[Dialogue] What happened to RS1?

[Thomas Morrison]

To add to the stew . . .
As a LCX person, the shift I found most useful was from
cadre-congregation-parish to cadre-congregation-guild.  I used the latter
throughout my time as a congregational pastor.
Tom

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:30 AM, David Walters <walters at alaweb.com> wrote:

>    During the Summer of the  LCX Research Assembly,. I was part of the
> Congregation that met in Room A. One of the congregational priors was Jim
> Bishop. Before the 1st week was over, Jim began to insist that the model was
> all wrong, backwards. It called for 3 beats for the Cadre, 2 beats on the
> Congregation and 1 beat for the Parish. He made at least pitch a day for the
> Parish. Nobody was interested. He made fiery pitches every night at the
> priors meeting in Room E to deaf ears. We all plowed ahead and launched the
> LCX in the fall. By the next spring it was apparent on the same weekend when
> the area priors met, the Galaxy priors met, and a huge training weekend went
> on simultaneously that some thing was wrong. (This weekend include multiple
> RSIs include a bunch of folks from the church where Hillary Clinton grew up.
> Was is a Galaxy church?) We went ahead and spent the next summer playing
> with the social triangles rather than sitting down and fixing the problem.
>
> By the time Summer 72 arrived, everybody was clear that we were in deep
> trouble. So we made the big turn to the world. We also repackaged the LCX as
> the Primal Community Experiment, doing the Parish as secular model.
>
> A couple year later we repackaged Fifth City and launched the Band of 24.
> Then we decided to get ready for the Bicentennial and started Town Meeting
> as a mass awakement strategy. We turned the counties of the US to gold. Of
> course, at this point we were too busy to teach RSI.
>
> We then were replicating HDPs all over the globe. We got ourselves so into
> it that folks were burning them selves out. By '84 we decided somehow or the
> other that we would stop running RHs and simply call them Chapter houses.
> Four years later there was a "once in a lifetime order gathering" where
> someone stood up and called the Order out of being.
>
> Oh! I forgot - JWM died and we got to watch several people fight over who
> would be the next Dean of EI and ICA.
>
> Mean while national ICAs sprang up all over the globe. Them seem to bee all
> doing well, as is ICAI.
>
> There was brief period of unpleasantness when ICA-USA found itself in
> financial difficulty. The BoD hired a consultant whose only experience was
> with child welfare organization. The woman who knew nothing about us, had
> never heard of RS1 or taken a TOP course told them to fire everyone
> except for the receptionist and the buiding custodians. They did. They
> forgot that when the bank account goes low - light a fire under development.
> (There was an old Development Centrum veteran on the Bod.) They also failed
> to to even think of reconfiguring themselves as a Problem Solving Unit And
> creating plan using  the  methodologies they were all (except for the
> clueless board chairman) highly trained in and proficient - some even helped
> create said methods.
>
> I learned several things in the Summer of'70 - one was "If you don't have a
> better model - shut up! Another was that we need to teach RS1 and teach the
> hell out of it, I can still hear Slicker saying it. Well....we quit teaching
> RS1 and became part of history.
>
> But......It is a reductionism to say that we can't do RS1s again. I think
> the churches would embrace, the world needs it, and history demands it.
>
> (Marshall can correct me if I got anything wrong)
>
> -David Walters
> PS Could someone on this list give a short cogent explanation of what
> really happened at the big meeting in Mexico?
>
>
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