CURRENT MISSION

To be a new sage in the news age

ABOUT ME

Hello world

I swam in London 2012 for GB in the Paralympics and now with your help I am planning to push my wheelchair arround as much of Britain as I can to collect 'good news' so I can spread the word in "Merit".

'Merit' is the first online, open source and viral newspaper where people like you can write about the good things you do, know, suppport financially or are involved with personally. You can also edit your own edition to print and sell it on 2 sides of 1 a4/a3 sheet.

My mission is to spread 'Merit' so it becomes part of the evolution of our culture from one based on competition for resources to one based on co-operation to maximise the benefits.

Please help me to travel the length and breadth of Britain in my wheelchair with little more than a camera, a notebook and a mobile phone. (OK maybe some changes of clothes) so I can learn about, document and promote the good activities of the people of Britain!

The journey will be about miles and minds, issues and solutions, people and places. I am asking for your help planning my journey and,any other sources of help that you think may be useful for my mission.

My hope is that my journey will be a reflection of the journey our Nation and the World is taking to positively solve the challenges humanity is facing to survive and thrive on this planet!

Our Nation is one of the few that is made up of individuals with an origin in or a link to every Country in the World. Thus the people of Britain are uniquely placed to be a shining example to the peoples of the World. Our positive activities help all parts of our beautiful planet and all that inhabit it.

There are many, many, many activities by individuals and groups that make a positive impact on the issues facing humanity and the planet. I know this because I have spent the last few years deliberately looking for them in order to publish 'Merit'!

I love promoting good activities, encouraging more people to participate in activities already established and encouraging more positive solutions to develop from the grass roots. I hope going out there and spreading our good news will accelerate the shift! Transition! Evolution!

In my opinion there are so many good news stories that I decided I could not possibly cover them all in a small newspaper. Also I can not possibly know about, or promote, them all. I am only one person with limited time, knowledge and contacts.

So my planned journey is to attempt to gather a network to facilitate the distribution of good information about positive activities.

I need help to promote this 'good news' and encourage others to do the same. It wont be possible to make a significant impact on my own, I want to be part of a movement.

In each place I go I will ask for your help in what I can do there, what good activities are you involved with, what do you know about, what would you like to see implemented, what good news do you want others to know about?

Whilst on the road I will be using my disabled bus pass to ride on local public buses to get around towns and cities and between towns when it is raining. On dry days I will push though the beautiful countryside and will be happy if people join me to enjoy it together.

In order to raise awareness of my journey I plan to speak at schools, swim in pools, talk on local radio and TV stations and I will keep a video diary and post regular video diaries online.

The aim of the publicity will be to encourage people to become involved in the project in whatever way they think best. I am sure that people will think of many more ways to help than I can, and I am sure they will find the best way they can bring their own interests, unique talents and personality to help the bigger cause. I hope that the bigger cause is shaped and owned by the diverse people who come along and grow this from the bottom up.

At the moment the most obvious way to help from my perspective is that people host me, show me their community and when I leave I hope they become a 'Merit Agent' selling their own version of 'Merit' in order to raise money for an activity of their choice and raising awareness to the issues they select in their own edition of 'The Good News'.

But the biggest area I need help in to start is the building of the website that allows each individual to create their own edition of 'Merit'.

If you can write about what you care about or select your favorite articles from the web-sites collection of posted articles (these need to be classified into categories) and can simply print 2 sides of 1 page to sell your News for £1.... what would you put in your paper and what solutions would you want to promote?

I will film the journey so people or classes at the schools I visit could edit the film with me.

This is obviously a very BIG mission. I am not aware how big it might become, but I realise this wont happen without lots of help.

Thank you all for your help and encouragement

PHILOSOPHY

Consciousness creates - be bold and begin!

All matter is held together by relationships - what matters to you in your life makes your life matter!

