[Oe List ...] Salmon: The Little Green Manual

Mon Sep 1 15:04:27 EDT 2008

Ann Avery --
    I do have a copy, and I do remember that it once had a green cover. The information I'll copy here. If you want a copy of the manual itself, send me a check for $3.00 to cover copy costs and postage to 744 So. 10th, Salina, KS  67401. 

    This little 34-page manual has our instructions for Hosting and Song Leading, Lecture Building, Seminar Preparation, Art Form Conversation, Charting, Comprehensive Thinking, Workshopping, Griddling, Timelining, Problem Solving Unit, Consult Method, Framing, Maneuvering, Designing Space, Designing Time, Planning Corporate Work and Planning a Celebration. 

    Griddling: (To be done Corporately)
1.    Become familiar with the geography to be griddled (walk, drive, get population data, maps, etc.)
2.    Artform the map of the area.
3.    Identify and Mark: population centers, cultural or ethnic division, nodes, land marks, natural boundaries (rivers, lakes, etc), political boundaries, arteries and pathways.
4.     Discuss values to be used in griddling -- such as population size, etc.
5.    (Individually) Draw initial pictures of the area, share these and discuss the gifts of each.
6.    Form a consensus on the grid. Symbolic power is key.
7.    Check grid against principles and actual data on the area.
8.    Draw large artistic form of grid and put in highly visible public area. 

    Look in the archives for any of the Human Development Projects. Also, some of our song books -- like the one I'm making copies of -- has imaginal drawings of the master images. Any of the 5th City stuff can have the divisions too. 
    Did any of the 5th City magazines feature the geography? I have a few of those copie too. 
    Well, this can be helpful for you. 
    Inner Peace, 
    Bill Salmon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: William Salmon 
To: Order Ecumenical Community 
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 1:44 PM
Subject: [Oe List ...] Salmon: gridding request

Ann --
    I may have a copy of that "little manual." Although, mine is a photocopy so that it does not have a green cover. As I remember there is not a lot of information in it. I've used its information to teach charting. 
    I'll get back to you soon. 
    Bill Salmon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ann Avery 
  To: OE 
  Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 8:18 AM
  Subject: [Oe List ...] gridding request

  Hello everyone,
    A little request for advice on teaching gridding  as simply as possible--
    I couldn't find anything on gridding in the (wonderful!) repository except some images of the global grid.  I would appreciate improvement on what I've written below, and some other graphic examples that might be available.  Does anyone have a copy of the "handy little" Methods Manual (no date).  Does it have a green cover?  

    Gridding your geography

    Geographic gridding is a way of understanding your geo-social environment.  When you grid, you make decisions about the geography concerned, guided by observing and asking questions. 

    Then you represent this information with a simple straight line drawing that anyone can reproduce easily.  

    This process can build consensus about your physical and social context.

    You can  grid the planet, your country,  region, district, or community.  [Here I would like to have a few samples, in addition to a version of the world grid from the repository. Does someone have others of smaller areas such as districts or villages to share?]

    Steps:

    1.  Determine the outer boundaries of the area you are looking at.

    2.  Simplify them by drawing straight lines to make a shape that you could easily draw freehand. 

    3. Thinking about the area, looking at maps or talking to people who know it well, ask these questions, and record the information on your shape.

            What are natural or manmade boundaries within the area?

            What roads, bus routes, paths, train tracks, air routes are important?

            Nodes: Where do people gather for commerce, celebration, health care, education, etc.

            What are physical landmarks?  

    4.  With that information, where would it make sense  to divide the area into 5 sections?  How would you describe each area?  

    5.  Name each area.

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