Summer '73
Research Assembly
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The five day course is designed to call forth guildsmen and guild
leaders by grounding LENS grads, movement colleagues, and secular
bodies in the NSV methodologies, reenforcing their vision
of community and recontexting them as individuals in the
new society. The construct is to include an orientation overview
session on the course itself and sessions designed to provide
methods and tools such as workshopping, gridding, PSU's etc.,
for implementing the guild. The course takes all movement training
and wisdom of the past twenty years and puts it into capsule form
for dissemination over a five day period. It is an actual demonstration
in training methodologies. Now is the time for this five day training
construct because society is intensely conscious of the inadequacies
or even collapse of many existing social structures. There is
a resurgent spirit abroad. Local man wants to contribute significantly
to the emerging future but is confounded by a lack of methodology
and by discouragement and frustration. The product of this course
will be a group of trained, selfconscious leaders, who,
seeing the power and potential of the tools and methodologies,
will be ready to function within a common model (such as a guild)
to mobilize the community and renew its institutions.
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Meal/Conversation | Resurgence Lecture | W/S Context |
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| 9:00 | Begin global resurgence grounding. Use resurgence frame,
give examples. Assign groups to east, west, south spheres.
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Secure Forms Parochialism Old Images Isolationism | Awakenment New Forms New Vision Globality Corporateness | |
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10:00 10:30 | Context magazine paper use. Have them pick 23 magazines,
preferably ones they are not familiar with. Each sphere group works for 50 minutes pulling out resurgence examples. Swap magazines when finished with them, put examples on
own sphere butcher paper sheet.
Reflect on examples of tota1 group using resurgence frame. We are beginning to discover how resurgence is going on in all parts of the globe and how you and I participate in this. We will be talking about resurgence more as the week progresses. | |
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The second day involves intensive work to bring the participants
uptodate on the NSV research and methods. Two lectures
cover the background theory and methodological flow of the documents
being used in the course. The first seminar deals with the style
of proposals writing as created by J.J.S.S. in The Radical
Alternative and the document entitled Toward A Practical
Vision of the New Social Vehicle.
The second seminar studies the Tactical
System and familiarizes the participants with the global tactical
components strategies and tactics. The third session workshops
the forms for implementing the tactics in the local community.
The first session begins with a lecture grounding
the NSV methods develop during the movement research assemblies
from 1970 thru 1972. The seminar covers the development of methods
in greater detail and chart the
proposal style form according to J.J.S.S.
The second session is a lecture which traces the
history of the tactical system and its components, followed
by a seminar in which the participants are
familiarized with the tactics in the tactical system and relate
them to their local community.
The third session is a workshop where the participants
translate tactics into actions they could ready do in their local
community.
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THE PARAMOUNT TACTICS SENTENCE FORM:
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What were some of the things you saw going on? How about personal local community actions? What possibilities did you see that excited you?
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TUTORIALS | The tutorials begin the third day as a direct sign to the participants that they must nick up the skills that will build thee future. The Tutorials will offer them preparation, practice, and reflection on the various sessions that they will take part in leading. |
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THE LECTURE 0N LEADERSHIP DYNAMIC | Leadership training has to do with preparing leaders for meeting any situation encountered, taking charge of the situation, and bringing about the required decision with finesse and style. It's about being the one who risks caring for all and leading a group which decides history. The aim of the entire tutorial experience is to shift the consciousness of the participants toward seeing themselves as the leaders of the guild. |
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OBJECTIVE EXISTENTIAL AIM | To see the skills and style necessary for guild leadership To experience an intensification of their own corporate leadership style. |
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OBJECTIVE | To see that art forms expose the depths of life. |
EXISTENTIAL AIM |
To see style as a practica1 tool and to decide to be the embodiment of an intentional style. |
| Suggested Movie | Dr. Lao, Scarlet Pimpernell, Beckett, Cromwell, 1776, Man For All Seasons. |
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Short Course | Seeing movie:
1. For style or incognito ….
look for where the hero pushed to the comprehensive, archaic, futuric, depth.
