Power and Contribution: A Plan For Causing A New World of Opportunity

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Power and Contribution

A Plan for Causing a New World of Opportunity
This workbook is for capturing, thinking through, and creating a plan for fulfilling an impossible promise. An impossible promise is a promise which, when fulfilled, has caused the present World to be a New World of Opportunity for each and every person. The promise is due on a specific date and will require the time, resources, and energy of many peoples lives.
Person making this promise:
Rachel White
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1a. Banner (initial statement of promise): Thrive and Alive by Twenty Twenty-Five! b. Impossible Promise: By 2025, I promise By 2025, all LGBT children and families* will live in communities where they are honored and celebrated. and . . . By 2045, all communities will thrive in abundance and celebrate the majesty of all individuals and families and their place in the universe.** This promise is bifurcated intentionally so as to allow the start-up time and experience necessary for the Janus Center to come online and be positioned to take on the longer-term matter. The 2025 promise is designed to accomplish three things: 1) Getting the early muscle building done so the eternal Holarchy Partnership can make a difference quickly for LGBT children and families [first child in residence by 2015] with the Spoon Benders Academy (SBA) fully accepted as a role model for handling marginalized and unattached children as 2025; 2) The LAGLC LGBT permanency project will be expanded to include prevention so as to effectively engage the children and their families with their communities and various organizations to provide a robust, helpful and compassionate environment in which they can thrive in without involving any of the formal social care and treatment systems; and 3) the Janus Center is well known enough and prestigious enough to take on something so fundamental as transforming a 50,000 year-old paradigm that conversations take place in the world in a binary (win:lose, more:less, good:bad, etc.) construct and transform them the into a triadic framework of discourse that ensures that the space between two conversants is maintained as a generous space of possibility by a third participant in the conversation (See Tribal Leadership by Logan and King). * This promise will be comprised of a set of projects and demonstrations that are pursued vigorously to ensure that the short-term 2025 promise is kept and the longer-term promise provides the overall vision and evolving mission.
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** This is also referred to as the Third Way throughout this document (See footnote 1). 2. Possibilities The possibility that all LGBT children and families thrive, lives abundantly, and celebrate themselves and their communities and organizations.
The possibility of people gathering in the inquiry for creating a viable, flexible and rich philosophy and practice for children and family causes and the Third Way.1 (i.e. to gather at the Janus Center and its expanded network of discourse.)
The possibility of the next episteme embracing the Third Way.
The Third Way a way for people and communities to organize and construct inspiration, possibility, and realization that is integrated across Ken Wilbers Four Quadrants (See attachment B).
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3. New World of Opportunity In this new world there will be opportunity for all people, especially children and families, to thrive and live abundantly, and celebrate themselves, their community, and the world at large. While this promise is initially focused on impacting LGBT children and families in the shortterm with the Spoon Benders Project and expanding the LAGLC permanency project (completed by 2025), in parallel there will be a related discourse initiated about shifting the nexus of the reoccurring socio-economic dialogs from 1) being characterized typically with a binary based pair of opposing either/or propositions held by the conversants to 2) a tertiary dialog that is characterized either/or/and with three conversants. This shift is intended to facilitate a network of dialogs, i.e. discourse, that have as their purpose in part the fulfillment of this Impossible Promise in 2045. For this opportunity to be whole and complete, this suggests that the opportunity embraces the whole process of transformation simultaneously as suggested by Wilber in SES and Arthur Kessler in The Ghost In The Machine. This process is referred to here as Associate, Dissociate, Re-associate process or the ADR process and is shown in the diagram to the right. In its more final and longer-term form, the opportunity of the promise involves all people, groups, organizations, communities, countries and the world having a transformed discourse concerning humanitys major opportunities, threats, weaknesses and threats (The reference to the strategic construct of SWOT is intentional). That these opportunities will occur in a moderated discourse that is generous, inspiring and integrated sufficiently to permit Ken Wilbers integral-based concepts, called the Integral2, to become the preferred context for discourse such that in all endeavors all humans Creating The Field (Realm) Of Transformation thrive, honor and celebrate all of humankind, i.e. the fulfillment of a world that works for everyone. In summary there are three world opportunities to be considered: 1. The opportunity for the world to see that marginalized LGBT children can become happy, fulfilled, celebrated, and highly valued citizens living in a world of abundance. 2. The opportunity for Ken Wilburs work to be made simpler and more accessible to the world through the evolution/transformation of discourse to occur modeled after Dave Logan and John King work in their book, Tribal Leadership. 3. The world opportunity have discourses as noted in #2 above as a way to generously and compassionately come to terms with drastic polarization and deconstruction of humanity characterized by Ken Wilbers Flatland in A Brief History Of Everything in the hopes that polarization and deconstruction do not bring about humanitys ultimate demise. 4. What will the world look like when your promise is fulfilled? What currently existing global conditions will be absent? What new global conditions will exist?
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The main characteristics of the world evolved include:
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Short-term: The social technologies and companion discourse provide a clear path for replicating the Spoon Benders Academy project for LGBT for other marginalized children and families throughout the U.S. And the LAGLC permanency project, in its expanded form, is adopted in the USA as a model for providing that all LGBT children and their families thrive and are celebrated and honored by their communities. Ultimately, this model must be scalable to the world. Results associated with the shortterm are noted in Sections #5 and #7 and as provided throughout this document are fulfilled or exceeded; this includes social, economic and spiritual characteristics of the world, i.e. Ken Wilberts Big Three. Longer-term: Discourse and competition will remain competitive, as is often the case in the binary lexicon; however, but in its transformed state the competition will be about the level of integration and how the subsumed parts (holons) become a compatible part of the whole where it has less internal agency but greater external influence and power. Think of atoms are to molecules as precepts are to concepts as dialogs are to discourse. Triadic conversations are to give a structural context for dialog that generates powerful and broadly embraced possibilities for the well-being of humankind as noted throughout this document. New Global Conditions (long-term):
New or transformed: a. The term LGBT as a description of an individual, group, organization or
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community will be totally redefined (e.g. as Loving Generosity Begets Beautiful Transformation) or simply missing from the worlds lexicon. b. Concerns for basic survival and associated needs have been handled in an abundant and highly accessible manner for all. (See Gallup Healthways measures herein.) c. The focus for promise has inspired and motivated sufficient people and organizations to consider the whole of all marginalized humans, regardless of their circumstances or how they got there, and lift them in abundant lives that thrive in and are celebrated for their contribution. d. Discourse generating devolutionary evolvement, divisiveness and malcontent will be considered primitive, inhumane except as to undo an evolutionary path that clearly is not aligned with a balanced and integrated progression of the human condition.
Eliminated or no longer present:
a. Stereotyping or conversationally stigmatizing individuals, groups, organizations or communities due to unique but wholly natural and/or socioeconomically conditions consistent with the overall natural and healthy state of humanity. b. Decisions based upon scarcity, depravity and fundamentalism or polarization will no longer drive the predominate discourses around the world.
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5. Long Term Timeline The decade of fulfillment: Conditions to be met for the fulfillment of the Impossible Promise (the end state): The Decade of Fulfillment: Date 2025 Conditions of the Promise Fulfilled (End State) During the decade of 2020-2029, the following conditions will be met, i.e. end state:
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First class of graduates has a 90% acceptance rate into tier one colleges and universities worldwide. Spoon Benders Academy opened and by 2025 is recognized as a nation model for addressing chronically marginalized children separated permanently from their families, especially LGBT children.
