Ethical Outings in Hastings -Southwater Road Resident

HPWRT CHAIR, Ray Chapman, appeals to those who were on the pier on 5th October 2010 to communicate via eg YouTube or more privately via http://peoplesjustice.org.uk

Here's a meeting with the director of Action for Happiness, Mark Williamson, showcasing & discussing how Hastings & St Leonards have set a lead in a wide-range of Action for Happiness related projects; including developing community understanding and healing in the aftermath of the pier fire:

A Good Week in June 2011
Are those who use the station in the early morning friends now that I see them each morning when leafleting? It's beginning to feel that way. Being friendly gets friedliness back. It's not rocket science, this happiness.
And here's the chair of the Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust:





Ethical Outings & Restorative Justice
"Ethical Outings" is firstly a drama. It's first performance in Hastings & St Leonards in 2012 will promote the "St Leonards Sharing" Timebank, & you will be able to attend on the basis of owing an equal number of hours to the timebank i.e. two and a half. Secondly, you can trade hours of doing what you like to do (& others like to have) in order to attend a guided tour of St Leonards and Hastings -with added ethics.

Why not now try?: - "St Leonard's Sharing"

Cameron says shop an illegal

Would you?

"No-one likes a rat"

"No-one likes a rat" & yet I've heard that "intelligence-led policing" is key to the future of this end of the criminal justice system. Surely the community justice system will also be "intelligence-led"? A community justice system that depends entirely on unsolicited confession will surely be very limited. Hence my interest in Restorative Justice has moved on over the last 20 years and now incorporates "Ethical Outings".

http://restorativejustice.pbworks.com
&
http://imperfectidealist.blogspot.com/2011/12/sharing-big-plan-for-next-6-months.html
&
http://freelend.pbworks.com/w/page/45065223/St%20Leonards%20Sharing%20Consortium#StLeonardsSharingObjectives
etc etc

The Play is the Thing

"The Play is the thing wherin I'll catch the conscience of the King" (HAMLET)

And so, having announced the first venue for the play, offers are welcome for venues for further performances of "The Walking Buddha of South East England (AKA Ethical Outings Around Hastings Pier).

http://imperfectidealist.blogspot.com/2011/12/sharing-big-plan-for-next-6-months.html

"If the King is Righteous His Subjects Will be Righteous"

1. Once the Lord addressing the Almsmen said:
2. "Bretheren during such time as kings are unrighteous their ministers and officers also become unrighteous. The ministers and officers, bretheren, being unrighteous, Brahmins and householders also become unrighteous. The Brahmins and householders, bretheren, being unrighteous, the town-folk and villagers become unrighteous.
3. "But whenever, bretheren, kings are righteous, then kings' ministers and officers also become righteous. Whenever Brahmins and householders become righteous, the town-folk and villagers also become righteous.
4. "When cattle are crossing, if the old bull swerves, they all go swerving, following his lead. So among men, if he who is reckoned chief walks crookedly, the others crooked go.
5. "Similarly, the whole realm suffers when the king goes wrong. When cattle are crossing, if the bull goes straight they all go straight because his course is straight. So among men, if he who's reckoned chief walks righteously, the others live aright. The whole realm lead happy lives when kings are good."

Learning to do community justice, process our grievances and harmonise.

Sooner or later we "MUST" learn to do community justice, process our grievances, share our resources and harmonise. I write MUST, but there is an alternative; which is to succumb to the much more painful alternatives in the fight for resources in a world with a large social justice deficit, financial deficit and sustainability deficit. Learning to do community justice, process our grievances and harmonise might well start with the work around Hastings Pier and it was a pleasure for Mediation Support Ltd to receive the HPWRT commissioning of a "harmonisation policy" for how the trustees work together. This policy will be published soon for use within your organisations and your wider contact with others too.

With love from
Paul

Tel 0780 70 66 202 for more connection than an e-mail; I'll probably have the spare minutes to call back.

http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com

Hopefully someone will find something on a blog of mine that leads them to want to have a conversation and from there we can set the ball rolling no doubt.
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com
& http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/p/links.html
&
http://imperfectidealist.blogspot.com/2011/12/sharing-big-plan-for-next-6-months.html

Evening Standard on Snitching

- From 26th January 2011; interesting food for reflection on how we (as a society) might consider respecting whistle-blowers more carefully.

"I thought Ethical Outings was a TOUR"

Comments on Facebook have come in: along the lines "I thought Ethical Outings was a TOUR & now you're saying it's a play" (Confused of St Leonards).

