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Our Activities
All-paying members of the All Win Network are welcome to list their ongoing activities in this section.
Please send your submissions to Ir W. van Monsjou, secretary General at info@allwinnetwork.org
Consultations, Lectures and Workshops.
Offered in English, Dutch, German, French and Esperanto
Consultations are available by phone in English, Dutch, German and French
- For people wishing to explore their personal path, how to create all win relationships, solve conflicts using an all win approach, and find ways of joining with others to help build global community. Please arrange these via info@allwinnetwork.org;
- For organisations wishing to set up all win think tanks and to join the network of all win think tanks in support of the UN and its Member Governments.
See Agenda for Program of Lectures and Workshops
Lectures and workshops on the all win principle are regularly offered in the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Brazil and other neighbouring countries. They are also available in other countries upon demand. (See for additional offerings also the Dutch and German sections of this web site.)
Speakers include, Pim van Monsjou, Lisinka Ulatowska, Beatrice Raue, Inge Grzyb, and Gerhard Hirschmann, Rudolf Schneider, Examples of Workshops offered in English, Dutch, German and French.
Lisinka Ulatowska, one of the founders of the All Win Network frequently visits the USA for a series of talks and workshops. Apart from various aspects of the United Nations, World Citizenship, All Win Think tanks and Other Uses of the All Win Principle (for instance in Health, Education, Peaceful Conflict Resolution, Business and Globalization), she will also be discussing her most recent book, Fearless. Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things in a World Gripped by Fear. Read more about this book
Topics and Examples of lectures and workshops are:
- Education for World Citizenship, based on the All Win Principle
- Personal development and fulfillment
- Interpersonal relationships and all win conflict resolution
- Actions which foster a sustainable global community
- Setting up think tanks as a means of thinking along with Governments at the UN
- the All Win Principle and modern science;
- the All Win Principle and the Evolutionary Leap.
- Globalization, Business and the United Nations;
- All Win Think Tanks;
- Business and the United Nations;
- Health and the All Win Principle;
- Spiritual World Citizenship;
- Education for a Global World.
Click here to read more on the lecture topics
Talks on World Citizenship also available in Esperanto.
For more information: info@allwinnetwork.org or read more... (in German)
All Win Think Tanks
Are groups which meet regularly (usually once a month) to practice applying the all win principle to conflicts which they come into contact with. These an be conflicts in their personal lives, at work, in their surroundings or policital, economic or social conflicts which are reported in the media or taking place at the UN.Their aims are to:
- practice applying the all win principle spontaneously to life’s situations
- become so adept that they can stand by as the UN is attempting to come to grips with a problem and to think along with them.
The All Win Network (as a branch of the Association of World Citizens is accredited to the UN (DPI and ECOSOC) and has a representative at the UN who attends relevant meetings and can act as go-between between what is happening in the governmental meetings and the solutions generated by the all win think tanks. The aim is that the UN and private citizens in this way can support one another much like the brain and the nervous system help serve and regulate the human body. Read more...
Invitation to Act: All Win Think Tanks.
- As a private person, gather a group of friends together to set up an All Win Think Tank to meet, say, once a month as a way of deepening both your friendship with like-minded people while honing your relationship skills. Let us know if we can help (info@allwinnetwork) and if you would then also wish to be included in the global network of think tanks which is every now and again thinks along with governments at the UN. As private citizens we might not have the expertise to deal with the technical sides of problems. We can often see the psychological and interpersonal dynamics that keep Government and political factions from communicating.
- As organization you often do have the specialized and expert know-howthat Governments may not have. As organization you can be a great help if you were to have a think tank available to think along with Governments when they are dealing with problems in your field.
"Ordinary citizens” often have refreshing insights that can be extremely useful
Currently we are working on all-win solutions in the following areas. You are most welcome to participate!
- Education
- intuitive animal welfare using all win principles
- Voorstellen aan VN voor duurzame ontwikkeling, milieu, ruimtelijke ordening, energievoorziening
- Voorstellen aan VN overige onderwerpen
- Financiering (VN) activiteiten
- Wereldethiek (Opstellen van een Universele Verklaring)
- Wereldrechtsorde
- Wereldeconomie
- Wereldbesluitvorming
- Wereldcommunicatietaal
- Wereldgeldsysteem
- Werkgroep voor steun bij het zoeken naar ALLWIN oplossingen bij conflicten
- All Win training
- All Win en bedrijfsleven
Building Constituency for Governments Applying the All Win Principle
If we are to live together as a genuinely happy family, it is important that each person feels they are able to thrive in their chosen way, and trust their government to govern in an all win spirit.
