Below, a plot I heard today in the first Mayday lectures organsied by Sir John Whitmore for more than 20 years. The stories and the birth of the London branching of BeTheChange networks sounded so inspiring then. I later learnt That:
-great stories are not enough to enable all a network's participants to make the most of each other's connections with future chnage
-that the 2004 annual meeting of Global Reconciliation Network in Delhi was for me a much more permanetly moving network event
-that I would soon lose my younger but greatest networking mentor in London, who also open spaced the 3rd day of London's BeTheChange 2004

I guess Abiola and Lynne Twist remain the most remarkable positive memories of that 3 day event.

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Abiola Stories : including the lady with 2 mothers
Support a Women of the Commonwealth Network and require that the UN time share with such women leaders so that women's view of the world's local priorities has as much influence as men'sIn this thread you may want to debate:could the Independence of Africa's most richly resourced country have spun a different way, and if so what learnings can we map for other countries and critical periods in a nation's re-birth?how at the time of Hafsat Abiola's deepest adversity she united the wisdom flowing through the family trees of one of Nigeria's most love-the-people families (the Abiolas) and one of America's (the Twists)how much generations of the Abiola family gave and are giving to Nigeria, women's networks across the world - how are ( 1,,2,,3,,4) or might other networks that love people of every diversity collaborate with KIND?
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