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3. The dialog for sifting the global attitude towards a holistic framework for creating and sustaining abundance is in full-scale deployment. 4. The LAGLC permanency project is viewed as the role model for embracing all children and families for their potential, beauty and dignity. 5. The Janus center is founded, funded and sustainable for the foreseeable future. Research conducted, published and widely accepted around the dynamics required for the Third Way to be present and sustainable through the next episteme. During the decades of 2030-2049, the following conditions will be met:
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Important conversations for dealing with a lack of wholeness, completeness, integrity and abundance are based in the triadic construct as discussed in Tribal Leadership by Logan and King and detailed later on in this document. The Janus Centers work and its leader, Khush Cooper, are recognized as worthy of the distinction, Nobel Peace Prize.
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5. Long Term Timeline Contd. The decade prior to the decade of fulfillment: Conditions to be met for fulfillment of the Impossible Promise: Date 2025 Conditions of the Promise Fulfilled In the decade 2010-2019, the following conditions will be fulfilled:
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Spoon Benders Academy is opened and fully operational and in with the first five years demonstrates its initial value, approach and sustainability including research and published papers.
2. LAGLC permanency project is viewed as a highly promising model for LGBT children and families thriving and being honored and celebrated by their communities. 3. Peer reviewed research and articles about the LAGLC Permanency project and Spoon Benders have been widely accepted throughout a wide crosssection of medical, mental health, sociology, and economics organizations 4. The terms and conditions that begin to fulfill the abundance portion of the promise are sufficiently and richly enough defined that a conscious effort to sift the dialog supporting the attainment of abundance can begin. Janus Center is formed in its early structural form with sufficient resources for its future commitments to ensure a successful start-up and beyond to 2029. In the decade 2030-2039, the following conditions will be fulfilled:
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2045
Then current technology and social development breakthroughs will be incorporated into the Promise, and the discourse concerning the SWOT of humanity is now shifting away from scarcity, depravity and fundamentalism or polarization. Research and demonstrations around triadic dialog is widely accepted and taught and promoted in many organizations, including most of the highly regarded learning institutions world-wide, as the most highly regarded and effective means of moving people, groups, organizations, and communities through important discourses yielding highly integrated and valued outcomes across Wilburs Four Quadrants.
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Three-Five decades prior to the decade of fulfillment: Conditions to be met for fulfillment of the Impossible Promise: Date 2025 Conditions of the Promise Fulfilled 1. (2011-2029) Spoon Benders Academy has been open for 7-10 years with 4-5 years of steady state and successful operations, as noted throughout this document, while continuing to develop and improve the model. 2. LAGLC permanency projected embraced worldwide.
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3. The discourse about abundance is being impacted by the work of the Janis Center that the level socio-economic energy is approaching the point were the ADR process is near or at the point of transition into reassociation. 2045 In the decade 2040-2049, the following conditions will be fulfilled:
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Then current technology and social development breakthroughs will be incorporated into the Promise and leveraged to drive re-association around abundance to the point transformation throughout the major socio-economic discourses of the world. The abundance dialog has sufficiently sifted the worlds discourse concerning what living abundantly looks like in a balanced and sustainable manner. A new vocabulary has been created and generally accepted world-wide for the Communeconomy3
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Triadic dialog research, development and deployment have advanced to the stage that contagion throughout and across many levels of society worldwide are occurring. (See Malcolm Gladwells The Tipping Point, Everett Rogers Fourth Edition of The Diffusion Of Innovations, and Nassim Talebs The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable)
Communeconomy: A term developed by Cooper and White to describe an outcome and set of measures that provide a means of communicating and evaluating the degree to which people, groups, organizations . . . and the world are living in a balanced way in reference to Ken Wilbers Four Quadrants found in A Brief History Of Everything. In a more colloquially available way of expressing this, Communeconomy is a conceptual way of integrating the individual and cultural with the objective and inter-objective such that the social and economic are integrated in a complementary way with the individual and culture. Therefore, the Communeconomy must embrace a balanced set of outcomes and related measures that promotes higher levels of being, awareness and knowledge throughout the four quadrants (See Attachment B). 2011 Landmark Education Corporation Page 7 R. White April 5, 2011
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6. Present state of the world (including relevant statistics and projections) Below are measures representing the prevalent research concerning LGBT children and families4 that were presented to the Los County Supervisors in July of 2010 concerning LGBT children and families:
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Sampling Of LGBT Measures (2000-2008 data)
The above measure and their derivatives are disparately available in uncorrelated and unaggregated forms spread across US county, state and federal bureaucracies. World data and information is even less available. The research of Cooper and White was an attempt to approximate this correlation and level of aggregation. Part of a $13.4 million research and demonstration project involving Cooper and White, funded by Health and Human Services from 2010 through 2015, will produce the first full set of integrated and correlated measures for LGBT children and their families for ages 5 through 24. Since Cooper and White are principals along with the UCLA Williams Institute in this research, White intends to use the results of this unique project to formulate the ultimate measures and their tracking mechanisms. In the mean time the measures noted in the table above serve as a preliminary reference and guide as to the current condition of LGBT children, and beneath these aggregated data are specific stats for families and the overall social and economic impact on them and their LGBT children as they
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come out. Further, Cooper and White have become supporters of and collaborators with Dr. Caitlyn Ryan, PhD, who is the only social scientist to have publish peer-reviewed research into the nature and causes of family rejection due to sexual identity and gender variance. She has agreed to join Cooper and White and the LA Gay and Lesbian Centers (LAGLC) research project. Below is a very brief summary of her findings5:
Family accepting behaviors towards LGBT youth during adolescence protect against suicide, depression and substance abuse. LGBT young adults who reported high levels of family acceptance during adolescence had significantly higher levels of self-esteem, social support and general health, compared to peers with low levels of family acceptance. LGBT young adults who reported low levels of family acceptance during adolescence were over three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts and to report suicide attempts, compared to those with high levels of family acceptance. High religious involvement in families was strongly associated with low acceptance of LGBT children.
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Her research continues to explore the family and community barriers to family breakdown and family reunification as part of her research and practice, including collaboration with the LAGLCs project. As part of Coopers and Whites collaboration with Ryan including the Williams Institute, peer review research and publications including two major convenings, one held in 2012 and one in 2014 and hosted by UCLA. This work, in addition to the existing body of work Cooper and White have created will form the major component of the Spoon Benders care, treatment and development model. They plan to tie their outcomes and measures in part to the County of Los Angeles, which are the noted in the previous table, Examples Of LGBT Measures. Scaling this data to the national level is simply a matter of aggregation using Whites socio-economic model6 that already has that capability built into it. Looking at the longer-term nature of the promise and how it might be measured and calibrated is to measure how we are thriving as developed and measured by Gallup. This work also measures well being as part of the overall index they have developed. (The index is shown below for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011):
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is the first-ever daily assessment of U.S. residents' health and well-being. By interviewing at least 1,000 U.S. adults every day, the Well-Being Index provides real-time measurement and insights needed to improve health, increase productivity, and lower healthcare costs. Public and private sector leaders use data on life evaluation, physical health, emotional health, healthy behavior, work environment, and basic access to develop and prioritize strategies to help their communities thrive and grow. Journalists, academics, and medical experts
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benefit from this unprecedented resource of health statistics and behavioral economic data to inform their research and reporting. See below: Methodology The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index tracks the well-being of U.S. residents throughout the year, interviewing no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults nationwide each day, with the exception of major holidays. Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each daily sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday. Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, cell-phone-only status, cell-phone-mostly status, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design. With the inclusion of the cell-phone only households and the Spanish Language interviews, 98% of the adult population is represented in the sample. By comparison, typical landline only methodologies represent approximately 85% of the adult population. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. Click here to download the formal methodology and Well-Being Index research report. Domains Measured The Well-Being Index measures six domains of well-being. Each domain is determined based on scientific study of responses to the survey questions and include: Life Evaluation Emotional Health Physical Health Healthy Behavior Work Environment Basic Access Life Evaluation The Life Evaluation Index includes a self-evaluation of two items (present life situation and anticipated life situation five years from now) using the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale with steps from 0 to 10, where "0" represents the worst possible life and "10" represents the best possible life. Taken together, respondents are then classified as "thriving," "struggling," or "suffering," with "thriving" respondents evaluating their current state as a "7" or higher and their future state as a "8" or higher, while "suffering" respondents provide a "4" or lower to both evaluations.
