Are you pioneering change Intro to Pioneers of Change

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Are you pioneering change?Intro to Pioneers of
Change

• 23 May 2006
• The Hub, London

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Pioneers CommitmentOur Greatest Resource

• Be yourself
• What are your values, your talents, your purpose?
• Do what matters
• To you, bringing meaning to your work
• Start now
• Boldness has genius, power and magic in it
• Engage with others
• Dont go it alone
• Never stop asking questions
• Develop your ability to probe and wonder

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Being a Pioneer

• Being a pioneer is about effecting change by
  starting with self, about leading by example, and
  about being the difference that makes a
  difference Yemi Adamoleku, Nigeria
• To be a pioneer, you have to have the courage,
  ambition and capabilities to bet on yourself and
  your own vision, then implement it and pass on
  this vision and confidence to others Patrick
  Ifonge, France
• Being a pioneer is about inner change helping to
  implement actions which improve the world we live
  in. And its about counting on an international
  network to support you, creating this critical
  mass, which will allow the successful changes to
  happen worldwide Patricia de Caires Sogayar,
  Brazil

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What is Pioneers of Change?

• An emerging and self-organising global learning
  community of committed people, primarily in their
  20s and 30s
• Includes social entrepreneurs, corporate and NGO
  professionals, civil servants, artists, teachers,
  and free agents from a variety of cultural and
  social backgrounds
• Founded in 1999, Pioneers of Change has to date
  engaged over 2,000 people in over 70 countries

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Pioneers of ChangeIdentity and Purpose

• Pioneers of Change is an independent,
  non-partisan association
• Together we will, in an ongoing process, develop
  the commitment, understanding, and a network of
  relationships to create or transform systems that
  they may come to serve Life, and operate in
  life-affirming ways
• Pioneers of Change is A self-organising
  community. It is a de-centralised,
  non-hierarchical, inclusive network

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Network structure

• Communities of Practice across geographical
  distances some examples
• Sustainability
• Facilitators Free Agents
• Arts for Social Change
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Diversity (E.g. Diversity Caravan)
• Local Networks some examples
• London
• Johannesburg
• Holland
• Barcelona
• Sao Paulo

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Activities

• Learning Journeys
• Ability to retreat and inquire about a certain
  subject with peers, typically for a week in a
  specific inviting location
• Arts for Social Change in Johannesburg late
  September 06
• The Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter,
  Castle Borl, Slovenia, July 06
• Summer School
• Annual learning event for Pioneers in August
  06 in Canada
• Workshops
• Art of Hosting in December 06
• Exploring the Ecology of Business in September
  06
• Local meetings
• On going discussion dialogue

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Engaging withPioneers of Change
About Action Practice
Level of engagement benefit
About Access Awareness
PoC delivers additive benefits The more you
give, the more you get
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Participants

• Benefits
• Access to ideas, tools, experiences, and a global
  network of change-makers
• Raising awareness for seeing the game
• Who can join?
• Open to anyone who signs up for newsletter or
  e-mail lists and signs up for activities
• Responsibilities
• No musts at this level
• Invitation to participate whenever possible and
  desired
• Invitation to start living the principles and
  values (exploring the Pioneering commitment)

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Members

• Benefits
• Access to global network of practitioners with
  peer learning at cutting edge
• Creating activity spaces for changing the game
• Opportunities for mastery, mentorship and making
  transitions to change maker work
• Commitments
• Provide a commitment statement live the values
• Enrich the collective commons with activities and
  perspectives
• Hosting of activities or events
• Communicate learning
• Pay a membership fee of 10-20 per month
• Open self-selection the key

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Pioneers CommitmentWhat does this mean to you?

• Be yourself
• What are your values, your talents, your purpose?
• Do what matters
• To you, bringing meaning to your work
• Start now
• Boldness has genius, power and magic in it
• Engage with others
• Dont go it alone
• Never stop asking questions
• Develop your ability to probe and wonder

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What role should Pioneers of Change play?

• How does the current Pioneers of Change offering
  help your commitment?
• What activities would you participate in or take
  an active role in supporting or organising?
• What other activities would you welcome?
• Internationally?
• In London?
• How would you support that this is realised?
• As a participant, organiser, host and / or
  assistant?
• Remember, Pioneers of Change is self-organising

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Pioneers of ChangeUnderlying Beliefs of Founders

• Life, in its essence, moves towards plurality,
  diversity, interdependence, self-constitution,
  and self-organisation in short, towards the
  fulfillment of its own freedom
• Through time, humans have built and reproduced
  systems of production, types of society, frames
  of mind, that contradict life
• While we are taught to work within such a system
  (and the system learns to work within us), both
  our intuition and our senses tell us that it is
  fundamentally flawed, and that we can do
  something about it
• We can change the rules of the game

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Chaordic CommunitySome characteristics

• Self-organisation promotes empowerment
• In line with Pioneers commitment
• Members should be given space and room to grow,
  change, experiment and learn
• Members should have the right to self-organise at
  any time, on any scale and around any activity
  consistent with the Purpose and Principles
• Self-selection a key operating principle
• No-one part of Pioneers can compel another part
  to do something it does not voluntarily
  self-select to do

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What is Pioneers of Change?Background

• The community has evolved as a common experience
  of wanting to contribute to a purpose higher than
  self
• Yet facing internal and external systemic
  constraints in trying to do so, feeling pressured
  to compromise our personal values and beliefs
• Pioneers of Change is, to this end, first and
  foremost a learning community through which we
  can become better change agents, via
• Observation inquiry
• Retreat reflection and
• Practice

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Facilitators of the Community

• Chaord Group
• A group of committed members, who gives advise to
  the
• Cultivation Team
• A group of committed members, who have
  volunteered to facilitate the global community
  as such they support local networks and
  communities of practice
• Community hosting teams and stewards
• Self-selected Pioneers who have committed to
  facilitate a flow of quality in what Pioneers is
  doing within a local network of specific
  Community of Practice
• London hosting team currently consists of Leon
  Olsen, Maria Glauser and Hendrik Tiesinga we do
  not control activities, we offer support to
  ensure quality of activities