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  • cafe disruptif gatherings
    • Autumn 2021: Climate and Health Skills Lab event TWO
    • Autumn 2020: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Cornwall Doughnut Collective
    • Autumn 2020: climate and health skills lab event
    • Summer 2019: Climate Catastrophe: Dr Rupert Read
    • Summer 2019: Negotiating the Surrender: Dougald Hine
    • Winter 2018: Polyglot: The Art of Change
    • Autumn 2018: Climate Disrupted : in Good Company
    • Autumn 2018: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Doughnut Hack
    • Summer 2018: Economics disrupted: reclaiming the ground
    • Summer 2018: The Psychology of Change II : Now It's Personal
    • Winter 2017: Launch - The Wet Fish
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welcome to cafe disruptif

: for people who don't think (in) straight (lines)

people  //  planet  //  imagination

 
Home of the Creative Disruptors' Collective


Check out the Cornwall Doughnut Economics Playbook ... free to download and use wherever you are...
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"creative disruptors":

people who deliberately disrupt their own, and others', thinking habits
to create space for imagining positive change
 

   "creative disruption":  
  the art of making (good) trouble


You can join us here. :)




a cafe disruptif espresso for the head:


a tiny bite of the doughnut:

 Check out the clip below for the first couple of pages of Doughnut Economics:
you may decide you ARE absolutely the sort of person who reads economics books ... :) .
Reproduced by kind permission of Kate Raworth and her publishers.
For more you can just click through to her site: Kate Raworth


Old goats, revolution and doughnuts:


  what cafe disruptif does:

1 connects all flavours of creative disruptors in a deliberate effort to mix up our skills, perspectives, ideas and disciplines to squeeze every last drop of shared learning from all our efforts to create change for good
2 spotlights ways to stay healthy and strong  to ensure we don't crash into exhaustion, loneliness or frustration
3 curates an interdiciplinary treasure trove of tools, techniques and insights from all sectors, especially arts and social science, to help us catalyse the monumental transformation we  need across our social, environmental and economic structures
why we do it:
Our emphasis at the moment is on understanding the psychology of change: what makes some people hurl themselves at it with abandon and joy, and what makes some people hide behind the sofa and throw the cushions at anything that seems in any way different, new or "other". If we don't understand what makes our messages of change and renewal so horrifying to some, we are never (big word; we mean it)  going to find a way of connecting. And connect we must: across all our sectors of environmental, social and economic change because we *really* need to get better at working together; and with all those who think we must be actually unhinged to want it.

I had a conversation with someone recently where I casually mentioned we are facing so many complex, difficult problems, what we probably need is revolution. She is a lawyer for a local municipality in the US. She almost choked on her fruit cake and fell off her chair. She turned grey,  look at me aghast and asked, mouth still full, why would I want something "so destructive, that would lose all the structures we had put in place to fend off the barbarians"?

Wow. Now, *that* made me think. We are actually speaking different languages. She sees "revolution" as an INCREDIBLY BAD THING that will TEAR DOWN THE WALLS OF CIVILISATION AND LET ALL THE VERY VERY BAD AND LAWLESS PEOPLE GET EVERYWHERE. Whereas I see it as an amazing thing of renewal and change and improvement and can only feel happy when I feel the word coming out of my mouth.

It made me think a *lot*.

No wonder we're all getting nowhere....

who cafe disruptif is:

hello.

We're some of the people thinking differently. You'll see this list changing as more people pitch in....

We believe in shaking up our collective presumptions.
Just to check they're not nailing our feet to the ground,
or locking our minds into boxes.
Without us even realising. It can 'appen.
Intrigued? Read on.