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Based on The Cantril Ladder Scale
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In addition to these this indexes, other measures might include:
Institutions focused on thriving and abundance (See samples below7) Organizations and institutions adopting the triadic conversational construct Number of people exposed, trained and practicing Some measure generative discourse compared that exhibits signs of integral thinking, if not necessarily Wilbers specific characterizations of the four quadrants (Perhaps a meta-measure will have to created and research and linking up some of Wilbers offshoot organizations may be helpful here. This will be one of the early tasks of the Janus Center.)
I conclude this section while considering the work of Nobel laureate Dr. Mohammed Yunus and his book, Creating A World Without Poverty. Clearly, his brilliant idea of making very small loans, call micro loans, qualifies as a Black Swan8 event. One that is transforming the economics and social structures of wealth and well-being at the lowest levels of socio-economic existence (even if we cannot yet explicitly measure it in a holistic and integrated way it clearly is a game changer) through an integrated approach targeting loans to poverty stricken families. In doing so Yunus team also recognized who in the socioeconomic communities of the hyper-poor hold the individual commitment, the cultural responsibility and the group/organizational skills to use these micro-capital infusions to make socio-economic
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a) Stanford Center on Adolescence They have done some collaboration with Gallup and a place called the Thrive Institute http://www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr b) Search Institute Located in Minneapolis but and connected work from Stanford, Gallup, Tufts and the Fuller Theological Seminary http://www.search-institute.org/research/thriving c) Thrive Institute (Menlo Park) http://www.thrivefoundation.org/index.php d) http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/NV-eng-wellbeing.htm
The Black Swan Theory or Theory of Black Swan Events is a metaphor that encapsulates the concept that The event is a surprise (to the observer) and has a major impact. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight. The theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain: 1. The disproportionate role of high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance and technology 2. The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities) 3. The psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs www.wikipedia.com
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breakthroughs for their families, groups and communities; they often found this person was the woman head of house hold in many localities. This game changer was not expected, flew in the face of everything that past and current financiers knew about making loans. And to further illustrate the kind of phenomena we might also pause and consider the social and economic upheaval occurring today throughput the Model East, the rapid decline of the Soviet Empire or the financial meltdowns of 1998 and 2008/9. The question here is still very much a matter of inquiry and debate in regards to what measures might we use to foresee the future when Black Swan events so perturbate and debunk our comfortable trends and well established but occasionally fully misleading socio-economic measures. Measures that are later rationalized to conform the Black Swan and continue to be used as if they were immune to such cataclysms. Given that much of this promise deals with aspects of the human condition and its impact on small groups to very large-scale groups, up to and including the world, I believe compelling outcomes and measures that properly inform and integrate policy making and legislation must be part of the research to transform the discourse concerning abundance, thriving, and well-being. To put the question into terms familiar to Landmark Education, What the hell does it mean for all us to have lives we love and to live them powerfully? Authors Note: The following timeline discussions that are highlights of key specifics. For the timeline details, see Attachment A. 7. Short Term Timeline Conditions to be met for the fulfillment of the Impossible Promise: Within the next 10 years 1. The organizational aspects, raising money and creating Spoon Benders Academy must be completed and the Academy in full operation. In the next five years beginning in 2015, the Janus Center will become fully operational with known world leaders as ambassadors, a board of enthusiastic directors, and a highly inspirational and capable operating team. By the end of the period, 2025, the Janus Center will have national recognition, and some world recognition as an emerging center for the study of humanitys development, especially concerning LGBT children and families in harmony with Wilburs Four Quadrants. It will be recognized as a center of innovation and competence concerning the development of the early, large-scale deployable theories and practices in transforming the discourse around humanities major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (aka SWOT).
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Within the next 5 years 1. In the immediate future and in partnership with Khush Cooper, in 2011/12 we will raise $100 million for the future Spoon Benders Academy for Children, scheduled to accept its first class of children and youth in the fall of 2015. The sponsoring organization, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center (LAGLC), and supporting parties will raise the remaining $200 million. Construction and preparation for opening day must also be competed. The design will create an academy that will permanently house 300-500 children and youth; they will receive one of the best home/living experiences and K-12 educations in the world; the emphasis will be on serving LGBTQ children and youth though not to the total exclusion of others. The academy will also provide the necessary resources for graduating students to attend the college of their choice. The Academy will be designed and operated as home for all admitted children, youth and graduates and will be located in the greater Los Angeles area. Further more, the academys development, operation and support will be designed to
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be replicable in any community with the resources and willingness to see children and youth ages 5-24 without family connections as gifted with the full potential to have amazing and fulfilling lives that make a difference in the world. Spoon Benders will be a place where graduates always know where they will spend Thanksgiving at home. In addition, the necessary preventative methods and techniques will be developed and integrated into the LAGLC permanency project to begin impacting the stress and chaos of coming out on children and their families. This will effort will permit the leveraging of this well-funded project to become a complete social model for the prevention, intervention, treatment, care and permanency of LGBT children worldwide. Form the Janus Center, a center where people can gather and study the nature of human advancement throughout the phsiosphere, biosphere, and the noosphere. Its primary purpose will be to seek out the physicality, ecology and spirituality of humanitys progress and transformation. In addition, the formation of the Janus Center is central to the fulfillment strategies to the 2025 and beyond. The long-term goal is to transform the collective world conversations surrounding economics, ecology, sociology and spirituality, which are currently based on a set of beliefs, systems and protocols that are dimensionally binary. For example:
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win:lose attract:repulse give:take abundance:scarcity enlightened:intolerant liberal:conservative
yes:no positive:negative more:less well-being:depravity rapture:apocolpse fundamentalism:progressivism
plus:minus order:disorder profit:loss ascent:descent good:bad embrace:reject
The intended transformation9 will create a common conversational framework that is tertiary in nature. One that integrates the cognition of our temporal and knowledge frameworks into arguments, states, and/or fields that not only considers: 1) association, disassociation, reassociation, i.e. the social/cultural interaction across and/or throughout the heterarchy; or 2) ascension, decension or the structural context all the way down (and up) the hierarchy; but also considers, for example, how these dyads are focused on the hierarchical context of things simultaneously with heterarchical content being consider, which is noted as a critically important and an integral part of a triadic10. Whether up or down the hierarchical (context) while noting the heterarchical (content) in the transfinite moment of the present noting ascension or decension occurring that has a oneness or integrated nature about it enabling the transformation in the hierarchy to occur. Its important to note that without this oneness present, transformation cannot occur awareness of the existence of and even temporary experience of the transformation can occur but the actual ontological and spiritual evolution cannot. Using the Greek mythological God Janus (two faced) as an analogy, i.e. looking both along the vertical (hierarchical) and the horizontal (heterarchical) dimensions of the holarchy simultaneously: 1) the cultural framework at any heterarchical level in the hierarchy promoting the integrated or differentiated conversations focused on the dual nature of the holarchy; and thus, transformative ascension or decension is facilitated in the holarchy. And 2) The structural framework of the hierarchy at any level will have sufficiently subsumed the differentiated and integrated conversations originating through the ADR process, and thus can continue unabated to create new fields of transformation, i.e.
