SOCIAL

NEED



Social demonstration is a practical and total human response to our era of social transition. Throughout history great cultures have flowered, embodying for their people a transcendent vision of purpose and wholeness. These cultures rose out of chaos and collapse of preceding eras through the efforts of those who desired to capture in tangible forms a new social vision. In the 20th century, demands of "Freedom Now," "New Frontier," and "Power to the People" signify frustration with the old, and a vital but inchoate yearning for the new. The purpose of social demonstration is to engage the restless vitality of this age in building the new society at the local level.


GLOBAL

PROJECTS


In response to this need, social demonstrations are planned at strategic locations around the world and are designed to show through practical methods the possibility of restructuring society and its institutions. The intent is to establish a band of 24 demonstrations, one in each time zone. These projects are to be activated over a three­year period, beginning in 1975­76, with eight initiated by the end of each year. The basis of these projects is a social model for reconstructing local communities which can be adapted and reduplicated anywhere.



METHOD

DEVELOPMENT





The first social demonstration began in 5th City, Chicago in 1963. In a series of meetings of neighborhood residents with ICA staff, thousands of problems were listed, grouped and regrouped. Out of those listings, five basic arenas were discerned and named. These five-economic, political, education, style and symbol- are acted upon by a total of 80 community "agencies" created to deal comprehensively with all the originally listed problems, and at the same time provide structural means for dealing with new situations in the future. The same methods and models were used in Australia where an aboriginal village demonstration was begun in 1970, leading to the demonstration in Oombulgurri, and again in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Trust Territory where a demonstration was begun in Majuro in 1972.


UNIQUENESS

The unique aspect of these demonstrations is their comprehensive scope and specific focus. It is presupposed that to be effective, a social demonstration will work within a delineated geographical area and will address itself to all the problems of all the people in that area, dealing with the depth human problem out of the operating assumption that the symbols before which a people live are the key to real change.


CRITERIA


The social demonstration community is chosen where there is an absence of community projects and in which the apparent hopelessness of the situation has resulted in local frustration. Into this situation, social demonstration injects a sign of hope, and demonstrates to the world the possibility of local man regenerating new leadership and using his resources to shape the future of his community for the sake of the whole world.


IMPLEMENTATION



Social demonstration is initiated at the invitation of the local community and with the approval or tacit approval of the established authority. In a consult with local leadership, concerned citizens, and professional advisors, a plan is created that defines the guidelines within which social demonstration will take place. Within those guidelines social demonstration proceeds with periodic evaluation and redesigning. A period of two years is projected for training local leaders to operate the model independently.



PRACTICAL

OPERATION







FUNDING




The model of social demonstration is both universal in concept and unique in application lo a particular community. Such a social model works through or alongside the existing agencies, organizations, and social structures already in the community. At the same time, it motivates the indigenous community which engages in assuring that the model is responsive to the people it serves. The ICA staff, which is drawn from around the world, are consultants to the community, living in the community and sharing the community's life and style. In addition, several hundred professional consultants and technicians are available to donate their time and knowledge for the initiating consult or in subsequent short­term task forces.

The social demonstration projects are supported through a coalition of public and private sources, both local and national. The securing of adequate funding suited to each local demonstration project is one of the concerns of the initial consult. Within a particular demonstration, most of the projects will eventually become self­supporting, achieving reductions in overall costs through a comprehensive approach which eliminates duplication of services to the community.


GRA:CHICAGO Consult Model T/F

July 1975

The Role of the Consult in Social Demonstration

Across the globe, within nations, there exist groups of people who are cutoff from resources and are often forgotten or considered hopeless. The challenge presented by this situation is to humanize social structures and to release the unique gifts of these people for the world. Catalytic action at the local level has been demonstrated in such communities, in a ghetto in Chicago, in an aboriginal village in Australia, and in the Marshall Islands. The catalytic methods used in these social demonstrations are an effective means by which these people can become self sustaining, and fully human communities of awakened, trained, and globally minded people.