Governments are under constant pressure
- from their citizens; and
- from the international community – other Governments, businesses, international pressure groups, etc.--;
all want them to act in accordance with their particular interests. It is compelling for governments to consciously adopt an all win standard. They tend to receive gratitude and support from all except those who, themselves, wish to control national or global affairs for the interests of just a few. These who don't use the all win principle often have the power, the finances and the one-point focus to influence governments’ policies in their favour; they work with win/lose, divide and rule and fear-inducing policies. They tend to be unpopular with all who feel controlled by them and yet their tactics can and do overpower governments (at least, until they see a viable way out). Here we can lend valuable support. In such cases, it is important for governments to know that whenever they act in an all win spirit they are supported by the actions and the way of life of a large international constituency; and that the all win principle has advantages which are not available to other approaches. Read more...
In our lobby of the UN we will mention the size and extent of our constituency, which now has members on 5 continents and, via our UN representatives, provide governments with useful ideas from our Membership at times when they can most use them.
Invitation to Act
- Please endorse the All Win Principle, thereby increasing the all win constituency. go to application form (free of charge)
- Please send us examples of your all win activities which we can show to Governments at the UN.To submit examples write to info@allwinnetwork.org
All paying members can advertise their activities via the All Win web site and newsletter and can become a members of all win think tanks which input Governments at the UN. As a paying member, you would be helping to sponsor the UN lobbies and other chosen All Win Network activities.
The All Win Principle and Education
The All Win Education Group has formulated curriculum education to introduce the all win approach as
- a means of putting the individual student’s needs first in educatíon
- a means to creating rewarding relationships;
- a way of assessing or evaluating durability.
- a way of solving problems which require an integrative or transdisciplinary approach.
The Education Group’s work is in Dutch.
The book, Fearless. Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things in a World Gripped by Fear gives a fairly thorough account of how the all win principle can be used as a tool for student empowerment and learning. Fearless is described in more detail under Writings.
The All Win Education Group has begun to formulate a curriculum which can be used at various levels of education. read more...
Invitation to Act.
If you are a teacher and would be interested in using the all win approach in education, feel free to consult with us via info@allwinnetwork.org for ideas.
The All Win Approach to Financing a Basic Income for All People
On July 10th, Lisinka Ulatowska returned from the UN in Geneva where she had been invited by Elly Pradervand of the Women’s World Summit Foundation and the Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns to speak on the Basic Income for All People and a Marshall Plan for the Earth proposal developed by Dutchman Pieter Kooistra. She addressed, the Civil Society Forum, consisting of 450 NGOs, the High Level Segment organized by the UN to bring together Ministers and Heads of State and Government and to the UN’s Economic and Social Council. She also spoke personally to a number of Ministers, two Heads of Government, and to two Cabinet of the Director General of the UN’s International Labour Organization. Upon return she met with a number of people and groups and the following plan emerged to implement a self-financing, sustainable basic income for all children, women and men.
Click here to read more about the plan
Click here to read a summary of the World Marshall Plan
An All Win Education is possible for each woman, man and child and a self-financing World Marshall Plan for the Earth. read more...
Invitation to Act.
People from every conceivable background are necessary to mould this plan to the needs of all. Please contact if you would like to be on the mailing list of those wishing to give input. No special skills are needed.
We also need people with diverse skills to do outreach, to help with the database and a myriad of different tasks.
You can contact us via info@allwinnetwork.org.
Building a Critical Mass of People and Organizations Dedicated to Applying the All Win Principle
Introduction.
The All Win Principle is deeply interwoven into the human experience. It governs the functions within each atom, molecule and cell, as well as the body as a whole. It holds families together and governs communities when these work well. It is preached by the major religions and is central to modern systems science. The all win principle lies at the heart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is, in fact, the most powerful tool the UN has to ensure international laws are obeyed. The All Win Principle governs all durable phenomena in Nature.
How then is it possible that at present fear and conflict, the complete opposite of the all win experience, obscure the all win experience? In the Netherlands 15 organizations, dedicated to an all win approach to relationships gathered to explore how to create the most intense all win atmosphere possible. The result: a project, baptized A World that Works for All. The first three events focus on
- The morphic field: steps to unity
- A Basic Income for All
- Human Rights and the UN
This is intended as a pilot to explore working with the morphic field. The premise here is that when we communicate deeply with another person, the communcation will “rub off” on all those intimately connected to that person and even on those connected to their close friends in a sort of chain reaction.Already two groups in Belgium are interested in creating similar series of events. The idea is that once we learn how to change an atmosphere, then groups can co-ordinate their efforts and a world-wide impact can be made..