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Wilber, Ken: Sex, Ecology and Spiritually and A Brief History of Everything; Kessler, Arthur: The Ghost In the Machine; and Bondarenko, Dimtri: A Homoarchic Alternative To The Homoarchic State And Alternative Pathways Of Social Evolution 10 Bandura, A: Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory 2011 Landmark Education Corporation Page 13 R. White April 5, 2011
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integrated conversations will occur and generate ascension vs. fragmented and disassociated conversations that drive decension. It is noteworthy this differentiation and/or integration occurs at the smallest of subatomic particles, e.g. a Quark, to the largest entities we are aware of, i.e. the universe or universes11. Within the next year The next year will be punctuated by: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Completing P & C Attending The Creation of Freedom Launching Spoon Benders and $100 million capital campaign under way The initial team of ambassadors, champions and staff on board Continuing to raise Holarchys level of recognition and contribution
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By Weekend #5 of the Power and Contribution Course 2025 Promise 1. Poster complete (collateral materials) 2. Launching video complete 3. First launching event complete 4. Registered in Creation and Freedom 5. Fund raising for Spoon Benders initiated 6. Finalized list of most desired organizational and key staff members 7. Creation Of Freedom Handled for June 2011 8. 2025 Promise staff contacted and three enrolled 9. 1-2 Ambassadors contacted and one enrolled Holarchy Consulting 10. Black Swan read 11. Second Kaizen project launched with Hathaway-Sycamores 12. Re-engage Mr. Angela Shields, PhD, Psychology to join firm (meet her parents) 13. Laverne Batton on-boarded 14. New contract signed with Five Acres Personal 15. Prepare to move 16. Contact Marice and Allison (my daughters) By Weekend #4 of the Power and Contribution Course N/A Within the next 1 month Reference By W/E 5 Above: 7. COF handled 10. Black Swan read 12. Re-engage Angela Shields 13. Laverne Batton on-boarded to Holarchy 14. New contract signed with Hathaway 15. Prepare to move 16. Contact Marice and Allison 8. Possibilities to enroll people into
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2025 Promise:
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1. That marginalized and unattached LGBT children and youth become the next generations world leaders and promise makers for the remainder of the century! 2. That people having their dreams out of being touched, moved and inspired by the 2025 Promise. 3. The LAGLC LGBT permanency project can create lives worth living powerfully for children and families touched in some way by sexuality identity and/or gender concerns, issues and trauma. 4. Being involved in the 2025 Promise and the Janus Center*. 5. Being part of a vital and spirited inquiry into the outcomes and measure that that will be so compelling that they will be embraced by the world as the next ontological breakthrough for humanity. * Note: 2025 Promise Ambassadors, Board, leadership and staff will initially form the nucleus of the Janus Center. 9. Opportunities for people to register into Reference items in #8 above keeping in mind the Guiding Principles discussed in Item #13: 1. Marginalized and unattached LGBT children . . . a. Joining the 2025 group of Ambassadors b. Joining the 2025 Board of Directors c. Joining the 2025 Leadership Team d. Joining the 2025 staff e. Supporting the 2025 Promise (gifts, in-kind, advocacy, grants, endowments, etc.) 2. People having their dreams . . . a. See 9.1 above b. Naming opportunities c. Children supporters and families d. Social, business, education, sporting, etc. affiliations for children and all staff e. Publicity and recognition f. Networking g. Personal development 3. LAGLC Permanency Project . . . a. Being involved in the project b. Supporting the project 4. 2025 Promise and the Janus Center . . . a. See 9.1 above b. See 9.2 above 10. Launching Event(s)
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Near-term (May-August) 1. Global Conference for Transformation 2. LA Derby Dolls event 3. LAGLC event Middle-term (2011-2012) 1. WDC event sponsored jointly by LAGLC and the HRC 2. One major variety/special interest broadcast events 3. Published media TBD 4. TED video 5. . . . 11. Measures See Items #5 and #7 above and Attached milestones
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12. Strategies
Spoon Benders Strategy (1st part of 2025 Promise): Flex the muscle of the Impossible Promise Team and raise $100 million for the Spoon Benders for exceptional children. This will be done as a fund raising effort to assist the LAGLC in creating, operating and sustaining the academy an academy that provides marginalized and disconnected LGBT children a permanent home, a world class learning experience and platform for them to become citizens of the world who are prepared to make their promise to the world. This strategy is not primarily responsible building the Academy, though it will have an active support roll in that regard.
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Key Outcome: Seed money and support created. LAGLC Permanency Strategy (2nd part of the 2025 Promise): The permanency project in current funded state by HHS is limited to children in or at eminent risk of being in the child welfare system. This augmentation strategy, which is already embedded in the LAGLCs strategy, will further fund, research and deploy family rejection causes and barriers to maintaining the nuclear family when LGBT children come out. Khush Cooper and Rachel White are already under contract through 2015 to lead this effort for the LAGLC.
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Key Outcome: a) Dr. Caitlyn Ryans work is integrated into with the other best practices evolving from the LAGFLC permanency project and experiences gain from Spoon Benders. b) A holistic best practice for dealing with LGBT children and families is vetted and widely accepted by various government, social services and mental organizations. Tertiary Discourse Strategy (2045 promise): The world will have transitioned from a paradigm of creating, measuring and languaging the human condition and awareness founded in a binary context, e.g. abundance and scarcity, strong and weak, loveable and unlovable, etc. to a tertiary paradigm of facilitated conversations that transforms the either/or conversation into an either/or/and conversation (i.e. the third way). A conversation that has two communicating participants and an active moderator that is responsible for the space between the conversants, i.e. generating
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Key Outcome: Triadic discourse is recognized and embraced as the next epistemes evolved contextual structure for conversations. The Janis Strategy: Create a center for the exploration of how the third way is languaged, how cultures containing are shifted from binary to tertiary conversations, and how eco-socioeconomic-theospherical environments are integrated into a highly responsive and intuitive third way.
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Key Outcomes: a) Center formed and sustainable, b) inquiries completed and published, and c) the results of Strategies 1 and 2 incorporated into the results of the inquiries, d) The Center is widely recognized for its sound and thoughtful research and its ability to create various and effective means of deploying initiatives world-wide based upon its an others research. Inter-generational Strategy: Develop a plan, create a structure and deploy an open-ended platform to continue the exploration in a durable and renewable way.
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Outcome: TBD but strategy must generate interest, support, and donations ala the 2008 presidential campaign. Further, this strategy is the heart of delivering a relevant and compelling message to the world.
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Policies: Several major policy subjects will need to be addressed as soon as Spoon Benders kicks off, at least informally and formally once the Janus Center, a 501 3(c), is formed. It is expected that the bylaws and policies will patterned for full transparency, ease of understanding, organizational and collaborative flexibility, clear accountability and sound governance. Both Rachel White and Khush Cooper have experience doing this and also have access to various resources and models for forming 501 3(c) entities. Principles (Methods and Means applied over the entire period of the promise): In order to facilitate the first project in pursuit of 2025, which is due in 2015, and accomplish the transition from LGBT children and families to all peoples, certain organizational and guiding principals need to be addressed:
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Proposed Organization By Y/E 2012 ii. Guiding principles:
Giving people what they want: The overall promises approach for fulfillment is one of giving people what they want from being touched, move and inspired by the promise. In the case of a supporter, donor, and advocate, the enrollment conversation is based upon asking if the enrollment possibility inspires them to ask for something from the promise for themselves. When they articulate what want, the answer will always be an enthusiastic yes in response to them getting what they want out of the promise. This is the only the promise response that can generate sufficient enthusiasm to support the promises fulfillment, and is the first and most basic triadic conversation surrounding the promise, What can we offer you out your enthusiasm for the promise! b. The basis for partnership: The partnership everyone joins into is based on the paradigm that all people are speaking from having powerful lives that inspire us all.
