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Table round

a Choice
for the future
Evolving democracy

a new field of play

 Our Task in this time
As the inheritors of the Earth, ours the responsibility to ensure the
inheritance we leave for our children and in turn our children’s children,
is a world worthy of the deed. Yet what has come to our hands is a
battered, tarnished and a much-diminished jewel.
Our task in this time is one of redress, to halt the damages that threaten
life’s future and to implement changes for a sustainable future. The
restoration of the jewel is an imperative we cannot ignore, and we must
overcome any and all restrictions that hamper us from implementing
real positive processes of change.
So let us make space for action because we cannot rely on the powers
that be to give us room or a share of responsibility. Let us create new
opportunities and progress forwards responsibly, aware that any
alternative must be made in an open, cohesive and acceptable way,
because we cannot afford to replace one dead-end route with another.
As History has provided an education, we should be encouraged to
make new choices, and it is Our Task in this time, to demonstrate we
have indeed benefitted from histories lessons.
to salvage everything
with no second chances
Yet all that we have gained amounts to nothing more than a theoretical
education, and before us now lies a practical exam - to salvage
everything - with no second chances.
It is time to demonstrate that we are worthy of our place on our planet
Earth. That we can meet the challenge before us, and turn the tides that
threaten to engulf life’s future. This is the calling of the modern world.
So to begin the task before us it is essential we establish a New Field of
Play, a field to claim the Peoples Right to Act. That with the application
of collective, intelligent and compassionate thought we can implement
directly processes of change separate from our existing but restrictive
social structures, and in so doing establish a new paradigm to enable
unburdened forward growth, implementing new ideas and constructs,
for an holistic journey to the future.
With inclusive processes of reappraisal we need to revalue all that we
are and have made, as we require a thorough examination and
revaluation of all our involved and complex processes, because only
then can we expect any effective and enduring choices for a
self-determined and sustainable future.
 For a journey towards an acceptable
and self-determined future
The Pateran and the Table Round is a mechanism to enable the New
Field. To allow intention to be focused creatively, to explore and
implement new processes for change, and to demonstrate just how far
co-operation and intention can travel. A journey towards an acceptable
and self-determined future - that any inheritance we leave behind is
worthy of the deed.
To stand in the New Field is to choose to participate in an extensive
experiment for change, a process of new tools and choices, of interactive
projects and opportunities, an on-going activity for the winning of hearts
and minds.
It is a non-aggressive, social and democratic revolution, a dynamic
experiment for an evolution of our democratic forms, to explore
and create opportunities for new processes of governance and
self-determination, processes dependent upon diversity, inclusivity, and
most essentially, a profound willingness to trust, because only through
trust and the recognition of Intention inherent within all process, may
focused and progressive creativity steer a course to eventual redress.
that any inheritance we leave behind
is worthy of the deed.
However, as a mechanism, the Pateran and the Table Round is an evolv-
ing concept, representing a transitional vehicle of change, because as
yet we do not know the real requirements of the journey ahead. Yet it is
a vehicle that offers an adaptable means of beginning. An independent
form specifically focused on the present and the
necessity for establishing sustainable choices for the future.
The Pateran is the mechanism of change, the Tables Round, the tools
of the mechanism; the New Field the opportunity for the choices we
make.
It is a process to empower individuals, and to strengthen and build
communities. A considered mechanism for the equitable redress of
power and the rebalancing of true wealth, and to initiate a different way,
promoting inclusive and dynamic processes for an extensive revaluation
of our accepted social and economic structures. Claiming room for the
people to play, to begin healing the hurts of our ravaged world, to say
that we do care and we do hope. And that actually we do have the power
to do something beautiful.
 A self-governing, inclusive
open platform for change
So for those who truly do care, there is an imperative to act effectively.
Yet we remain separate and divided without recourse beyond limited
established norms, and any real desire for effective positive action is
