[Oe List ...] Salmon: Whistle Points

[Jeanette Stanfield]

Hi  Bill,

After the symposium in Washington last November I started looking for  
a common framework that somehow pulled together many of the projects  
our OE/EI/ICA community shared in Washington.  I came upon Jim  
Wiegel's three paragraph explanation of the pressure points in the  
1970s.  I found myself thinking: yes those points have been our  
community-gathered and scattered- marching orders for close to 40  
years now.  And inclusive myth may be ready to burst forth on our  
planet.

Here's the passage I found:  The guides are the Pressure Points.  
Everything is not demonstration, just because someone may want to  
paint a chemical factory orange does not mean that would be helpful to  
the New Social Vehicle. When you have to decide between painting a  
chemical factory orange and a supermarket blue, how do you decide? How  
do we avoid a new activism? Through adhering to the nine Pressure  
Points, we will have our guides. The Pressure Points are the way in  
which we impact the social processes. After Summer '71, we took the  
385 proposals we wrote and related them again to the Social Process  
Triangles. We discovered that most of the problems in the Economic  
Process were healed either by the process called Anticipated Needs or  
by the Process in the Political called Bureaucratic Systems. That is,  
what the economic needed to get itself on the track was very simple:  
Long range planning and some way of controlling its immense power.
Five of the Pressure Points appear in the Cultural Triangle, three in  
the Political and one in the Economic. This relates to our insights  
about the imbalances in the social processes. The Pressure Points are  
our map, our wave chart. These nine points are the focal points upon  
which the New Social Vehicle will be built. The NSV will be built in  
Inclusive Mythology, creating a story, a new mythology, a way of  
talking about what it is to be a human being in society. It is being  
hammered out through Formal Methods, discovering a new form of social  
responsibility, in people hammering out modes of effective action. It  
is being built in Community Groupings, where people are coming  
together to re do local community, where people are giving new  
significance to engagement in the local. It is being built in Basic  
Roles, where people are crying that every human being participate and  
be engaged in society. The NSV is being built where people are looking  
for Knowledge Access, giving people the instruments they need to make  
decisions; it is being built when the Washington Post is exposing or  
not exposing what is going on in the world. It is being hammered out  
in Deliberative Systems, where people are inventing new ways of making  
decisions, of forming consensus, of creating grassroots polity. The  
New Social Vehicle is being hammered out in Bureaucratic Systems,  
where people are looking for ways to act effectively in society, where  
they are breaking through the morass of bureaucracy. It is being built  
wherever people are doing, planning and daring to anticipate the future.

The Pressure Points are our guide to audience. They tell us whom to  
impact, to deal with, to formulate, to break loose for the sake of  
breaking loose the whole of society.     James Wiegel

Take care,

Jeanette



On 11-Mar-10, at 10:31 PM, marilyncrocker wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I'm not able to comment directly on your inquiry re: the Whistle  
> Points, but was interested in your use of our methods in premarital  
> counselling.
>
> My comment is just a "lower case footnote" to your e-mail: I'm  
> remembering that we were not so much interested in illustrating "the  
> collapse" of the Social Process, but rather the "imbalance" among  
> the triangles, such that we might determine how re balancing might  
> occur.
>
> You probably intended that, but I wasn't sure from what you wrote.
>
> With appreciation,
>
> Marilyn
>
>
> Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
> Crocker & Associates, Inc.
> 123 Sanborn Road
> West Newfield, ME 04095
> (207) 793-3711
>
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:17:15 -0600 "William Salmon"  
> <wsalmon at cox.net> writes:
> Colleague,
>     Recently, we've said so much about the New Religious Mode  
> charts, but nothing is reported on the Whistle Points associated  
> with the Social Process triangles and the Triangle chart  
> illustrating the collapse of the Social Process.
>     By-the-way, I used the SP triangles in Pre-marital counseling  
> classes where the couple and I did a workshop of their Hope and  
> Dreams and then located these on the 1st level chart and then named  
> the clusters.
>     Very effective, and impressive I might add.
>     More recently, I've used the SP triangles and the image of the  
> collapses with several groups and noted the Whistle Points as the  
> way in which to restore our systems.
>     I've got some of the old Ecclesiola workshops on the 144's, as  
> well as some of the workshop pieces using the 144's as Ecclesiola  
> meditations. Still useful as they are universal.
>     Anybody doing anything with the 9 Whistle Points?
>     Pastor Bill
>
>
>
>
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