Click here to read more about how to build an all win atmosphere which will be able to dissipate the fear that tends to rule much of what people do
A World that Works for All as a Global Initiative
The question arises: Why, when so many people and organisations are committed to the all win principle have we not been able to together dissipate the atmosphere of fear and conflict?The answer lies in the nature of the all win principle which is based on the premise that each person and everything (including organisations) know best how to relate to the whole.
This means that top-down, hierarchical organisation which works so well in armies can not be used and a new way of working together has to be developed which deals with an issue that can be dealt with by the scala of different perspectives all consciously applying the all win principle from their own perspectives.
Until now such initiatives have been undertaken by relevantly small percentages of organisations, each initiative only vaguely related to what other like-minded organisations are doing.How can the impact of such initiatives could be increased to such an intensity that it creates the necessary critical mass to undermine the atmosphere of fear and conflict that now exists and transform the atmosphere into the all win spirit? See agenda for upcoming meetings
Click here to read how a critical mass might be created
All Win Meditation and Contemplation.
Daily Reflection
Every month, one of our Belgian All Win Network Representatives puts forward a monthly area for reflection on how the all win principle can become more integrated into our personal lives. The more members of the network focus on these points at the same time, the stronger impact of all win thinking on human thought and action.
Regardless of when you undertake the daily reflection, please imagine a clock showing 7:30 Central European Time. This will help to focus our energies.
The All Win Principle states that
1. All is interconnected
2. each knows best individually how to relate to this whole
3. All can therefore best be given encouraged to determine how to position themselves in their various relationships, providing they do not harm others in the process.
(Click here for the daily reflection)
Closer Collaboration between Organizations and Individuals
The Foundation for Global Community in Palo Alto, California, USA is developing a sort of “dating web site” for organizations wishing to work together in all win ways (they use slightly different terminology). They are using some of the most advanced technology which was developed for use by corporations. Go to www.global-mindshift.
(This site can also be used by individuals seeking to work with others to create a world that works for all)
All Win Think Tanks with Heart.
A number of think tanks have been organized at conferences and during courses on the all win principle.
An ongoing prototype has been meeting since May 2005 in Bussum, the Netherlands. This think tank is now developing a manual for all win problem solving with heart and a course that can be used by organization which would like to create think tanks to think along with the United Nations.
Our objective to create a worldwide network of “think tanks with heart” which each would think along with the United Nations as the UN seeks to solve problems of relevance to their members. Eventually such a network would become like the neural network of a global brain. Relevant networks of think tanks would be activated each time the Governemtns at the UN meet to address a global issue in their area of expertise. read more...
The above initiatives are some of the myriad stepping stones which already exist and which form stepping stones to the following global project:
Working More Closely with the United Nations: The All Win Principle as a Standard for Governmental Problem Solving
The all win principle is already being applied within in the United Nations. Most decisions are made by consensus.
This has become necessary for the following reason:
The UN has the power under Chapter VII of its Charter to create a UN army under the joint Chiefs of Staff of the Five Permanent Members of the Security Council to enforce international law. These are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Governments have not invoked Chapter VII and so Governments have had to apply the art of building strong consensus (which can be seen as making all win decisions) if they want their decisions to be carried out by all countries. Eighty-five per cent of decisons of the UN’s General Assembly are usually taken by consensus. If we look at the UN’s 30-odd Specialized Agencies, like the World Postal Union, the International Telecommunications Union (without which we would not have the network of telephones which makes the Internet possible), we realize that consensus has worked much better in the UN than most realize.
A lobby of the UN was begun at the CSD in 2001 and in 2002 and was suspended temporarily because of the constraints placed on NGO actions through the Patriot Act. There are plans to continue during the CSD in 2007.
We are now exploring with our fellow NGOs at the UN how best to introduce the All Win principle to the world’s Governments as a more conscious norm and a useful tool for global problem solving. At the UN NGO Conference from 6-8 September, 2006, we shall also be exploring with NGO colleagues when to found an NGO Think Tank with Heart which would meet during relevant UN Conferences in the United Nations to support Governments in their search for strong consensus (All Win solutions).
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