2. For method... See art expresses the spirit dimension transparency; we'll use art form conversation afterward. to see and experience this. |
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(Suggested) | 1. Initial questions should be brief ones to quickly get out
enough objective and reflective comments to sensitize them to the
whole movie. 2. the next questions maybe could get out the roles the characters
played and their functions. ~ 3.is this show about what people are like, or is it about
techniques of resurgence? 5.What kind of style is presented? Where did it work? where
did the style shift to meet the need? 5.If you were going to change your community? what steps would
you take (e.g., unbind a young woman, unveil the main shyster, etc.) 6. Where did you see transparency going on? |
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Day 3: Corporate Writing Session
Time: 2 hours
RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE To see the issues of leadership dynamics.
EXISTENTIAL AIM To experience the demand to be a
leader.
CONTEXT FOR DAY Out of the spinning of the lecture, the movie, and the conversation the
participants will have several images to help them
pin down some of the key issues in guild leadership. The method
of corporate writing will involve the participant in consensus
decision making and will he a sign of the power of corporate brain
power.
SHORT COURSE The dynamic of leadership has to do with more than knowing the procedures. It
has to do with the tools or methods used, motivation
of others, decision making process, and releasing the gifts of
all people to their most effective use. This afternoon we are
out to get on top of those tools, methods, etc., which are of
practical use to leaders within groups and to pull together our
thinking of the day as to the style required.
PROCEDURES OVERARCHING IMAGE: Issues of Corporateness.
1. Sing a song.
2. Brainstorm images of guildsmanship as a total group,
a. what are qualities, practical tools, situations,
relationships, guidelines which inform decisions, principles,
etc. ?
3. Divide into four smaller groups, continue to brainstorm
particular area assigned to each group.
4. Gestalt into Four groupings.
5. List several illustrations with each grouping.
6. Write one paragraph for each grouping of data.
Each paragraph will have five sentences ( one introductory, three
on dynamics, and one with the best illustration)
7. Pull one person from each group near the end of
the time to write the introduction and conclusion to the whole
construct.
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE To see spirit methods in action as enabling
celebration.
EXISTENTIAL AIM I am resurgent spirit.
CONTEXT The guild celebrates its resurgent life. It is important that the .guildsmen
recognize the place of celebration and their responsibility
to see that it not only is included but that it really comes off.
SUGGESTED THEME Traveling the Oases and Deserts of
the New World
SHORT COURSE To symbolize our possibility of celebrating life in every hour,
we are going to experiment with one form or resurgence, the
cabaretcelebration.
PROCEDURES 1. Pull the theme through the Supplemental Chart on Cabaret given below. The
chart gives the structure of every Cabaret. The theme suggests skits, songs, etc., which make up the content.
2. Divide Group (including staff) into teams of eight with each team taking one
practical area and one suggested skit or song. Practical areas are: decor, music, refreshments, cleanup/general set
3. Have each group brainstorm further on its particular skit/song NSV and practical
arena. Decide on final form. *
4. Practice skit/song.
5. Do the practical task.
*Suggestion: One person from each group pull aside
to do the overall orchestration and final fill in with other songs,
narrative, etc.
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DAY 5 OVERVIEW
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Rational Objective To know that a group has always been present in history
doing the job of the Guild
Existential Aim We are the Guild
| Context for Day | This entire week has been working up to this particular day with the context for why a Guild is needed, the sociological arenas to be dealt with, the practical tools to do the job and the vision as to what might be done. The participants have also grappled with corporateness as a leadership dynamic. Now we want to turn more specifically to the external/ internal workings of the Guild derived from a flood of images provided by the lectures and seminar. The final session and dinner are imaged as the wrapup and commissioning to all the previous work. There needs to be a sense of completeness and excitement about the future as the day closes. |
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9:00 Set context. Purpose.
9:15 Break into 3 groups. Each group study 1 document: Social Form of the Guild
Local Battleplan
Guild Tactics
Each person will create a chart of his document.
