CAN Youth Initiative
Since last week's meeting there have been a number of e-mail exchanges regarding a CAN Youth Initiative. There have been three powerful messages from Patricia Anne Davis. I have asked and she has consented for me to share these writings here....
This first message includes a copy of the evaluation template that she did for the city of Seattle and the youth project she worked on.
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----- Original Message -----
From: patricia davis
To: Jon Ramer NICO ; Mark Jones - CAN ; 'Anil Singh-Molares' - Farm Proj ; Philip GERSON
Cc: Candi Foon - CAN ; John Hale - Interfaith ; Lora-Ellen McKinney - Farm Proj ; Victor Bremson - CAN ; Peggy Holman - Solidarity ; Susan Burns - IONS ; Andrew Himes - Seeds Wksp
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: CAN Next Steps
Gentlepeople:
YES, it is okay. I am sharing this information because it is time to move strategically. There is enough people that are experiencing and noting the reframe process in a ceremonial change process. We can mobilize collectively as adult mentors and coaches to formulate the strategy and content of the CAN YOUTH Initiative for Roberto and El Centro.
An offering-burden-blessing: biya has been made by CAN for my work in reframing the win-lose=no-win inverse thinking system into the win-win affirmative thinking system.
Before that, we had named the out-of-balance condition with Phil Lane’s terms Acculturation, Resistance/Violence and Resignation. The Core Issue is that a win-lose is no win for everyone in the Inverse Thinking System, which is powerover.
We had spent time in preparation for the Summit; the actual Summit experience; and, the review time afterward, meeting in person, implementing the agenda and by e-mail. This is the emptying phase with my piece “Guided Reflection” functioning as an analogy to a Zen koan to initiate the reframing process, which we are in now.
This event brought me to the “dead-end” where Eurocentric compartmentalized left-brain dominant dualistic thinking pitted me “against” the grain of this thinking system. I embody the energy for my intentionality to catapult my work into this system in order to reframe it as authentic Social Justice. The consequence was predictable in that I experienced a double-bind where I was almost literally put into the street. I was “rescued” by a City Council person whose current priority in politics is not to enforce evictions and St. Vincent de Paul.
The offering sponsored me as an Indigenous Elder to design the co-creative solution with CAN for a YOUTH Initiative. It turns out that Roberto presented the need for just such a collaborative movement with CAN at our last meeting.
Now, I can trust there are enough people to move in the direction that will lead to training adults as mentors and coaches in a win-win reframing process. Healthy adults can be the interveners in ensuring that we move toward building authentic compassionate community living, and not repeat Pseudo-community and Chaos, as defined by M. Scott Peck, M.D. in his book A Different Drum. I want to formulize and institute a communication and relationship process in the natural order context because it is intergenerational, cross-cultural, inclusive and universal in practical application. Here is a simplified format for the ceremonial change process integrated within the four cardinal directions format:
This format organizes these contingencies:
1. There is a way that all world-wide races and religions to promote oneness. For Indigenous people it is The Fourth Way, a blessingway of living as a way of life: holiness and wholeness affirmation in Affirmative Thinking System.
1. Co-creative situational leadership: Balance in living
2. Harmony in communication
3. Peace in the family, community and nation: relationship – powerwithin to have powerwith
Restoring the spirit Indigenous ceremonial change process:
1) naming the out-of-balance condition
Core Issue: root cause
2) emptying
3) reframing
4) co-creating
5) manifesting
4. Beauty in the environment: decision making to restoring resources for equity in allocation for next generation
5. Joy in the heart and home: hope for compassionate living
This first message includes a copy of the evaluation template that she did for the city of Seattle and the youth project she worked on.
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----- Original Message -----
From: patricia davis
To: Jon Ramer NICO ; Mark Jones - CAN ; 'Anil Singh-Molares' - Farm Proj ; Philip GERSON
Cc: Candi Foon - CAN ; John Hale - Interfaith ; Lora-Ellen McKinney - Farm Proj ; Victor Bremson - CAN ; Peggy Holman - Solidarity ; Susan Burns - IONS ; Andrew Himes - Seeds Wksp
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: CAN Next Steps
Gentlepeople:
YES, it is okay. I am sharing this information because it is time to move strategically. There is enough people that are experiencing and noting the reframe process in a ceremonial change process. We can mobilize collectively as adult mentors and coaches to formulate the strategy and content of the CAN YOUTH Initiative for Roberto and El Centro.
An offering-burden-blessing: biya has been made by CAN for my work in reframing the win-lose=no-win inverse thinking system into the win-win affirmative thinking system.
Before that, we had named the out-of-balance condition with Phil Lane’s terms Acculturation, Resistance/Violence and Resignation. The Core Issue is that a win-lose is no win for everyone in the Inverse Thinking System, which is powerover.
We had spent time in preparation for the Summit; the actual Summit experience; and, the review time afterward, meeting in person, implementing the agenda and by e-mail. This is the emptying phase with my piece “Guided Reflection” functioning as an analogy to a Zen koan to initiate the reframing process, which we are in now.
This event brought me to the “dead-end” where Eurocentric compartmentalized left-brain dominant dualistic thinking pitted me “against” the grain of this thinking system. I embody the energy for my intentionality to catapult my work into this system in order to reframe it as authentic Social Justice. The consequence was predictable in that I experienced a double-bind where I was almost literally put into the street. I was “rescued” by a City Council person whose current priority in politics is not to enforce evictions and St. Vincent de Paul.
