This is Megan Elizabeth Morris checking in for this 5-minute Simultistream broadcast on our Intuitive Public TV.
There is a timer running. No time like the present to build necessary skills.
I want to check in from our worldwide network groups on a particular subject and that is time banking.
There are two major items of conversation in regards to time banking for the methodology we’ve been developing in the Intuitive Network.
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Tony Budak of Time Bank Mahoning Watershed, which is not far from where I am currently located.
That conversation has caused many more additional conversations to emerge — specifically about time banking.
One of the reasons we haven't talked so much about it over this past decade or so is because we needed these two specific items to be addressed — and we weren't sure how to talk about them yet.
So I'm going to broach them right now in this 5-minute broadcast. I’m watching the timer, which is right up here. I'm going to keep this broadcast under five minutes and we're going to find out how I do with it.
Thank you for rooting for me.
These are two items that we have to keep very present in our consideration when we're talking about time banking and the great value of time banking.
In time banking, a community comes together and logs the things we do for one another… the things we give to one another.
How are we helping one another?
How are we dedicating our time and energy to making the world around us better?
…To making one another's lives better? …to building more beautifying collaborative relationships with one another? …to implementing solutions that allow us to have a much happier, healthier experience in the world, living and working with one another?
Time banking involves this kind of logging.
Here's what we're doing.
Here's what we're offering.
And the two items that we have to be really aware of in the Intuitive Network are…
…How do we get that data into the system?
Because there are many, many people who are not able to enter that data themselves. We need a bridge of functions that helps that data be input for all of these people who are doing amazing work for their communities that is not seen, that is invisible to everybody who's not directly participating.
We need some way of showing what's happening there.
And the second item is…
…We need to be prioritizing building relationships with one another so that we know what it means when someone has offered something.
When someone spent an hour of their time doing a particular thing that might have been very difficult for them — do we know enough about the life of that person to understand the gift that they brought to the community?
When they choose to offer that resource to the community… do we know what that means to them?
So:
How do we get the data into the system when when that's a very difficult thing for many people to do?
…and…
…How do we really gather ourselves to know one another, to learn from one another, to know one another's stories so that we know what those gifts truly are?
This is how we honor what we give to one another.
I really appreciate you tuning in with me for this five minute broadcast.
I hope you have an absolutely wonderful day.
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