9:45 Each document group write a 1 page report answering the following questions:
The Social Form of the Guild
What is the crisis which has precipitated the guild?
What is the task of the Guild?
How does the Guild release human motivity and impact society?
What is the style the Guildsman needs to embody?
How would the Guild care for and transform your particular community?
Local Battleplan
How does a Guild sense the contradictions and create its objectives?
State the process in capsule form.
What is the task of a Guild?
How does the Guild release human motivity through its objectives & strategies?
What is a revolutionary battleplan?
Hew does a Guild perform its caring function?
Guild Tactics
What makes a tactic a Guild tactic?
What general forms of tactics are pertinent to Guilds?
What is the expected result, or essence, of doing a Guild tactic?
How do Guild tactics transform and care for a community?
11:00 Choose someone to report to the total group.
Pull back into the total group to hear reports. The
report should use the onepage reports and answer the question:
What is the gift of the Guild in re1ationship to awakening and
caring for society today? Those reports should be no 1enger than
5 minutes
12:00 Songs Resurgence and NSV
Ritual 1. Ca11 into Being Let the 1oca1 Guild of __________ come into being.
2. Accountabi11ty ( Name ), accountab1e
3 Ritua1 Repeat after me: "At the edge
of history the future is b1owing wildly in our faces, sometimes
brightening the air and sometimes blinding us."
10:40 Conversation: Some peop1e say that all that socia1 change is really about is going out and
announcing to people that they are whole in whatever situation or wherever they are at the moment. Examp1e: like Don Quixote in the "Man from La Mancha" who carried his trunk with him and transformed dreary dungeon into a g1orious stage
1. Where have you seen the transparent g1ory within a mundane situation?
2. Where has someone become a new being when he or she heard that announcement?
3. Where have you seen someone take on a different ro1e or style to care for a situation?
4. When have you ever done that?
5. In what ways would you see yourself developing in order to acquire that capacity?
1:00 Send Out.
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5:30 Participants break to dress in finery and re-assemble at 6:00 for cocktails and writing. Writing
has been contexted at end of meeting.
Context: We will have an opportunity to put our plane and visions for our local communities
into concrete form of a visioning book, This we can
send home with one another as a reminder of the network of care
we have been this week. So, let's all make an effort to get to
the writing room and encourage others while we are having cocktails.
6:20 Host suggests by question that all finish writing,
visions. "Has everyone had an opportunity?"
6:25 Hostess suggests that all move to dine. Manifestos
and timelines are placed at their places,
6:30 Sing: Resurgence songs. Suggestion are: "It's a Grand Night for Singing, "The Sunny Side of
the Street", "Desert Song", "Impossible Dream" and a 1972 Song,
Secular Ritual and Breaking of the Bread
6:45 Be seated using DeChardin Ritual enablement brings on plates and serves wine (a waiter to a
table)
6:55 Conversation: Purpose is common memory and stories of the future
Let's just review (think back over) our journey this
week
1 What de you remember about this week?
2 What happened to us?
3. What was the outstanding point in the week?
4. Hew would you spin out a story of your journey or a myth about the week we've just completing. The sort of story that throws you out of the particular so that people of anytime or place could understand our journey?
Let 3 or 4 stories be spun out, then, "This
is the way history is created."
7:15 The witness (after-dinner speech) is then introduced. If you have an outstanding participant, he
could have been contexted and given a 4*4*4 earlier
for this. Usually it will be given by Pedagog
Themes will be: Globality, resurgence or collapse, local man, possibility
Showing the brokenness of life. Joseph Slicker's Plenary Address of July, 1973 is the idea, He talks about resurgence having happened before but with one taking the responsibility in the form of world war and depressions. Then stating that the opportunity is again at hand, while pointing to the tools and methods now available.
The style of the freeman would be very effective
with the use of humor especially good early in the lecture.
