IPTL Next Steps proposal - read and react before Sept 10!

[Joos van den Dool]

Dear Partners!

Here is the proposal that the core team prepared for you for the next steps of the IPTL.

Link to googledoc IPTL Next Steps

We are very happy when you read it carefully and insert comments with feedback directly in the document.

Drop us a sign anyway that you have seen it. Everyone receiving this email is requested to look at it as you are the current members! If you feel it should also go to a colleague who isnt't in this emaillist yet- forward it!  You have one week time: untill Tuesday, September 10th, 1PM. If you do not react, may we suppose that you agree? Then we will discuss and process your feedback and adapt the proposal so that we can invite new members to join and continue our cooperation with new energy!

Attached to this email (below!) you find a letter from the Life-learners team. It is one of the 5 cooperation requests that we received over the past month.

There are 2 questions in it: the first one to each organisation that feels called to enter themselves in the database. We recommend that each organisation does that, YIP is already in! The second question is a call for cooperation with the IPTL in developing and branding the platform. We feel it is interesting because Hosting transformation/IPTL is a platform for practitioners of transformational learning and Life-learners is a platform for transformational learners. Please give a reaction to us how you feel about it! And sign up with your organisation at the website.

Let us know if you have any questions.

We can't wait to hear back from you!

Warmest greetings, on behalf of Jasenka, Martin and Boris

Joos

 

Dipl.-Ing. Joos van den Dool
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Lara Mallien <l...@humantouch.de>
To: Joos van den Dool <joosv...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:59 PM
Subject: Letter from the LifeLearners

Dear friends of the IPTL,

Benjamin Kafka and Anette Loy told us about the inspiring festival in Sweden and the decision to continue to weave a web of transformative learning across Europe. This is good news!
When we learned about this process, we felt that it is the right moment to join in a project called "Life-learners", which Benjamin, Teresa and Anette already presented at the festival. It is currently in a starting phase, supported by a group of about ten people and supported by various individuals, the German Sinn-Stiftung and the Oya-magazine.

Life-learners was born out of the impulse to make unconventional and individual paths of learning and education of all kinds available to a broader public, for example to young people, who have something different in mind than pursuing the perfect career but rather look for ways to unfold their own potential and a meaningful way of living in a world in transition. Or people of any age, who quit a no longer fulfilling job and look for a place to spend some time to find a new direction in life, to be supported by a community and learn new skills.

We feel that there is a strong movement all over the world towards meaningful ways of learning, it spreads in networks like yours, among groups of students like the German "Funkenflieger", the project-peace-people (based at the "Aktiv-Hof" Schlehdorf initiated by the Sinn Stiftung), young people of the Youth Futures Project or in ecovillages, where a new identity as "places of learning" is developing, but also in universities.
This movements mainly grows between people and places, but it also needs paths of virtual communication. Therefore we are busy to set up a database of learning-places, -programs, -networks and informal projects to make this movement more visible. In parallel, we collect stories of individual learning-journeys in order to encourage readers to walk their own way. There will be also news, dates and blogs on the website or whatever communication-tool seems useful in the future.

Currently the site is under construction, what is visible on www.life-learners.eu is not even a preview but just some notes we put together in the first phase of planning. The "real thing" we are working on is bilingual, English and German, and it will have a very different, more lively visual. Life-learners will be uncommercial, all the services and contents will be free and copyleft. We will ask supporters and users for voluntary contributions, and we are busy with fundraising for a budget to set up the site. A first amount was granted by the Sinn-Stiftung.

From the very beginning we saw the kinship of life-learners and all the organizations joining in the partnership for transformative learning. We planned to ask all of you for an entry in our database and for stories from your students. But after hearing Benjamin talk about the festival, we feel there could be an even stronger partnership. Benjamin, Christian Rauschenfels (Sinn-Stiftung/Network Living & Learning Centers)) and myself (Oya-magazine) had an encouraging telephone-conference with Joos this weekend. We all felt that life-learners could be a common project of  Oya, Sinn Stiftung and IPTL. So our invitation to all of you is to create, shape and use this project together with us.  We are open, and you are heartily welcome to develop this together with us and contribute new and other aspects which we up to now did not think about.

We see life-learners on the one hand as a pragmatic way of communicating what organisations like you do to a broader public and on the other hand as a field of research—research on a language that puts across our concerns and research on the spirit and transformative impact of new ways of learning in a world that realizes that we are living on a planet with finite resources and a fundamental need of reinventing our way of life.

So our question is, whether IPTL officially would like to be partner or even co-creator of the life-learners project. What could this mean? Simply spreading the word, helping to make contact to many wonderful places and programs, where people can learn, contribute stories and discuss with us the mission statement. If you feel that there are virtual ways of communication needed within the IPTL, may it be in a public or a protected space, the webteam of life-learners might be able to support this.
 
We are very curious about hearing your feedback!

All the best wishes,
Lara with Benjamin and Christian