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Announcement from ICA USA
by Lawrence Edward Philbrook via OE 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Dear Terry This another case of your profound care and discipline being married together to help all of us operate more effectively while staying connected to our common purpose. You and I have enjoyed conversations over the past 5 years exploring our perception of reality and choices to create the new while learning from the insights of the past, I look forward to those conversations continuing whatever your role within our community. For ICA USA I wish them luck in searching for someone who can do as you have done. It will be difficult. You have been uniquely yourself and true to your personal values and covenant while respecting others to build the new future for the organisation and our community through grounding ICA USA’s mission/purpose and then connecting authentically and powerfully with the world, individuals and other organizations. With respect, Larry Lawrence Philbrook, Certified ToP Facilitator CPF Director Institute of Cultural Affairs Taiwan www.icatw.com Tel:8862 2871 3150 Skype: icalarry

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Fwd: GMCA July 30
by David Zahrt via OE 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

*WED Jul 30* My cousin Patty found out that we could visit her Aunt Vivian before noon. It was delightful to see someone who used to live in Turin, IA with us. Vivian, at 96 years old, is so interested in everything that is going on. We spent an hour and ½ with her. Then we picked up Joan and went to lunch. After lunch we rested at Joan’s house until it was time to meet the marchers at the campsite. The March planned to go 3.5 miles to the footbridge across the Missouri River. The Rally started at 5 PM. The McClains met us at the Rally. I also met two people who had stayed at our B&B and attended the Loess Hills Prairie Seminar (LHPS)—David Osterberg and Mary ?. The McClains said “Goodbye” half way across the Bridge because they were headed home and wanted to get to Kansas City before midnight. Joan marched into Iowa with me, said “Goodbye” and returned to Omaha with some friends. When we reached Iowa, pizza was delivered for the Marchers. We had a pizza dinner and marched another 2.5 miles to Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs. Once we arrived at the HS we had to set up our campsite. I decided to sleep out on the sidewalk. Overnight there was a heavy dew so my sleeping bag was wet the next morning. But, my stay in Omaha was marvelous. I was astounded, and delighted that Joan hosted me. I felt at home with her. She helped me with my shopping, my laundry, and getting to meet-up with Whitemans and visit their new abode. She gave me a chance to catch-up with all the things she’s done since we shared the Rochester House in 1970-71. It made my stay in Omaha very special. -- Peace, David -- Peace, David

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CEO Search from ICA-USA Board of Directors
by Terry Bergdall via OE 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

In follow-up to the message I posted earlier today about "transition announcement," please find attached here a cover letter from the ICA-USA Board of Directors and a job description and process outline for receiving applications for the CEO position at ICA-USA. Terry Bergdall

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Transition Announcement
by Terry Bergdall via OE 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

At my initiative last May, I informed the ICA-USA Board of Directors that I thought it was time for them to begin the process of identifying my replacement as ICA’s executive officer. Since this listserv represents the community to which I feel accountable, it is appropriate that I share with you my thoughts about this decision. It also is my effort to answer questions that I suspect many people will have when they hear the news. It was in early January 2007 when I was first presented with the idea of becoming Executive Director of ICA-USA. My initial response was strongly negative. I was enjoying the fruits of nearly 20 years, following the disbanding of the Order, as a successful independent consultant. I considered myself to be an eager and active player in expanding the reach and impact of the OE community, the “flowering of the Order” as some have called it, through a wide array of creative activities that were generally beyond its grasp when it was more tightly bound. Why give that up to wrestle with the problems, and potential drudgery, of institutional life? Despite my initial “no,” a seed was planted and ideas about ICA’s future continued to grow within my imagination. The reason for embracing institutional challenges is because they have a way of outlasting us all. I wanted to ensure that the principles, perspectives, values, and wisdom that have motivated people during the past 50 years would continue to have a living home. This is manifest in new programs that give practical form to truths like: (1) everyone has gifts, assets, and capacities; (2) the external situation is never the problem; (2) people live out of images and when images change, behavior changes; (4) an emphasis on cultural dimensions of the social process is the key to addressing economic and political contradictions. My passion was, and is, to ensure these points, and others like them, are embedded in the institutional fabric of an organization that will continue beyond my lifetime. The vision, therefore, is ICA as a branded vessel for profound insights that inspire people to action. My commitment when I took this job involved three objectives: create innovative new programs built upon the legacy of ICA’s past while addressing new realities, obtain economic stability, and to pass on the organization to new leadership looking toward the next 50 years. I feel very good these days about the dynamic programs for which ICA-USA enjoys a growing high-profile reputation -- the neighborhood work with “Accelerate 77,” the emergence of the “GreenRise Learning Laboratory” at 4750, leadership development of university students through contextual education and civic engagement, and the spreading of ToP facilitation methods throughout the country. ICA’s international connectedness is a powerful feature of its work. Economic stability remains an elusive objective requiring constant diligence but is never reason for inaction. Based on all of the above, I believe now is the right time to enable a successful transition to new leadership from among those who are attracted to ICA’s underlying purpose and in-depth programs. To that end, I will post information very soon from the ICA-USA Board of Directors about the succession process to appoint a new CEO.