7:45 The 1st Pedagogue invites everyone to stand to be commissioned the guildsman they are, who
are now in possession of the tools and information they need to build the world. He uses a seductive (come to the Cabaret) style and asks that as they respond to the ritual (used in Summer, July, 1973), they pin on themselves the Guildsman symbol. These symbols passed out as the teacher gives the context. The rituals are already at the plates.
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Day 5 CLOSING CELEBRATION (cont )
Than the prayer (vision) books and manifesto and timelines are passed to participants.
The enablement crews have been working steadily since
6:30 to type on masters, mimeograph, collate and staple these
into covers that were previously prepared for this event. Everyone
is asked to be seated.
7:55 The silent waiters magically appear and refill
all wine glasses as the host suggests, It is now time to speak
your visions of the future, especially as they pertain to ourselves.
Let the toasting begin! All the pedagogues need to be prepared
to offer a toast (claim a promise) for the future. This is the
time when the manifestos and timelines are symbolically received.
8:30 All are asked to stand to be sent out into history
to never be the exact body they now are. A participant is asked
to do this.
THE PICTURE OF THE EVENING WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS WITH
DEPTH INTO AWE NOT DESPAIR
6:00 Conversation Witness 8:00
6:30 7:00 7:30 Commissioning
8:15 8:30
Claiming
Promises
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE: We experience resurgence in these concrete forms in our daily lives.
EXISTENTIAL AIM: To experience the internal flip from hopeless despair to impossible
impossibility.
6:30 Meal Introduction: Welcome to the meal and tothis
5day course.
Prayer: Select appropriate prayer from Book of Common
Prayer
Rite: Let us eat.
6:45 Meal Conversation: We want to use the meals this week to converse.
So let's take this opportunity to get acquainted.
Let's start over here:
1. Name and local community
2. Name an article, book read lately that excited you about the future.
3. Where have you encountered the globe lately?
4. What's something that's happening in your local community that's a great sign?
5. What's an issue here in your community that's
an issue in communities across the globe?
We're going to deal this week with these crucial issues in communities across the globe."
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE: See the relationship of the news events to the resurgent times.
EXISTENTIAL AIM: Excitement at participating totally
in life and the future.
6:30 Song Context: Singing is history long
Reappropriating the gifts of the past
Songs: Moon River - Sunny Side of the Street
6:45 Specific Accountability: Team Roll Call
Absolution: It's a fact of life that something is
always "out of kilter". What we know is that we can
go into the new day.
Rite: New life is popping up all around us. Let us
eat this meal on behalf of those new signs of life.
6:55 Let us eat.
7:00 News on TV.
News Conversation: We are constantly flooded with news. It is easy to
listen to it but not hear it; to watch it but not see it; to read it but not think about it. As a result we know the facts but don't have a sense after what's happening to our world.
1. What are same of the political, social or economic events or stories of the past year (global, nat'l or local) which are of particular interest to you or strike you as being especially newsworthy?
2. What's new in these news events or what things were mentioned that never would have been brought out 5 years ago 10 years ago?
3. What were some of the things mentioned which you were aware of before?
4. What were some of the things mentioned which you had never thought of before and which surprised you?
5. Where do you sense resurgence in the things mentioned?
History is flowing all around us.
7:30 Other World Spin LAND
7:55 Announcements
Send Out: Let's get going. It's going to be a great day.
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE: Create a story of painting related to
NSV.
EXISTENTIAL AIM: Experience their own story of the
future.
12:15 Songs: Whistle a Happy Tune & The Other
World
Secular Accountability: (casual) "Is everybody here?"
Absolution: "This is just the group needed; history will never be the
same because we are here."
Ritual: Repeat after me:
What appears to be a breaking down of civilization
may well be simply a breaking up of old forms by life itself.
12:20 Let us eat.
12:30 Art Form: Starry Night
Context: I've always been amazed at how artists seem to explode my sight; enable me to see more than I thought I could see. Let's look at this famous painting.
