The Taranaki ChangeMakers group has just finished this year’s four-month series of workshops on fostering more active citizenship in our community, in New Zealand, and in the world.
We have been keeping this “blog” of the activities of this local learning community over these winter months, and it is now being posted “live” to share with our friends.
This year, we have drawn a great deal of inspiration and food for our dialogue sessions from the series of lectures called TED Talks. You can view many of these talks straight from this blogsite.
Taranaki Changemakers is part of a new national initiative aimed at fostering more active citizenship amongst New Zealanders.
The local four-month learning community is designed to support and sustain our individual activities on community, political and environmental issues. The weekly evenings are an opportunity to take “time out” to look at the bigger picture surrounding the issues we are concerned about, and to be inspired and encouraged by fresh thinking and practical examples of people and projects that are making a difference.
Changemakers groups are following a 5-10-5-10 strategy of fostering active citizenship
| 5 - spend 5% of your income directly supporting citizenship action that inspires you 10 - do ten actions in the next year on your personal passion in citizenship action 5 - spend 5% of your time on active citizenship tasks 10 - join with ten other people to create a learning community to support each other’s work for change |
We have found this to be an simple and generative framework for focusing our individual passions, while at the same time providing a framework for how we can support one another.
More information on ChangeMakers 5-10-5-10 can be found at
http://www.changemakers.org.nz
