Day Two, Bowen Island and Beyond
Just finished another opening here on Bowen. Participants all out now in conversation. This is the second of two days on “How Can We Make Snug Cove an Inviting Place to Live Work and Play?” It’s mostly a new group of people today, and still we seem to be going deeper. Amazing to watch meaning move through community.
What we are doing here is community dialogue. AND some high tech mapping and modelling. AND some municipal decision-making on key issues that have a tremendous impact on the feel and the future of a very special little cove, the cozy little entrance to this island home for about 3000 people. We are beginning to establish the dialogue/inviting and the mapping/visualization processes as long-term practices, to add caring embrace and clear vision to the usual financial/political power of ongoing municipal government. We think this active and conscious connecting of power, caring and vision is fairly unique in communities. We think it will have quite a positive effect here on Bowen Island.
We are also excited to have friends and colleagues from Jerusalem here taking notes, so that what we are doing might add something to positive there as well. There is also some talk of our working there together next year. The key, as our visiting friend Avner Haramati points out, is to do our little works and not think any of it is too important. Little by little, peace and community do and will arrive.