An opportunity to join in conversation with Bill and Milenko in Wallingford. Within walking distance from UW, and its Free!
Wednesday, November 9th
6:00-8:00pm (wine to drink at 6 with the conversation starting at 6:30)
East Hall at iLeap, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Suite #400, Seattle, WA
Free
Many of the foundations of our common life – the economy, the environment, the state of our republic – are in transition, unstable. This evening we will discuss how pursing the common good in these uncertain times is a necessary new world view.
Pomegranate Center invites you to join us for this conversation with Milenko Matanovic, Pomegranate Center founder and executive director, and Bill Grace, founder of Common Good Works and the Center for Ethical Leadership.
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E-mail hannah@pomegranate.org with questions or to express your excitement.
About Milenko:
(Source: http://www.pomegranatecenter.org)
Milenko is a self-described recovering artist who founded Pomegranate Center in 1986 believing that magic happens when art, creative thinking, and community join forces.
Since then, he has been lucky to work with hundreds of communities across the country and abroad; collaborate with communities to build more than 50 gathering places; speak at more universities, community gatherings and conferences than he can remember; and train remarkable community leaders in the Pomegranate Center model of community building. He has been honored with the Home Shelter Award, the Legacy Leadership Award from the Center for Ethical Leadership and an honorary professorship at the University of Vladivostok, Russia (it’s a long story).
Connecting art with community building and everyday life is just one of the ways Milenko uses his creativity to prepare communities for the future. By combining his talents as a thinker, educator and artist, Milenko hopes to create a world where neither nature nor human talents are wasted. He lives to help communities become wiser by working together to find new and creative ways to push good ideas into action.
As a young man, Milenko left a successful art career as a member of celebrated group OHO in his native Slovenia. (OHO exhibited internationally, including at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.) He turned his creative energies toward communities — each community becoming a new kind of “studio” where art, collaboration and community building converge. He has been working with cities and towns in the U.S. and abroad ever since, because he believes this is the most efficient, broad-based way to improve society. Through this work he has learned how to listen to others’ ideas so that shared solutions are possible. He believes that when it comes to community, together we always know more.
About Bill:
(Source: http://www.commongoodworks.com)
Bill Grace is a social justice activist, a traveling teacher, storyteller, and an architect of ideas.
From 1976 to 1991, Bill served in higher education, promoting ideas related to moral and civic responsibility, service learning and global citizenship. In 1991 Bill founded the Center for Ethical Leadership and served as Executive director for 14 years. The Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the common good through ethical leadership, civic responsibility and collaborative problem solving. His current research and writing focuses on understanding Deep Hope, Moral Courage and Wisdom from the Margins—as well as other sources of motivation that have inspired transformational leaders to courageously pursue justice.
Bill promotes leadership that is grounded in spiritual development and compassion both of which deepen our commitment to pursue a just, peaceful and sustainable world. He touches audiences deeply with a heartfelt commitment to global justice, peace and sustainability. Seminar participants and audience members report being inspired by Bill’s passion, authenticity and humility.
I am thinking about whether I will take CEP 200. Can anyone give me some comment about that class?