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802 Desert Creek Road,
Numbugga via Bega NSW 2550
Phone: 6492 8498
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Last update of this page: 29 September 2019 Last news about DCH - Page of DCH Friends - Most recent documents

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1) Our next activities Next themes of reflection Next meditation weekend Next community day Next workshop Further activities

2) Last past meetings Related documents Last workshop: Surrender or Fight (September 2019) Previous workshop: Going deeper - Money, Work, Generosity (2nd stage) (May 2019)) After our community day about "Generosity" (May 2018) After our community day about "Nonviolent communication" (April 2018)

3) New essays By us or by other sources Reflection on the election system in Australia Aboriginal People: The Uluru Statement (2017) Country: Land and reconciliation (Feb. 2017) Australia: Colonial system and democracy (Jan. 2019) Climate change: Two proposal for immediate action and radical change (Feb. 2019) Chinese silent invasion (Hamilton): Resistance and resilience.

4) Life at DCH A few texts and main present issues A few exercises of meditation We need your help: List of works to be done now at DCH Calender for 2019: all the dates on 1 A4 How to get to DCG - map and instructions Constitution of the association Desert Creek House Inc.

1) Our next activities Next meditation weekend: From Friday 11 (6pm) to Sunday 13 October at 9am. Silent weekend of meditation Following Meditation days will be on: 8-10 Nov. / 13-15 Dec. Next community day: on the 26 October 2019 from 9am for a 9.30 start to 4pm (AGM). Contributing some food to share. Working bee replaces donation. Following Community days (generally on the fourth Saturday of the month, except when there is a workshop on the same month - because the workshop is considered as a community day) will be on: nest year 2020 Next workshop: Fri. 22 (5pm) to Sun. 24 November 2019 (9am) Tipping Point Alliance: a Manifesto and Covenant for a meaningful Life - Facilitator: David Oliphant and Yves de Morsier We live in a time when truth seems to be so flexible that anything goes. It is then essential to dare to affirm what is central in our lives. We have tried to do this exercise (which is not simple at all). Out of this attempt a text has taken shape that proposes a radical action, in urgency, here and now, to resist climate change and the social crisis we are facing globally. You can download this document from our website (The Tipping Point Alliance) or have it sent to you. The manifesto consists in 3 tools: 1) A Manifesto that proposes core values for truer relationships between human beings as well as with our natural environment, 2) A Covenant that invites the participants to commit to precise actions and attitudes in their everyday life. 3) The creation of some Action Hubs where participants may meet in order to assess the current situation and to plan together the next actions. There is unity in the core of the Manifesto (the values) and diversity in the terms of the Covenant (the expressions) because each one is free to commit to what they want. This is a way to find unity in a few core values and to invent diverse ways of expression of how we can translate these values into daily life. We will investigate these core values, with the possibility of rewriting the manifesto if it should be adapted. Then, in a second part, we will see what we wish to propose as personal commitments which could become the terms of the covenant. It is evident that each one is free to commit, or not, to anything that is proposed. There will be no pressure to be involved more than you wish to. The result could be a new version of the manifesto (if necessary) and a new covenant for each of the participants (if they wish to). Cost: DCH donation plus contributing some food to share. Further activities: See further program on this website (in a new window) 2) Last past meetings - Related documents (Each one in a new window) (September 2019) Documents from our last workshop: Surrender or Fight The main text and documents of the workshop "Surrender or Fight" (1'550kb in pdf) (Of course this was only the starting point for the sharing we had) (May 2019) Documents from the previous workshop: Going deeper - Money, Work, Generosity (2nd stage) The main text and documents of the workshop "Money, Work, Generosity" (682kb in pdf) (Of course this was only the starting point for the sharing we had) (May 2018) After our community day and sharing about generosity (26th May), Jen provides here her text for further reflection: The text and the quotations: About generosity (6p in pdf) And Sunny asked for the text about the four categories of goods: Four categories of goods and the ways to share them (7p in pdf) This is an extract of Yves' book about wealth and poverty (p183sq). For the whole book, see: Vocation and subsistence: towards a reconciliation between simplicity and wealth on the search for care and equity (233p in pdf) (April 2018) About nonviolent communication, after our community day and sharing (28th April), Sunny proposes the following texts for further reflexion: Borrowed from the Center for Nonviolent Communication (www.cnc.org): Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication (6p in pdf) Borrowed from Pennsylvania University (http://ceteseerx.ist.psu.edu): Nonviolence in World religions (135p in pdf) 3) Recent documents - By us or by other sources (Each one in a new window) A reflection about the election system in Australia. Nowadays the two party system prevents minorities to be represented in parliament. By contrast a proportional system would allow these minor tendencies to be active and it would break the polarisation between the two major forces. Their presence in parliament, as so far unrepresented perceptions and tendencies, would generate new forms of alliances and it would foster a true public debate about the society we want to implement. Election system in Australia and the corresponding example based on the last elections (2019) About Aboriginal issues: What can we do at DCH to discover a true connexion to Aboriginal people and culture? The Uluru statement (written by elders at Uluru in 2017: this is an admirable very short text, so deep, so true. Uluru Statement from the Heart- 1p in pdf Through my readings and writings I had a modest insight into the Aboriginal issue and have here a proposal about what we could try to do at DCH. Warning: I do not know much about Aboriginal people and their culture but I'm very touched (in my ignorance) by the wealth it represents in terms of human gifts. There is a certainty: we would be all enriched to tap into the huge potential of true (re)conciliation. I need your insights, your advices, etc. Help me! Tell me please what you think of this proposal! Land and reconciliation - Two insights - One proposal - 4p in pdf About Australia: About democracy in Australia and how it has been shaped by its colonial past: Colonial system and democracy About ecology and climate change: As a response to Prof. Lesley Hughes' talk at the Bermagui Institute, a double proposal for an immediate action and radical change: Two proposals About the book "Silent invasion" by Clive Hamilton: How to resist Chinese state interference in Australian social and economic life. Resistance and resilience Further readings: See other texts published on this website (in a new window) 3) Life at DCH - Main practical documents about DCH (Each one in a new window) As a help for meditation: A few exercises of meditation (14p in pdf) We need your help: List of various works of maintenance to be done at DCH. Concerning our next activities: All the important dates on 1 A4 sheet. How to get to DCH: Map and instruction how to access DCH. DCH is a non-for-profit association: Constitution of Desert Creek House Incorporated.

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