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n is an applied research creativity community that works with

individuals and communities to transform a disengaged social
structure into an active and purposeful social ecology.
n interdependently operates with each individual’s personal
unique strengths to create a sustainable community, using
technology, arts, social values and cultural stories.

Organized around shared meaning, n creates and celebrates

authentic human networks - social, physical and virtual.

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With the 21st century stepping forward, individuals and communities need
to acknowledge the daily challenges they are experiencing locally, nationally
and globally, as well as the opportunities that could emerge from these
challenges.

With every challenge there is an opportunity. We can capitalize on our

collective creativity to provide solutions for worldwide crises. The solution
lies in the hands and hearts of our youth, the future leaders of our earth.

We can provide them with an enabling context, and guide them so that
they can succeed by contributing affirmatively in the growth of our
communities.

How do we capitalize our talent, education, culture, and

relationships? How do we coexist in a shared space? How do
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n visions our messages are to

Fuse the arts, science and human potential in an interdisciplinary manner
Engage in a safe space to achieve a rich learning experience
Open up a world of innovative possibilities
Challenge restrictive mental models
Discover a social technology which involves synergistic
Community Hu and generative collective creativity, in a wholesome
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enviroment, and the arts.

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n strategies our realization pillars are actions in the form of

inquiring engaging reflecting

realizing initiating applying
developing learning achieving

art of conversations | art of improvisation | art of

effective decision making | art of conflict
transformation | community of practice | community
of interpretation | networks of innovation |
self-realization and development | re-enabling play |
social media technology | learning organizations
 n activities
our service roles are

Connector
human network

Applied Research
action-based initiatives

Process Design
whole-system sustainable programs

Facilitator
practical application guide

awareness
through connecting,
experiencing and
learning

Mentorship
peer trusted relationships

Feedback Monitoring
multi-Loop – amplification – reflection - balancing

Web Content Producer

outcome publishing

Training and Capacity Building

a - human and community development, b - creative skills development,
c - awareness practices, d - leadership

Sustainable Management
project management and program coordination
 n guiding principles and tools
this list is continuously in process, growing longer with new learnings

Theory U
www.presencing.org

Systems Thinking principles

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge

Deep Democracy for effective decision making

www.deep-democracy.net

Social discipline practices:

World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology

Social Media technology (Web 2.0):

weblogs, online collaboration, multimedia storytelling, social networks

awareness through
the art of conversation
and free expression
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Personal Presence
the personal connection (knowing one self) to nourish the whole person,
connect with our passions, experience our choices and responsibilities
within accountable guidelines.

Family Ensemble
the nucleus social element with parent guidance around core values,
developing personal creativity and modeling social collectivity and
contribution.

Professional Establishments
the economical and organizational dimension highlighting the value of
shared vision, common purpose designed around integrative
processes that amplify human potential.

Community Relationships
the social body of belonging and empowerment
through engagement and co-creation.
 n gateway
As an initiator, resource, guide, supporter, and facilitator, n seeks to shed
light on the beauty and effectiveness of active engagement, personal
awareness and social networking.

Our goal is to build new models of lifetime learning and cooperation, to

further deep democratic and unrestricted practices that revolve around
authenticity, inclusiveness and empowerment.

n is a gateway towards authentic growth and sustainability with a tangible

focus embedded in everyday life and the sphere of human influence.

awareness of a smile
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being alive while living
n projects
Our Shared Community Story
Story weaving in public libraries
Status: actioned

In collaboration with ASSABIL www.assabil.com n implemented at public

libraries in Beirut “Our Shared Community Story”, a collaborative project
designed around freedom of expression, individual creativity and collective
empowerment through theatre, literature, music, art, drama and poetry.

Funded by Heinrich Böll Foundation, the series of workshops were held at

Geitawi, Monnot and the Kotobus (mobile library) during the months of July,
August and September 2008.

The process involved different groups using various means of

expression gradually developing a story.

The final product that results from the co-created

work will be a multi-media story that will be
published on our web-sites. A complementary
parent workshop was organized to engage them
in the process, opening up opportunities for our
shared community story makers to practice at
home the new skills they learned and acquired.

