Further Readings
Creation, Discovery and Community Formation in the ZEGG Forum
by Thea Tupelo and Graham Meltzer
Exploring the Zegg-Forum.pdf (51K)
Forum – Taking to a Common Human Stage
Article in Permaculture Magazin, No 40
ZEGG_Forum_PM40.pdf (565K)
What is ZEGG-Forum
by Dolores Richter and Achim Ecker
ZEGG Forum article.pdf (145K)
Basic principles also valuable for Forum, described from the perspective of collective intelligence
Principles of Collective Intelligence.pdf (112K)
A brilliant poem by Sogyal Rinpoche about life
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE CHAPTERS.pdf (41K)
Luft and Ingham (1955) observed that there are aspects of our personality that we are open about and other elements we keep to ourselves. At the same time there are things that others see in us that we are not aware of. They came up with a model and called the Johari window.
It has relevance for ZEGG-Forum, as it offers a map to understand it better.
Johari’s window.pdf (130K)
THE FORUM – A Way of Group?Communication
with the aim of a culture of non?violence
by Dolores Richter, ZEGG?Community 2006
FORUM - For Nonviolence.pdf (80K)
Handout "FORUM"
by Kosha Anja Joubert
Handout FORUM.pdf (248K)
Beautiful letter from the hopi elders to the world 2004
Hopi Brief 2004.doc (46K)
Old story about our premature judgement of things
Curse or blessing.doc (31K)
In Buddhism every thing and every being do not exist separately, but connected to all other things. Every part is contained within every other part. The short form for this principle is: All in one - one in all.
In 1991 the vietnamese buddhist monch Thich Nhat Hanh formed the expression "Interbeeing" for this idea.
Interbeing.pdf (256K)
Beyond you and me: Inspirations and Wisdom for Building Community is the first anthology of readings published for students of Gaia Education’s four-week certificate course, Ecovillage Design Education (EDE)
Kosha Anja Joubert and Robin Alfred, Editors
Permanent Publications, 2007, Hampshire, UK
Available as a free download.
And in printed-book form from
Permaculture Magazine’s online mail order company Green Shopping for £19.95 (about $30 in US currency), plus postage and handling for people outside the UK.