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Global Buzz
by ICA International via OE 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Enjoy catching up with what is happening in ICAs across the globe.....If you wish to SEND a report...send to your ICA contact person OR...go to the members section on the ICA International website Please click the link below for the August issue of the Global Buzz Global Buzz Report: August 2014 or copy and paste this URL into your browser's address bar http://ica-international.org/buzz/7dayreport-14/2014-08-01.php ICAI Communications

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ICA GreenRise Building
by Terry Bergdall via OE 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

The commissioning of the ICA GreenRise solar project is scheduled for 10:00am on Wednesday morning, September 24, 2014, with notable public figures in attendance. This has attracted widespread interest because it is the largest installation of PV solar panels on a commercial building in Chicago outside of downtown. It will generate a quarter of the building's electrical use. It is a dramatic complement to ICA's neighborhood program on local sustainability initiatives, Accelerate 77. The commissioning event will highlight work with communities, service programs of building tenants, and other Uptown organizations during an Open House. Celebrate with us, wherever you are, and attend if you can!

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Paul Clements, 2nd generation ICA
by Lynda Cock via OE 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

in Michigan race for Congress. Jesse and Molly's son. Share this with your 2nd generation. Lynda Cock <https://act.myngp.com/el/8796870771805062912/-2130756387025385728> Can we count on your support to help us keep the ad on the air and take the fight to Congressman Upton? This ad talks about issues our movement is deeply invested in, like making college more affordable, strengthening our economy by making investments in high tech and clean energy jobs, and providing incentives to keep our young people here at home. It talks about the need to use data to guide policymaking and focus on results.

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Fw: Dialogue] "Journey Reflection" Blog Review (July2014)
by Rod Rippel via OE 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Please add me. Thanks Rod Rippel From: Robert and Cynthia Vance via OE Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 3:54 AM To: John Cock Cc: Dialogue ICA ; OE Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Dialogue] "Journey Reflection" Blog Review (July2014) Would like also. Thanks. Cynthia and Bob Vance Nancy Lanphear via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: I do want to be added. Thanks, Nancy On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:16 PM, John Cock via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: From: John Cock <mailto:transcribebooks@triad.rr.com> Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 2:23 PM Subject: "Journey Reflection" Blog Review (July 2014) Colleagues of OE and ICA, Following are the most viewed blog posts of the month “Journey Reflection” Blog Review (July 2014). And below is a sample of today's blog post e-mail via Mail Chimp that goes to couple hundred OE/ICA colleagues, plus. Let us know if you would like to be added (would come to your e-mail at 7 a.m. US Eastern Time). Journey on, Lynda and John View this email in your browser Journey Reflection July 31 Interior Conversion Thomas Berry: As spirit is one, so the universe in its primordial origin, its movement through time, and its final fulfillment, is a single, if infinitely diverse, mode of being. [Our Universal Spirit Journey* book] is a simple, direct, and exuberant statement of the all-pervasive presence and power of spirit … and its ever-present support for the Earth Venture and the Human venture…. Journer: Berry is talking about the heart of the profound journey for all. Nez: Prophetically he warns that without spirit all the economic, political, and cultural processes of humanity will not make it via “our [present] dysfunctional interior life.” Namaste. ______ * from Berry’s Foreword, pp. 10-11, of jpc’s book (2002) Image: source ------------------------------------------------ Xtra Blog Post: Profound Journey Learning (Wyatt Prunty) 3,600+ Daily Blog Posts since August 2004 JPC & LLC Links: Website Books Facebook Twitter Google Plus Share Tweet +1 Share Forward Copyright © 2014 Transcribe Books, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Transcribe Books P O Box 38432 Greensboro, NC 27438 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list This email was sent to transcribebooks(a)triad.rr.com why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Transcribe Books · P O Box 38432 · Greensboro, NC 27438 · USA John P. Cock >Daily Blog: "Journey Reflection" at this link > Google or Google+ : www.reJourney.blogspot.com >Web Page: www.transcribebooks.com >Books: http://www.amazon.com/John-P.-Cock/e/B001K8Y5KW _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Oe List ...] Dialogue] "Journey Reflection" Blog Review (July 2014)
by Robert and Cynthia Vance via OE 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

