THE SEVEN REVOLUTIONS
I. The Women's Revolution
II. The Youth Revolution
III. The Third World Revolution
IV. The International Business Revolution
V. The Education Revolution
VI. The Minorities Revolution
VII. The Local Community Revolution
INSTITUTE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
THE GLOBAL RESEARCH ASSEMBLY
TEAM 7
CHICAGO
JULY 13, 1980
ACTION ARENAS
ACTION CADRE FORMATION
The new direction in mobilizing Youth, Women and
the Disenfranchised is to form Action Cadres. In high schools
and colleges youth are to be formed into cadres to care for their
communities. There is to be a Demonstration of Structural Freedom
for Women in Guilds. The Global Womens Forum is to develop a capacity
to support action and continued raising of consciousness after
the event. Town Meetings are to be held for the Disenfranchised,
e.g. refugees, handicapped persons, retarded persons, chronically
unemployed and deprieved persons. To activate youth cadres it
will be necessary to blend community youth forums and human development
training schools. It is desirable to build these training methods
into school activities or curriculum. To construct a model for
freedom of women it will be necessary to form research groups
to determine local directions of women in specific communities
around the globe. To extend the capacities of the Global Womens
Forum it will be necessary to develop follow up mechanisms and
to train participants in strategies of development and evaluation.
In order to facilitate town meetings for the disenfranchised it
is required that~identification be made with strategic overlay
and that a prophetic stance be developed to motivate participation.
By moving in the direction of Action Cadre Formation we can expect
the release of new trained focus of vocated people of all ages
and in womens' groups that will not only be effective in community
care but also a demonstration of corporate style. The necessary
actions to accomplish this direction are to be found in giving
power to local H.D.P. and signal communities the image of developing
vocated people for engagement by awakenment and impact follow
up structures, and by devising ways within the program range of
the house to enable women to build economic structures that release
and empower their participation in the local and world economy.
This direction also calls for the training and organizing of leadership
within the disenfranchised community to do awakenment and engagement.
PUBLIC SCHOOL DEMONSTRATION
This new direction is toward an experimentation in
relevant education by doing a demonstration school with an experimental
curriculum, utilizing movement methods and global interchange.
The required actions are to select an appropriate and strategic
school that is the size and location required by the education
system to be a demonstration. This direction will necessitate
a new gestalt and research of all existing movement curriculum,
a faculty training system that must include raising up student
leadership. This direction requires an evaluation, replicative
and information flow that will allow the school to be an authentic
demonstration. A new motivation method should be introduced to
help the youth participate in the curriculum. The comprehensive
approach to education should be a relevant one where the youth
can participate. Gifts of the students should be highly appreciated.
The information should be released
PR_FOUND EXPERIMENTATION
SEVEN REVOLUTIONS DIALOGUE
The strategic direction toward expansion of context
and involvement ia the Seven Revolutions Dialogue. The four aspects
of the strategic direction are: expansion of context and care
of each revolution; profound awakenment of human identity and
vocation; mobile research and documentation network; and framing
and formation of the four sectors. The actions to implement the
Seven Revolutions Dialogue are; design a one day seven revolutions
symposium, conduct interviews with representatives of the four
sectors on the seven revolutions and the eighties, create a mobile
research and data assimmilation network, conduct a seven revolution
symposium in each region with representatives from all four sectors.
The dialogue will release new troops for formation, broad interchange
of data and intuitions toward the eighties, a broad coalition
of Those Who Care and a new profound awakenment tool. The means
of actuation will be regional symposiums on the 7 revolutions
and the eighties; a four sector framing appointments set up sheet,
a mobile research network (a roundtable to collect and document
the insights); a pilot experimentation with a new awakenment tool
that will inform us on the eighties.
COMMUNITY LABS NETWORK
The strategic direction toward renewed primal community
is the Community Labs Network. Community as living laboratory
(in the village, the urban neighborhood, the work place or the
school) will demonstrate the dynamics of primal community through
its care structures. It will function as a prototype of the new
society, providing the network interface for the cooperative actions
of the public, private, volunteer and local sectors. The community
lab's network will function as a dynamic interchange mechanism.