That is why I want to enter into relationship with the people and places I go. This is the driving force behind my journey and my mission to make 'Merit'

I want to arrive in a place where I can connect - to offer something of value like my story or my touch or holding space for people to move and explore their bodies (some call that dance - i call it thanks) or anything that presents itself in the moment - from a smile to a listening ear and whatever the truth of the moment draws me in to play with

I sense that our futures are drawn into our present - that we are trillions of beings dreaming life into being - lets dream consciously and love our dreams :)

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I plan to be at each location long enough to touch base with members of the community so I really can hear and see what issues and solutions the community faces internally and what aspects of the wider world the community is involved with.

Since I swim ity makes sense to go to every local pool and do a swim with local kids for chairity, and I visit schools to talk about life as an athlete so it would be good for me to meet teachers or parents who can host or link me to relevent people. I always want to visit the local priests and vicars and respected community leaders.

I hope that gathering local good news and good contacts will forge and evolve my onward journey.

I will document the journey here so people can see how the journey evolves from the help of people on couchsurfing

I plan to facilitate talks at schools, town halls and centers communities use. At these talks I will of course mention couchsurfing among other good news

Ideally I will be well informed of people and groups to meet and learn from before arriving. I would hope that at each place I can attend local meetings so I can listen, learn and share at these events.

I would love to facilitate an event at each location where members of a number of different activity groups meet so they can deepen the relationships in their communities, leading to collaboration and co-creating the results they are aiming for. So a local couchsurfing event that brings people together would be ideal.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted people and surfed for years before I heard of couchsurfing. Now I will be visiting people in their communities to learn about good things going on, and to broadcast it far and wide. Couch-surfing is definitely part of the 'Good News'

兴趣

I am also training to swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics so I will need to get into a pool almost every day! I am interested in getting people to join me swimming every day in sponsored swims to raise money for a charity that local couch surfing hosts are involved with.

Some topics my edition of the good newspaper will cover include:
Alternative energies / technologies
Alternative / complimentary medicine
Alternative currency ie L.E.T.S. etc
Alternative buildings
Altered / higher states of conciousness
Art
Businesses owned by their staff
Bands / live music
Communal living
Charities
Desalination
Empty spaces transformed by communal use
Free-cycle schemes
Freegans
Free hugs
Great people
Healing and helping
Innovations
Jokes
Kindness
Love
Micro fincance
Making stuff - instruments tools - fun ;)
Non for profit organisations
Organic farming
Orgone gifting
Peer to peer funding / banking etc
Questions
Random acts of kindness
Social enterprises
Time banks
Un-acknowledged heroes
Volunteering
WOOF
X-ray specs ;)
Yes man
Zebra crossings ( needed a z)

• arts
• culture
• dancing
• environment
• athlete
• clothing
• news
• tv
• traveling
• billiards
• music
• live music
• cycling
• surfing
• olympics
• swimming
• communications
• languages
• medicine
• volunteering

音乐、电影和书籍

I love many movies, music and books - but which ones to mention? not sure i have the time or inclination to share now - ask me on the road :)

Saw Naked the other night - top film!

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Being born! Living my early years in Africa. Traveling solo through Asia and South America in a wheelchair. Surviving my brushes with death. Visiting pilgrimage sites in the Himalaya and Andes. Ayahusca dieta in the Amazon. Experiencing all the universe as a connected loving intelligence :)

教，学，和分享

The journey and newspaper and internet site will allow me to learn and share, and hopefully I can teach dance / healing touch workshops on the way

I want to share good vibes, and the sense that each individual has power to bring about a positive development of their life and environment and thus the world

So I will be sharing good news and a positive perception on the world we live in.

I hope people share opportunities / ways to tune in to positive and outlets for positive action.

In my personal interaction I like to:

Teach - English, health tips, alternative therapies, dance and movement, touch, how to connect to self and others, how to dream big, how to hug warmly with a smiling heart

Learn - languages, musical instruments, what people want to share / teach

Share - love, laughter, insights, understanding, compassion, 'Good News'

我游览过的国家

Bolivia, Denmark, Finland, India, Japan, Peru, Slovenia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland

我居住过的国家

Somalia, United Kingdom, Zambia

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