1. First thing you notice 9. Where stand in painting
2. Other objects 10. Where hang it
3. Shapes, forms ll.Who send it to
4. Colors 12. What title it
5. Objects take out, add 13. Tell story about it
6. If divide where/what 14. What saying about times
7. Music play with it 15. What promise for future,
8. Noise coming out
"We'll appreciate art as never before"
1:00 Song Context: Let's see if we can look at songs a little differently.
Songs: (1st song is for warmup) Bye Bye Blackbird & Somewhere Over the
Rainbow
Song Conversation: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
1. What words or phrase?
2. Where Transparency (like match and paper)?
3. What did you see?
4. Where happen in last 24 hours?
5. What was author saying/would he have said it if
written selfconsciously?
1:15 Announcements
Send Out: (repeat)
We have arrived at an historical vantage point where the wasteland ends and human wholeness and fulfillment begins.
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE: Universal Benevolence, the care dynamic is exposed.
EXTSTENTIAL AIM: See caring through a new screen.
6:30 Songs: It's a Grand Night for Singing &
All Life is Open
Ro11 Call by Team
"OK, This is good. Fine"
6:45 Meal Introduction: The meal is a time for gathering together and partaking of
food in order to sustain life. Let us eat this meal
on behalf of the bakers of the world.
Ritual: (read) There comes a time in every man's
life when he realizes that the world is not as he dreams and he
has to make a choice: submit or risk all. (repeat) Being free
means that the only real choice is risking all.
Prayer: Select appropriate prayer from Book of Common
Prayer.
Let us eat.
7:00 Conversation: Sanctification (do not ask directly use as brooding
material only) Globe is history's; but you create it.
1. What recent events have disclosed to you that history is in our hands?
2. What are the bubblings of fascination you see in yourself and in others?
3. What are manifestations of turning away?
4. What does this struggle reveal about Universal Benevolence?
7:30 Announcements
Send Out: I send you out to explore some more into the NSV and take
with you the knowledge of the day. So let's go.
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE: See the relationship of the news events
to the resurgent times.
EXISTENTIAL
AIM: Excitement at participating totally in life
and the future.
6:30 Song Context: Passion in singing
Sing from inside.
Songs: Old Man River & Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
6:45 Specific Accountability; Team Roll Call.
Absolution: It's a fact of life that something is always "out of kilter."
What we know is that we can go into the new day.
Rite: New life is popping up al1 around us.. Let
us eat the meal on behalf of those new signs of life.
6: 55 Let us eat.
7:00 News on TV.
News Conversation: We tend to look at history as a thing of the past, dead and gone, something which is buried but comes back to haunt us. What we don't realize is that we have lived it and are living it right now.
1. What political, social or economic trends have you observed developing over your lifetime?
2. When did you first begin to sense that these trends were not simply isolated events?
3. At the time you first became aware of them as trends, what was your reaction to them?
4. Looking at these trends now, how would you say
they are examples of resurgence
7:30 Other World Spin - RIVER
7: 55 Announcements
Send Out: It's a great day. Let's do something with it.
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE: Those leaders who emerge as heroes are spirit people.
EXISTENTIAL AIM: Awe at humanness.
12:15 Songs: Whistle a Happy Tune & The Other
World
Secular Accountability: (casual) "Is everybody here?"
Absolution: "This is just the group needed;
history will never be the same because we are here."
Ritual: (repeat) What appears to be a breaking down
of civilization may well be simply a breaking up of old forms
by life itself.
12:20 Let us eat.
12:30 Conversation: Heroes and Leaders
Context: Man has always had his heroes or people he looked to or
listened to for advice or guidance. They were anyone from historical figures of renown to those who had no apparent impact on society. There was something about them that drew people to them
1. Who are some heroes or people you listen to, either historical or contemporary.
2. What characteristics or qualities did these people have?
3. How would you talk about these people in relation ship to leadership?
4. When have you seen yours elf in a leadership role,
What we all know is that we're constantly faced with
situations where it is necessary to fill the 1eadership role.
This is the indicative with which we struggle will continue to
struggle.
