[PeDAGoG] Our Living Utopias course and Time bank

[Melanie Bush]

Thank you, Pallavi - what a meaningful initiative that is clearly
contagious and uplifting.  The photos tell the story.
Have others on this list engaged this type of practice?

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:50 PM Pallavi Varma- Patil <pallavi.vp at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear PeDaGog members,
>
> Some of you might remember our webinar
> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2022:learning:01> on
> Living Utopias hosted by Global Tapestry of Alternatives on 1st April 2022
> in which both Sujit and I were reflecting on our hits and misses so far.
> At this meet , Dan, Melanie, Steven, Laura, Ashish and others were kind
> enough to share their thoughts and possible ways to make it more impactful.
> It was this that led to Melanie suggesting her experiential Time Bank
> pedagogy while Dan talked of his own initiative where discussions happen on
> the  "kitchen tables and dining rooms of participants". Stevan and Laura
> were also so encouraging and validated our rationale of running such a
> course for communities.
>
> Over the last year Sujit took a version of this course to Indigenous
> communities in West Bengal villages through a community based organization
> while my intervention was to stop running it in a University space :)
>
> But last week, Sujit and I  paired up for the 1st time after the COVID
> break and decided to offer the course to an urban English speaking audience
> in India outside of the University space through a non profit environmental
> organisation based in Bangalore called ATREE. We got a large pool of such
> diverse applicants (age wise: from a 14 year old to an eighty year old) and
> interest wise (from Phd students to post docs, health practitioners, univ
> faculty, experts on bamboo and waste, renewable energy engineers, school
> teachers, sustainable building architects, farmers, non profit leaders,
> Masters students, and women community leaders).  And so finally the course
> ran for 25 such diverse participants from across India. It was very
> stimulating for both us instructors as well as the participants. They were
> engaged and motivated to design some action in their spheres of influence
> in a short turnaround time.  And I remembered the encouraging words of the
> GTA group on  that webinar day about getting such courses outside of
> University spaces to the community directly.
>
> I also want to share that I tried showing a glimpse of how Time banks run
> and put up a dummy sheet of offers and needs that Melanie had shared with
> me;   thinking: this is just a glimpse..they may or may not get the whole
> idea as many of them are from different parts of India and how will they
> meet etc. BUT to our surprise, we found out that the Bangalore based
> participants ones are already making weekend plans to meet and and figure
> out ways to support each other! We are once again amazed at the power of
> this simple pedagogy!
>
> Am sharing a few pictures...
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Pallavi (and Sujit)
>
>
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