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Paradigm of power: The power we seek and create is based upon the following transactional paradigm I/You/We, i.e. partnership, are/is always in the pursuit of power that ensures all people are honored, celebrated and thrive.
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Ideal: All humans deserve to have access to lives they love and to live them powerfully. Vision: The vision of Thrive and Alive by 2025, aka 2025 promise, is that LGBT children and families are honored, celebrated and thrive. Mission: The mission of Thrive and Alive by 2025 is to create organizations and communities in which LGBT children and families can thrive and where they are celebrated and honored. Values: People are living powerful lives that touch, move and inspire us There is something to honor and celebrate in everyone Being proud is best accompanied with an equal amount of humility Listening as proactively as you speak helps touch, move and inspire others Seek conversations originating from freedom, full self-expression and possibility A future created free of the past is a beautiful thing to behold Powerful partnership is best supported by people who are free from their pasts The noise of life is what gives us access to possibility Embrace that in all things and at all times the eternal is present
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Philosophy And Applied Knowledge/Research: My shared focus in collaboration with Khushs promise is to create a world of organizations and communities, which can thrive at the next level of human expression that embraces all four of Wilbers Quadrants (sometimes referred to by the author and many other inquiring minds as the Third Way). Assuming that all human endeavor is founded and grounded in dialog, then for our purposes here we might imagine this as typically a set of opposing and interrelated conversational pairs such as 1) abundance & scarcity vs. demand & value, and/or 2) well-being & depravity vs. peacefulness & agitation, and/or 3) acceptance & rejection vs. ascent & descent. My hypothesis is that by forming triads of integrated conversations around such subjects such as 1, 2, and 3 noted in the previous paragraph, we could create an integrated physical-biosocio-economic-theos conversational context with relevant outcomes that transcends what Wilber calls in the post-modern world, i.e. Flat Land. I am suggesting that the holonic construction for humanitys evolution requires that we evolve from the current binary-based form of communication and networks to a tertiary construct, i.e. a three-way linguistical Three-way Conversations expression of I and We with It and/or Its, or as Wilber says, I/We/It. With such a formulated holarchy we could then posit that the now well-documented Association-Dissociation-Resociation phenomena, ADR, (the process for all transformation) typically has the simple better - worse, up - down, will - wont . . . associated with the typical binary conversational tension12 driving transformation could be based within a moderated conversation with tertiary tension. (See figure below, where node 3 is moderating the conversation between nodes 1 and 2.) This triad or tertiary protocol would permit one of the three constituents to always assume responsibility for the binary tension in the conversational space, i.e. communication between the two opposing members of the triad versus the two in communication focusing on simply the it exchange of information. That is to say to focus on the I, We and the It as a triad compared to the typical conversation which collapses the Is and the We into an It, aka FLATLAND. This permits the moderation and facilitization to integrate the self, the culture, and the system (It) versus only the representational relationship existing between opposing Its, which as an aside leaves out the artist as Foucault so vividly pointed out in The Order Of Things while describing of the fabled painting, Las Meninas! In the long-term, the promise is really about developing this triadic integration and promoting a worldwide conversation that transforms us from simply considering either-or to considering either-or-and . . . The and creating the third leg of the conversational triad now collapsed in the flatland of the current episteme, permitting (or forcing) the relationship between self, culture, and it occurring in a manner where the integrity of the entire holarchial relationship between any two members in the triad is held13 (See the figure and description following for a more complete understanding of this). In achieving this informational (IT) or conversational framework (I/WE), the I/WE/IT then can integrate closer to oneness (what Wilber calls The Integral) by ensuring that conversations that matter occur between two participants with a third participant responsible for the context of the conversation. The third participant helps ensure the conversation is generative and aligned with both the differentiated content and an integrated context, providing the opening for transformation, i.e. to ascend or transcend to the next level or state of the holarchial structure. My hypothesis is that in order for humankind to un-collapse flatland and permit I, We, and It to integrate rather than simply collapse after differentiation, we must transcend the reptilian/mammalian
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mind context based in binary paradigms found throughout the pre-Classical, Classical, Reissuance, Modern and Post-modern periods. We must reconfigure these paradigms now collapsed in the binary paradigms14 of the post-modern episteme into a tertiary context. A context that is only possible by transforming our post-modern ontology into a succeeding after state of knowledge, learning and theology (a new episteme?). Of course, people like Ray Kurzwell in The Singularity Is Near, continue to believe and pursue endeavors that will enable us to cause the next techno-eco-epistemic-theoshphereical breakthrough via technology and biology alone [it] . . . FLATLAND! It is at this juncture that my long-term promise finds its philosophical and logical basis. But before getting into that, I would like to quote from Wilber and Foucault about the great collapsing of the big three (I, We It), which is where this conversation will take up the matter long-term: In his own quirky way, Foucault would say that man had never existed before. Man was invented. And Foucault longed for the end of man. So he concluded The Order Of the things with an arresting metaphor, One can certainly wager that man will be erased, like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of the sea. This is post-modernese for: the end of objectification. The end of this dehumanizing humanism, the end of man, this mere objectification of the human person into monological its. To reduce all subjects to objects in the great interlocking web this is actually power parading as knowledge, this is the tyranny of the monological gaze, this is the irony of flatland rationality, and this was one of Foucaults targets. Ken Wilber (2002) Now to the point of how this and my promise relate, which begins with a question: Why are triadic conversations important to Thrive And Alive by 2045? Addressing the obvious first, in order to thrive one must be alive and thus the taglines usage, but the deeper focus of the longer-term promise is on creating an environment where people thrive independent of their race, religion, creed, origin, age, physiology, sexuality, gender, spirituality . . . and so on. This leads naturally to the observation that in flatland all of we cannot thrive, which is my conclusion and that of most well informed people. It seems inescapable that the root cause lies, if not wholly then at least in large part to, in the collapsing of the subjective I/We into the objective world of It. We ask why and how the magnificent creation of the Big Three in the Modern and Post-modern Ages became so completely enmeshed in reductionism, subtle reductionism, and an unabated descent down the holarchy? This question has puzzled me for some years now, not withstanding Wilbers and others intellectual pursuits including The Integral, which does in fact address this question. But in a way that seems highly unlikely to engage 7-15 billion people any time soon if ever, and Wilber as much as says this in the first section of A Brief history Of Everything and the first several chapters of SES. For if one follows the ascending/descending and transverse/inverse progression of hierarchies and heterarchies respectfully, they soon find the work and knowledge required to begin reaching the spiritual and soulful levels of differentiation and integration of the four quadrants combined (i.e. to understand that to go all the way up is to go all the way down and to go all the across is to go all the way in) simply will not be undertaken by the many, and perhaps only a very small number of the few. That said and referencing in part Saffron and Logans work in the Three Laws Of Performance, what is missing that could be cause in the matter of the many being inspired by to seek the Integral? The reader may have deduced that which is missing, at least from my perspective, is a simple but powerful conversational practice that ensures that the subjective (I) and inter-subjective (We) are never