1:00 Songs: Love makes the World Go 'Round &
I Could Have Danced All Night
Song Conversation: "I Could Have Danced All Night"
1. What words or phrases?
2. Where transparency?
3. What did you see?
4. Where in the last 24 hours?
5. What would the author have said if words were
said selfconsciously?
1:15 Announcements
Send Out: (repeat) We have arrived at an historical vantage point where the wasteland ends and human wholeness and fulfillment begins.
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RATIONAL Profound Integrity, the decision dynamic is exposed.
OBJECTIVE:
EXISTENTIAL AIM: See decision making through a new
screen.
6:30 Songs: Men of the Spirit & Night and Day
Roll Call by Teams
"Everyone here is just who we need to be!"
6:45 Meal Conversation: The meal is a time for gathering together and partaking of
food in order to sustain life. Let us eat this meal
on behalf of the plumbers of the world.
Ritual: (read) There comes a time in every man's
life when he realize that the world is not as he dreams and he
has to make a choice: submit or risk All. (repeat) Being free
means that the only real choice is risking all.
Prayer: Select appropriate prayer from Book of Common
Prayer.
Let us eat.
7:00 Conversation: Sanctification ( do not ask directly - use as brooding
material only)
The telephones are out of order you decide the necessary mode of
care for mankind in this particular situation.
1. Where have you found yourself having to make the
community's decisions on your own?
2. How is a new sense of destiny welling up in these
occasions?
3. What interior warfare ensues when people face there
decisions?
4. What does this say about the journey of integrity?
7:30 Announcements
Send Out: I send you out to expend yourself in every little situation
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RATIONAL :
OBJECTIVE: See relationship of news events to the resurgent times.
EXISTENTIAL AIM: Excitement at participating totally
in life and the future.
6:30 Song Context: Saying the Words
Listening to words' hear what they're saying
Songs: With a Song in My Heart & I Could Have Danced All Night
6:45 Specific Accountability: Team Roll Call
Absolution: It's a fact of life that something is
always "out of kilter". What we know is that we can
go into the new day
Rite: New life is popping up all around us. Let us
eat this meal on behalf of those new signs of life.
6:55 Let us eat.
7:00 News on TV.
News Conversation: If you were to take a sampling of the 10 top news writers today, they would have many different opinions on the issues of the day, but they would agree on what those issues are which face us.
1. What are some of the issues over the past six months' political, social or economic global - national or local which news commentators, TV specials' and magazine or newspaper series hare been dealing with which you feel are important?
2. What issues do you sense may lie behind the issues
mentioned? 3. How would you say these issues point toward resurgence
in our society?
Issues divide people when they are dealt with on
an opinion level, but they unite people when viewed in the broader
context of what things must be dealt wi in our time. Recalling
the signs of resurgence we have seen in the issues today' we see
issues are to be affirmed not avoided.
7:30 Other World Spin MOUNTAIN
7: 55 Announcements
Send Out: Let's get going. We've got things to accomplish.
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RATIONAL
OBJECTIVE: Insistence on individualism insures eventual
failure.
EXISTENTIAL AIM: The world is heavy but I am not alone.
12:15 Songs: Mystery is Everywhere & Bye Bye
Blackbird
Secular Accountability: (casual) "Is everybody here?"
Absolution: "This is just the group needed;
history will never be the same because we are here."
Ritual: (repeat) What appears to be a breaking down
of civilization may we11 be simply a breaking up of old forces
by life itself.
12:20 Let us eat.
12:30 Conversation: Corporateness
Context: Corporateness has to do with a group of people working
together with a common goal the degree to which this
takes place determines the effectiveness of the group.
The whole space program has required corporateness of
the people involved. We would not have placed a man on
the moon without it.
1. Where have you observed corporateness?
2. What was happening in that situation?
3. What role do you see corporateness playing in
society for the future?
