[Dialogue] Salmon: Reply to Holcombe

[Evelyn Philbrook]

Bill,

Please send me a copy of your paper on Education too.

Thanks,

Evelyn Philbrook

On 4/24/13 10:36 AM, David Walters wrote:
> Can you post an attachmente(s) of what you have wrritten?
>
> -David Walters
>
> --- wsalmon at cox.net wrote:
>
> From: "William Salmon" <wsalmon at cox.net>
> To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>, "ICA LIST 
> SERVE" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
> Subject: [Dialogue] Salmon: Reply to Holcombe
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:25:38 -0500
>
> George--
>     Thanks for the recommendation of Houle's book on, _The Shift Age_. 
> Last fall, I  wrote a short paper for the Educational Cooperative that 
> hires me as a Para-Educator in a local high school. The title is, "The 
> Collapse of the Modern Era and the birth of the Intuitive Generation." 
> It has been well received locally.
>     Our school system is doing a Future Directions study under a 
> professional company that also gives support on creating public 
> support ad commitment--something I should be doing for them if I was 
> 20 years younger. Their missing link concerns Underlying 
> Contradictions.**
>     They produced a preliminary document of 7 new directions asking 
> for public input and ranking. I'm doing a local school survey using 
> this input to pull through the 9 Whistle Points. From a practical 
> point of view, this document relates better as a postmodern effort 
> than the Soc. Proc. triangles.
>     As a comparison, I'm using two other publications that are doing 
> postmodern analysis. These are the 10 principles of "Burning Man" 
> (thanks to Richard Alton), and the 10 foundations "Appreciative 
> Inquiry," the work of the Alban Institute.
>     The one-page chart is, "The Way To Rebuild Global Society: The 9 
> Whistle-Points." It lists the 9 points across the top and that answers 
> the questions of What, Where, Why, Who, How and When.
>     It amazes me how our work since the late 1950's continues to 
> inform my own thinking and gives shape to my three books as well as 
> the next 5 books ready to be edited. However, in order to get that 
> done, I've got to stop writing papers and emails.
>     For what it is worth.
>     Bill
> ** Recently, I conducted three Future Direction Workshops and one 
> Implementation Workshop using Contradiction Analysis. Whenever I've 
> used this concept, people always find it affirmative. So often this is 
> the absent--but crucial--step in planning.
>     Inner Peace,
>     wes
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* George Holcombe <mailto:grholcombe at gmail.com>
>     *To:* ICA/OE List Serves <mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> ; ICA
>     LIST SERVE <mailto:dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:00 PM
>     *Subject:* [Oe List ...] Dick West's Book Recommendation
>
>     Thanks Dick for recommending Houle's _The_ _Shift_ _Age
>     _(http://www.theshiftage.com).  It is tremendous and I hope we all
>     read it. It's in the lineage of Toffler and Naisbitt and strikes
>     me as being on target.  I'm reminded of some of the things we
>     spoke of back in the 60's and 70's as being Global Citizens and
>     the morphing of institutions, nations and social structures.  It
>     would be fun and insightful to track it through the Soc. Proc.
>     triangles, if someone has not already done that for us.
>
>     George Holcombe
>     14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
>     Austin TX 78728
>     Mobile 512/252-2756
>     grholcombe at gmail.com <mailto:grholcombe at gmail.com>
>
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