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reduced into a simple empirical, objective state (It) that humans do not become objects of information, but remain subjects in communication. (Wilber, 2002) Or as Pinker put it somewhat differently when he argued in The language Instinct, that language as an instinct develops along common physiological (it), individual (I) and sociological (we/culture) timelines and related episodes therein for all humans. Furthering paraphrasing Pinkers point in this regard, that if we treat language as a mere biospherical learning process devoid of the differentiated and simultaneously integrated (all the way up to get all the way down . . .) aspects of biological, sociological and cultural forms of the occurring world, a world occurring as a result of groupie-like adoration of the post-modern; or to put it more colloquially in Wilber-speak, The misconceived necessity of being tight with the Flanders is to miss a great deal of the impact language has on our species. And further emphasized by the fact that language is one of the most important, if not the greatest human characteristic that permits us access to the highest levels of ascent and deepest levels of descent (i.e. all the way up/down and all the way across/in). Focusing on the whats missing question using Tribal Leadership by Logan and King as our frame, we find that whats missing, and in my estimation the ontological breakthrough in organizational and/or tribal development, is recognizing that the dyad based network of communication is inherently limited in its ability to lift people out of the I am great and often veiled but clearly intended . . . and you are not. Imagine if you will, creating a network of conversations devoid of triangular relationships; in fact, take a moment and draw a network of conversations without triangles as a visceral means of appreciating how teams, organizations or tribes communicate as a unit dyadically its awkward at best though its prevalence is overwhelming common throughout human discourse, and as a result its no wonder nearly everything seems a bit less than workable in todays world. For example, if theres always a winner and a loser, a common and much adored flatland outcome (Ill go out on a limb here and state that all the chatter about win:win is BS and services as a hollow substitute for true transformation) that its no wonder flatland has become the domain of the last 100+ years. Why? We are pre-disposed to use language in dyads, and we intuit that our networks of conversations will typically generate the results that moderated triadic discourse yields. (Logan and King in Tribal Leadership make this abundantly clear backed up by an enormous volume of assessments and organizational sensing.) Further, our conversations are seldom triadic because we form our most powerful relationships and resultant conversations dyadically at a very early age, i.e. birth, thus imprinting early and repeatedly that binary conversations are the way a relationship and the related conversations are supposed to occur. In fact, its quite a leap to gracefully accept a third node interactively in a conversation as normal and functional, because the roles therein are not familiar at all given 50,000 years or so of engrained dyadic communication being created since birth of each and everyone of us. This is quite simple to demonstrate: The next time you Model Of Triadic Conversation are about to have a conversation with something other than hot air at stake, though sports conversations seem to work quite well, ask a third party to join in and moderate . . . or maybe not if youre interested in the friendship. Probing into Chapter 10 of Tribal leadership, the critical feature of triadic conversations is the possibility of conversations being based a creative, powerful and generative context between the two conversants in a triad at the behest of a third party who holds the conversational space between the conversants, much like a coach or moderator or a maven/connector as described in Gladwells Tipping Point. To illustrate this, consider that in the figure above, where I have attempted to illustrate what the triadic
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conversational model might look like. By applying the network of conversations distinction from Landmarks Wisdom Division15, notice that the role of the coach/moderator is to focus on creating a generative space or framework, also called a field in Partnership Explorations or new realm of possibility to reference the Landmark Forum again for the conversation between the conversant principals. The participants are responsible for creating a network of conversation that is generative and transformative that results in an authentic dialog, where one conversant has the role of moderator or to hold the space for the occurring conversation. For people who are familiar with Landmarks work, this seems natural and even perhaps the preferred way to create unrecognizable and amazing results. Further, if one has completed Landmarks basic three-course curriculum, they will have had the opportunity and the experience of being both coach/moderator and conversant . . . and they will have nearly always created possibilities in their lives and for their communities that transformed them and those around them all through a three-way facilitated conversation. Once again though, one only need attend the first morning of Landmarks flagship course, The Landmark Forum, to experience the often jarring and disorienting experience of being exposed to communicating in triads, where the Forum Leader serves principally as the moderator and coach between individual speakers and the rest of the other course participants posing as a single listening and commentary body (we should also note in fairness to the Friday morning Plebes that they do not yet have the distinctions necessary to grasp the true value of their discourse). And one last anecdotal point before moving on, once facile with this form of communication, the roles switch dynamically in rapid succession, and I believe this often accounts for that first other world experience people often have when they are initially exposed to conversations between a bunch of Landmarkians. I mean really, we sound like a bunch of seriously over-amped aliens recently arrived from the planet Hollyweird or the SF Castro Cluster near the great Leather Nebula, cool aid drinkers all! Taking this matter a little further, and considering both Chapters Three and Ten of Tribal Leadership, it is reasonable to extrapolate that the nature of the dyadic form of communication was a significant factor in why flatland was so easily embraced by the modern age when the great three were differentiated and then completely collapsed and swallowed hook-line-and-sinker by the post-modern age. Why? Because as noted earlier, dyadic conversations are primarily I/You conversations, where We isnt linguistically associated with the conversation until one has typically dominated, seduced, weaseled, or otherwise manipulated the discussion into Logans and Kings Im great and youre not dynamic. At which time if the participants, now willing or not, are still at least both standing their resulting actions, impressions, conclusions and other phenomena from the conversation will largely be a win:lose matter. And regardless of how subtle or gross this may occur, it will almost always occur that way. Dyadic conversational relationships are not prone to win:win or accommodation, which therefore, out of the binary language process We is collapsed to an It by objectification in the representational world occurring through one Is dominance over another I, i.e. winning or at the least not losing. Of course we can move to the other of Wilbers interior quadrants and make the I a We, where we is singular in its purpose, and collapse all individuality into a social it. This may seem opposite what Foucault was pulling on in The Order Of Things, but think of the artist as the I and the We as s/he relates to the It created. This phenomenon can been found in every aspect of human interaction from the interpersonal to groups, organizations, communities, countries and the world. This conversational dynamic accounts for a great deal of charismatic-enthralled devotees, despotic leader-followers, savior-disciples, bully-bullied, and master-slaves to name a few of the more notorious social dyads. Which is to say a domination/submission dynamic that has taken humanity into its darkest episodes of our history including most assuredly the last couple of centuries, and not the least of which is our current abysmal tendency to sacrifice all of the biosphere, the noosphere and the theosphere in the pursuit of socioeconomic excesses and extremes that threaten the lowest levels of the holarchy we exist within. Should
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we not transform this lemming-like tendency and irreparably harm those lower and most fundamental levels of the holarchy, which seems eminently possible, all of life as we know it will descend into an unthinkable conflagration. My 2045 promises is to expand the awareness, accessibility and practice of triadic conversations. In this regard I mean to use this technology and practice to create a transformed and sustainable discourse and framework around the two paradigms of scarcity vs. abundance and demand versus value. Such a practice or protocol is intended to ensure I/We embrace differentiation and integration vs. collapzation16, where 12 triads are integrated from two sets of the dyadic entities constructed as shown to the right. This set of dyads integrates scarcity and abundance (the It of Wilbers big three) with demand and value (I and We), where the implied linguistic linkage between each dyad includes to the most expanded and encompassing definitions of communication. This raises the obvious question: Why these 12 triads versus some other set? The answer is this set was chosen because they have been a common component of culture (We) and socio-economics (It) Abundance/Scarcity & Demand/Value Triads since our species began transitioning to agrarian forms of sustenance and beyond, which introduced us both culturally and socio-economically to market force dynamics, a major contributing factor for the occurrence of flatland later. For my purposes the key aspect of the promise lies in alleviating humankinds inability to thrive without the paired dyads being considered in a space of generative conversation simultaneously by a third party. The simplest way17 to accomplish this is to form the triads noted above in 12 distinct triadic combinations or combinatorially the four entities of the two dyads taken three at a time. In order to facilitate this approach, it is expected by the early 2020s through the auspices of the Janus Center that the original work done by Logan and King will have been researched and matured sufficiently to begin testing and deployment through interested organizations including universities, consulting firms and other non-profit centers. This effort will provide the experience, data and analysis necessary for a broader and fuller rollout by the 2030s, if not earlier. As such, John King, co-author of Tribal Leadership will be invited to be a plank board member for the Janus Center; this also has the advantage of leveraging Johns relationships with Dave Logan and Warren Benis, both highly respected leadership experts at the Marshall Graduate School of Business, USC.
