[Oe List ...] Salmon: Whistle Points

Sat Mar 13 11:12:32 CST 2010

Jeanette, this is wonderful.  And thanks to Jim Wiegel.  And to all who are sharing this and related conversations.  This is a keeper.  The richness of what we know, and the treasures of our mutual sharing, are just stunning,  beyond words.  Truly gifts from the Mystery - made possible because in our sometimes stumbling ways we followed Mystery's insistence to act on behalf of all.
Janice
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeanette Stanfield 
  To: Order Ecumenical Community 
  Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 10:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: Whistle Points

  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: Longrange 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 redo 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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