<div dir="ltr">Colleagues,<div>Yes, yes to all the above. </div><div>The summer sojourn will be a great time to continue to get documentation necessary to be able craft a history/story of EI/O:E/ICA . Vincent, your image of a GRA is on target. How do you see it unfolding as a virtual event so people from around the planet can join in the work? Thanks to the ongoing work of folks on site the archive is positioned to take the next step. At this point, the material is so extensive we need to think about how to have teams working both on and off-site. For instance, the A/V collection is enormous!!! Much of the A/V work does not need to be done on site. All of the interviews done by Jim Wiegel are digital. Frank may not be able to join us on site yet can easily contribute virtually, and the same with Doug Druckenmiller if he is able to participate and also other folks.. </div><div><br></div><div>Karen and the team members who have been working on site over the year, have, I think, the best take on what kind of working groups will be needed. There is a lot of work to be done prior to the sojourn and with the work already done this year, perhaps folks who have been working could suggest a task/team arrangement that could set the next step on archive work in motion now.</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>The Chronological History 1952-1988 </i>was published in pdf form in 2015<i> </i> <a href="https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20197.pdf" target="_blank">https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/20197.pdf</a> and the 150 pages are a dip into the past. Jeanette Stanfield wrote an outstanding <b>Foreword, </b>for Chronological History and for the work to come.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the first tasks in the Form Follows Function universe is to talk through the imagined work now and to begin to form the onsite/offsite work teams. </div><div>With anticipation....</div><div>Beret Griffith</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. Let's create as comprehensive a list of colleagues as possible and encourage their involvement.<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:43 AM Vincente S Scott via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8628325970049587381">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the report on the December 2022 Archives Sojourn. In response to your question about what “<b> needs to happen next in the archives,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are two things: # 1. We need to go VISUAL: Interview on camera all colleagues who were in projects, taught classes, academies, held consult, etc. We should write scripts, make movies, shoot short films, post to Facebook, twitter etc.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># 2. Convene a Global Research Assembly focused on the work of O:E, EI, and ICA, for the purpose of creating a coherent COMPREHENSIVE picture of our past present and future. We need to show our work as ONE JOURNEY IN VISUAL SETS OF AUDIO
VISUAL STORIES from Faith and Life community, through RS-1, Local Church Experiments, Academies, Human Development Projects, TOWN Meetings, LENS, IERD, TOP into work for year 2099.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We need to do this before we all die. Yes this will take planning, fundraising, coordination, tactics. This is what we know how to do. --- v.</p>
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<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au" target="_blank">Isobel and Jim</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] Consider attending the next archive sojourn: July 23 – August 5, 2023</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Quarter IV - December 26, 2022 – January 1, 2023</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Written by Alan Gammel and Karen Snyder</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>“In recovering abundance, we need storytellers and memory keepers </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>who work to uncover all our stories and histories. It’s nice to know where we came from,</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> but it’s also critical for our wholeness as communities and our sense of direction moving forward.”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders</b>, by Andy Stanton-Henry (2022), p. 252</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:11.75pt">For the week following Christmas, ten people participated in the Archives Sojourn as ‘archivists’ with others joining on zoom for the daily morning context, that included readings, reports
of what had been accomplished, and anticipations of the days work. </p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>Sorting files for scanning: </p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>We revisited Uptown, rediscovered ICA’s engagement in the 70s – including sponsoring eight Valentine Balls for seniors at The Aragon Ballroom. Twenty-five
hundred people attended the last ball. The ICA staff working in Uptown approached it like 5<sup>th</sup> City, like a human development project as it created stakes and guilds and multiple programs. See the end of this document for Vincent Scott’s draft of
the “Uptown Story” and Alan Gammel‘s description of the Valentine dances.</p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>We remembered stories from the six Latin American Human Development projects – almost simultaneously: Bananeras, Brazil; Sol de Septiembre, Chile; Conacaste,
Guatemala; Woburn Lawn, Jamaica; Azpitia, Peru; Cano Negro, Venezuela.</p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>India’s three file cabinets of documents revealed many learnings from replicating the Maliwada Human Development throughout the State of Maharashta. </p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>Ed Feldmanis has been the Master of Scanning, before, during and after the sojourn, turning past documents into readable messages for all.</p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>A flowchart was created to aid in training of first time sorters in future sojourns – by Debra Harris Watson, Meg Ziegleman, and Rebecca Mahan. </p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>Alan Gammel learned how to link scanned documents that he will continue to do in Seattle. </p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>A writing team was initiated committed to meeting periodically between now and the next Archive Sojourn (July 23 – August 5, 2023).</p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span>Zoom calls included Beret Griffith, Paul Noah and Laura Grover. Beret and Laura both had health issues that prevented them from traveling this time. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:11.75pt">Sorting, scanning, linking were enhanced by lively questioning about the future of the archives. How can we use social media more effectively to inform a wider audience? What are the transforming
stories hidden in the documentation? How can we add pictures to enhance all the written material? What did we learn as we worked through the years that is informative to our present time? There was a challenge to complete the file sorting before 2024.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:11.75pt">All work and… Of course not! Christmas lights at the Lincoln Park Zoo New Year’s Eve Fiesta at the Troxel’s New Year’s Special Brunch by Alice Harriott - were
highlights of our time together. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:11.75pt">In the end a group of strangers with different experiences over the past 60 years were surprised and delighted by all the things ICA has done and continues to do. Whether we sojourned in
a Religious House, were Priors, participated in Human Development Projects or an Odyssey, were ToP trainers, lived in the GreenRise, served on the ICA USA Board, the feeling of kinship, of community, was very strong.</p>
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<b>We would love to hear from you regarding what you think needs to happen next in the archives.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:11.75pt">The Archivists: Adele Sims, Alan Gammel, Beret Griffith, Debra Harris Watson, Ed Feldmanis, Frances Tsai, Karen Snyder, Laura Grover, Meg Ziegleman, Paul Noah, Rebecca Mahan, Sierra Johnson,
Vincente Scott</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>“The profound function of documentation is to change the world …. Recording, or more specifically, </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>documenting victories, accomplishments, campaigns, etc., is essential to providing an objective picture of the present situation, what trends are appearing and where the edge is going to be."</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> “Profound Function of Documentation”, Global Research Assembly 1979, page 2</p>
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