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14. Enterprises I need to support and empower 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Anne E. Casey Foundation Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation Bill Clinton Foundation California Department of Education California Department of Social Services California Endowment Casey Family Programs Children Uniting Nations City Of Los Angeles City Of West Hollywood Human Rights Foundation Key financial donors and corporations Los Angeles County including Office Supervisors DCFS, DMH, Probation and others Los Angeles Gay And Lesbian Center (LAGLC) Los Angeles Unified Scholl District Marshall Graduate School of Business, USC Media orgnizations Nation Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at UNC, Chapel Hill Oprah Winfery Foundation Richard Atlas Foundation The Andrus Foundation The California Alliance for Children and Family Services The Family Acceptance Program The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation US Department Health and Human Services US Department of Education US Department of Juvenile Justice Williams Institute, UCLA ...
15. Enterprises associated with this promise At this time the following organizations are associated with or aware of the 2025 Promise: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. LAGLC Holarchy Consulting Landmark Education Caitlyn Ryan Family Acceptance Project Richard Atlas Foundation
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16. Staff (present and prospective) Co-leaders And Champions: Dr. , PhD and Rachel White, MBA Potential Leaders Already Engaged: Rob Woronoff, MS, Consultant; Dr. Curt Shepard, PhD, LAGLC; Darrel Cummings, Chief of Staff, LAGLC; Lori Jean, CEO, LAGLC Potential Staff:
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18. What happens after Im dead? Khush Cooper and I have planned since the formation of Holarchy Consulting that my pay-forward would become her legacy to nurture and create throughout her lifetime as she chooses. We have similar focuses near- and long-term: Khushs is more oriented towards people and mine is more oriented towards communities and organizations. If we can handle the LGBT marginalized and attached children in the US by 2025 and create the platform for the Janus Center to exist in perpetuity, then I am ready to embrace the last three stanzas of "The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym" as in time I gracefully pass the bar:
73 Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits---and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire! 74 Ah, Moon of my Delight who Know'st no wane The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me---in vain! 75 And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot Where I made one---turn down an empty Glass! Taman Shud
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19. Problems, issues, and potential stops (from the world) Following are the major concerns Khush Cooper and I suspect may have to be dealt with: 1. An overall retrenchment from equality for all, especially LGBT folk, which would likely occur in the political discourse that would temper otherwise good peoples intentions and efforts to fulfill on the USAs constitutional mandate in this regard, to say nothing of the chilling impact focused political divisiveness would create as was seen in the Bush administration. 2. Various child and educational watchdog organizations will have to be appeased and some of these official and quasi-official organizations have a distinctly anti sexuality and gender variant agenda, though in California the political and legal environment provides a fairly level playing field. 3. Raising the initial $100 million is a huge challenge in the current and foreseeable future; one we have never taken on at this level. Perhaps the most challenging issue is finding the right people and organizations, and the second most challenging issue may be the LAGLCs commitment to match the $100 million with another $200 million. 4. The various LGBT organizations have a history of becoming fractious and competitive at the most inconvenient of times, e.g. the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which hopelessly splintered many organizations and state and federal legislative bodies.
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20. Problems, issues, and potential stops (from me) 1. 2. 3. 4. The obvious one is age bearing directly on my health and well-being. My business not continuing to be successful and growing. Falling back into believing I am not the one (or I am the one but just not that one.) It appears I am at the point of needing a great PA, who can handle some of my life matters so I can stay focused. Without this kind of assistance I am likely to fall of the grid occasionally to handle life, which could have been handled by a PA but slipped through the cracks. Khush and I have discussed and this and see this happening within the next year.
If I realistically look at all of this workbook, then I need but take the personal steps necessary to play as I am capable of playing, for I am sufficiently motivated, powerfully given, and have ample opportunity to be an inspirational, humble and effective world leader of an impossible promise. So thank you, whoever you are being manifold as such, for your beautiful gift. You now have my promise! In honor and celebration of us all; may we thrive . . . Love, Ms. Rachel Wynn White Promise Maker
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1. World class at transformation 1. Having it my way 2. Experienced and exceptional leader 2. Able to be a horrible competitor at times 3. Highly skilled at enrollment and 3. Sometimes Im not tactful enough registration 4. A lack of humility 4. Highly skilled at creating & fulfilling 5. Have trouble disengaging when I should promises 6. I get on it over my womanhood at times 5. Worldly, somewhat connected and 7. Forgiveness needs a lot of work influential 8. I am too intense for others at times 6. An outside of the box person when needed 9. When cornered, I can be vicious 7. Can touch, move, & inspire anytime, 10. No foreign languages spoken anywhere 11. I talk too much sometimes and interrupt 8. Outstanding communicator 12. Dispassionate when making tough 9. Like people, organizations and people decisions 10. Very Familiar with organizational design 11. Experienced at for- and non-profit governance 12. Well versed in financial matters 13. A bit of a quant-jockette 14. Understand complex regulatory Occasionally, you will think of me as Buddhas environments bitchy sister! 15. Growing and capable network of people 16. Outstanding project management skills In short, I am someone you want as a leader when things must be done, even if they are impossible.