The story concluded with an established web of

connections – teenagers, young adults, parents,
librarians – celebrating their innovation together.
Young Adult Leadership Inquiry Dialogue
Personal creativity, Family relationship, Community Platform
Status: in process

YALID is a forum designed to promote profound leadership and resourceful

creativity through a deep dialogue experience between high-potential young
adult leaders and the core social unit - their families.

It highlights where we are today.

It brings to light various possibilities for growth.

It maps the intended future desires for Lebanon primarily within the social
field context.

It sets a baseline for future initiatives.

Community Voices – Wishes for our future

Open Heart Collective Dialogues at Public Spaces
Status: in process

Wishes for Our Future is a process designed to invite the youth of Lebanon
to share their desires for their future individually and jointly, through hosting
profound conversations between young adults in different public spaces
around the country. Embedding various social technology and awareness
practices, the meetings will open a space for exploring, understanding,
reflecting, expressing and sharing.

The generated wishes will be presented to government officials, civil

society organizations, and academic institutions. The target completion date
of the project is May 2009, prior to the Lebanese parliamentary elections.

Conscious Dialogue
Lebanon for its Children
Status: in process

Conscious Dialogue is a forum designed to engage Lebanon’s people in

deep conversations; integrating their heads and hearts in profound dialogue
circles resulting in initiatives that all are willing to act upon. It provides a
gateway for Lebanon’s people whose voices remain trapped in the
hierarchy of societal and political structures to bring forward their true
desires for their homeland. It brings to light the underlying causes and
explores the various possibilities for a country thriving to regain its position
in the world. It breaks free from reenacting patterns of the past reaching
towards a future that is coming from Lebanon’s embryo - its children. The
intention is to initiate the process in October-November 2008.

Leadership and the Arts

Harmonious Strategy for the 21st Century
Status: in process

Harmonious Strategy will bring inspiration to leadership as a

transformational tool and motivation for managers and leaders to connect
passionately with their work.

World Café Reading Empowerment

Status: actioned

During the Junior Chamber International (JCI) National Convention in

Lebanon in October 2008, n facilitated a World Café conversation around its
main theme: Read to Lead. A group of dynamic participants from diverse
backgrounds: teachers, young entrepreneurs, students, business leaders,
technologists, designers, and human resource professionals joined in
circles of sharing around the following two questions: How can you
participate in reading empowerment in an emerging technology driven
environment? Who are the key players involved in the generated ideas,
insights, and initiatives? The responses were harvested through the
clustering of sticky notes on a visible white blank page, before transformed
into a flow of connected ideas and recommended activities.

‘Parents encourage reading by reading

Open a family book account and celebrate our first book publishing
Invite our extended relatives and don’t forget our helpers who can feed us
knowledge through there own reading

Out there in the neighborhood, is a public library, please do find it

Municipalities, civil societies advertise it, give it a face on facebook, a vision
on TV , a presence on a web-site, just let us know about it
Wait don’t forget to add a flavor
Link the reading to real stories,
Make it fun with lots of creative activities there around it

Socialize my reading, yes I can find it in a bus stop and while I’m waiting in
a spa or resort
Books of passion in the subject sit there waiting just for me to pick one up
with good intention

Reading not a school requirement, no not a burden, an obligation

Truly open,
Free reading time we ask for you
Allow the children to choose what motivates them, fiction, nonfiction, just
inspiration
Teachers, hear us, you are now Leaders

Bringing leaders to the picture, start by creating reading room in your

communities, businesses and learning enterprises
Form book clubs, read together and open up the conversation in a book
café, pub or lounge and in ablog for the technology generation that is found

Lovers of competition do not worry, amongst collaboration we encourage

cafés and cultural centers to keep you up and going through setting up
reading competitions to evoke the culture of reading
Reading books with fonts so small,
Oh no, that is tiresome, boring, I do recall
Writers, publishers do wake up to the cries of your audience:
Make your Headlines and Titles just attractive, really bright

Technology we do not fear you

Reading remains so strong in your shadow
e-books, you’ll reach the mass soon as sharing of electronic copies joins in
the tune

What about my books, we hear you say

Throw them away, oh no way
But if your library overflow and your heart warms to
another to be nourished by its though, Recycle a book
in a fun accessible way;
Drop it on a bench, leave it in a restaurant, keep it
in the taxi, it will reach the hand of someone who
found it and freely chose to hold it and read it

Ministry of Education hear our call: initiate a

media campaign with no labels nor boundaries
just simply: READ’

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