The offering sponsored me as an Indigenous Elder to design the co-creative solution with CAN for a YOUTH Initiative. It turns out that Roberto presented the need for just such a collaborative movement with CAN at our last meeting.
Now, I can trust there are enough people to move in the direction that will lead to training adults as mentors and coaches in a win-win reframing process. Healthy adults can be the interveners in ensuring that we move toward building authentic compassionate community living, and not repeat Pseudo-community and Chaos, as defined by M. Scott Peck, M.D. in his book A Different Drum. I want to formulize and institute a communication and relationship process in the natural order context because it is intergenerational, cross-cultural, inclusive and universal in practical application. Here is a simplified format for the ceremonial change process integrated within the four cardinal directions format:
This format organizes these contingencies:
1. There is a way that all world-wide races and religions to promote oneness. For Indigenous people it is The Fourth Way, a blessingway of living as a way of life: holiness and wholeness affirmation in Affirmative Thinking System.
1. Co-creative situational leadership: Balance in living
2. Harmony in communication
3. Peace in the family, community and nation: relationship – powerwithin to have powerwith
Restoring the spirit Indigenous ceremonial change process:
1) naming the out-of-balance condition
Core Issue: root cause
2) emptying
3) reframing
4) co-creating
5) manifesting
4. Beauty in the environment: decision making to restoring resources for equity in allocation for next generation
5. Joy in the heart and home: hope for compassionate living
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Permalink Reply by Jon Ramer on -
Sent by Patricia on November 18th 2008.
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Hi Phil, I am ccing Jon because he asked the question about who is interested in continuing with exploring the "how to" strategy with youth.
Jon was calling for us to talk more about how to help youth and he asked if it was okay to sent out the evaluation template that goes with the TATU Report which documents a simple strategy to implelment.
We went through the most challenging part Phil and that is phase 1 - naming the out-of-balance condition; identifying the Core Issue (root cause) and phase 2 emptying. In M. Scott Peck's language people have been recycling from Pseudo community to Chaos and never get to emptying because they are not willing to examine unexamined assumptions.
For example, you, John and Jon looked at and understood that Indigenous people, in particular American Indians do not have "religion." We have sprituality in the natural order context, which is the laws of nature that apply to everyone equally. This is examining an unexamed assumption and exploring further what this new world-view really means. This is also the same process that Phil Lane did to come up with The Fourth Way. Acculturation, Resistence/Violence and Resignation are unexamined assumptions because they are still being perpetuated in the Western conventional system domains, law, schooling, health and environment.
So, we are hopefully moving into the reframing process which means finding "healthy" adults who can be the interveners. The intervention point makes a small change that creates a large change. Right now there are Western conventional competing models representing competing ideologies like "Inter-faith"; "Inter-Spiritual"; "Secular Humanitarian", but the Indigenous spirituality world-view is left out because tribal people have had to convert to Christianity for their very survival after genocide and were subjected to multi-generational fear of survival.
Some of this is due to elitism in hierarchy/patriarchy and some is due to "competition to limited resources' and some is due to eogism in "best practice" status. So we know that exclusiveness is contradictory and counter-productive to community building. This where there is a values clarification process.
When the summit audience was in a stunned silence (Jon got on stage to "rescure" me without realizing it at the time) while their brains were trying to grasp what win-win decision making means as they also tried simultaneously to hold and value competition, this where polarization takes place. People take sides in "for" and "against" intra-personally and inter-personally. It is a good immediate assessment for me to see where the audience is in terms of how entrenched people are in the win-lose thinking system. Those willing to come out of it and reframe are the "healthy" adults who can learn to mentor and coach youth leaders who also will predictable experience and react the same way as socially engineered and conditioned aduts to competiton.
We cannot teach compassionate living without giving up competition. This is the cosmic double-bind grande of our time! Anyone who stays in the Perpetrator/Predator; Rescuer; Persecutor and Vicim life script is not ready to move into the reframing process. There is Persistance and Resistance, two levels of obstacles to change. Here is the architect intentionality process for manifesting anything:
Envisioning seeing
Conceptualizing - thinking
Dialoguing - talking
Manifesting - doing and building
Therefore, peole must "see" what the natural order context is in order to manifest a win-win decision making process for equity in restoring resorces to the next geneation of youth. The key is learning the decision making process in the two thinking systems to understand destructive and death-producing and constructive and life-affirming outcomes.
People must be aware, interested, committed and then they will put what they value and cherish into action with their resources. How many people are there in CAN who are here in the values clarification process? We are all in the crisis of our time to learn cooperation for collective survival. We must reframe competition in order to teach young people what communal governing is. Obama is at the forefront in this political challenge and we must all do our part, so where to start?
Be willing and open to examing unexamed assumptions. Be willing to be trained and coached by "co-creative situational leadership" - Patricia
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Permalink Reply by anne morgan stadler on -
Patricia your words are, as always, very wise. Thank you!
Here is a TREAT for all of us. Wisdom from the younger folks! Check out this link to the American Students Fund video contest where young people speak!!! Rowan North, who took second place, is a dear friend, a student at Evergreen College. His video was shown to students at The Center School. Here's the link!! Prepare to be excited!
http://www.americanstudentsfund.org/vote/videos1.php -
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