Collaboration

"In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning."

As A Beloved Community is being conceptualized, it must remain open source to highlight the good ideas of the many and promote them to flourish. Not every idea will take root, but the process of encouraging initiative, originality, experimentation and even failures (as well as successes) is vital. It requires collaborative, non-institutional thinking and actions.

Although it is not framed as such, I believe Redding Soup is a grass-roots expression of innovative ideas to build A Beloved Community.

Collaboration is all about using the tools of connections for the common good. 

To use a phrase from the Recent TEDxRedding, we need to start by "Mapping our Connections." What groups do you already belong to? How do they overlap in terms of people and perspectives? How can people and ideas from those groups be brought together for the common good?