It will be the basis of training in community methods Edge experimentation
will go on in terms of the dynamics of maintaining human community
or an extended time period. Consensus will need to be experimented
with in new social forms, engaging all sectors of society. The
compiling and disseminating of [earnings must be done through
the imaginative use of a variety of media and data processing
procedures. The Community Lab Network will require a regular monitoring
system. It could be expected that the network will map the way
for the catalyzation of renewed care systems in other communities
for the actuation of delivery systems that will enhance the region's
economy. To establish and maintain the community lab network will
necessitate a concentrated assignment of forces. One configuration
might be 2 people working with the village, not propping up and
4 doing extension. A careful continental targeting of the community
must take into consideration the means of interchange of villagers
between villages or neighborhoods. The target community must already
have demonstrated a readiness beyond awakenment. The documentation
of the journey of development of each community lab village will
equip the community leadership as storytellers. trained in communication
skills in each country. There is to be created an imaginal self
teaching curriculum for language training. Current literacy movements
such as Frank Laubach's "each one teach one" method
are to be supported. There will be released the assignability
of all colleagues, the sharing of profound humaness will be facilitated.
This direction will be a factor in establishing global community.
Self reliance and self confidence will be furthered in those who
care to possess skills in communication. It is necessary to select
pilot populations, in corporations, for instance, or among refugees.
A task force is to be constituted to move in this direction.
SKILLS ACQUISITION
ACCESS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
The strategic direction toward releasing vocational
flexibility is access skills development. For this direction,
our understanding of the basic skill of "learning" is
necessary, as is the development of methods to impart it and the
motivation of skills acquisition. Training Inc. might be expanded
and cooperation initiated with agencies working in the Third World.
The direction aims to release vocational flexibility, lifelong
learning potential and a new appreciation of learning, particularly
in affluent Western nations. The groundwork will be laid for rapid,
effective vocational teaching, while the effectiveness of all
cooperating agencies will be enhanced by the understanding of
complementarities in approaches. Documentation and research is
needed for the first two indicators of this direction, and the
ascertaining of marketable skills and staff increases for the
third. Familiarity with ICA projects and identification of specific
commonalities with other agencies will be assisted by a conference,
visits to ICA projects and documentation that provides an overall
view of the ICA for the outsider.
SKILLS REQUIREMENTS DISCERNMENT
The strategic direction toward stimulating employment
opportunity is Discerning Skills Requirements. Indicators of~
this direction may be found in study of subcontracting in
many countries, systemmatic research on multinational subcontracting,
research of small business technology, and in the expansion of
LENS programming. We anticipate discovering a coherent view of
appropriate employment possibilities for regional or local groups,
global applicability of these possibilities, the discovery of
skills required for expanding local economy and the training focus
for these skills through increased perception of corporate motivity
at many department levels. Some of the activities required to
move in this direction might be a study of current practices in
subcontracting both at the local level and that of multinational
corporatians; obtaining information about small business technology
in various cultural settings, will inform us further of the needs
we are seeking to discern as we begin to move in this direction.
GRASSROOTS COMMUNICATION SKILLS
The strategic direction toward the self reliance
of the global citizen is the develoment of grassroots communication
skills. It is necessary to assure functional eptitutde on the
grassroots level. It is necessary to discover in English the global
language. A model campaign to develop literacy is to be estab1ished.
Key populations are to be targeted. It is required to replicate
the global language school. A faculty is to be so that local and
other communities can be benefitted. The necessary means of actuation
is investigation of schools to gather existing curriculum means
that the information should be relevant. Movement methods should
be adapted to the school, a research on demonstration school and
write up event and keep it as a guide.
YOUTH CULTURE DRAMATIZATION
The strategic direction towards a new youth sociality is Youth Culture Dramatization. The four aspects of this strategic directions are: youth involvement in society building, creating a new global youth story, global youth exchange or interchange and youth reintegration in local community. The actions to implement youth culture dramatization are: an organized group of global youth players, a creation of songs, holding community youth forums and the formation of youth action cadres. The youth culture dramatization dialogue will release energy of youth for community improvement, talents for vocational direction, movementalized and vocational direction and a global mythology. The means of actions for youth involvement in society building will be: talent search in HDPs, do dramas and songs for HDP, obtain grants, e.g. from National Endowment for the Humanities, for creating a new global youth story. The means of actions could be: a youth songbook with songs from each HDP and frame entertainers for song release, while for global youth exchange and interchange the means of actions could be: holding of youth symposia, holding special emphasis forums, and reimaging CYF as action oriented. Lastly, youth reintegration in local community means of actions are: holding C.Y.F and recruiting from schools that have had forums.