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WikiProject Intentional Living is a Project Group of authors and editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Intentional living and Intentional Life. The project is a communications area for editors and writers to consolidate work on specific themes and articles, collaborate on texts, improve available resources, and so on. Anyone interested in Intentional Living is welcome to join. Simply add your name to the participants list below.

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[edit] Should Intentional living move to Intentional Living?

I suggest we move the article from Intentional living to Intentional Living so the redirection will work for either way it is typed.

As far as I can tell, the redirects work correctly now for any way you type “intentional living”. It was set up this way initially. Please tell me specifically what is not working? Rbunnage 2/20/2007 5:10 PM
Do you see how when I make a link here to Intentional Living it shows up in red? Click on this link and you'll see that spelling it with an "L" does not go to the same article. That is easy to fix.. just click the 'move' tab at the top and type in Intentional Living. Jwiley80 16:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Intentional living as a social movement

I think 'panocracy' as it is defined in its article should be categorized as with Intentional living as it is defined in its article.

From the panocracy article: "Since panocracy acknowledges that no one has the right to assume someone else's authority for the decisions they make it acknowledges the converse, that everyone is responsible for their own decisions and actions, including inaction. This applies equally to people who are appointed to carry out decision making functions, managers, councilors, members of parliament, etc."

I have added panocracy to the Intentional living category. Please read the article as well as the one on missional living and note the point of relation I am trying to draw with their seeming postmodern call to action, and feel free to discuss any contention! I feel that the "intentional living" ideals are central to the other arguments as well, and if this is discussed reasonably in this forum we will have provided a good base for the other arenas to join in and show their comparable aspects.

The panocracy article is interesting. I, personally, don’t have any objection to incoming links from that article or missional living which can certainly be argued to be an example of intentional living. I don’t know how others interested in contributing to the broad field of “intentional living” might feel. Rbunnage 2/20/2007 5:10 PM

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Social_movements

[edit] Should Intentional living move to Intentional Living movement?

It may also be renamed Intentional Living movement with a redirect from Intentional living movement. I think it should be Intentional Living movement because it implies the specific movement that we are referring to. If this changes, we may need to change the "Intentional living" category to reflect this change as well. Jwiley80 17:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

As for Intentional Living Movement, as you will see from notes below, I think this is really a completely different concept. I have certainly considered the importance of intentional living and its growth as a movement. However, the fact is that “intentional living” by encyclopedic definition should probably represent exactly what the words state. A movement is something quite different. One can speak of postmodern trends, but the fact is people have been living intentionally throughout all time. This can be easily observed through religious practices old and new, but it is certainly not a new concept. I would encourage a broad view regarding an article on “intentional living movement” as there are so many authors offering different perspectives who currently represent or contribute to the concept of “intentional living” and “intentional life.” A separate article on “Intentional Living Movement” should provide a place where all of these different perspectives are welcomed. Rbunnage 2/20/2007 5:10 PM
I recommended this because a similar forum I dealt recently with, emerging church movement, discussed this at length a few months ago and changed their article from 'emerging church' to 'emerging church movement'. I realize you may not be interested in the contents of this specific discussion, but I think the parallel is there and the discussion has been had. Would you look over that material or would you like me to pull out relevant points from that discussion to review here? Essentially the argument here would be that because Intentional Living here defined should not encompass all people who live with intention in life, but existing larger social, economic and cultural movements which show collectively similar characteristics in intention. Showing past intentionality is another direction this could go, even so far as to show how the definition of Intentional Living has changed over time. What do you think? Jwiley80 17:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External sources on "Intentional Living" as a concept

Wikipedia is NOT a forum for new cutting-edge work (see the administrative Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not article which says "Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought"). Are there any external documents you are aware of that talk about Intentional Living as a concept? A google search for "intentional living" gives me 30,000 results, so I am sure there is stuff out there on the subject. Jwiley80 17:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Your point is a good example why I would stay away from the term “intentional living movement” as this would seem to be an effort to present “cutting-edge work” about something that does not exist at this time. In contrast, there are many persons including authors, coaches, teachers, leaders, speakers, etc who are currently contributing to the concept of “intentional living” or “intentional life.” RBunnage 2/22/2007

Richard, any input you have on those sources is, I believe, clearly critical to the discussion. If you can list just a few of the most prominent authors or sources that would be very helpful in beginning the discussion, I think. Jwiley80 20:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

It is a task to list all of the resources on intentional living and intentional life. Vivisimo.com gives an idea of categories from the web. For example, "intentional life" has the following clustered results as of today: Soul, Passion (43), Practicing, Your Path (18), Coaching (17), Spiritual (9), Intentional Life in Christ (8), Basil Hume (6), Values (7), Integrated, Love (3), Stress, Living An Intentional Life (4), Dr. Kathleen Hall (4). "Intentional living" will give the following results: Community (22), Intentional Living Institute (18), Womans, Holy Habits (21), Blog (15), God's Purposes (14), Center for Intentional Living (7), Leadership, Dr. Yvonne Sum (7), Intuitive, Kahuna (6), Conscious (8), Simple (6). A simple search at amazon.com will show many of the authors writing about "intentional life" and "intentional living."

[edit] Examples of Intentional Living

I can see that my examples of religious movements were removed, though they were similar to the secular examples given. Here is the rewrite without the in depth "emerging church" mention: "Some examples of intentional living include Cohousing, Ethical Living, Frugal Living, Intentional Community, Moral community, Simple Living, Sustainable Living, Veganism, Vegetarianism as well as many religious lifestyles such as the missional living movement." I do have a problem with you removing this example - or at least not providing an explanation as to how you believe those are not relevant. I understand you may know of more examples that fit into the various categories here, but I believe when you read the the missional living article you will see that it is very distinctly related, and will remain as a good recent example of religious branches of the intentional living theme.

Maybe the examples can be classified as "Social" or "Political" or "Environmental", but it will be difficult to capture the essence of this -as it seems you may have struggled with by using "contemporary" in a couple of earlier edits. I think my 'missional living' contribution should be reinserted as it is relevant like the other topics already given, and as more examples of movements are found that fit into the "intentional living" ideal, they need to be added which will eventually bring out enough data for categories further on down the road. Jwiley80 17:11, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the long-term solution will be to categorize the different areas of intentional living. I didn’t actual struggle with the use of categories such as “contemporary.” Rather, I deleted the categories I had created when I saw that we needed to dialogue about changes to the article. Let’s communicate more about what these categories would be and the insertion of religious examples of intentional living in the text. Rbunnage 2/20/2007 5:10 PM
Interesting dialogue, I'm looking forward to it. I think I need to give it a little time for the concepts to mature in my head so we can have a good discussion about this. Anyone else that provides interesting input here is certainly going to help me build my understanding of the subject. I think some of the earlier points may be useful in maturing the definition, especially if we get the link in the main Intentional Living page to point to this discussion and get a few more people in here to discuss! Jwiley80 16:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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