Your favorite Hippie Chick has been busy serving as handler for the even busier C.T. Lawrence Butler, co-founder of Food Not Bombs and author of several books on values-based consensus decisionmaking.
We have jumped into the Occupy Wall Street movement, offering trainings, coaching, metafacilitating and general support around process—consensus, facilitation, agenda planning, etc.
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Boston Phoenix writer Chris Faraone did a great feature on C.T. when we visited Occupy Boston:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/128671-ct-butler-is-back-on-the-front-lines/
And this the same writer praising C.T.’s contributions the week before (last section labeled “wild card”):
http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2011/10/09/rating-the-occupations-the-complete-guide-to-occupybaltimore.aspx
And here’s an AP article quoting C.T. alongside Andrew Young re: diversity in Occupy:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/occupy-protesters-eye-div_0_n_1015536.html
Here’s a Chico reporter covering the evolution of the consensus process at Occupy Chico after our visit:
http://www.chicoer.com/fromthenewspaper/ci_19376676
Part of the Occupy meme is its holistic nature. C.T. has been living this by being on the cutting edge of many cultural changes, including redefining family and love in the modern era. Identifying as polyamorous before the word existed, C.T. did a thoughtful, informative podcast interview with writer/journalist Eric Francis about polyamory. In a previous blog article on C.T., Francis called him “the man I consider one of the most valuable, innovative lobes in the brain trust of doing things not just differently but better.” Here’s the podcast:
http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/planet-waves-fm/planet-waves-fm-a-conversation-with-c-t-butler-about-relationships-the-universe-and-everything/
