As a \u2018systems thinker\u2019 Anneleise Hall\u2019s insights are invaluable to all people who are wanting NZ as a whole - to prepare itself to become far more
\n robust, sustainable and resilient. <\/p>\n
With a fast coming future descending on us - we need to really commit to \u2018conscious action!\u2019 Not only for our biosphere and all biota, but especially
\n for the sake of our children and grandchildren too.<\/p>\n
Many years ago, Anneleise was working for a local newspaper in a small region on NZ\u2019s West Coast where she basically had full control of the content
\n of that newspaper and as she was there for many years she got an overview of the makeup of this small town and she noticed that after the extractive
\n industry of logging was closed down and the subsequent good pay-out by the NZ government - it interested her how this small town responded to losing
\n major income streams \u2013 and how they innovated.<\/p>\n
So in putting together the newspaper she grew an awareness of other ways of entrepreneurship such as the West Coast wild foods event, which went on
\n to a film festival then tourism and art - resulting in boosting their own income and the local economy.<\/p>\n
She ended up teaching young teens skills how to get a job and build up their self-worth that lead her into community work \u2013 then it was noticed that Because of the lack of interest in some of the challenges of the youth and the teachers of the schools unable to have the time etc, that she noticed Yet on the other hand, Anneleise still in her newspaper role, was harvesting stories from around the world of other small towns that were doing very As she was in an industry where she was able to get all the news-feeds from around the world via news-wire and in doing so, receiving torrents of information One thing she became aware of just how creative people are and what is the potential when you start to think outside the square by creating real long That when one town creates an innovative model \u2013 it gives other towns a blueprint and an ompetus as to how they too, can reinvent themselves.<\/p>\n Then Anneleise talks to the fact that she is a system \u2013 of breathing heart, lungs and this is her immediate ecology \u2013 and then in her family unit that\u2019s She noticed that the more uncertainty and faster pace of the world affected our levels of stress, depression and anxiety - plus fear of the future As a result of the changing global dynamics, she is also seeing more fragmentation and mistrust \u2013 as we haved moved away from our innate humanity and Yet in our hearts:<\/p>\n Yet in our hearts there is another thing happening, people are moving back to really basic ways of being, that she finds very exciting. That all this So when the Christchurch earthquake happened, over the hill in Lyttleton the \u2018time bank\u2019 that was set up was able to quickly jump into action and able Project Lyttleton<\/a> cherry picked all the other pilot initiatives that were happening anywhere This is where Anneleise then noticed that the mainstream newspapers were not interested in printing any articles on \u2018time banking\u2019 \u2013 that Project Lyttleton She noticed there are little pockets in areas where inspired people inhabit and come together \u2013 however how do you communicate with these people when It took a while to build up the time bank \u2013 because the whole concept of throwing \u2018money\u2019 out the window and instead trading on \u2018time\u2019 was so new! That everyone has something intrinsic to offer and everyone\u2019s time is equal.<\/p>\n Dr Edgar Cahn<\/a> \u2013 Time bank guru. It was a way to not use our national currency the NZ dollar, especially if we were short of cash and instead at a community level get things done with Anneleise says that from a systems thinking process, it is a rich ecology where there is a much greater choice when the community engages in a community That time banking is really a facility to go beyond our instinctive \u2018modern\u2019 mistrust of each other and start to rebuild both networks of community So the key here is to have some clear, accurate and balanced communication forms going on.<\/p>\n In the UK the Time Bank system expressed itself differently as the Government allied them to health centres \u2013 in giving assistance to old people in The \u2018non market economy\u2019 can be seen as up to 40% of the economy \u2013 like child care, care for the elderly, civic participation \u2013 volunteerism \u2013 all So these activities are the foundation of our healthy human existence - yet under our current economic measuring - they are completely ignored. <\/p>\n Love comes into it !!! What is that worth?<\/p>\n Sustainability is a whole system \u2013 of many interlinking components that is inclusive of \u2018closing the loop.\u2019<\/p>\n Even the garage sale and car boot sale are parts to this whole. Where you are reusing and recycling things they are all integral to your community Having connection in your community is critical.<\/p>\n Having a network of friends and kin is imperative! (listen)<\/p>\n Healing was another imperative !<\/p>\n Transition Towns <\/p>\n Malicious propaganda via mainstream media like sensationalism of war, terrorism, crime etc \u2013 we must not let it undermine our sense of community, undermine Systems thinking and healthy children growing up with healthy boundaries, that have healthy connections to each other and our world \u2013 this requires She mentions Bruce Lipton\u2019s understanding<\/a> of \u2018conscious evolution.\u2019 See www.brucelipton.com<\/a>\n <\/p>\n Finding that laughter and connection is in community.<\/p>\n Finding that little quiet place in nature or meditation \u2013 this is so essential to us in bringing us back to our basic humanity.<\/p>\n Letting go of stress, letting go of the negative media programming.<\/p>\n We do not know what will eventuate until we go out into the community and involve ourselves.<\/p>\n We need to commit to make things happen <\/p>\n There is a richness of people who have skills talents and gifts to share. <\/p>\n We need to get together \u2013 share ideas and rebuild trust as well as rebuild a collective energy \u2013 where we work together in a cooperative movement and There is a document on http:\/\/lyttelton.net.nz \u2013 called \u2018our story\u2019 \u2013 which is like a blueprint or template, of what you can do. <\/p>\n Anneleise would also like to see a reduction of poverty and incarcerations, better health care, swimmable rivers \u2013 even a universal basic income … Time banking and other community financial methods can be found on:<\/p>\n
