Global Citizens Moving Forward
Our goal is to create an environment that empowers each visitor to engage their passion for local and global action and/or service in the 21st century. Eventually you will see we are a demonstration of collaborative action, based on the accepted standards of humanitarian service organizations and the notion of making sense common. How? We start by asking better questions about shared responsibilities, benefits and values; presenting possibilities and seeking the wisdom in naturally recurring patterns that resolve into a natural order.
We’re garnering attention and focus on systemic shifts that support a holistic global world view, empowering the diversity toward unity of purpose – a better world for us all. We are developing a comprehensive internal solution using an ISO 26000-based questionnaire and protocols for social responsibility within the workplace. Application of this tool empowers the systemic shift; mitigating resistance to change, buy-in from leadership and throughout the workforce.
Many people are at work in this great effort; from the trenches to the mountaintops wisdom is being shared on- and off-line. Concerted effort and arduous collaboration has been done to create the documents below, so we begin there. What evolves is our actions in alignment with these global efforts. Would you like to be invovled in this production?
As we progress and our reach increases through the personal, professional and social networks available our efforts will culminate in the building of a model village that synergizes sustainable development principles with a new understanding of social architecture that empowers excellence in all we do. Like Einstein revealed, we cannot fix a system with the tools that created it. Facebook, LinkedIn, ecademy and others provide opportunity and are underutilized for promoting business and social change.
What are we using?
World standards are evolving. Community humanitarian action fueled by economic, educational,
social and technological needs can be more effectively engaged by planetary citizens; Cultural Creativesturned tenacious tradespersons. We suggest an initial document the serves to provide a consistent intentional level of compliance and/or service. This document, the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standards, was initiated by representatives from over 90 countries. It serves as a working document for encouraging intentional action of companies and corporations toward socially responsible action. Communication of intention is a great place to start and you can get your Draft Copy here.
Otto Scharmer, through his book Theory-U and coursework developed at MIT with Peter Senge, leads a concerted effort through u.lab to empower change agents around the globe. The ‘practice’ is through collaboration and co-presencing to create prototypes that crystalize the precepts of Theory-U into practical processes and projects for creating a better future for us all. The class size, for example of the Transforming Business, Society and Self coursework was over 32,000 students in over 180 countries. See other courses.
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is also a primary document that provides a code of ethics for general behavior. Humankind is diverse across many perspectives, yet we consider all to be planetary citizens and as such would benefit greatly from the wisdom of this declaration. We can see that maligned resources, poor fiscal management and repressed populations have created near chaos in the world. We support making sense in the promotion of responsible activity throughout all existing systems, creating a new world order of harmony among people and planet. Our internet brothers and sisters, friends and relatives help create a thoughtmosphere of good will.
What is in it for you?
As we grow into the mission and vision of Planetary Citizens, you will have access to a wealth of information; people, places and things that support harmony among people and planet. If you are adept at searching the Web you can find resources on your own, but we’ve made it easier to garner more with less time spent. You will gain access to resources that embrace a new millennium mindset and remain practical and pragmatic in the bridging of cultures, religions, political notions and world service. In short, you can find something of relevance for just about any topic regarding planetary citizens…. YOU. Now with Planetary Citizens: Awakening the Heart of Humanity being available, the vision is explored in depth. Here’s a recent review from Dr. Alexander Laszlo…
Zen Benefiel has delivered another another cutting-edge guide to life and the proper living of it for our times. And he has done so in typical Zen style, with warmth, accessibility, and an abundance of inspiration. This is a book to help us learn how to live simply so that others may simply live. It makes good on the vision and promise of a global, Gaia-centered, Planetary Citizens movement, but Zen shows it to be much more than that. It is an embodied ethos of our time — a way of being and interbeing with each other, life, and all the ways of being, living, and loving that connect us as a species in and with this amazing planet. In short, this is a book about what it truly means to be humankind.
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