The consult launches the social demonstration. Professionals with particular experience and local leaders gather in the community, envision what is necessary at that time and place, and begin the practical, comprehensive planning which will bring this vision to reality. By creating a motivated body of people with a common vision, the consult gives birth and sustenance to the social demonstration. It also allows people to participate as the global servant force.

The consult is a five­day workshop using methods of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. The participants analyze the local situation, create a vision for the community, discern what is blocking the realization of this vision, recommend a system of tactics, and commit themselves to an operating time line. Through sharing the work and a common reflective, symbolic and celebrative life, a global­local dynamic is experienced in the social demonstration area. This forges the vocational decisions that enable the community's engagement in the future.

In order to have an impact on the entire globe, a band of twenty­four social demonstrations will be established, eight per year for the next three years. Currently operating are CITY FIVE (U.S.A.), Oombulgurri (Australia), and Majuro (Marshall Islands). In the planning stage and to be initiated this year are Taj Gunj (India), Isle of Dogs (England), Jeju Do (Korea), Trastevere (Italy), and Kawangware (Kenya). The initial consults at each demonstration site will be staffed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, their consultants, and concerned citizens from various continents across the globe. The social demonstrations will erect a sign of radical possibility illustrating the methods whereby forsaken and forgotten people in the world become creative power. In turn, this reconstitutes the role of present institutions in serving local man and leads to impetus for the reconstruction of the globe being called forth in these times.

July, 1975
  • GLOBAL SOCIAL DEMONSTRATION CONSULT MODEL
  • CONSULT BRIEFING
  • BREAKFAST 6:30
  • SPIN

    CONTEXTS

    I. CONSULTANT

    EXPERTISE

  • II.ONTOLOGICAL LOVE

  • III . PRACTICAL INTENT

  • IV. PRACTICAL

    GLOBAL

    BREAK-

    THROUGHS

    V. KNOW THE

    PEOPLE

    VI. STYLE












    VII.

    BROAD

    IMAGES

    REPORTS

  • Eat Meal in celebration of an isolated people-and the recovery of their social consciousness.
  • Need of contextual background.

    Context more important than any specific planning.

  • Consultant team. decide how to introduce themselves and what language to use­ in stating their area of expertise.
  • Why this Consult: related to ontological meaning of social demonstration which is love.

    Concern is vocation-interior quality of action.

    Consult about 3 categories of love:

  • 1. Primal Community
  • 2. Replication of 5th City
  • 3. Social Demonstration on a National Level
  • Consult intent is to:

  • 1. Create a practical vision.'
  • 2. Specific resolutions of practical problems
  • 3. Other country ties
  • 4. Community motivation.
  • 1. Economic: Possibility of brand new break loose.
  • 2. Political: Local man determining his own destiny
  • 3. Cultural: Education, collapsed all over world.
    1. 1. History 2. Present status politically 3. social fabric/Distinctive gifts 4. Future possibilities 5 Basic needs 6. Paramount contradiction 7. ICA History 8. Relationship of House to government, business 9. Future battleplans of House

    1. Consultants presence, relatively invisible

  • 2. ICA, not EI
  • 3. No wise tourists
  • 4. Keep relatively spread­­4 in a group
  • 5. No ugly Americanism
  • 6. Sophisticated but not overly sophisticated
  • 7. Speak slowly and distinctly
  • 8. Servant image
  • 9. Listen, give hosts a chance to talk
  • 10. Underdeveloped people can smell integrity
  • 11. Get their names
  • 12. Women wear dress, no pants
  • 13. Be a sign
  • 1. They are something.

    2. unique nation

    3. Recover past for sake of future

    Report on local situation by ICA representative




  • LUNCH
  • Song

    Context

    Ritual

    Meal

    Spin

    DISCUSS ISSUES

    TEAM PLAN


    DISCONTINUITY

    CULTURAL EVENT







  • Care
  • Care and Vocation

    Consultant team study and discuss issues of situation using material prepared by ICA staff both in Chicago and local situation. Make teen assignments by arena of issue.

    Meet as teams to further study issues and plan what needs to happen in teams during consult.

    Individual or small groups sightseeing and/or shopping.

