A Prophet Scotland Primer: Pamphlet One

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Believing there is enough on this planet for us all.

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IS THIS YOU?

• knowing that life can be better and fairer for everyone • revelling in the new consciousness that is emerging • believing in more than one view, more than one vision •committing to making a positive difference in the world • thriving in a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility • demonstrating better ways of doing things • doing the sort of things that people say just can’t be done

AMY SHIPWAY

• gordonferguson.co.uk • BA Accountancy. Due diligence and Owner Managed businesses • Social mobility and SME’s as a driver of that.

Good quality businesses owned and managed in a sustainable way for the benefit of their communities • Accountant. Adviser • Good working relationships.

Responsive. Susan and the team are inspiring to work with, following their dreams and trying to make a difference • Don’t throw your rubbish out the car, wait till you get home and put it in the bin

• Marketing Communication Officer. Circus Runaway Photographer/Videographer • instagram.com/ ashipwa • First Class MA Scottish Literature. Small Business Strategy. Project Management. Over a decade of customer service, sales & management • Passionate about making cool things happen • Project Manager • Totally unique experience.

Sometimes the impact is subtle. Showed me I could be competent in areas I never thought I could.

Taught me a lot about how to deal with transactions and negotiations, enquiring GRACE MARK FLOCK TALK about the deeper level of • Free-range Facilitator interactions and examining • gracemark.co.uk • DipArch.

• Name peoples agenda’s, not in a • How do you prefer to Project Development, Design, describe what you do? (title/ cynical way. Learned about Community Arts • Peopleboat insurance and maritime centred creativity, ideas that job description) law. Big learning experience seek to make positive impact • Where can we find you • Find something that scares & working with inspiring and online? you and embrace it •What’s your education open minded people (optional) /background/work • Tactician for SMST, Guest experience?

Liason Seacliffe, articulating • What are you passionate Prophet Scotland • I was about/what matters to you? intrigued to learn in my •Title of your job with interview that everyone that’d Prophet Scotland worked at Prophet Scotland •What do you value/enjoy had blossomed and grown. about working with Prophet Same has been true for Scotland? me. It’s a fantastic team to •If you had a billboard what BRENDAN O’DONNELL work with. I value the culture would you say?

• Entrepreneurial Accountant of intuitive collaboration,

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appreciation, and attention to detail • A huge smile :-)

Michael Giannini

THE CRAIC FLOCK

off grid! • Well educated in my own way, being 46 my background’s quite varied, from house husband, through contriver, to organiser, now washed up on the shores of life and realised I’m an artist • I’m currently passionate about my son Harris and discovering that my hidden calling was to engage people on a creative level • Caretaker, Housekeeper, Bit of Brawn, Volunteer • I enjoy being engaged in a worthwhile endeavour which can have a positive impact on peoples lives • Try and try and try to realise your potential :)

• Earning a crust by selling my body, occasional thinking required, that’s manual labour incidentally!

Fixing/painting/lifting.... • Facebook, name above.

BSc Maths. Clever cookie thwarted by emotional hurdles, uni maths background but no career undergone so back on the tools for now • I’m into boots/jackets/audio visual/gym/ global human behaviours, in that order • Utilities/facilities and Harris watch for Proph Scot!

• Always interesting folk around. Got a good feeling of involvement and being valued. Always worthwhile ZARA KITSON time spent • ---- survival of • Dreaming of a world that the flyest ..... works for us all. Grafting to make it a reality… • zarakitson.org/ • MA Hons Public Policy. Youth & community development work. Politics, making things happen, giving voice to change • Everything. The world. People & planet. Right now gender equality and young people STEWART having a say • Assistant to CUNNINGHAM the Executors of the Estate •Artist • At the moment I’m of BDP • The Craic • What

have you done to smash the patriarchy today?

