Humainologie creative dialogue Wednesday April 7 choosing a theme for April

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” - Benjamin E. Mays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mays

“I am a citizen of the world.” - Sylvia Beach https://bit.ly/2OdeTCd

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

- Ernest Hemingway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moveable_Feast

Sylvia Beach opened her bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris, on November 19, 1919, the day before my mother was born. That bookstore became a catalyst for change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_and_Company_(bookstore)

More than a hundred years later, our weekly Humainologie creative dialogues are a catalyst for changing Calgary into a microcosm of healthy global community. At our most recent dialogue, Zenia Mulhern helped us develop the concept of Personal Growth. See it through a holistic lens. Build literacy around personal growth, apply it in social settings, and thus enrich your empathy for others. One of her excellent questions was this: How can various understandings of the “self” impact approaches to personal growth?

Next Wednesday, April 7, we will choose a theme for our dialogues in April. Please join us and contribute your ideas as we develop a menu of options. The possibility of Positive Deviance as a theme appeals to me because whereas Personal Growth emphasized the individual, Positive Deviance emphasizes the influence that individuals have on their community. It seems a perfect sequel. Never mind that. We'll develop the menu and then the choice is yours.

If you are lucky enough to live in Calgary as a dialogue artist, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it will stay with you, for Calgary is a moveable feast.

Now all we need to do is keep moving toward our goal.

Think like a bakery and make it fresh every day!

Arthur