live experiment, purchase a 'SustainTHIS!' T-shirt (or any other conversation-making products we have) by clicking on the pics below. Other product messaging tools for dialogue will be coming in the future.

I look forward to hearing from you. Together we can create a global, incredibly-generative conversation that can change our world for the better ! :)


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