Lynnette Allen

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Lynnette

Favorites:

Person: Bill Moyers...be sure to see Bill Moyer's Journal, PBS - Channel 9 or www.pbs.org
Healing Tool: EFT -Emotional Freedom Technique, works for me, EFT World Summit
Favorite Video - Home
Video of the week: The Kitchen Garden with Geoff Lawton...be sure to see the clip,
300 Year Old Food Forest System in Viet Nam
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Radio Show - Thom Hartmann - 1090 AM 9 -12 AM, weekdays
Online Radio Show - Interviews with Jennifer McLean - masterful!
Favorite Books:
All of David Korten's books, All of Thom Hartmann's books,
Friendship with God, A New Earth, The Starseed Transmissions,
Favorite Sites: Tom Atlee
Online Magazine: Yes!
Online Video Show - Environmental: Peak Moment TV interviews with my friend, Janaia Donaldson.
Also Eco Tube
Online News Video Sites: The Real News and Brasscheck TV
Blogs: Daily KOS
Online community networking: Facebook, Twitter, Transition Whatcom
Community Exchange System - Fourth Corner Exchange - Check out my updated "offered" listings.


Link to my Facebook home

I heard Elizabeth May, environmentalist, activist, author, lawyer, and Chair of Canada's Green Party, speak June 7th at the World Issues Forum and she was eloquently laying it on the line about climate change. When I asked her what she would like to see people do to get the word out, she recommended among other actions, sharing a 4 minute video with everyone you know. It is:

The Big Ask: Climate change, "ACT NOW!"

Elizabeth said:
1. Spread the word. (I have very specific, convincing notes from her presentation. Please google "Elizabeth May on climate change"-- to learn more.
2. Write letters to big and little newspapers, and keep writing them. Comment on some specific story.
3. Barack Obama raised this issue: We need to see the USA in the lead in Copenhagen. This meeting is all important now. She said Copenhagen is our last chance and we've got to get it right. We need to get this on the radar. Obama is trying to get all the countries inside the tent, she said, and the people's voice is needed now--to help him.
4. Join www.350.org - Bill McKibben's project and blog. ...more

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I also visited Jun Akutsu and the Indra's Rainbow IONS community group in Seattle twice recently for discussions with special IONS guests. What wonderful evenings!

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April 16, 2009

 

Jadzia Imani and I and other members of the local Move On council presented petitions from local small business owners for support for Clean Energy and Green Jobs to Patty Murray. I asked her to take a look at the first ones-- from Sustainable Connections, ReSources, Terra Organica, A-1 Builders, Adaptations and others.

 

About Lynnette

As a long-term member of the steering teams of the Bellingham Institute of Noetic Sciences community group and Sustainable Bellingham, I am devoted to contributing to building wisdom community locally and globally.

I am a founding member of The Open Question Institute, which develops the Open Question Approach, a process that allows every participant in a group to communicate and connect empathetically by tapping into their shared values.

My many years of personal growth education has included extensive training in Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication, Daimon Sweeney's Emotional Freedom Technique sessions, and training in The Acorn Model, an oral tradition taught by the Wilderness Awareness School. The Acorn Model is a nonhierarchical model, for organizing groups and teams, organizations and communities. I am grateful to Alan Seid and Tricia King and their community for sharing this with me.

In my community work, my vision is to use my group process and communication skills to bring local organizations working for wisdom community into partnerssip to coordinate in their common goals.

My experience has included teaching dance as a teen and young adult. I taught Physical Education, Dance and English and developed Dance Clubs and Children's Theatre productions in public schools for eight years. On receiving an MA in Dance from Mills College, I interned in Dance Therapy. Moving to Santa Fe, NM, I worked as a consultant dance therapist while taking art, yoga and tai chi classes there for three years. In the 70's I taught yoga and tai chi classes and developed a successful wholesale jewelry business in Aspen and Vale, Colorado.

In Bellingham on KUGS radio at Western Washington University, I hosted New Voices, New Options for two years, interviewing guests on local issues, the healing arts, local music, and guest speakers at Western.

Activities I enjoy include walking in nature, tap dancing, choreography, folk dancing, activism, the Internet, blogging, social networking, writing, interviewing, attending movies, plays and the local arts, and volunteering with local community-building organizations.

The Bellingham Institute for Noetic Sciences community group has grown and we are organinzing many inspiring, informational events (www.bions.net)
At Sustainable Bellingham I am a founding member and on the Vision Team, helping to network a sustainable local community.

Personally, my path is as an idea-person and communicator-- particularly networking for partnerships in creating wisdom community. I am a citizen activist and a social activist.

Update: June 7, 2009
I'm now volunteering with the local MoveOn council, and with a new group I love, Whatcom Progressive Grassroots Network, and helping with A New Way Forward. Projects I've worked on recently are:

MoveON - Getting and delivering petitions for the Clean Energy bill personally, to our Senator Patty Murray
Lynnette Allen Here are photos of myself, Jadzia and Patty Murray. My friend Kaye took them. Thanks, Kaye!



MoveOn - Clean Energy Rally - May 28, 2009


A New Way Forward - Break Up The Banks rally - June 10, 2009
Bellingham IONS - Navigating the Great River of Change

My Young At Heart Basics 1 Tap Dance class at the Bellingham Senior Center is growing and I'm planning a Basics 2 class and eventually a Beyond The Basics class. I'm having a lot of fun with this. I love having Carl, pianist, accompanying the classes. He is the best! I'm really enjoying the spirit of the students and the class.

Website Design

I design brochure-style web sites.

A brochure style site is a good choice if you have a limited budget and want to feature information that does not change frequently. When changes are needed, I can maintain and update your website for a nominal charge.

Here are links to websites I've made:

Relocalization.net
Young At Heart - Tap Dance - with Lynnette
Cyndy Sheldon - Gestalt Therapy
Bellingham IONS
Skye Burn
Sustainable Bellingham - I made the original, but this one has been completely redesigned.
Young At Heart - Tap Dance
Whatcom Network for Compassionate Communication
Siam Was Our Home
Emily Farrell

Webdreams
Webdreams: High Use of Web Technology for Sustainable Bellingham





Lynnette Allen, M.A.
Education
  • Minor and Certification in Web Content Developer Program
    Western Washington University, 2001
  • AAS in Network Administration
  • Certification in Web Site Design
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
    Bellingham Technical College, 1999
  • MA in Dance, Mills College
  • BA in Physical Education, University of Iowa
  • Internship in Movement Therapy, Philadelphia State Hospital, Philadelphia
 
Phone
Email
  360 714-9305
lynallen4chg@yahoo.com

Copyright 2009 - Lynnette Allen, MA