A BUD can organize training weekends for themselves through which they can gain more skills, confidence and clarity in order to become more active and effective in change efforts. Some examples of various types of training:

• Conflict Resolution
• Training for People Who Want to be Trainers
• How to Throw a Festival
• Community Outreach

Sources: Building Social Change Communities

Contributors: Peter Woodrow, The Training/Action Affinity Group of Movement for a New Society

Recommended Reading:  Building Social Change Communities 

Munkesoegaard, a 100-household Eco-Village near Copenhegen in Denmark, learned they used 38% less water than the average Danish household, and 25% less electricity. carbon dioxide emissions from their wood-pellet heating system and rom their electricity consumption are both 60% lower than the average Danish household, and Munkesoegaard residents who carpool drove only 5% of the Danish average.

We all have an inalienable right to express our own best thoughts. We decide for ourselves what is right and wrong. Since Consensus is a process of synthesis, not competition, all sincere comments are important and valuable. If ideas are put forth as the speaker's property and individuals are strongly attached to their opinions, Consensus will be extremely difficult. Stubbornness, closed-mindedness, and possessiveness lead to defensive and argumentative behaviour that disrupts the process. For active participation to occur, it  is necessary to promote trust by creating an atmosphere in which every contribution is considered valuable. With encouragement, each person can develop knowledge and experience, a sense of responsibility and competency, and the ability to participate.

1. Observe & Interact
2. Catch & Store ENERGY
3. Obtain a Yield
4. Apply Self Regulation & Accept Feedback
5. Use & Value Renewable Resources & Services
6. Produce No Waste (the problem is the solution)
7. Design from Pattern to Detail
8. Integrate Rather than Segregate
9. Use Slow & Small Solutions
10. Use & Value Diversity
11. Use Edges & Value the Marginal
12. Creatively Use & Respond to Change

That first plan our team developed took us a year to create since then we continue to do research and development (R&D) and seek out the best of the best information that is as relevant and up-to-date as we can deliver. If you are on a later Phase and find yourself back on a earlier Phase it is due to our team finding new information that will only add value to your knowledge base and make you more effective in the work you do. This is not punishment in any way. We are here to serve YOU and your most pressing needs and we do so by providing you the best information, tools and training currently available.

We have seen amazing things happen to those who progress through the phases and we feel that speaks as testimony to the efficacy of the principles and the systems we propose herein — people report all kinds of successes in their personal life from no longer having feelings of suicide, to becoming known as a leader in their region, finding people they identify with and consider their "family" or "tribe" or seeing how their social change work impacts others in a positive way.

And when you follow through Your Action Plan, there will be nothing stopping you from getting results like these yourself.

The Facilitator is responsible for leading the meeting openly so that everyone present is aware of the process and how to participate. This means it is important to constantly review what just happened, what is about to happen, and how it will happen. Every time a new discussion technique is introduced, explain how it will work and what is to be accomplished. This is both educational and helps new members participate more fully.

Purpose:

YOU establish philosophies for a better future. These are formed based on knowing how things are in relation to how you feel they should be.

Physical:

At least one of 4 scenarios happen:

• You take no action.
• You find others like yourself but take no meaningful action.
• You find others like yourself who want to take action.
• You find a means to implement action either individually or within a group.

Social:

• You, and others like you, become unsettled by the constant societal pressures of the status quo and the direction society is going.

Intellectual:

• You educate yourself on the current systems in place as well as research possible solutions.  You ask yourself, “What can be done to change our current situation?”

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The proposed recipes are then validated by the team’s moderators, some of the best known culinary bloggers in France,

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$15 challenges are recipes with a photo of your finished dish and a photo for each step of the recipe you are adding.

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