Appreciations - Now What?! Oct-Nov 2020

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1	~ Public appreciations from one Now What?! participant to another ~ To add to this list, go to https://bit.ly/NW5gifts
2	Thank you to...	From...	What gift(s) do you want to acknowledge receiving from this person?

3	Akiko	Alexia Georghiou	Great to connect with you! Loved interacting and learning together. Your insight on emotional expression is spot on!
4	Akiko Frid	Clare Lisa Hedin	The gift of money! Akiko you so generously asked me if you could make a donation to me, to my work, and without any fanfare or accolades you did it. I thank you so much for embodying the spirit of gift-giving in our gift economy. It was a beautiful experience to receive from you so spontaneously.
5	Akiko Frid	Suzanne Jones	I have so appreciated your enthuiasm for the events on NowWhat and also your openess to try new things and be open to those you have met.
6	Akiko Frid	Dita	Your presence, your attent listening, your radical curiosity and radical respect for people. Your wisdom and all the knowldege you bring, so unobtrusively. The gift of bringing the power and beauty of Now What?! to others, your engagement. Yourself!
7	Alexia	Stephanie Mines	Strong and consistent positive presence that is utterly genuine.
8	Bansi Buckley	Hannelie Venucia	The gift of receiving during our Journey to Wholeness Integrated Experience
9	Ben Roberts	Marci Javril	Your gentle manner and patience, as people share, is comforting, non-threatening, and welcoming. I can tell, just from a short time, that you are a deep part of the recipe of Love I am seeing expressed here! Thank you for taking the leader role
10	Ben Roberts	Clare Lisa Hedin	The gift of a gentle, nurturing, curiosity-filled, inspiring, space to become.
11	Ben Roberts	Tina Michel	Ben, your gift of leadership in Now What?! inspired me to step up and participate in this experiment in Possibilities! Also, your "networking of networks" invited me to think bigger. Last but not least, your always-present sense of humor gave the whole project the inviting sense of connection and community.
12	Ben Roberts	Trae Ashlie-Garen	Much Gratitude for the warm welcome you extended to me as a re-entry into this community after having been so absent for over a year and a half. The timing was perfect for me to return, and to witness the depth of relationships that have emerged in that time was comforting. Very much looking forward to what we'll co-create in coming weeks! In Spirit, Trae
13	Ben Roberts	Dita	Your smile, the ease with which it came, and the ease that it brought along, making me feel not only safe, but also in the place I wanted to be (as in I wouldn't be anywhere else right now!). And how it didn't linger unnecessarily, but made way for what felt like the whole diversity of human feelings. Authenticity, that's how it felt. And of course the gift of Now What ?! And of your generosity in sharing with other, and your patience in that. And so much more...
14	Ben Roberts	Alexia Georghiou	Consistent support with opportunities to share gifts. Thank you Ben for the NowWhat?! Collective and gift economy! I practiced my Engagement Stream on AI and received great feedback and insight .
15	Clare Hedin	Tina Michel	Authenticity; Beautiful voice and music; Stories from the heart
16	Clare Hedin	Natalie Crüe	Clare's energy transmissions were such a gift especially during the first closing party for this edition. I really appreciate the gifts and knowledge you have shared as it created a seismic breakthru for me
17	Clare Hedin	Tamsin	I LOVE the spirit of generosity and honesty, energy, openness, deep & grounded emotional intelligence, inclusive love, and groundedness balanced with vulnerability with which you host & hold space in your 'Radically Real' sessions. I love your laughter, serious playfulness, lightness of touch with deep rooted understanding. Thank you for that space and for how much of yourself you bring into it.
18	Clare Hedin	Alexia Georghiou	Your support for my Engagement Stream is appreciated. Thank you for meeting at the beginning of NowWhat?! Our support for one another is greatly valued and needed.
19	Clare Hedin	Yaya Jassey	Well she is one of the active lady in now what?! Which lead me to appreciate her much. And i will like to share more words with her if possible.
20	Dita	Hannelie Venucia	So many gifts received from this incredible being....sacred kinship, the nurturing space to share my stories during the Way of Council sessions, the ability to feel deeply in my cells Dita's expression of her gift during the Gifts Conversation, and others i will share in person...
21	Dita	Akiko Frid	Thank you for showing me about the Way of Council! Super! I love it. Hope to practice more with you. And I want to keep communicating with you ;)
22	Dita	Helen	the way you take in what I say with so much appreciation and caring
23	Dita Now?!	Marci Javril	I can tell, just from my short encounter with this group, that you have dedicated much thought and energy towards this magnificent gathering, and I can't wait to become a full participant. I love the heartfulness being expressed, and see you as bringing a nonjudgmental approach, for harmony & connection. Thank you for taking a leadership role.
24	Dita Vizoso	Ben Roberts	I want to thank Dita for creating this Appreciation form, and for being such a delightful collaborator in the design of this Closing Gathering.
25	Dita Vizoso	Francois Knuchel	The generosity and openness created by the way of council through your energy, love and smile, thank you.
26	Dita Vizoso	Suzanne Jones	Dita, I have felt so appreciative of your openness and your kind heart. Also, I love your sense of fun.