hampered or forestalled by the complexities of our own social
constructions.
Let us also give thought that any short term considerations- even for
long term imperatives, will not lay the foundations for a
self-determined positive future. Because without involved progressive
and extensive deliberations we run the risk of exhausting good
intentions through hammering on a door forever reluctant to open, and
run the risk of untempered, non-constructive flagrant upheaval
simply because of frustrations and disappointments of interactions with
intransient, traditional, complicit systems.
Yet for the restoration of the Jewel we must overcome any and all
restrictions that might keep us from exploring positive processes of
change. We must apply our intelligence with wisdom, and put aside our
fears, and our simple lack of will. We need to talk and work together,
placing trust in our own and the abilities of others.
we are greater when our
diversities interweave
Yet what is needed most is truly difficult to gain, to embrace fully and
aspire to greater levels of trust. Because it is time to pull together,
we require of ourselves integrity, honour and most essentially, the
willingness to trust. United by our common necessity for
immediate and effective action.
The Pateran and Table Round is a tool to enable these essentials to grow,
a mechanism to deal with the immediate and lay the foundations for a
creative future. A self-governing, inclusive and open platform for
change, creating space for people to come together in a safe, dynamic
and constructive way, to allow focused co-operation without the
necessity of compromising or loosing ones independence of thought.
There is no need to change minds to new ideologies, nor desire to
convert or implement some new system of belief, because we are greater
when our diversities interweave, when difference and dialogue informs
and encourages creativity irrespective of beliefs or opinions held.
So many desire more, justifiably- but until we are able to unify our
positivity we remain the pawns of selfish,and inconsiderate players.
 A place of many paths and stories
to enable process of future hope
So we require a place of many paths and stories, where all that we have
learnt has opportunity to be expressed and find form in many and varied
ways. because it is our individuality and the integrity of our own
thoughts that will ultimately strengthen our abilities to function
collectively,- without limiting ourselves by parameters defined by any
group, structure or organization.
Before us lies a great task, to use the time available to enable processes
of future hope. A task that our many diversities will at times hinder but
will also inform and educate. It is a task that has become a duty pursuant
for the ultimate survival of ourselves, our children, and the increasing
fragility of Earth’s ability to sustain life as we know it.
The Pateran and Table Round, as a mechanism of change, is established
on two fundamental concepts, it employs essential elements of the
Circle of Law,- a form of democracy, evolved over many hundreds of
years,- as practised by many Native American Tribes, overlaid with the
inherent symbolism and promise of The Table Round from the Arthurian
Tradition.
These two elements provide the basis for a process of
self-determination, a decentralised power system encouraging social
interaction and creativity, whilst regenerating and building community
through inclusive and dynamic interventions for change.
A point of focus
for intention to grow to reality
The Circle of Law offers structure for interaction. Each Circle
consists of sixteen people, eight women and eight made seated in
balanced pairs. This balanced structure is fundamental, as women and
men are balanced equally in life, so should any form of self government
reflect that balance.
The Table Round provides a point of focus that formally anchors the
human structure of the Circle of Law, and the associated symbolism of
the Table Round provides a basic set of guide lines without need for an
imposition of some arbitrary set of rules.
The ideals of Truth, Justice and Equality inherently recognised with
Round Tables, through myth and narrative, taught from early
formative years, when high ideals found root more easily, have anchored
firmly in our individual and collective consciousness.
These two traditions together find form in a modern context as the
Pateran and Table Round.
They provide a Point of Focus for interaction, offering opportunity for
community and dialogue, a mechanism for uniting intention with reality,
that communication can lead to extensive process of dynamic
creative possibility.
Yet it is just a tool. It is with the people that the future can be found.
 The Pateran
the table round
one Table, Many TABLES, a web of interaction
A New field of play

The Pateran is the mechanism of change

the Tables Round, the tools of the mechanism
the New Field for the choices we make

we do have the power to do

something beautiful