Our Economic Future - 2nd Gathering following the unMoney Convergence

[Chris Byrne]

Hello RogueEx,

This is the promo for the event that is being posted to the various
community lists. We hope to see you there!



We are pleased to continue the dialogue around cultivating local money
here in Southern Oregon through alternative exchange methods like
complementary currency and locally-focused investing. This is the
second event following our trip to Seattle to attend the unMoney
Convergence (http://unmoney.wik.is/)

The event is scheduled for

Saturday, June 14
1:30-4:30 pm

at the Bellview Grange
1050 Tolman Creek Rd.,
near Siskiyou Blvd. (next to Bellview Elementary School)

Come for part or all of the afternoon.

We will host an interactive “World Café” style discussion to gather
the wisdom, interest, enthusiasm and curiosity in our community. World
Café is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design
principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which
we co-evolve our collective future (www.theworldcafe.com).


We are creating space for a focused collective intelligence to emerge
and develop trading systems for our area that build resilience. If you
would like to be part of this ongoing conversation, join The Rogue
Exchange Google Group at:

http://groups.google.com/group/the-rogue-exchange

In prosperity and peace,
Crystal Arnold, Kirsten Liegmann, & Chris Byrne

~~~

Who we are: We have been collaborating as a team over the last year,
drawn together by our common passion for sustainability, local
resilience, and a thriving community life. During this time we have
'invested' extensively in building our collaborative resonant field
and capturing and organizing our multifaceted collective knowledge.
In developing our strategy and framework for the design and
implementation of resilient systems for organizations and communities,
we have come to realize the foundational nature that money (or any
means of exchange) plays in any of the systems we were looking at. As
such we have chosen our initial focus as a group to be on the realm of
complementary currency, and the challenges and opportunities of
designing and implementing this type of social technology.


Kirsten Liegmann, MBA in Sustainable Management, (2006) Presidio
School of Management. Doctoral candidate for Relocalization &
Resilient Systems Design - Gaia University. Registrar & Director of
Operations for Gaia University. Business consultant, coach, and
student advisor. Former president/CEO of Soma Ergonomics, Inc., a
company she cofounded in 1994. Through the mentorship of people such
as Bernard Lietaer (lietaer.com) and Hunter Lovins (hunterlovins.com),
she has developed a deep understanding of and commitment to
sustainability, systems design, and localization as a resilience
strategy. A resident of Ashland since 2003, Kirsten wants to assist
this richly diverse region to gain resilience and thrive economically,
ecologically, and socially.


Chris Byrne, MBA, in Sustainable Enterprise, (2005) from New College
of California, and advanced certification in Permaculture from the
Cascadia Permaculture Institute. His professional work is as an
Integral Sustainability Consultant, where he guides businesses and
organizations in translating green ideas into products and services,
and green ideals into action. His community focus is as a Re-
localization Advocate and Petroleum Transition Strategist. Chris has
lived in Ashland with his partner and daughter since 2005. http://byrnegreen.com


Crystal Arnold, BS in International Economics, (2007) Southern Oregon
University. Crystal has been actively engaged in the re-localization
movement in the Rogue Valley since moving here in 2005. She is a
business consultant for several companies in Williams, where she is
currently living. She believes money, our relationship to it, and our
design of it are an essential part of building a thriving region.