\n a lot of kids had fallen through the cracks \u2013 that if there was no sport, there was not so many options \u2013 so she started up a trust to get music
\n into schools and the smoke free rock quest<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n another small town nearby that had a \u2018green dollar\u2019 group and they were having markets in the weekend and it was quite active. It was here that
\n she enjoyed getting fresh organic produce that were traded \u2013 and use the \u2018various credits\u2019 for other things and people were building tiny houses
\n and rebuilding busses as a sustainable community was growing up on her periphery .<\/p>\n
\n exciting and innovative things to mitigate the so called perfect storm of global circumstances. With globalism creating massive change even if
\n it was not necessarily in everyone\u2019s awareness at that time \u2013 she said that she was just led there without really being conscious of how it would
\n unfold. <\/p>\n
\n that she could choose from. She was in a microcosmic situation of a little NZ town \u2013 looking out towards all the other towns globally in the greater
\n planetary macrocosm \u2013 and how these towns were changing to meet the ever changing global circumstances.<\/p>\n
\n lasting positive change \u2013 and this empowered her \u2013 in realising that these small towns and regions could really progress.<\/p>\n
\n another ecology and then her community - it is an even larger one \u2013 and all the parts interlink and interweave and if we are healthy, that little
\n local microcosm is too. That there is a correlation that if our wellbeing as individuals is healthy, there is a very good chance our community
\n will become one too.<\/p>\nUncertainty and faster change affects us all.<\/h3>\n
\n increased.<\/p>\n
\n the ability to cooperate, when we as a species are really social creatures, and have been basically interrelating since the beginning of time.
\n Whereas the current program that we are being inundated with is having the best, the brightest always winning, \u201cwe have gotta have this\u201d mentality
\n … and it\u2019s turned into such a competitive mind-set that it\u2019s now a case of the haves and the have nots. The winner and the losers and that
\n can be seen nearly everywhere especially in the 2nd decade of the 21st century.<\/p>\n
\n has been seeded over the last 30 to 40 years \u2013 that was quite fringe back then \u2013 is now becoming more and more mainstream as people look at a \u2018time
\n bank\u2019 or green dollars and a community garden, a local food growing project, an energy project like a car pooling project - all being ways to counterbalance
\n the status quo. Especially as the resources on the ground cannot keep up. (i.e - be sustainable).<\/p>\n
\n to be utilised by the emergency services because they had their own telephone tree and were already embedded and known throughout that community.<\/p>\nThis is where PLAN B comes into it.<\/h3>\n
\n in the world, to see how they may be integrated into their localised situation<\/p>\n
\n Initiator, Margaret Jefferies<\/a> could not interest these local corporate newspapers into covering this innovative method of enabling the community to become more resilient and
\n self reliant. <\/p>\n
\n the mainstream local newspapers do not wish to help you? (hint, they are not here to bring community together \u2018they\u2019 are here just to make money
\n and keep the status quo \u2013 Tim) <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat one person\u2019s time was exactly that same as another person\u2019s time \u2013 so that every bodies time - is equal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n
\n just a giving of one\u2019s time.<\/p>\n
\n wide \u2018time banking\u2019 system. This is because there is an amazing range and depth of talents and skills plus expertise that when you connect into
\n and access this community you have this goldmine of real knowledge and wisdom. <\/p>\n
\n that Anneleise says, were once far more prevalent back in the past.<\/p>\n
\n their homes and by helping out the elderly in their house, it meant that they could stay and live in their home longer instead of having to move
\n to a retirement village for example. Also in Britain\u2019s Prisons \u2013 (listen to hear the story)<\/p>\nThe Non Market Economy<\/h3>\n
\n of this work is not contributing to GDP and it is not measured \u2013 yet it is the glue that holds our communities together.<\/p>\n
\n functioning at a social and at an economic level.<\/p>\n
\n our sense of connection, undermine our humanity and our caring for other people - and to where this leads us …<\/p>\n
\n a lot of modelling. Modelling what the adults are doing in the community. So if adults are heart centred and aligned with a very balanced intent
\n \u2013 positive change can ripple throughout the community.<\/p>\nAs a \u2018serial researcher\u2019 \ud83d\ude42 … these are other things covered by Anneleise:<\/h3>\n
\n collaborate - as against competition <\/p>\n
\n plus curtailing foreign land investments and what we need to do in regard to the election cycle.<\/p>\n