Randy,
So many of our courses did the image shift, at least for me. I remember taking CS-I on the near west side (NW Side) of Cleveland. R. Fishel and D. Scott came and did it. I remember greeting them at a bar in their motorcycle boots and black berets with wedgeblade pins! I never expected clergy to be dressed like that! But in was in the section on the Urban Revolution that they had us just walk the neighborhood. I saw things, heard things and felt things I had never noticed before. It was a magical experience, and we had two pastors who became part of the first galaxy in churches there, Jack & Jane Sherlough (sp?) and Jerry & Marty Lapka. Later the very large body of folks who made up the Cleveland Metro Cadres wrote a song to This Land is Your Land about the Cleveland Metro. A fire was lit that has never dimmed in so many of us.
I’ll let Jim give his responses to RS-I, but wanted to share my image shifting experience.
Jack
Jim,
I think you’re probably correct. What would you say were some of the more important image shifts that occurred in RS-1?
Randy
I don’t remember the part about arguing with the participants during the Friday dinner conversation. I got thinking about this because the Archive group was recently reviewing the Imaginal Education collection in the archive website and it occurred to me that I think the RS-1 course was the best and most refined example of imaginal education that we ever came up with . . .
Here is a link to some additional remembrances of RS-1.
I remember telling the group at my first RS-1 that what grounded me in history was that I was an Iowa farm girl. Whoever was leading tried to argue with me and I argued that they knew nothing about electricity. (My farmer father had spent evenings wiring houses and as kids my brother and I often went with him.) My grounding in history has never changed, even as much as most of my other thinking did in response to that event.
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Jim, I'm neurotic enough to still have my RS-1 file folders. The Friday evening conversation was 1) full name and one thing that grounds in history (I remember not understanding exactly what that meant.)
4 ) First name and one pressing concern.
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