Humainologie creative dialogue this Tuesday October 4 on Becoming Human and Belonging

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”  - Friedrich Nietzsche  

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young [person], then wherever you go the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”  - Ernest Hemingway, referring to Paris of the 1920s   

“How can cities move to their ideal of peaceful, just, and sustainable communities?  One course is to establish traditions of reconciliation and restorative justice.  When all schools teach the principles of nonviolent communication and show how to work through problems, the community will have the language to address new situations.”  - Mary-Wynne Ashford (with Guy Dauncey), Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror, and War, excerpt from Solution 62, “Become a City of Peace.”   Each of us needs something to live for.  If your country is at war, your participation as a soldier or as a civilian supporting the war effort can give you a reason to live.   A war brings people together in a shared communal purpose, and even gives them something to die for.  Suicide rates tend to decline during wartime https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7592752/  However, warfare does not lead to a healthy global community.  What if we could imagine something as effective for creating a culture of peace as the “war effort” is for creating a culture of war?  Imagine something for Calgary of the 2020s and beyond, that would give every participant a shared sense of purpose, give them a shared vision so inspiring that they look forward to every day because they are a part of something epoch-making and joyful?  Impossible, you say?    Let’s run the experiment.  Let’s connect with others to make our city a moveable feast for the generations that follow ours, a place where everyone feels that they truly belong.  To get an idea of the "moveable feast" that Ernest Hemingway and his friends like Sylvia Beach  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Beach  experienced in Paris of the 1920s, here is Sylvia Beach being interviewed shortly before her demise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zbw39MCm4   For our dialogue this Tuesday October 4, I will ask each of you to imagine a project that you might get started (or an idea for developing one you already have going) that you would like to see featured in the Calgary peacebuilding museum.  Share that idea with us.  We’ll brainstorm such ideas and build group genius on October 4.  It will be in the auditorium on the first floor of the Parkdale United Church, 2919 Eighth Avenue NW, starting at 7:00 PM.  You can join the meeting by Zoom:  Topic: Dialogue Session for Peace Museum InitiativeTime: Oct 4, 2022 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83655931457?pwd=RXI3TzB3bkxoNFhydVdYeldscmRTUT09Meeting ID: 836 5593 1457Passcode: 12345   “Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say, why not.”  - George Bernard Shaw   With the spirit of Bernadette Curry  https://www.arbormemorial.ca/edenbrook/obituaries/dr-bernadette-curry/92302/Events    Arthur