The Empowering Clerks Network (Center for Supportive Bureaucracy) is the largest international organization issuing Playful Paperwork documents such as the Joy Permit, Forgiver’s License, Racism Release Form, Refurbished Report Cards, OK Parent Award, Apology Declaration and more. Director and FOunder Ori Alon also co created the Hidden Fortune Wheel street art project for empathy, posted thousands of alternative street signs and memorial plaques and facilitated the White Men Registry by the NY Diversity Authority. Alon creates a comics series with postage stamps and the Magic Bagel children's book series. Currently Alon is running for Mayor of Beacon NY, offering free ice cream for elders, 17 percent tax deduction for men who express vulnerability and to only say positive things about his opponents.
You can learn more about Alon's work on this website and contact to ask any questions or invite him to give a presentation or lead a workshop at your conference / school / event.
You can learn more about Alon's work on this website and contact to ask any questions or invite him to give a presentation or lead a workshop at your conference / school / event.
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“Ori’s work is inspired and inspirational”
Ed Woodham, Director, Art in Odd Places Festival
“Ori was an excellent guest speaker in the Art and Social Practice Program at Portland State University. He helped us re-evaluate our notions of compassion and gave us new tools to interact with communities that have different values then us”
Adam Carlin, Director, Greensboro Project Space
“This was my favorite session! So inspired to do some street activism with these magical tools! Didn't want to miss any of this great presentation!”
Participant, Expressive Therapies Summit
"I am still helped every day by my Forgiver's License which I carry in my wallet"
Norman Fischer, Zen master, poet and author, one of the leading Buddhist teachers in the US
“What was terrific about the forms that Ori prepared is that they were funny and accessible and allowed people to get to the essence or purpose of the Jewish High Holidays – Teshuva – without being tripped up by the unwieldy tool of the liturgy”
Rabbi Brent Spodek, Beacon Hebrew Alliance
"I gave a friend of mine, who is a hardworking single mom, an OK Parent Award. After she read it carefully she gave me a big hug of appreciation and said it really meant a lot to her and she thought all parents could benefit from it. Supportive bureaucracy is helping people by reminding them that they are human and deserve to be acknowledged every day"
Daniel Weise, Creative Director, Thundercut
"Ori Alon is one of the most ethically responsible and deeply convincing skeptics since Jon Stewart. His ECN is as if the The Daily Show opened a branch of government."
Jean Marc Superville Sovak, social entrepreneur artist
"I've enjoyed having a tangible item to pull out and give to my clients after a very serious therapy session about their present and past challenges. I love having a resource for people to validate themselves when they feel written off by the world. A certificate, refurbished report card, or even a sticker can also be a nice transitional object and subtle reminder to the individual that it's going to be ok."
K.N., clinical social worker
“I love having a Forgiver’s License in my wallet. Whenever I look at it, it reminds me not to take things personally and to overlook potential insults. It’s my job to forgive others and to forgive myself when I forget to forgive others. That’s what having a Forgiver's License means to me.”
Herb Levine, teacher of Mussar, Jewish ethical mindfulness.
"Alon's White Men Registry helped me develop more compassion and empathy towards white men, which doesn't come naturally to me"
52 years old Latino male, NY
"My high school diploma, driver’s license, passport actually say nothing real about me. Imagine Vincent Van Gogh’s passport or the Rosa Parks driver’s license. You have an opportunity by engaging ECN documents to arrive at a document that comes mighty close to who you really are and in your own eyes to boot.”
Andrew Courtney, activist, Middle East dreamer
Please contact to invite ECN Director Ori Alon as a guest artist, performer, speaker or workshop facilitator. Ori has led workshops for in schools, workplaces, summer camps, colleges, spiritual communities and conferences.
Ed Woodham, Director, Art in Odd Places Festival
“Ori was an excellent guest speaker in the Art and Social Practice Program at Portland State University. He helped us re-evaluate our notions of compassion and gave us new tools to interact with communities that have different values then us”
Adam Carlin, Director, Greensboro Project Space
“This was my favorite session! So inspired to do some street activism with these magical tools! Didn't want to miss any of this great presentation!”
Participant, Expressive Therapies Summit
"I am still helped every day by my Forgiver's License which I carry in my wallet"
Norman Fischer, Zen master, poet and author, one of the leading Buddhist teachers in the US
“What was terrific about the forms that Ori prepared is that they were funny and accessible and allowed people to get to the essence or purpose of the Jewish High Holidays – Teshuva – without being tripped up by the unwieldy tool of the liturgy”
Rabbi Brent Spodek, Beacon Hebrew Alliance
"I gave a friend of mine, who is a hardworking single mom, an OK Parent Award. After she read it carefully she gave me a big hug of appreciation and said it really meant a lot to her and she thought all parents could benefit from it. Supportive bureaucracy is helping people by reminding them that they are human and deserve to be acknowledged every day"
Daniel Weise, Creative Director, Thundercut
"Ori Alon is one of the most ethically responsible and deeply convincing skeptics since Jon Stewart. His ECN is as if the The Daily Show opened a branch of government."
Jean Marc Superville Sovak, social entrepreneur artist
"I've enjoyed having a tangible item to pull out and give to my clients after a very serious therapy session about their present and past challenges. I love having a resource for people to validate themselves when they feel written off by the world. A certificate, refurbished report card, or even a sticker can also be a nice transitional object and subtle reminder to the individual that it's going to be ok."
K.N., clinical social worker
“I love having a Forgiver’s License in my wallet. Whenever I look at it, it reminds me not to take things personally and to overlook potential insults. It’s my job to forgive others and to forgive myself when I forget to forgive others. That’s what having a Forgiver's License means to me.”
Herb Levine, teacher of Mussar, Jewish ethical mindfulness.
"Alon's White Men Registry helped me develop more compassion and empathy towards white men, which doesn't come naturally to me"
52 years old Latino male, NY
"My high school diploma, driver’s license, passport actually say nothing real about me. Imagine Vincent Van Gogh’s passport or the Rosa Parks driver’s license. You have an opportunity by engaging ECN documents to arrive at a document that comes mighty close to who you really are and in your own eyes to boot.”
Andrew Courtney, activist, Middle East dreamer
Please contact to invite ECN Director Ori Alon as a guest artist, performer, speaker or workshop facilitator. Ori has led workshops for in schools, workplaces, summer camps, colleges, spiritual communities and conferences.
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