ZOË CHARLOTTE PEARSON

• Doer, Thinker, Researcher, Self-proclaimed generalist • zcpearson.com • BA (Hons) Communication Design from GSA, Co-Founder of The Garret artists studio.

The importance of making and the phenomenon of ‘ideasthesia’, and through this helping people to find their voice and a secure sense of self • Navigator & Numbercruncher • Great team mates, good work practice which allows us to learn as we traverse unfamiliar territories as a team and individuals: a thorough approach with attention to detail, time allowed for reflection and discussion, questioning each other and taking suggestions on board, the group outcome at the helm of our motivation.

• It’s not going to be perfect first time, you might not get it that wrong either!

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A shark ZOE CHA RLOTTE P Prophet Scotland founder wrestles with super powers stumbled on while growing up between a remote coastal community of 300 souls and the rarefied milieu of the West End of Glasgow. Initial interest in film with it’s power to change hearts and minds has evolved into a hands on approach to culture change.

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Captain S’log SUSAN GARDE PETTIE

Susan Garde Pettie Professional Busybody Linkedin.com/ susangardepettie BA Film and Video production. Cat herding, and path-breaking the impossible.

5 years self-directed learning in culture change.

Unfinished business with an MSC in Entrepreneurship & Economic Development and a PGC in Social Enterprise.

Passionate about people, the development of our species, and our world’s wellbeing.

Creative Director Creative challenge, diverse teams, taking care of business, everyday is a school day.

FFS / be here now / how small are we / make it up as you go along / I love you

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Our particular way of working and our unusual, effective, interventions yearn to change the shape of the cultural landscape, with a fair wind, for the better. Believing in what we do.

Often interventions take time to realise. Knowing this, we simply have to slow down or pause.

Experience shows every idea finds its moment in the sun, keeping our intentions clear and steady, when that moment comes, we are ready. Going with the flow.

deep and lasting change within cultures and communities can take a nd can happen in the blink of an eye. Shifting beliefs and behaviours en the subtlest of ways demands a conscious, responsive, tenacious approach. Persisting.

ntions steady on their own feet or run their course, they are set free, setting us free in turn to create more. Knowing when to let go.

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THE CHALLENGE

NATURE We grew out of the rural, shaped by and intimately connected to (in ways we are yet to fully understand) the environment around us. Whether nomadic or agrarian the rural makes our air, cleans our water, grows our food, connects us to our source. People bound together in communities of place operate in particular ways, sometimes safe, sometimes suffocating. Now our rural, and marine, environments are at stake, the evolution of human beings challenges the very ground we stand on, usurps the soil our souls depend upon.

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MIND We have grown into the urban, drafted the raw materials of our world into the sculpting of place peopled by ideas and innovation. Whether down town or uptown we are all intimately connected in the social system of situation. People bound together in communities of interest operate in particular ways, sometimes energising, sometimes terrifying. Now our densely populated environments are putting the pinch on our ecosystem at the same time as they produce the very solutions we crazy human beings crave.

Post industrial metamorphosis.

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So Say’s story started in November 2010 (Reykjavik) on a cold snowy morning when I… thanks to Bjarni, was allowed to observe the National Assembly of 1000 randomly selected people which started the constitution redra ing process. Bjarni gave time to a stranger with missionary zeal to share knowledge and experience, he is pivotal in ge ing us here… From a presentation in October 2011, and then a public meeting in May 2012 we began to gather a core team… And we swept up all sorts of amazing people on the way to the first Thinking Together assembly… we dra ed the advert for an assembly coordinator ‘work all hours for peanuts’ and Zara joined the team.

Post Thinking Together Zara, Eilidh, Euan and Julie e joined as Stewards. (In 2014) They pushed forward with the next stages of Thinking Together and the development of Wee Play (Scotland) with Perry.

Monday 15th September 2014 we presented Democracy Remixed in collaboration with Northern Renewal and Kiltr supported by the Common Weal. Screening ‘Blueberry Soup’ telling the story of constitution writing Icelandic style, enjoying live performance and dialogue. Sunday 21st September in Seacliffe, Strachur, we launched Democracy House.

