Everylight is dedicated to joy for everyone. We may never be able to fix the world but we can make it less discouraging. Everylight offers hope that we can weave a system of encouragement that will unleash humanity’s capacity for greatness.
The work of Everylight is to facilitate conversations that build trust, create hope and encourage vitality, in each of us and all of us.
Everylight grew out of one belief. We do not need to approve of one another in order to cooperate but we must be able to cooperate in order to survive and thrive.
Everylight comes from a deep desire to discover the tipping point for global cooperation. Who are the people, what are the circumstances, and what are the resources we need to reward kindness and minimize cruelty?
Global cooperation is simply learning from others instead of discarding them. We are successful whenever people start asking how we can bring out the best in each other.
The goal of Everylight is to collaboratively build a system of encouragement using three tasks, three disciplines, and three opportunities.
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Tasks
The 10 X 10 Challenge
Take 10 hours a year to listen deeply to 10 people outside of your comfort zone. Find out what is important to them and tell them what you admire about them.
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If 10 people listened to 10 people who then listened to 10 more people and that challenge was accepted just 10 times we’d have the potential to individually encourage all 6 billion inhabitants of the earth to live joyful, meaningful lives!
Ten minutes of hope
Be silent for 10 minutes with respect for others. If all six billion people on the planet would agree to complete this tiny task we could add 1,000,000,000 hours of cooperation which is over 400,000 days or more than 10,000 additional years of cooperation added to our world! That’s not enough to fix much but it is enough to give us hope that we can work together in new ways.
One Image of Joy
Create an image of joy. Contribute it to the Everylight website and create room for all six billion people on the planet to do the same so that together we can generate one vast, complex image of joy for humanity.
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Disciplines
1. Stand up for yourself without putting others down.
2. Be generous with abundance.
3. Ask new questions as you learn more about the world and the people in it.
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Opportunities
Conversations
Workshops and retreats designed to help participants understand and experience the tasks while practicing the disciplines
Network
A website that will be created by each of us for all of us to reflect on how people are working individually and cooperatively to build a better world
Resources
Tools (books, magnets …) designed to facilitate conversation and reflection
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