[Dialogue] Salmon: Reply to Holcombe

[Marge Philbrook]

Bill, It will be wonderful to have a copy for the archives.  You're the
greatest! Marge Philbrook.


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Evelyn Philbrook <joyful52 at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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:
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> From: "William Salmon" <wsalmon at cox.net> <wsalmon at cox.net>
> To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net><oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>,
> "ICA LIST SERVE" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net> <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 <grholcombe at gmail.com>
> *To:* ICA/OE List Serves <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> ; ICA LIST SERVE<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
>
>  "Whatever the problem, community is the answer.  There is no
> power greater than a community discovering what it cares about."  Margaret
> Wheatley
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