Would like also. Thanks. Cynthia and Bob Vance Nancy Lanphear via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: >I do want to be added. > >Thanks, > >Nancy > > > >On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 3:16 PM, John Cock via OE <oe(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: > > >From: John Cock <jpc2025(a)triad.rr.com> > >Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 2:23 PM >Subject: "Journey Reflection" Blog Review (July 2014) > > >Colleagues of OE and ICA, > > >Following are the most viewed blog posts of the month “Journey Reflection” Blog Review (July 2014). > > >And below is a sample of today's blog post e-mail via Mail Chimp that goes to couple hundred OE/ICA colleagues, plus. Let us know if you would like to be added > >(would come to your e-mail at 7 a.m. US Eastern Time). > > > >Journey on, > > Lynda and John > > >View this email in your browser > >Journey Reflection > >July 31 >Interior Conversion > > > >Thomas Berry: As spirit is one, so the universe in its primordial origin, its movement through time, and its final fulfillment, is a single, if infinitely diverse, mode of being. [Our Universal Spirit Journey* book] is a simple, direct, and exuberant statement of the all-pervasive presence and power of spirit … and its ever-present support for the Earth Venture and the Human venture…. > > >Journer: Berry is talking about the heart of the profound journey for all. > > >Nez: Prophetically he warns that without spirit all the economic, political, and cultural processes of humanity will not make it via “our [present] dysfunctional interior life.” > > >Namaste. > >______ > >* from Berry’s Foreword, pp. 10-11, of jpc’s book (2002) > >Image: source > > >Xtra Blog Post: Profound Journey Learning (Wyatt Prunty) > >3,600+ Daily Blog Posts since August 2004 > >JPC & LLC Links: > >WebsiteBooksFacebookTwitterGoogle Plus Share Tweet +1 Share Forward Copyright © 2014 Transcribe Books, All rights reserved. >Our mailing address is: > >Transcribe Books > >P O Box 38432 > >Greensboro, NC 27438 > > >Add us to your address book > > >unsubscribe from this list >This email was sent to transcribebooks(a)triad.rr.com >why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences >Transcribe Books · P O Box 38432 · Greensboro, NC 27438 · USA > > > >John P. Cock > >>Daily Blog: "Journey Reflection" at this link > > Google or Google+ : www.reJourney.blogspot.com >>Web Page: www.transcribebooks.com >>Books: http://www.amazon.com/John-P.-Cock/e/B001K8Y5KW > > >_______________________________________________ >OE mailing list >OE(a)lists.wedgeblade.net >http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net > >

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Jaime Wednesday to Friday for ST
by via OE 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