4. Where found yourself participating in corporateness?
"Having lived in a country where emphases is
on the individual (ex. pulling oneself up by the bootstraps) we
are clear that this is no longer a viable mode of creativity in
order to create and build the necessary structures for humanness.
Corporateness must prevail.
1:00 Songs: Zipadee Doo Da & On the Street Where
You Live"
Song Conversation: "On The Street WhereYou Live"
2. Where transparency?
3. What did you see?
4. Where in the last 24 hours?
5. What would the author have said if words were
done selfconsciously?
1:15 Announcements
Send Out: (repeat) We have arrived at an historical vantage point where the wasteland ends and human wholeness and fulfillment begins.
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OBJECTIVE: Endless Felicity, the meaning dynamic is exposed.
EXISTENTIAL ADM: See meaning through a new screen.
6:30 Songs: That Old Black Magic & The Time Has
Come
Roll Call by Team
"Great, let's take some of our meal"
6:45 Meal Introduction: me meal is a time for gathering together and
partaking of food in order to sustain life. Let us
eat this meal on behalf of the garbage collectors of the world.
Ritual: (read) There comes a time in everyman's life when he realizes
the world is not as he dreams and he has to make a choice: submit or risk all. (repeat) Being free means that the only real choice is risking all.
Prayer: Select appropriate prayer from the Book of
Common Prayer.
Let us eat.
7:00 Conversation: Sanctification (Do not ask ?'s directly use as
brooding material only.)
Context: Leader transparently demonstrates - embodies - the decision available to every man to build the earth.
1. What have you run into that have been embodiments of
a glorious future?
2. Where have you sensed sociological hope breathing
thru your own life decisions?
3. Where have you sensed anxiety turning care into
unambiguous rigor?
4. What does this discussion reveal about fulfillment?
7:30 Announcements
Send Out: I send you out to practice transparency in every situation
and to embody the future. So let's get cleared.
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OBJECTIVE: See the relationship of the news events
to the resurgent times.
EXISTENTIAL AIM: Excitement at participating totally
in Life and the future.
6:30 Song Context: Transparency
No longer singing words see through it.
Songs: Night and Day & That Old Black Magic
6:45 Specific Accountability: Team Roll Call
Absolution: It's a fact of life that something is
always "out of kilter". What we know is that we can
go into the new day,
Rite: New Life is popping up all around us. Let us
eat this meal on behalf of those new signs of life.
6:55 Let us eat.
7:00 News on TV.
News Conversation: We've gained a new sense of history as being some
thing which lives and breathes in out midst and have learned to see how it is resurging and how we ourselves are part of this resurgence?
1. What recent news events particularly caught your attention?
2. What issues do these events point to?
3. What possible trends do these events point to?
4. How are these events examples of resurgence?
Let these things remind us that we Are 1iving in a time of resurgence.
7:30 Other World Spin - SEA
7:55 Announcements
Send Out: Let's begin our work. We have important things waiting for us.
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OBJECTIVE: Who is the League?
EXISTENTIAL AIM: We are the League?
12:15 Songs: Strange G1adness & Old Man River
Secular Accountability: (casual) "Is everybody here?"
Absolution: "This is just the group needed;
history will never be the same because we are here."
Ritual: (repeat) What appears to be a breaking down
of civilization may well be simply a breaking up of old forms
by life itself.
12:20 Let us eat.
12:30 Conversation: Transparency
Context: Some people say that all that social change is really
about is going out and announcing to people that they are.
whole in whatever situation or wherever they are at the
moment. Example: like Don Quixote in "the man from La
Mancha" who carried his trunk with him and transformed a
dreary dungeon into a glorious stage.
1. Where have you seen the transparent glory within a mundane situation?
2. Where has someone become a new Being when he or she heard that announcement?
3. Where have you seen someone take on a different role or style to care for a situation?
4. When have you ever done that?
5. In what ways would you see yourself developing
in order to acquire that capacity?
1:15 Announcements
Send Out: (repeat) We have arrived at an historical vantage point where
the wasteland ends and human wholeness and fulfillment
begins.