MY REPLY:

Yes, there is an ambiguity in the new MEDIATION SUPPORT LTD trading name "Ethical Outings". There are two products so far: 1) Ethical Outings - the tours of StLeonards / Hastings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks8wwbjfsW4&feature=youtube_gdata_player) & 2) "Ethical Outings in Hastings" - the (revealing) play being put on for the 2nd anniversary of the pier fire. They feed each other & for the wider UK audience, the same play is planned as a TV drama with the name "The Walking Buddha of South East England". Clearer? Clear enough?

The Hastings Amnesty for 5 Pier 'Arsonists' fessing up"

The Hastings Observer Front Page Headline I'm working towards is "Next week will include a 60 Second Amnesty for 5 Pier 'Arsonists' fessing up". (Talk to me or my colleagues for more details, as I will be cautious in putting details on Facebook.) More background info than most people can cope with is at http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com & http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com

With love from
Paul

Tel 0780 70 66 202 for more connection than an e-mail; I'll probably have the spare minutes to call back.

http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/2012/01/couldnt-find-my-copy-of-story-before.html

Hopefully someone will find something on a blog of mine that leads them to want to have a conversation and from there we can set the ball rolling no doubt.
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com
& http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/p/links.html

Couldn't find my copy of 'Story' before setting out the scen

Robert McKee is it who wrote the definitive book (so far) on screenplay writing? Unfortunately, I couldn't find my copy of 'Story' before setting out the scene plan for: The Walking Buddha / Ethical Outings in Hastings

Scenes:

1) Yvonne and Cosette return "home" to a charred house dripping with water. Cosette calls out for Sammy & Suzie and a fireman goes in to bring out the fish tank.
2) Paul opens pier fire anniversary meeting, attended by Howard et al
3) Dr Ambedkar follows Howard out of the meeting and Howard receives a call from Yvonne about her house being burned down.
4) An Indian Summer in mid-October 2011 sees Paul & Dr Ambedkar (who died in 1956) out in a boat by the pier
5) Yvonne and Howard have a row.
6) Dr Ambedkar (Bim) becomes Cosette's "secret friend" at her new school - no one else can see him.
7) Yvonne seeks mediation advice from Paul, who suggests a radical text message to the suspects.
8) Joey gets an ultimatum text and fesses up to being involved.
9) Yvonne and Paul process the reply with the help of Dr Ambedkar.
10) Dr Ambedkar follows Paul home and hears how much it means to Paul's wife, Puja to return to India.
11) Paul buries himself in the setting up the Hastings Community Justice Panel and engages with Howard, who shows signs of jealousy in relation to Yvonne and Paul
11) Paul comes up with a "crazy integration solution" for Puja and proposes bringing India & the caste struggle to Hastings.
12) Yvonne goes through the next stages of communication with Joey & Shane
13) The website opens showing the 3 ideas for the HPWRT competition for a design for the new pier
14) Joey, Will, Josh & Will argue about who grassed-up who?
15) The Hastings Community Justice Panel convenes
16) Puja prepares to leave for India

http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com
& http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/p/links.html

Brief Progress report on the NESTA SAFESPACE PROJECT

The Walking Buddha - Scene 8

Joey is walking casually with a mate when he gets a text message.

Joey: [reading & being struck with shock and awe equal to being singled out by a cruise missile ] "F**k me"
Josh: [joshing] No thanks
Joey: [hurt & wanting understanding & support] Seriously man, here this. [Reads]
"I know you put the lighted paper through my letter box. You have 60 seconds to fess up to me by text or I go to the police"
Josh: Shit man! Phone Shane!
Joey: No time [Starts texting]. "Honest I didn't. I just lit the paper". Send
Josh: Shit man, did you just send that?
Joey: [wincing] Yes.
Josh: Who to?
Joey: I don't know. (pause) Her, I guess. (pause). If it really was her. (pause) That woman in the paper with no house insurance.
Josh: Silly moo!
Joey: Shit man.

END OF SCENE 8
(For background to this film/play see http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com/2012/01/walking-buddha.htm)

With love from
Paul

Tel 0780 70 66 202 for more connection than an e-mail; I'll probably have the spare minutes to call back.

Thesedays I'm not so interested (as I used to be in 2011) in taking any co-ordinating role. Hopefully someone will find something on a blog of mine that leads them to want to have a conversation and from there we can set the ball rolling no doubt.
http://additionalinfo.blogspot.com
& http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/p/links.html