<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Yes, thanks, Mari and Ann, I have wondered, over the years, why neither the anticipated benefits nor the actuating programmes carried on into our further work.<div><br></div><div>As to the electoral campaign, the rhetorical strategies bewilder me. For one, i seldom hear uninterrupted speeches from either side — just headlines and sound bites. I scanned the republican platform and also the working draft before the convention of the democrats. I was put off by the apocalyptic tone in the republican one. <br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jim Wiegel</span><br><div>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“…the long work<br>
of turning their lives<br>
into a celebration<br>
is not easy. Come </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">and let us talk</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">“. </span></p><p class="p1"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 6, 2024, at 11:13 AM, John Epps via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Ann Epps, here, speaking via John's old Forum account. Thanks to all of you who created and developed the social demonstration and consult methodologies! You were and are geniuses to invent those processes. Being assigned to project documentation and fund raising in Asia for more than a few years, I found the "anticipated benefits" consult documentation section invaluable.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With gratitude, Ann</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, 10:31 PM Mari Crocker via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Dear Colleagues,<br>
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When Jim and Judy Wiegel and Joe and I travelled with JWM to launch the first 8 HDPs, I was charged with documenting the methodology we were developing. And oh, how it unfolded from our first Consult in Oombulgurri to our last in Sudtongen. As did the framing of the Consult Report Document which we spent several weeks following Oombulgurri to structure and frame. JWM, along with Lis and Garnet were there with us in Canberra when that design was hammered out. It was’t easy. For example, we had no idea of how to transpose the tactics (actions on the local level) into Programs that could become substantive, authentic, fundable entities for our Development folks to sell. We, as a team of 7 labored well into the wee small hours, and finally took a break. When we came back JWM came up with an additional chapter to the Document called, “Anticipated Benefits.” I was the then editor of the first document, and felt this was a silly addition, redundant and unnecessary. Oh, how over the years I realize how short-sighted I was. That final chapter (which JWM insisted we keep in) described, poetically and imaginatively, what one might imagine the village and its residents would be enjoying and manifesting in another two years.. It was a more vivid grounding of the villagers’ initial vision, because it was informed by the Consult process of looking at the obstacles (contradictions) and filtering good ideas (proposals) and their actionable tactics through screens (necessary, sufficient, doable, relevant) into practical steps we then called “implementaries.”<br>
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The reason for my sharing of this is that I hope that Kamala can spend less time on “policy proposals”, which by nature are very abstract, and more time painting the picture of “anticipated benefits” for our country — a very detailed vignette of life in the future, based on our residents’ hopes and dreams.<br>
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Just my 2 cents.<br>
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Mari Crocker<br>
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