[Oe List ...] Earthwise Learning Individual and Group Creativity Module

Tue May 3 10:09:48 CDT 2011

Back, last century, ICA in the USA outlined and tested a curriculum called the Earthwise Learning Series.  One of the test modules was called "Individual and Group Creativity".  I am looking for anyone who may have notes or the outline of that module for a ToP group that is working on a similar area . . .  all my notes are in the ICA Phoenix file cabinets at 4750 which have not been opened and cataloged.
Thanks, anyone . . .

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--- On Tue, 5/3/11, RICHARD HOWIE <rhowie3 at verizon.net> wrote:

From: RICHARD HOWIE <rhowie3 at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Present Reality
To: "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 4:31 AM

As reports come in from all the activities in 2012 it would be interesting to use the screen that John, Janice and others point to in discerning our ICA-USA actions in the coming times.Ellen
On May 1, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Janice Ulangca wrote:
 Where does the needed new story/foundation come from?  It is created.  Perhaps we can be part of that creation - even by affirming/re-assembling insights/partnerships that strike us powerfully. Do new story elements need to relate somehow to effective action?  To spirit practices?   I find John's 4 dimensions - archaic, futuric, cosmic, and depth - really helpful and thought-provoking.  Would like to explore more.  First thoughts:  None of these 4 is strictly on a particular part of a timeline, seems to me.  Even tho archaic may seem to refer to past, futuric to future - even these, and certainly cosmic/depth, can break in and add meaning at any point.     I too hope that the 50th anniversary thinking will yield some clues to the roles of these 4 dimensions. It's great that John is raising this question.  We are more apt to notice something if we are looking for it.   My own experience last May with a week working in the archives:  Awe
 at the struggles (including reports from folks out over nothing).  Admiration for the connections and interchange structures that were created. Amazement at the sheer sweep of the work.  Nifty answers to paste in to present dilemmas?  No.  A place to cry over structures that are no more?  Good grief no - don't come to Chicago to do that - if anyone must, you can do that at home.  I don't know how much others will use the archives - that remains to be seen.  But there is a lot there that just might set thoughts and hearts spinning in new directions - including whoever of us still feels a profound call via O:E.   Janice Ulangca       ----- Original Message -----   From:   John Cock     To: 'Colleague Dialogue'   Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 10:26 PM  Subject: [Dialogue] Present Reality  
  Present reality is in our left-brain/right-brain understanding   of the archaic, futuric, cosmic, and depth   dimensions that guide us in considered action (maybe not split-second   action). Inclusive and strategic practical action comes from such a dynamic   swirl. At issue is denying our best take on reality by overweighing   or lopping off any of these four indices.     Thanks for posing the practical matter of our archives (as   well as the legacy meeting and books out of last year). It would be good   also to focus practically on our futuric, cosmic, and   depth wisdom since 1988, say. Maybe the 50th anniversay can guide us   here.     Respectfully,     John        From:   dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On   Behalf Of Lawrence Philbrook
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:03   PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Stick   Chart Navigators

  This is not an either or choice.  

All maps stick or   otherwise are based on the past, life is based on living into the now, purpose   or mission is based on sensing the "called for" future knowing that I do not   know, even more knowing that large pieces of the future will only come clear   in retrospect.  

I have always been a do then learn then do kind   of tactical practitioner but I like having access to the wisdom of the   archives.

With respect, Larry
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On   5/2/2011 8:47 AM, DOUGLAS DRUCKENMILLER wrote:   #yiv1519725898 .yiv1519725898hmmessage P {PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px;}#yiv1519725898 .yiv1519725898hmmessage {FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;FONT-SIZE:10pt;}    Well, some of us are academics (boo) and need documentation for papers and     other research -- so that's one thing of a practical nature to do with the     archived stuff. Spend a day or two around the Archive project and see how     useful -- and fun  - it is.     Pat

> From: lees.mail at comcast.net
> Date:     Sun, 1 May 2011 14:51:24 -0700
> To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net
>     Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Stick Chart Navigators
> 
> I gotta go     with Jimmy Wiegal on this one. I said something along these lines on a Skype     link to our gathered colleagues in Mexico a month or so ago. Gilles was     hosting. Leah and I were at Gordon's house with Nancy Lampher, Carol Crow,     Roxy, and Dorthea Jewell. As I recall, it was David Brooks who said recently     that what society needs, at this time, is a new story, a new foundation.     
> 
> A very close friend of mine, who will remain nameless,     said it might be possible that what the old order is tying to do is deny     death. (The archives were the context for this statement.) My friend then     ask me when I had experienced myself out over nothing - not knowing what to     do - and having to do something. I did recall a time or two in my life when     that was the case. My friend then asked if I went digging around in an     archive somewhere, or look up the answer in a book. No, I hadn't. I do not     believe any of us, in a similar situation would have either. This begs the     question therefore, why is the order doing this?. who is the intended     audience?, under what circumstances would anyone ever stop what they are     doing and search for ICA archives? Would they even know what to     Google?
> 
> Stick charts are based on some very solid earth     science, star navigation and wave action. (Oh and experience) There are four     variables. Direction, location, distance and time. Distance will determine     time when the guy in the outrigger is chanting a specific time or rhythm to     measure distance. So, I suppose there are three variables if you combine     distance and time.
> 
> I'm sure some will say that the way life     is is the way life is. Maybe, but the story surely has changed and I don't     hear a new story or foundation up here in the sunny northwest. Must be     getting too much sun.
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> On May     1, 2011, at 2:19 PM, steve har wrote:
> 
> > Very interesting     Q&A 
> > 
> > Randy asks: "how to put the Event and     the Story distinctions to work"
> > Gene answers: " with the New     Religious Mode distinction"
> > Interesting interchange! Listening     for more...
> > 
> > But It is a puzzle too:
> >     one guy in a without a map searching
> > one guy in a with a Joe     Mathews map, he says, of the way life is 
> > 
> > 2 life     conditions either 
> > without a story and looking for one     or
> > with a story and trying to fit it to the world
> >     
> > Like those Marshall Islanders navigators with their stick     charts
> > off on a voyage listening to rhythm of the waves hit the     prow of the boat looking for that island but, 
> > back home making     stick charts trying to remember the pattern
> > 
> >     Grandpa Navagators bouncing the babies on their knees training future     navigators is what Wiegel says there is to do now
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
>     > 
> > searching for a story...won't do
> > admiring     old stories... won't do either
> > no way forward, no way     back...
> > How about you?
> > 
> > Steve     Harrington
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>     > 
> > -- 
> > Steve Harrington
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