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WHAT IS

INITIATIVES OF CHANGE?

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What kind of the world do we want?

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And our present world

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How can I play a part in this world?

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The aim of Initiatives of Change is to engageevery person in the process of building a new

world starting with transformation in their own lives

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Frank Buchman

I too was wrong

I am sorry.

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Frank Buchman

Helpinganother person

to find change

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Went to Oxford and there he shared

this idea of personal change with

Oxford students in 1928

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This developed into a world widemovement in 65 countries working in

all areas of life from families, education,business, training, communitydevelopment, reconciliation, peace

building

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ENGAGEOTHERS

CREATEANSWERS

MEET THEWORLDS

NEEDS

CHANGEYOURSELF

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Absolute HonestyPurityUnselfishnessLove

Inner Listening conscience/ intuition/ God

CHANGE YOURSELF

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ENGAGE OTHERS

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Committing to the tools of transformation

Identifying needs

Creating a team around an initiative for change

Engaging others through creating encounters

CREATE ANSWERS

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Create answers

Taking it on as a team!

There is an inspired plan forevery situation

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MARGARET MEAD:

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committedpeople can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thingthat ever has.

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MEET THE WORLDS NEEDS

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ENGAGEOTHERS

CREATEANSWERS

MEET THEWORLDS

NEEDS

CHANGEYOURSELF

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CHANGE YOURSELF

How do I start?

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The working principles of moral Absolutes...

Absolute HONESTY

Absolute PURITY

Absolute UNSELFISHNESS

Absolute LOVE

... and the ongoing practice

of inner listening,

of quietly waiting for the intuitive leading ofthe still small voice that speaks in every heart

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Not GOALS to be reachedbut PRINCIPLES to live by

Not RULES for repression,

but TOOLS for liberation

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Absolute Honesty

A searchlight that reveals the truth of who we areto ourselves and to others, facing where we are

wrong and putting things right

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Absolute Purity

The freedom of real intimacy without manipulatingpeople for their money, sex, power, or for self-

gratification

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Absolute Unselfishness

The art of lateral living, with a mind and heart forothers

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Absolute Love

The ultimate answer and the fundamental need ofevery person: the quality of compassionate,

visionary acceptance that draws out the best fromeveryone.

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Not just LIFE-STYLE choices

but SURVIVAL VALUES for our age

Not a moral duty to maintain the status quobut a radical response to the world's needs

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Vision

Initiatives of Change

4 steps of change

Change yourself

Engage others

Create answers

Meet the worlds needs

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Quiet time

The discipline of silence

Connecting to the deeper truth

4 Standards

Honesty

Purity

Unselfishness

Love

ABSOLUTE

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BE THE CHANGE

Verse 1:

Im so glad to know Im not alone

You are here with me by my side

We will learn again how to live

And how the world was meant to beWe will be the change we want theworld to be.

Chorus:

When change starts within my heart

Then I can show the way the world togo

When we look past our needs

And live beyond our will

We will be the change we want theworld to be.

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BE THE CHANGE

Verse 2:

Can we find the way, to forgive?

Can we heal the past, make peacereal?

Everyone of us can play a part

Can find new life and hope again

As we start to live the way the worldshould be

Chorus:

When change starts within my heart

Then I can show the way the world togo

When we look past our needs

And live beyond our will

We will be the change we want theworld to be.

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THANK YOU!