[Oe List ...] Salmon: Whistle Points

Mon Mar 15 21:11:04 CDT 2010

Hi Ruth,
The whole paper is  on the Golden Pathways cd.

Jeanette

On 15-Mar-10, at 9:21 PM, Ruth H. Gilbert wrote:

> Wow Jeannette! Just how did you go find those three particular  
> paragraphs? You and others are doing true research back through our  
> history and long kept file systems.
>
> It seems we are in the midst of a mining expedition with valuable  
> ore being brought forth.
> ruth
>
>
> From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net]  
> On Behalf Of Jeanette Stanfield
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:52 AM
> To: Order Ecumenical Community
> 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: 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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