The Coffee Party: Long Time Brewing

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What's the difference between the Coffee Party and the Tea Party? Does the members of the Coffee Party focus on more rational and calm discussions that focus on human rights instead of protesting in public? I am not too sure. In TV news, I saw the Tea Party members have loud protesting in public for human rights. .

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Over the past twenty years, PCP has been fortunate to encounter many talented people deeply committed to its mission. Some have been trainees, some have become aware of PCP through articles in the press, our publications, word of mouth or participation in one of our facilitated dialogues. The really good news is that many of these people have hoped to establish a way of working with PCP as dialogue practitioners. The really bad news is that as a small organization, PCP is unable to absorb the large number of people who have approached us about opportunities for engagement. It is gratifying to see the way that mediators, attorneys, educators, journalists, mental health professionals, and others have incorporated PCP’s approach into their own work. We treasure these ‘ripples’ and often incorporate stories about them into our own publications. One of the terrific things about dialogue is that it is applicable in so many situations whether at the personal, local, national or international level. low prices ultra mask one hour cleansing formula exotic punch flavor

Whoa, Kim - you just dove into the heart of so many things in that comment! I agree with a lot of what you said (many in our field, myself included, don't know how to tell compelling stories about this work and talk in ways that truly reach people, for example). I'm deeply troubled by what you said about finding the dialogue and deliberation community hard to get into (I don't think any of us intentionally keep this work hidden or put up high barriers to entry). I would very much appreciate hearing more about what you've experienced, and hearing your ideas for improving things. (You can contact me privately if you prefer, at sandy@thataway.org.) zydot ultimate-24 plus blend orange flavor low prices It sounds like our field has a lot of work to do.

The Coffee Party Movement isn't an actual party. It's an organic mass of well over 100,000 people that coalesced in less than a month around one woman's Facebook comment. The "it factor" comes from this: CPM people make themselves humanly accessible. They bring heart, not academic jargon, into conversation. I've tried to get involved for over a decade with the dialogue and deliberation community, but it keeps itself pretty well hidden and puts up lots of barriers to entry. The dialogue community hides its meaning in academic talk. I'm all for academic talk in general, but it's NOT a path to community building. I've reached out to various different groups: PCP, Let's Talk America, Conversations Cafe, then World Care, etc. None could find a role for this eager and skilled person to get involved. I'm a trained mediator and facilitator, yet there's no place for me in this community unless I come with my own group in tow. Within one week of finding CPM on FB, I was able to do more to achieve my dream of building community dialogue than I was able to accomplish in over a decade of trying to find a way to work with more formal dialogue organizations. Within days I was welcomed into an overflowing coffee house filled with interesting people from a variety of political persuasions. Interestingly this happened just a few days after I signed up for World Cafe training - that got canceled. I wonder about the power of the "deliberative democracy" movement. If it's ready to be powerful in the 21st century, why doesn't it even have a FB page in English? And the World Cafe page? It's been taken over by gamers who play Cafe World. The NCDD FB page is better, but if the FB page is dry and doesn't have a lot of meaningful discussion happening, that's not very encouraging. (I've tried to do my part there.) CNVC is one organization that has had some notable success in reaching out to the public, so that's a plus. CPM in the big picture is not anti-TPM. At the first round of hundreds of national gatherings, several Tea Party Members attended. People from both groups are exploring common interests. Of course, within a huge group of people - growing rapidly every day - you will certainly be able to find aspects of any kind of behavior you wish to use as a frame. Is CPM progressive? Not by design. But, it is true in general that people who are interested in communicating and talking things out tend to lean more progressive. Take any publicly advertised course on mediation or dialogue and you will see that. More than 300 local groups met when CPM was about 6 weeks old. I'm sure several different sub-cultures will evolve. Quote Sandy: ""energy doesn't flow to careful and reasoned discussion and collaboration" That's true when people use that kind of vocabulary to talk about it. Think about successful mission statements. Most mission statements use dried up vocabulary and do nothing but rot on a shelf and get lip service. But some manage to bring humanity and life into the mission and truly inspire people in an organization. Take the airplane mechanics whose mission went something like this (wish I could remember the company): "We build and maintain planes we want our families to fly in." That sort of mission statement brings life with it. It's not smothered in dead language. If the traditional dialogue community wants to bring in energy, let humanity in. Think of what Harriett Beecher Stowe did with the dialogue over slavery. She gave it a story. She gave it humanity. Communication in the 21st century is largely about narrative. What's your story?

I think "basher" is a term related to observable behavior (thoughtless, hateful disparagement). I don't think it has much to do with who believes what in terms of the size/power of government.

Dear All: Great comments, thanks. Sandy, yes, the Coffee Party has skewed decidedly progressive. This is one of the assumptions behind my larger point that new "parties" (of any kind -- the Independents are a whole other movement that are also usually incorrectly characterized) will probably not be the answer to what ails us. Rather, we need forums and civic spaces -- virtual or otherwise -- in which people of all kinds can converse and find some kind of common ground. That's already happening, but it's not "seen" by the media or the cognescenti because these efforts can't be quickly niched (and usually dismissed, unfortunately). What the Beverage Drinkers have in common, though, is their mojo -- as you note, Sandy -- and catchy names (never understimate the latter's power in driving movement). These are a bit lagging in the deliberative/dialogue "space," which is inherently more reflective, as one of the NCDD posters observes. But reflection doesn't have to be synonymous with inaction or energy. Process is important, but when it becomes paralytic or an excuse for not stepping up when leadership is needed, it thwarts the the progress we wish to see and leaves us spinning our wheels, preaching to a rather small choir. It's a tough line to walk, indeed, but as the rancor continues to grow and the country becomes more deeply divided, I can't think of another swath of people better able to help show Americans a better way than the thousands of people working to promote understanding and collaboration among those who may have little in common other than the street on which they live. The question now is whether the leaders of these efforts can come together themselves and show the world that these approaches lead to the kinds of results many Americans say they want -- stronger communities built on trusting and respectful human relationships.