The following is in today's Saipan Tribune paper. Thanks to all who sent greetings for the day. Self-immolate They were monks during the Vietnam War who protested thecontinuing presence of American forces and the tragic conduct of an unpopularwar of attrition. Their method wasself-immolation in busy thoroughfares for maximum publicity. With their bodies, they called attention to asituation that demanded a radical response. Charles Moore in some quarters was dubbed a madman. At 79-year old retired United MethodistMinister colleague who I knew briefly in the late 70s, his teenage son oncegiven to our family's care in Saskatoon while parents conducted training inIndia, doused himself in gasoline and lit his being up in flames in GrandSaline, Texas. Those unfamiliar with theprofundity of the Buddhist act of self-immolation were quick to condemn Charlesas a kook. EmileDurkheim categorized suicides into four types: egoistic, altruistic, anomic(moral confusion), and fatalistic. Self-immolationinvolves and covers all counts, in his estimation. It is an act of despair and defiance, a symbolat once of resignation and heroic self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice is big in Christendom with theimage of the crucified Christ so folks like quiet but dour Charles, consumedwith a burning cause, who takes on the ultimate self-sacrifice. Todaymarks the end of my 69th year in the Gregorian calendar and thefirst day of my 70th year in the lunar one of the Far East. No, I am not anywhere close toself-immolating. I am mesmerized by themetaphor of having one's being in flames. Thepoetry of light and the metaphor of heat are as old as humanity itself. Light particularly is often compared toclarity, as the waters of the Aegean Sea was once seen as crystal clear, andone of Europe's eras from where we derived some of our mental behavior arethose of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. The picture of transcendence looking down from Olympus informs this viewof "seeing the light." Heat isa bit more immanent. It is allconsuming, the image of the self and the fire as one, completely embraced. This is more than the unity of the Om, or the harmony and balance of the yin-yang in the pugua. It is the flamingavatar stealing fire for humanity. Thistheme recurs in many world mythologies, e.g., Matarisvan in the Rig Veda, and Prometheus in Greeceenabling progress of civilization while Azazel in the Jewish Book of Enoch taught humanity to usetools and fire. Maui of the Polynesiansstole fire from the Mudhens, the alae birds. The spider for the Cherokee, the coyote forthe Pacific Northwest, the crow from the volcano in the Yukon, the weasel tothe Creek, the rabbit to the Algonquin, and the hare to the Ojibwa, all stoleand provided humanity with fire. As Itraverse the last 17-16 years of my one-moment-in-time, I adopt the lifestyleof an embodied scorching avatar rather than the sedate and resigned retiree ina quad by the metro stop of Hang KongHang Tian Da Xue in Shenyang. Mysword shall be words in englisCHe, sharpand vivid as they come. It hasbeen a long way from the agrarian fields of Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija where I wasborn, to the wind-swept Manchurian plains of my current residence. The many causes that added verse and prose tothe interior mythos of my self-story stacks in the database of my memory downto the level of the unconscious. Now, Iprune the top of my iceberg as my willful engagement in scrapping wayward postingson walls, washing telephone numbers on steps, picking the trash off thewalkways and sidewalks, and keeping the green of summer in community nodes andgardens. It isthe mental self that I immolate. I am not into saving myself for social glory,nor finding ways to work my name into anyone's marquee. As the term "immolate" implies, itis my life's goal and daily task to set the "self" aflame, let itburn into ashen nothing with the heat bringing warmth where needed, and lightwhere it is shunned. Intrusive but notcoercive, collaborative rather than combative, I side with other selves engagedin their own self-immolations. Fornow, the warmth spreads amongst young learners prodded to pay attention totheir innate sense faculties, to describe what they see around them, theobjects that they touch, the aroma and odor they smell, the sounds and musicthey hear, and the various cuisine of their heritage that they gulp. They are too young to fall into the morass ofabstractions that learning in China imposes. They are, at first blush, what they sense. Slowly,they are urged to narrate their responses to experiences at home, on the road,at the playground and in school, and start expressing their feelings, of fearand delight, pointing out things they hate and like. Then they segue into the world ofabstractions that the Chinese language is good at. Tooyoung to make their own behavioral choices, they are nevertheless, made awareof the little things that make them whine at their parents' feet for thingsthey wish to do. Or, decide to pick-uptheir lives and walk! All theseexpressed in englisCHe, with CHcharacteristics! That's how I am setting myself on fire. j'aime la vie pinoypanda2031(a)aol.com yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today. participate. In all, celebrate!

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