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Members and Friends
Every member has the opportunity to work, to be involved, to be needed. It is a basic right of a member of the Calgary Space Workers Society (CSW) to have an opportunity to share in the challenging work, to move continually toward their potential and our potential as a group. The CSW gives members the opportunity to become owners but not necessarily of equipment and property but of ideas, process, and community. This kind of work adds a type of challange to our lives that is available nowhere else.
I wish to introduce the CSW as a movement and not as an organization. The difference is mostly recognized from the inside as we build on our relationships, values and our healthy conflict of ideas. A movement is almost always a civil place where we respect each other and work toward our common goals. It is a place where good manners and civilized discussion prevail.
It is also in a movement’s leadership that they must realize that they serve the members by maintaining the vision. This is the reason the members are there and to allow them to expand on their potential. We all know that we have a potential that is above the type of work that we do in our everyday lives. The CSW offer a chance for those to do something hard, move forward with ideas, to become involved in a difficult and complex challange that may be considered a seemingly impossible task.
To join our movement requires your risk of something - your time, your commitment, your energy. Yet to join a movement purely to expand on ideas that are bolder than most would even consider is a special kind of risk. No matter however or wherever we commit ourselves, we can’t avoid the central conflict of risk: as the saying goes “to risk nothing, is probably the greatest risk of all”
Michael Bakk
Captain, Calgary Space Workers Society
(403) 259-6809
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