Apr16
The third World Happiness Report will be released on April 23rd, 2015. In anticipation of the release, the Dialogue Cafe Lisbon is proposing a unique session combining reflection and some practical activities that will increase your feeling of happiness!
One of our biggest advances in life has been in figuring out what causes happiness — and what doesn’t. For example, everyone wants to be happy. By increasing your level of happiness within yourself, you can affect your relationships in a more positive way.
Dialogue and Be Happy!
But have you ever noticed how some people have few material possessions, yet seem very happy, while others have an abundance of material wealth, yet seem very unhappy? How can some people remain strong through many crises, while others fall apart over nothing? If money and possessions don’t determine happiness, what does?
With this purpose, the Dialogue Cafe of Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro will organise a session on Tuesday 28 April from 14h00 to 15h00 (London time) aimed at reflecting upon this topical issue and…gaining some practical insights about what to do live…happier life!!!
As you will see at the end…it might happen that all DCs will join on a GLOBAL SMILE DANCE organised by Asociação Sorrir.Â
Concept note & Final Programme
Smile, Join us and Be Happy!
For more detailed information, contact us to info at dialoguecafe.pt or daliasendra at casadoregalo.pt.
Apr13
DC Calendar of Activities – April 2015
Kindly find attached our DC – Calendar of activities 2015 – April. For more information, contact us at: info at dialoguecafe.org
Mar20
Another successful DC session yesterday: groups with projects in vulnerable communities met through DC to discuss better ways to improve education and security between neighbors. In Paris, elements from the SUCCESS project. In Lisbon elements from the Ubuntu Academy (but not only!) and people who cares about the well being of others, specially in Outurela and Portela neighborhoods, Lisbon.
Here are some impressionist fragments of a meeting full of joy, humanity and cumplicity. In Lisbon DC the group brought a study case, and talked about someone very important to these neighborhoods: a police who is close to the community and acts without prejudices.
Lolita, photographer, was in Paris with her peers from SUCCESS. These next fragments show the touching proximity and informality that exists between people who meet in DC. Dialogue Cafe is a platform where all create and co-create projects, but also develop ‘quicksonic’ friendships!
Mar5
Fabulous session about the future of Health, Telemedicine, Virtual and Real care, how to use technology and how to educate people to deal with the computer power and minimize isolation or ‘clinical exclusion’ due to massive cuts in healthcare budgets. Amsterdam, Lisbon, London and Ramallah joined the discussion between students, doctors, Health and AT experts. In Ramallah the Palestinian Minister of Health, Dr Hani Abdeen, gave an extraordinary testimony of palestinian reality and posed some relevant questions about the limits of Telemedicine. On his side was Professor Sabri Saidam, the co-founder of Dialogue Cafe in Ramallah, and Dr Haitham Al-Hassan, neurosurgeon who already used DC once to meet american peers to validate his complex surgery options to save the life of a young children.
The access to care is crucial to all countries and people, regardless the latitudes, and a lot of innovation is bringing people together, closer to better solutions. All the participants agreed that we have to combine several approaches, without loosing the human touch and face-to-face relation between doctors and patients. All the discussion started from the initial presentation of a new project of a portuguese team who’s building a Virtual Hospital in Portugal, linked to other virtual hospitals around the world. In Lisbon Ana Brasileiro, Dermatologist, co-founder of this project shared her experience in the field and her exchanges with peers. She mentioned the dutch KSYOS team and projects, that she met and inspired her a lot.
Dr. Safa Nasser Eldin, Minister of Telecom and IT, joined the discussion and showed her interest in DC to amplify the best practices in all areas of expertise. The presence of both palestinian ministers was important to engage politicians in vital fields such as continuity of care and personalized (tele)medecine.
In the Hub of Westminster, LuÃs Fernandes presented the project he’s co-founding with Ana Brasileiro, and explained ‘why now?’ and ‘with what aims?’. He reinforced the idea that nowadays most of the people use smartphones, mobile phones, computers and the net, and all of this ‘stuff’ leads us to a new era where people can rely more on technology clinical components concerning diagnosis process. In London a Macedonian participant added some questions and remarks, and in the end of this session, Sacha van Tongeren, the dutch co-hoster of this Health 2.0 meeting asked all participants to program some DIAGNOSE CAFE sessions. Done.
Mar3
Pictures of an extraordinary session hosted by Northampton University DC. Margaret Ledwith, lecturer, inspired portuguese, american and UK change makers giving them some powerful tools (read: insights, knowledge and more awareness) to make a difference in the world.
Margaret is a story teller and started telling some stories about people who changed her way of living and doing things. After, she defined community development, underlined some basics, framed reality and asked some questions. Margaret deeply believes that 5-minute Dialogue may change the world and left some questions for us to experiment:
What are the daily freedoms that you assume?
What values underlie these assumptions?
How do they underpin your behaviour/actions/thinking?
Place these in a larger political context
How do these practices impact on society?
What principles and values inform these practices as ‘normal’?
Tell a different story inspired by alternative values
Does this offer insight into the way that power permeates personal lives along lines of prejudice?
How could these ‘little stories’ feed into collective narratives for change?
In the end of this DC Lecture, the groups from Lisbon and Cleveland stayed online to exchange experiences and do some networking. Portuguese elements from WACT – We Are Changing Together, started to introduce themselves to Cleveland students.
Feb27
Camilo Rebelo, 40, portuguese architect co-author of one of the biggest Paleolithic Museums in the world, came to DC to give a Lecture on architecture to a class of palestinian architects to-be. Camilo Rebelo brought photos and drawings of the Côa Museum, built in an immense and amazing landscape in Douro, in a region considered twice as Human Patrimony by UNESCO.
The DC room in Lisbon was full of architecture students and teachers from OPorto School (the Architecture School of Siza Vieira and Souto Moura, both Pritzker Price) who came to Lisbon for this lecture and a guided visit through Fundação Gulbenkian (where DC room is). This lecture has been a successful one and none of the palestinian students wanted to end the meeting. On the contrary, they kept asking questions and sharing experiences.
In the end of this session Camilo Rebelo and the palestinian students challenged each others to think how they can co-create a project and promised to keep in touch. During the session many other projects have been discussed and here is the link to Camilo Rebelo’s site, where these projects may be seen with more detail: www.camilorebelo.com