The moral of this story:…

Dream big.

Follow your heart. Welcome that random stranger.

Collaborate.

The impossible is well within reach!

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Our very carefully designed game is the only neutral, peer-to-peer, guaranteed debatefree way to engage with the referendum.

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In Person

Up and down the west coast 07948833008

Let us cocreate the futurenow, Our culture change interventions are vehicles through which individuals, groups and communities create, learn and develop together. It’s exciting to work with creativity and compassion in service to some of our most challenging problems.

And it’s better when we do it together.

‘Creativity is our most powerful renewable resource’ While everything seems doom and gloom - some predictions say we’ve a 10 to 20 year window to sort it out or we will die out - we are excited about the many possibilities that these uncertain and transformational times have to offer.

“Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!”

When communities work well, individuals, with all their differences, in background, beliefs and behaviours, can collaborate and thrive, not just survive, in the face of change.

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Online

Search prophet scotland on issuu & the panoply of social media

tick here if you agree √ Is there a PROBLEM that you’re passionate about solving?

Or an OPPORTUNITY you’re eager to explore?

Do you have RESOURCES to invest in making positive change?

Are your SKILLS ready to be offered in service of the greater good?

Do you have ASSETS you wish were better mobilised?

Are there EARS you know eager to hear more?

Is your TIME ready to be put to good use?

Now is the time to deal with failure demand in the design of our modern societies, and redesign the business of living, putting care and connectivity at its heart: there is enough and we are enough!

We have plenty of projects up our sleeve and are eager to work with others on bringing their ideas to life. If we’re going to hell in a hand basket we may as well have a good time on the way,

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References and thanks Pg 1 & 24 √ Nerve cells grown in culture give insight into how neurons communicate. Image: Callista Harper, Queensland Brain Institute. √ The Prophet Scotland Pigeon is thanks to five years of design work in collaboration with Olafur Breidfjord, you’ll see his work throughout the pamphlet marked by  olafurbreidfjord.com √ Quote abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/ Pg 2 & 3 √ Prophet Scotland library. Image: Susan Pettie √ Standard Industrial Classification for SC 19105 Private Limited Company, Sole Director and Shareholder Susan Garde Pettie. Incorporated 12/11/1998 as IYOT Ltd (In Your Own Time). Name changed 25/05/2004 to Prophet Scotland Ltd Pg 4 & 5 √ Title font: susantype, created from Susan Pettie’s handwriting.

Pg 6 & 7 √ Thanks to the Craic Flock for being themselves & completing their pen portraits. √ One member of the team revealed themselves to be untrustworthy and unaccountable, so I cannot recommend them however I also cannot erase the effort they contributed to our achievements Pg 8 & 9 √ Excerpt from APG (Artist Placement Group) APG: Scottish Office Report, summary of APG feasibility, Edinburgh, Lyddon, Dr W D. Tate Archives.

Pg 10 & 11 √ “If we can’t think together and talk together, then we can do nothing together. Culture implies shared meaning in which everybody participates.” David Joseph Bohm a theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unothodox ideas to quantum theory, neurophyschology and the philosophy of the mind. david-bohm. net/dialogue/dialogue_proposal.html √ Scotland from space. Image: Major Tim Peake, astronaut, International Space Station √ Moon. Image: clipartkid.com √ Starry night sky. Image: hubblesite.org Pg 12 & 13 √ Symbol: Dead tree and fish = Hazardous to the environment from Classification, Labeling & Packaging, European Union Regulation. √ Tulloch. Image: Susan Pettie Pg 16 & 17 √ So Say Scotland is an unincorporated association registered with oneclickorgs.com having the objectives of Supporting and promoting participative and deliberative democracy throughout Scotland currently with 5 members deemed Stewards of the organization.

