Home of the Wanderer

Our purpose and our mission is to have fun learning, practicing, and teaching others about alternatives to violence by embodying creative responses to conflict in the public sphere with an invitation that uses street theater to expand and transform ideas of what’s possible in relationships among people, and makes accessible tools, ideas, and infrastructure to implement these possibilities. All are encouraged to join with us in pursuit of our purpose in adherence to our principles.

All of our actions will be consistent with the following principles:

• Integrity.
• Equality.
• Peace.
• Love.
• Community.
• Transparency.
• Care.
• Empowerment.
• Solidarity.
• Power-sharing.
• Gracefulness.
• We take full responsibility for our actions.
• Finding something to say yes to.
• Collaborative creativity – interpersonally, locally, and on a global scale.
• Approach our work with a playful spirit.
• Be mindful of “level of play.”
• Sufficient planning and awareness.
• Greatness, not of ourselves but of our work.
• Welcoming environment.
• Participants will not be put in danger without their consent.
• We will not use coercion.
• The audience will not be put in danger.
• No physical violence against persons or property, except easily reversible property damage that we’re willing to fix ourselves (eg: chalk).

None of the following are acceptable in any of our actions:

• violence;
• manipulation;
• arrogance;
• charity;
• needless complexity; and
• oppression, in any form (examples include, but are not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, transphobia, ageism, ableism).

Our next meeting will begin with a potluck at 6 PM on November 25th, 2007, at Whitefeather Peace Community in Portland, Oregon. If you resonate with our purpose and our principles, we invite you to join us.

Right now, our decision-making process is as described in Section 2 of http://wandreilagh.org/sociocracy.pdf.

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