27	Dita Vizoso	Trae Ashlie-Garen	Dita... The opportunity to be a part of your "Way of Council Sessions" has quickly become a touchstone for my world. THANK-YOU. I look forward to participating in this safe space regularly going forward. Much Gratitude, In Spirit, Trae
28	François Knuchel	Dita	The way you shared yourself, without pretense. The way you listened to me, and to all present, your respect and honest curiosity. Your wisdom, come not only from your dedication to dialogue and communication, but from your experience as a human being.
29	Francois Knuckel	Alexia Georghiou	Thank you for supporting. the AI Engagement Stream.
30	Hannelie Venucia	Dita	The wings that now carry me to beautiful and horrorful landscaped. The direct, simple and powerful way you have of connecting me with my body, with the present. Your soothing and firm voice, your attentiveness, your smile like the sunshine in summer.
31	Helen Roberts	Ben Roberts	I felt so proud to be your son during Now What?! this time. Your An Elder Speaks sessions were just delightful, not only to hear you tell your stories, but also to see them received with such enthusiasm. You are the coolest mom ever!
32	Helen Roberts	Alexia Georghiou	An Elder Speaks is inspiring. Thank you for this Engagement Stream. Our support meetings to encourage one another have deep meaning to me.
33	Marta VeraCruz	Suzanne Jones	Marta, your love of NVC has been such a joy for me. And your willingness and enthusiasm to jump in on the calls and model it has been such a gift.
34	Natalie Crue	Alexia Georghiou	It’s great to meet you and connect Natalie Crue! You attended the Anti-Racism Town Hall and that meant a lot to me. I appreciate your insight that you shared with AI and privacy, and that you attended the AI Engagement Stream!
35	Rick Feltington	Suzanne Jones	I have so enjoyed our interactions around creating empathy and FUN around music and story telling, as well as, in empathy circles. Our connection inspired me to overcome my fear of technology and place my offerings on the NowWhat calendar.
36	Rick Feltington	Stephanie Mines	Vulnerability and Transparency
37	Stephanie Mines	Alexia Georghiou	The Tara Approach Workshop was amazing to be part of. I now see how listening and community heals for trauma.Thank you!
38	Suzanne	Akiko Frid	I have learnt so much from Suzanne. Empathy circle and Non Violent Communication, I have started to using them and they are working so well. I want to continue to learn more. Also, I have been enjoying to sing with you! Fantastic!
39	Suzanne	Dita	I'm deeply grateful for the wholeness of your presence. Your voice is a doorway to myself, yet today I am grateful for the steadiness of your attention and your love for Earth and us as part of it. I'm specially grateful for the Sessions you've started, and for listening to my desire to explore the space in between our strategies... So grateful for that. I feel witnessed.
40	Suzanne Jones	Ben Roberts	Thank you for bringing your gifts of empathic listening and NVC, and for taking the lead in the the How Do Our Strategies Converge conversation. You give me confidence that we are well grounded with the capacity to take on challenging and crucial conversations going forward.
41	Tamsin	Clare Lisa Hedin	The way you suddenly pop into gatherings as if from another time/space and your humility that when you speak that you often wonder if it's made sense and it usually has. There's something about your 'accidentally brilliant' way of being that I love.
42	Tania Palacios	Ben Roberts	I honor the way you presence the violence in this world with such fierce care and radical tenderness. And the way you show up with vulnerability around your own capacities and doubts.
43	Tania Palacios	Dita	Me conmueves. Con-mueves, me invitas a moverme contigo. La forma que tienes de invitar la realidad, de recordarnos de poner nuestros pies en la tierra. Tu honestidad y enorme valentía de mostrarnos tus sentimientos. Tu sonrisa, tus lágrimas. Te agradezco por traernos la naturaleza de Tania.
44	The collective 'person/body' of Now What Community (all individual persons here)	Tamsin	The palpable feeling I get when I join a 'space' with you all - it is a wave of love and strong sense of inclusive belonging, a warmth. It is so unusual to find a place where pretty much every time I enter a space with you all I feel that, I feel much safer and able to be myself and to speak with ease from a rooted place within myself. It is what community and family and belonging are about, but it is unusual to find even in places where I would expect that to be more present. Thank you so much, with much love and gratitude to you all.
45	Vesper	Stephanie Mines	Honesty, authenticity and modeling excellent clear boundaries.
46	Vicki	Hannelie Venucia	What touched me deeply is Vicki's always readiness to serve and share her amazing harp music, like on the press of a button, and how her presence, wisdom, and harp music transformed all the experiences we co-created and how it reverberate into the universe
47	Vicki Burke	Galen Meyers	Thank you for your beautiful presence and your beautiful harp music that helped cocreate our space together so amazingly! <3
48	Vicki Burke	Stephanie Mines	Unquestionable authenticity coupled with profound musical skill.
49	Vicki Burke	Marci Javril	MAGICAL FINGERS with heavenly, gentle poetic music! The Harp is such a wonderful connector to our sparse and spontaneous conversations, a perfect pool of possibilities, for silence or speaking. Thank you so much, just your wanderings are delicious!
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