Conversations for Change

Through the online Presencing classroom, I have “met” Deborah Goldblatt who is the initiator and director of the Youth Dialogue Project. I have just watched the 16min video about this inspiring project and would like to share it with you:



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3 Responses to “Conversations for Change”

  1. olasofia Says:
    October 12, 2007 at 10:25 am | Reply

    This is so inspiring. Thank you Frauke. Thank you

    I have had many conversations recently on this topic… there is a beautiful intergenerational journey bubbling in Pioneers of Change.

    In my work in South London, we are thinking about these topics in our community work..

    This morning, with the owner of the cafe across the road said to me… “my father is 77 and I can’t believe what inner confidence he has… how nothing surprises him…what is it about the older generation…they went through harder times?… they have a different perspective… and us.. .we are ..well…fragile somehow ………. you know there is a saying in French ’si la jeunesses savait, y si la vielliesse pouvait..’

    This means ‘if the young knew, and if the old could…’

    I think there is a paradox in our society… of worshiping youth … and yet… it is somehow empty worship.. it is a lie…. .. as althought the older generation are dismissed and shadows in our culture in many ways, youth are in so many ways not heard and not represented…

    What if we could find many different innovative ways for the wisdom from these two strata in our society to intermingle..

    someone said… ‘forget the middle generation..they are too stressed and too busy ….’ it is the youth and the old people that have the time to heal their communities…

    wow…

    here is to more of projects like this one… maybe we at imagine could link into older generations little by little in informal as well as formal ways…??

    sofia

  2. Daniel Shirasaka Says:
    February 26, 2009 at 12:23 am | Reply

    WOw… very inspiring. I am from Peru. A country with an incredible potential because of its cultural diversity (i have japanese roots instead) but also very fragmented and broken because of lack of integration between rich and poor, young and old, black and white and asian and andean… I believe that dialogue is the way, after trying to become an expert by using different methods, I think that the answers are inside everyone of us, and only through dialogue we can access to them.

    Thank you for posting this

  3. A.JohnPeter Says:
    July 10, 2009 at 6:13 pm | Reply

    Dialogue is the key for conflict resolution and development and transformation.
    The youth need exposure to the reality,to look at the two faces of the society at a closer distance.We can afford to be spectators.Let there be hundreds and thousands of initiatives to get in to dialogue.

    A.JohnPeter.
    People’s solidarity Association.India.

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