    Consultant team attend dinner and entertainment representing the culture of consult location.

    WAKE UP 5:30

  • BREAKFAST
  • BUFFET 7:00
  • ORIENTATION

    TOUR OF

    SOCIAL

    DEM0NSTRATION

    LOCATION 8:30

  • CONSULTANTS MEETING


  • BRIEF ORI ENTATION OF THE PLACES THE TOUR WILL COVER




  • OPENING LULICH
  • SONGS
  • CONTEXT
  • RITUAL
  • MEAL

    CONVERSATION


    BREAK

    CONTEXTUAL

    FRAME





  • DISCUSSION
  • ASSIGNMENTS

    TIME DESIGN

    BREAK INTO

    TEAMS

    BREAK

    (CONSULTANT TEAM AND LOCAL PARTICIPANTS)

    THE CONSULTANT TEAM IS HONORED TO BE HERE.

  • "MAN ANTICIPATES MORE OR LESS CLEARLY HIS ENTIRE FUTURE AT EVERY MOMENT."
  • 1. Each consultant introduces himself/ names the city he is from /tell what he does.

  • 2. As a local man ­­ often don't see the excitement that other people experience when they come to your city. (To the team:)
  • WHAT IMPRESSED YOU ON THE TOUJR?
  • CONTEXTUAL LECTURE:

  • 1. There is a new world.
  • 2. All peoples are forced to rethink.
  • 3. Certain areas are doing nation building.
  • 4. We have methods we use in Korea, H. K., Philippines, etc.
  • 5. We have come to work with you.
  • 6. Building toward the future.
  • 7. Signal to the world.
  • Reflect on anticipations and expectations
  • Make work team assignments-each team to be comprised of equal number of consultants and local participants. Arrange the seating space by teams, with

    Team Signs on tables to mark off the seating area for the week.

    Walk through the plan for the week.

    Break into teams to talk about the next day. Review field visit sites, ascertain what they need to look for, confirm appointments.

    Plan to eat dinner together.

  • WORKING BUFFET
  • DISCONTINUITY
  • Teams finish their planning during dinner -- informal conversation will enable participants to know each other.

    WAKE UP 5:30

  • BREAKFAST 7:00
  • SONG
  • CONTEXT
  • RITUAL
  • MEAL

    SPIN



    ASSIGNMENTS

    FIELD FISITS

    8:30

  • CONSULTANTS MEETING
  • INFORMAL ACCOUNTABILITY: "BEING EFFECTIVE"

    "AT THE EDGE OF HISTORY, THE FUTURE IS BLOWING WILDLY IN OUR FACES, SOMETIMES BRIGHTENING THE AIR AND SOMETIMES BLINDING US."

  • METHODS OF EFFECTIVITY
  • I . Corporateness needed for community building
  • 2. Tactical thinking to deal practically with a concrete situation
  • 3. Motivity is born out of the expansion of space/time engagement
  • review Field Visit plans and screens



    NOON LUNCH
  • FIELD VIS ITS
  • INFORMAL

    COCKTAILS 7:00

    DINNER 8 :30

    SONG

    RITUAL

    CONTEXT

    MEAL

    CONVERSATION

  • SPIN



  • WORKING IN TEAMS ON FIELD VISITS



    Provide cocktails and horsd'oeurves for people who return early from field trips

    "ACTI0N WILL REMOVE THE DOUBT THAT THEORY CANNOT SOLVE".

    A NEW TIME IS COMING TO BE .