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Klaudia Van Gool: Permaculture, food, land
Lynne Coakely Dyer: food, community, growing, health and social justice
Ruby Brookman Prins: social justice, activism, refugee crisis
Manda Brookman: economics, social justice, systems thinking, communication
Katharine "I don't do public speaking" Lewis. But she kicks ass and creates huge change in every other way possible. (And actually she does do public speaking if you ask very nicely...)
Louis. Student, photographer, graphic designer. Using image and word to catalyse change for better.
Chris and Janet Jones: climate, soil, land, farming, eco-systems
Mod Le Froy: inclusion, activity, health, wellbeing, access to outside
Oliver Baines: climate, justice, community, land
Ian Jones: complex systems, transformation, networks, psychology & thinking
Chris Hines: environment, campaigning, engagement
Helen Tanner: conflict resolution, peace, psychotherapy and psychosocial support
Sara Marsh: if I'm not going to be a positively disruptive model for my kids, who is?
Pat Smith: People. nature, kids, connection..... we have to do this better. :)
Dr Hugh Van't Hoff. Joining up the doing (being a GP) with changing ( teaching schools how to teach health literacy.) Genius.
Hugo Tagholm. SAS. Taking the horse to water and making it drink the stuff. As it were.
Liz Scambler. Determined to do better for everyone.
Rev Jez. Disruptor, activist, man of faith. Thank God.
Joey Clifton: Creating resilience, building community, supporting massive (positive) impact
Faraday: Volunteer Director, Open Hearts, Open Borders
Shelley Meister. Unstoppable.
Andy Brelsford. Always heading towards the light.
Stephen Warman. Disruptive since the age of 5. Can't imagine him otherwise...
Simon Hooton. Feral Economist. Thank God.
Luke Berkely: growing new flavours of community in Newquay
Matt Hocking: design, paper, breaking the mold on the way design can improve everything
Denzil Monk: Creative producer, bard of Kernow. Proper job.
Alesha Jane Owens: student placement extraordinaire: "I wasn’t arriving as a student today. I wasn't arriving as a volunteer today. I was arriving as a disruptor. "
Natalia Eernstmann. Genius fusion of art, climate, community and intellect.
Jay Tompt: economy, place, and systems change. With bells on.
We're from all sectors, all parts of Cornwall and the SW, and we're all sort of people. Diversity is the mother of everything brilliant.

This is some of us, and some of the things we're coming at from a very different angle...and each of us are collecting, and sharing, some  of our  gear-changing disruptive favourites on this very website. We're compiling a hoard of fireworks for the mind: have a look here at what we've found so far.

Welcome.
Grab a coffee. Offer an opinion. You know how cafes work.

imagining the best

society:
disrupted

Loads of people are simply, honestly, deciding we can do better when it comes to making healthy, resilient communities. It's nice to know you're not alone. We're really, really not...

assuming we can

economics:
disrupted
All that allegedly impossibly complicated number stuff that is too tricky for mere mortals to understand...is in fact entirely understandable. This page will prove it.

systems thinking

environment:
disrupted

Imagine concentrating not just on reducing the amount of damage we're doing to our planet and the natural systems we rely on...but actually deliberately and on purpose *making them better*...radical? Or blinding common sense?

Twitter feed...use #cafedisruptif

Thank you, for moral, financial, practical and philosophical support to, amongst others:

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anonymous donors...thanks, dudes...
Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Tremough Campus, Penryn, Cornwall. :)
Lush Charity Pot - thanks, guys!
British Science Association are helping hook us up with more social scientists...thanks, BSA. Nice one!
Bedruthan Community Fund: a charitable initiative set-up in 2011 which benefits from donations through the guest gifting scheme for Bedruthan Hotel & Spa and The Scarlet
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  • hello
  • The psycho-sociology of change
    • the importance of transgression
    • society: disrupted
    • environment: disrupted >
      • climate: disrupted >
        • CORNWALL VCSE CLIMATE RESPONSE
      • climate emergency declarers
      • climate truths and myths
    • thought: disrupted >
      • disruptive words
      • events calendar
      • the art and science of critical thinking
      • only bloody connect: why it's so dfficult to communicate the most crucial stuff on the planet
      • the art of change
      • cognitive dissidents
      • disruptive reads
    • economics: disrupted >
      • economics: disrupted - atlas of pro-sperity
    • gallery of disruption >
      • contact us
      • andy
      • chris h
      • faraday
      • jeremy
      • joey
      • pat
      • louis
      • manda
      • stephen
      • oliver
      • ruby
      • simon
      • natalia
      • sara
      • chris j
      • lynne
      • luke
      • mod
      • ian
      • rosie
      • matt
  • cafe disruptif gatherings
    • Autumn 2021: Climate and Health Skills Lab event TWO
    • Autumn 2020: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Cornwall Doughnut Collective
    • Autumn 2020: climate and health skills lab event
    • Summer 2019: Climate Catastrophe: Dr Rupert Read
    • Summer 2019: Negotiating the Surrender: Dougald Hine
    • Winter 2018: Polyglot: The Art of Change
    • Autumn 2018: Climate Disrupted : in Good Company
    • Autumn 2018: Eco-nomics Disrupted : The Doughnut Hack
    • Summer 2018: Economics disrupted: reclaiming the ground
    • Summer 2018: The Psychology of Change II : Now It's Personal
    • Winter 2017: Launch - The Wet Fish
  • who we are
    • resilient us
  • Blog