Pg 20 √ Pamphlet co-created with Grace Mark (design), Kate Musgrove (text) and universe (meaning). We started this in 2016 and due to lifes vagaries we intermitently evolved it till today, publishing in spring 2021! Over this time a child was born, the company closed, and office burned, our world stood still with much that was written revealed. It appears our vision, mission and approach is more relevant than ever. So now to infinity and beyond...

Pg 21 & 22 √ Heart rhythm patterns moving from stress to coherence (via sustained, modulated positive emotions) from ‘The Coherent Heart: Heart-brain interactions, psychophysiological coherence, and the emergence of system-wide order’ by McCraty, Atkinson, Tomasino, & Bradley, HearthMath Research Centre, Institute of HeartMath. √ From data to wisdom: content of the mind from chapter on Education in ’Redesigning Society’ by Ackoff & Rovin. √ Soap suds help us imagine the reality of nested circles as the baseline of human organisation, illustrating the notion of subsidiarity, noun. (in politics) the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level.

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The Executry, and Legacy, of the Late Bruce Douglas Pettie From the Date of Death (DoD) 2013 September 21, largely completed by 2017 June 21, remaining elements still ongoing . . .

Conspectus Led by the Will and Codicil of the deceased we worked to honour his wishes in the administration, and management, of his Estate and initiation of his Legacy. Estate valued at £1.5 million; asset rich, cash poor, complex and unusual. Property, unique personal goods, vehicles, vessels including overseas, bank accounts including overseas, unlisted and listed stocks and shares, debtors, other assets/income due and a host of flotsam n jetsam.

We took an office for this work which evolved into the SMST office. Donations to charity facilitated the 36% inheritance tax rate. We worked to forgive debts where appropriate and ingather/distribute in a way that honoured the raison d’être of the legacy. Over four years we spent 5% of total estate on overheads.

Legal Requirements Inheritance Tax: Inheritance Tax: Confirmation: Inheritance Tax: Probate: Inheritance Tax: Tax Return Deceased: Tax Return Estate: Inheritance Tax:

IHT 400 13/01/2015 C1 and Inventory 20/04/2015 Sheriff Court of Glasgow and Strathkelvin 06/06/2015.

Instrument of Variation (IoV) 17/09/2015 Isle of Man 09/12/2015 IHT430 18/03/2016 2012/2013, 2013-DoD 13/01/2017 DoD - 2017 13/01/2017 C4 13/03/2018

Legacy Projects Festival of Bruce / Life Is Deadly: The will clearly stated, and made provision for, a party post a cremation (that no one was to attend). Life is deadly, non of us get out alive, so the most important thing, even in the face of a terminal diagnosis, is to get more living out of life.

The Scottish Maritime Sailing Trust (SMST): A keen sailor and coastal enthusiast we found a Trust willing to work with us to ‘explore, dream, discover’. Donating two motor boats, two sailing boats and a clinker dinghy, along with start up cash, and relevant artefacts, we re-vivified the Trust in the name of the deceased.

Bruce Arms AKA Democracy House: We gathered the best of his possessions and upgraded his cottage, charged with the mission, to support the development of democratic innovation.

Rythim: Complex pensions and investment structures created to support an innovative biomedical start up through esoteric shares, prompted the commitment to recycle returns in to music and health in Scotland.

Small & Significant: We worked to convert every decision, even the smallest, into positive affect. Heritage vehicles and fitted wardrobes to heart felt new homes, backing Scottish independence via a business network, legacy loans to social enterprise, devices donated to start ups, bits n pieces to synchronistic ends.

Our Modus Operandi “Defying Expectations”

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Your life is right now! It’s not later! It’s not in that time of retirement. It’s not when the lover gets here. It’s not when you’ve moved into the new house. It’s not when you get the better job. Your life is right now.

It will always be right now. You might as well decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it’s not ever going to get better than right now- until it gets better right now!

Creativity, Collaboration & World Changing Craic!

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