    REPORTS FROM THE TEAMS

  • REFLECTIONS ON THE FIELD VISITS
  • I . What did you learn about the demonstration site?
  • 2. What kinds of possibilities are beginning to form in your minds?
  • THE OPERATING DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL DEMONSTRAT10N

  • 1. Delimited Community
  • 2. Catalytic Core
  • 3. Supporting Framework


    WAKE UP 5:30

  • BREAKFAST 7:00
  • SONGS
  • CONTEXT
  • ACCOUNTABILITY

    RITUAL

    CONVERSATION


    SPIN





    ASSIGNMENTS

    BREAK NOON




  • CONSULTANTS MEETING
  • PARAVOCATION IS THE CALLING TO INVEST YOUR LIFE IN CARING WHICH GOES BEYOND A JOB.
  • "WHAT APPEARS TO BE A BREAKING DOWN OF CIVILIZATION

  • MAY WELL BE SIMPLY THE BREAKING UP OF OLD FORMS BY LIFE ITSELF"
  • WORLD NEWS

    1. Each participant share a news event that has been on his mind over the last month.

  • 2. Pick out one of those events and ask anyone from the group what this news means for the future of the world
  • PROFOUND SOCIAL CH4NGE
  • I . This group lives with the impossible which cal Is for discipline.
  • 2. To profoundly alter the structures requires comprehensiveness.
  • 3. Transrational is a state that preserves the intense relationships
  • 4. To be trans­structural is to work within structures to enable them to change themselves.
  • BREAK INTO TEAMS TO BUILD A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE DEMONSTRATI0N

  • CONTEXT THE VISIONING PROCESS (SEE PROCEDURES)



  • LUNCH 12:30
  • SONGS
  • CONTEXT
  • RITUAL

    PLENARY

    SPIN:





  • ASSIGNMENTS
  • BREAK 5:00




    A BAND OF SOCIAL DEMONSTRATIONS THAT COVER THE GLOBE WILL CREATE A VISIBLE NETWORK 0F CARE.

    "WE HAVE ARRIVED AT AN HISTORICAL VANTAGE POINT WHERE THE WASTELAND ENDS AND HUMAN WHOLENESS AND FULFILLMENT BEGINS".

    REPORTS FROM VARIOUS TEAMS WITH REFLECTION AND QUESTIONS FROM THE WHOLE GROUP.

    FATED TO CARE

  • 1. Social demonstration is a symbol of economic/social development
  • 2. Societal transformation begins with local man as a movement from the bottom up, not the top down.
  • 3. "Those Who Care" perceive a sense of their own destiny.
  • 4. A new network of relationships is developing over the globe.
  • BREAK INTO TEAMS TO BEGIN DISCERNING THE CONTRADICTIONS. CONTEXT CONTRADICTIONAL ANALYSIS (SEE PROCEDURES)

    DINNER

  • CULTURAL EVENT
  • DINNER AND CULTURAL CELEBRATION PREPARED BY THE LOCAL COMMUNITY ON BEHALF OF THE CONSULTANT TEAM

    WAKE UP 5:30

  • BREAKFAST 7:00
  • SONGS
  • CONTEXT
  • ACCOUNTABILITY

    RITUAL

    SPIN






    ASSIGNMENTS

    BREAK NOON




  • CONSULTANTS MEETING
  • AUTHENTIC HOPE BEGINS BEYOND THE HOPES AND DREAMS FOR ANY PARTICULAR SITUATION.
  • "MAN MUST HUMBLY BUT WITH COURAGE ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DESTINY OF MANKIND."

  • CONTRADICTIONI ANALYLSIS
  • 1 . To discern the contradiction is the decision to care seriously for a given situation.
  • 2. Contradiction analysis demonstrates how a non-expert can move on a given community.
  • 3. Indicative battleplanning works through a corporate effort.
  • 4. Finally this method transcend any particular place or time to produce work done on behalf of others.
  • BREAK INTO TEAMS TO CREATE PROPOSALS THAT FLOW FROM THE CONTRADITIONS DISCERNED THE DAY BEFORE.

  • CONTEXT WHAT A PROPOSAL IS (SEE PROCEDURES)



  • LUNCH 12:30
  • CONTEXT
  • RITUAL


    SPIN






  • ASSIGNMENTS
  • BREAK 5:00



    ENGAGEMENT IN THE TASK OF CREATING THE FUTURE IS AN EXPERIENCE OF ENDLESSNESS.

    "WHEN A HUMAN BEING FACES SQUARELY THE FACT THAT HE CAN FORFEIT HIS OWN LIFE, … HE .. BEGINS TO TAKE HIS OWN EXISTENCE SERIOUSLY."

