Dear All We had a very good meeting of the thematic group yesterday with people sharing many complimentary and exciting initiatives. You can read the notes from the meeting here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Y-yyedqv8Y58LPqO1Ru0gxDr0A2nP6tgz9CkEX0... A few important points: - We would like to make this listserve an active space where we encourage you to share initiatives and activities and invite collborations as you wish. - We talked about developing a proposal for a gathering and Laura offered to share a proposal she has been working on - Deissy invited people to contribute to a session(s) at the Next Systems Convergence. If anyone is interested in submitting proposals, please consider if there are others in this group who could also engage and GTA learning and thematic group is happy to be a co-sponsor of a session - Sujit shared about a course proposal on direct democracy and if this is approved, he will invite contributions - We discussed organising a summer school for 2026 and this was favourable received We agreed for our next meeting on Friday, 12 September at 13:00 GMT. You can join on this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86743530862?pwd=5fBYV79O1AnuGBo0FnTMRSFCUdlLLb.1 If anyone has ideas, questions or things to share, don't hesitate to reach out to me or write on this listserve! Best wishes Vasna for the Global Tapestry of Alternatives facilitation team Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) secure email.