If you would like to have multiple copies of C.T. Lawrence Butler’s On Conflict and Consensus for your group, now is your chance to jump in at a more affordable rate!

2012 was the 25th anniversary of this elegant text on having egalitarian, horizontal meetings. So far, print copy sales have well passed the 10,000 mark.

Fiopa Consensus Collective and Food Not Bombs Publishing are offering the seminal work in deep democracy for half price during August and September, 2013.

The usual cost is $15 per copy. This sale’s 1/2 off discount begins at 5 copies, designed to help groups and individuals who want to spread the joy by gifting copies to friends!

Do you have the most recent printing? The current printing will say, “Third Edition—Thirteenth Printing,” on the License and Attributions page. If your group is working from an earlier edition, this is a good chance to get current.

Here are discount prices for On Conflict and Consensus, with shipping/handling estimates:

1 copy    $12.50 plus $3 s/h        $15.50 total
5 copies    $31.25 plus #4.75 s/h    $36 total
10 copies    $62.50 plus $6.50 s/h    $69 total
20 copies    $125 plus $12 s/h        $137 total
50 copies    $312.50 plus $20.50 s/h    $333 total

For exact shipping and handling costs, call 301-586-2560 or email us at fiopa@consensus.net.

Are you aware of C.T.’s latest book, Consensus for Cities? It details how to practice consensus in groups of up to 100,000 people, using an affinity group structure.

Consensus for Cities Discounts:

1 copy    $20 plus $3 s/h    $23 total
5 copies    $50 plus #4 s/h    $54 total
10 copies    $100 plus $6 s/h    $106 total
20 copies    $200 plus $12 s/h    $212 total
50 copies    $500 plus $20 s/h    $520 total

C.T. Butler (white shirt) at Keystone pipeline protest in DC, August 12, 2013.

Pay by check (made out to “C.T. Lawrence Butler”) or use Paypal, via C.T.’s www.consensus.net site.

What about Value-Based Consensus Workshops, Facilitation and Mediation?

C.T. is available for meeting and retreat facilitation and mediation for group conflicts. Contact us at fiopa@consensus.net to discuss your needs.

At this time we’re limiting our consensus trainings to extended immersions. We are searching for groups that are interested in working with us to learn Value-Based Consensus in a long-term process. Stay tuned for updates on future workshop offerings!

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A Well-Fed Kenya: Food and Photojournalism

Wren on September 17th, 2012

Some stories enter my bones and don’t leave. The story of Nairobi Food Not Bombs is in my marrow and vibrating, refusing to be ignored.
As C.T.’s partner, I’m a witness to the daily news feed of Food Not Bombs arrests and court cases, mostly here in the U.S. In addition, he gets a steady stream [...]

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If This Is Evolution, What’s Next?

Wren on September 16th, 2012

This controversy came across my screen this morning. Dr. Pepper is getting lots of free advertising from creationists who object to the soda’s variation on the March of Progress image. HERE is a fun site that collects a lot of spoof variants that, like most humor, are more honest in my opinion!
Of course, I had [...]

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It’s always a good day when I wake up to surprise jpegs in my inbox. If you’ve kept up with Hippie Chick Diaries for any time, you know that photos are often the seeds of posts.
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Life in the Parking Lane

Wren on August 20th, 2012

No matter how you toil, no matter that you seek to serve, there comes a day when you wake up and realize: You’re living in a fucking driveway.
Wait, that’s just me.
Somehow, when we had our rv parked on larger parcels, I didn’t experience self consciousness about living in a dumbed down Star Trek shuttle craft. [...]

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I am certainly learning a lot about crowdfunding from our first Indiegogo campaign. We must interact daily with the site and potential contributors. Just like an offline campaign, we make daily phone calls and send out batches of emails and Facebook posts.
One fun addition is that, like Kickstarter, Indiegogo has us offer perks at a [...]

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There are various posters cycling through my Facebook newsfeed that tell me there are more empty houses in the U.S. than there are Americans who need homes.
In a quick fact check on Google, I find out that, according to truthdig.com,  Amnesty International USA puts the statistic at five vacant houses per homeless person.
I am exploring [...]

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I’m distracted by wondering how “dead ant, dead ant…” originally got associated with the theme song to The Pink Panther. Can anyone remember?
Anyway, I’m enjoying the distraction because I’ve spent several days building up muy & mucho bad karma by vacuuming up tiny ants in the rv.
I originally ignored the few that came at first. [...]

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Why Is a Dog Driving?

Wren on August 4th, 2012

People might think it’s flippant or cute that we wrote our Indiegogo fundraising campaign in the voice of our dog. But for us, that’s a perfect representation of his membership in our collective.
Tuatha’s safety and security (and his place in our lives) are big reasons for our choice to travel by rv. [...]

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