    BUILDING CIVILIZATION:

  • 1. Proposals need to be grounded in concrete tactics
  • 2. The objective of indicative battleplanning is "to get something done."
  • 3. Building a tactical system results in the awareness of human power.
  • 4. Overarching proposals are used to secure authorization for the tactical system.

  • BREAK INTO TEAMS TO BUILD A TACTICAL SYSTEM THAT FLOWS FROM THE PROPOSALS CREATED IN THE MORNING (SEE PROCEDURES)

    DINNER

    TEAMS CONTINUE WORKING AT MEAL TIMES.




    WAKE UP 5:30

  • BREAKFAST
  • BUFFET 7:00
  • PRODUCTION

    LUNCH 12:00

    SONGS

    CONTEXT

    RITUAL

    REPORTS

    CONSULT

    EVALUATION





    PREPARATION


    CELEBRATION

    6:00




  • CONSULTANTS MEETING


  • TEAMS CONTINUE WORKING ON THE FINAL DOCUMENT


    SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION IS A SYMBOL OF LOVE

    "THE TASK BEFORE US NOW IF WE WOULD NOT PERISH, IS TO SHAKE OFF OUR ANCIENT PREJUDICES, AND TO BUILD THE EARTH.

  • WHERE DID EACH GROUP GET TO IN THEIR WORK?
  • WHAT ARE THE REACTIONS FROM EACH GROUP TO THE POSSIBILITIES?
  • EVALUATION REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS

    1. If you were glad you came, why?.

    2. How would you do the consult differently?

    3. What has been accomplished?

    4. Where do you really want to look at the methods?

  • CONSULTS PREPARE FOR CONTINUING INVOLVEMENT BY COLLECTING DATA ON THE KEY TACTICS AND PREPARE FOR RETURN TO HOME.
  • PARTY HOSTED BY CONSULTANTS FOR THE LOCAL PARTICIPANTS.



    CONTEXT 10 min

    BRAINSTORM

    RECOMMENDATIONS


    CROSS-GESTALT

    RECOMMENDATIONS

    PRACTICAL

    OPERATING VISION




    ENVISIONING LOCAL SITUATION - Day 3

    Set context for creating recommendation.

    1. Each team individually brainstorm recommendations.
    2. Gestalt to 11 recommendations.
    3. Write out each recommendation in 3-4 sentences briefly.
    4. Put holding captions on 3 feet of butcher paper.

    1. Hang butcher paper at front of the room.
    2. Cross gestalt the recommendations with total group.

    1. Name the arenas from the cross gestalt.
    2. State arenas in 3-5 word phrases, stating the Practical Operating Vision.



    CONTEXT

    BRAINSTORM

    BLOCKS

    INCLUSIVE

    CONTRADICTIONS




    CONTRADICTION ANALYSIS (DISCERNING BLOCKS) - Day 3

    1. Set context for brainstorming contradictions.

    1. Assign the recommendation arenas to the teams.

    1. Teams individually brainstorm the blocks to the Practical Visions.
    2. Gestalt to 4 major blocks with 4 aspects of that block under each.
    3. List major blocks on 3 feet of butcher paper.

    1. Cross-gestalt blocks as a total group.
    2. Name the inclusive contradictions to the Practical Vision in 3 word phrases.
    3. Name the 4 aspects of each inclusive contradiction.



    CONTEXT

    ACTION

    BERAINSTORM


    NAME

    PROPOSAL

    ARENA




    PROPOSAL CREATION - Day 4
    1. Context proposals writing.
    2. Assign the inclusive contradictions to the teams.

    1. Brainstorm, in teams, as many ways as possible of practically and effectively dealing with the contradictions which have been named.
    2. Gestalt/choose actions to 4 action arenas.
    3. State action arenas in 3-word phrases.

    1. Cross-gestalt the action arenas as a total group, determining the inclusive proposal arenas.
    2. Name proposal arena, in 3 word phrase.
    3. Write one sentence for each proposal arena.
    4. Delineate 4 aspects of each proposal arena and write a sentence for each.