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Ken Wilber and the Foundation for An Integral Science18

Ken Wilber suggests that we can look at 4 aspects of any aspect of human experience or "holon." By looking at our experiences through all 4 of these 4 perspectives, we both gain greater insight into their totality/nature, and avoid falling into the more common traps of believing that the perspective we are naturally drawn to is the "one right" perspective. In brief summary, each and every experience we have as human beings can be understood through 4 perspectives, consisting of a matrix of two binary choices: interior/exterior vs. individual/group. As a matrix it might look as follows (figure 1.): Figure 1. Interior Exterior
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Interior/Individual Exterior/Individual Upper Left (UL) Upper Right (UR) Quadrant I Quadrant II Intentional - "I" Behavioral - "it"
Interior/Collective Exterior/Collective Lower Left (LL) Lower Right (LR) Collective Quadrant III Quadrant IV Cultural - "We" Social - "it"
As an example, let's look at a simple example of experience such as the thought "I need to go to the store and get some pesto for my tortellini" to see how this model applies. First, let us look at the experience through the perspective of Quadrant I (UL), the interior/individual or intentional stance. This is what the thought looks like from the interior of the individual who is thinking it. It might include imagery, internal vocalization, a remembered taste/smell of previous "pesto" experiences, and/or a set of emotional interpretations about the meaning of the thought "pesto." This is the conscious experience of the individual person who is thinking the thought. It is internal to the person, and cannot be known unless the person chooses to share their internal experience through some means of communication. It is private, and cannot be measured without the honest participation of the individual. Second, let us look at the experience through the perspective of Quadrant II (UR), the exterior/individual or behavioral stance. This is what the thought looks like from the exterior of the individual who is thinking it. It might include the specific measurement of a pattern of brain wave activity, a localized neural firing in certain parts of the cerebral cortex, and perhaps a subtle flaring of the nostrils and/or movement of the eyes as the person visualizes the pasta. This is the experience of the observer watching the individual who is having the thought with whatever apparatus they are using to observe with, be it their 5 senses or multi-million dollar machine-extensions of their 5 senses. This is the physical correlate of the interior experience of having the thought. Let us stop here and consider a basic point about this. In Quadrant I, the intentional stance does not know the
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neural patterning or brainwave activity. It knows its own experience directly, without knowledge of the mechanical/organic transforms that correspond to the thought. On the other hand, in Quadrant II, the behavioral stance has zero information about the nature of the actual, human experience involved with the set of neural firings and brainwave activity it is observing. No matter how detailed and patterned the quantitative descriptions of the exterior activity of the individual claiming to think about pesto, the behavioral stance can never know what it is like to experience the thought except by trying it on in their own consciousness (Quadrant I). This is a crucial point, and bears repeating. Although we can gain ever-finer appreciation of the interlocking patterns between the interior/intentional/conscious experiences of an individual and the exterior/behavioral/physiological correlates of that experience, we can never reduce one to the other. They are fundamentally different and distinct orders of experience. They are similar to flip sides of the same coin. It doesn't matter how thoroughly we track the neural patterns in the brain or the chemical reactions on the tongue associated with the eating or remembering of pesto tortellini, we can NEVER actually experience the taste of pesto tortellini by studying the exterior elements. With this understanding, we can realize that reductive materialism and reductive idealism are fundamentally flawed as methods for understanding and explaining experience. Quadrant I and Quadrant II are separate and distinct means of apprehending an experience. They are two openings through which we experience reality and both must be considered if we are to have what Wilber calls "integral" knowledge on any subject. Notice also that for every Quadrant I experience, there will be a Quadrant II correlate, though not necessarily vice versa. (The Quadrant II shifts might either not register on our 5 senses, or might be so subtle as to escape our awareness of them). As our measuring devices for the physical/neural activity of the human body have gotten more complex and sensitive to more subtle electrical and bio-chemical changes, we have registered systematic patterns of response associated with both thoughts and emotions. For example, there are distinct brain wave shifts (Quadrant II, UR) observed in subjects in deep hypnosis or meditation that correspond to the depth of trance or meditative awareness they report (Quadrant I, UL). Such examples are numerous and the more sensitive and precise our instrumentation becomes, the more subtle the Quadrant I experiences we will be able to register and study. In the reverse, gross stimulation of brain neurons is sometimes associated with memories, thoughts, and emotional content, while changing our biochemistry though the use of certain drugs or alcohol has a marked and well-documented effect on the human organism's interior experience. Quadrant I and Quadrant II are synchronous and omnipresent aspects of every experience of human life and likely all animal life. For example, although we might not be able to fully grasp the nature of a cat's interior experience (Quadrant I, UL) as we step on its tail and hear it screech (Quadrant II, UR), it seems reasonable to assert that it is experiencing something . As we move down the spectrum towards reptiles and insects, to plants and micro organisms, and finally to inanimate matter, the nature of the "interior experience" becomes less and less certain, and less and less imaginable. At some point on this spectrum, likely at the point where nervous systems disappear and certainly at the point where "life" disappears, it again seems reasonable to assert that the interior experience (Quadrant I) disappears altogether. Third, let us look at the experience through the perspective of Quadrant III, the interior/collective or cultural stance. This is what we abstract out and conceptualize that thought looks like from the interior of a group of individuals who share a common set of interpretive and narrative frames of making meaning. It might include judgments about various cultures' style of food preparation, reveal a cultivated taste for exotic spices, including a specialized vocabulary to describe the quality of the meal to others, a set of standards as to the social standing of doing one's own shopping and preparing one's own meals, and/or a common peer group understanding as to the "cool factor" of using pesto as a sauce. This is the context in which the individual lives and from which they learn and interpret the meaning of experience. It is the set of understandings and judgments created by and referred to through the language of the participants. It is the sets of pre-packaged meanings of a collective group of individuals. Fourth and last, let us look at the experience through the perspective of Quadrant IV, the exterior/collective or social stance. This is what the thought looks like from the exterior of a group of individuals who share a common infrastructure and set of social institutions. It might include a network of commercial relations between the store and thousands of companies which produce food and other items of utility, the existence of a shared unit of currency to be traded for the goods desired, the system of roads and vehicles by which one travels to and from the 2011 Landmark Education Corporation Page 32 R. White April 5, 2011
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store, and the electricity and gas systems of the municipality in which I cook and eat my pasta. Again, notice that one could study the transfer of currency and the patterns of traffic (Quadrant IV, LR) with incredible precision and yet be no closer to understanding the sets of meanings (Quadrant III, LL) associated with the systems being measured. Understanding all the etiquette and language of culture on wall street (Quadrant III, LL) would not give you insight to the patterns of currency exchange and investment (Quadrant IV, LR) happening on the floor. Further, despite how intricate and precise the modeling of traffic flow and average waiting time at various intersections (Quadrant IV, LR), we would not learn anything about the emotional experience of being stuck in traffic that would be common to members of a shared culture(Quadrant III, LL), or the jokes which surround it. Each of these quadrants is distinct yet synchronous with the others, and each gives rise to qualitatively and quantitatively different experiences of reality. They are complimentary perspectives that together give us a deeper appreciation of reality. As Wilber poetically puts it, they are the four faces of the Kosmos. If we are to legitimately claim true comprehension of any experience, we must have integrated information from all 4 quadrants. When all four perspectives are included and related to one another in our knowledge on any subject, Wilber calls that "integral science." The effects of understanding the 4 Quadrants model are manifold. First, we can notice that most disciplines of arts and science specialize and/or categorize experience exclusively from one perspective of the 4 Quadrants. For example, Freudians and the psychodynamic psychologists (along with philosophers), work almost exclusively in the upper left (UL) Quadrant I of intention, while B.F. Skinner and the behaviorist psychologists (along with Physics, Biology, etc) work almost exclusively in the upper right (UR) Quadrant II of behavior. Continuing, theorists such as Thomas Kuhn, Max Weber, and Hans-George Gadamer deal most essentially with the lower left Quadrant III of cultural change, while systems theory, August Comte, and Levi-Strauss dealt with the lower right (LR) Quadrant IV of social systems. As we come to understand the complimentary and selective nature of various theories, we can appreciate their specialty while recognizing their partiality. It is not always that one theory is wrong and another is right (although some theories might be both tremendously more accurate descriptions of what they purport to study as well as more powerful in their application) but that often any one theory is not right enough. Single quadrant perspectives do not explain the totality of data from all 4 quadrants, but only the data that is part of their quadrants' perspective. In this sense they are incomplete in explaining the 4-fold nature of any subject, existent, or process. As we build a truly integral and rational understanding of the reality of our experience, it behooves us to organize the understandings of rationally consistent but seemingly disparate theoretical perspectives into a coordinated whole. By including the best insights of various models according to the quadrant in which each model specializes, we may be able to use these theories to compliment each other, rather than argue over differences which amount to "apples and oranges." The model of the 4 Quadrants offers a powerful though perhaps only initial means of doing just that.
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NOTES ABOUT SOME OF THE AREAS ABOVE:
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Banner for my Impossible Promise. This is your slogan, your sound bite, your headline. Impossible Promise: In the form of: By 2030 I promise that all people will be transformed. The promise is made against a background of a future date when the world will be transformed. I am promising to cause that world through a series of avenues and pathways that I have invented. I am promising to live my life for the fulfillment of this promise, without sacrifice.
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Possibilities: These are the possibilities (or dimensions) inside of which the promised opportunities are constituted. New World of Opportunity: What new opportunities will be available for the worlds people? What Will the World Look Like? When your promise is fulfilled, what currently existing global conditions will be absent? What new global conditions will exist? Long Term Timeline: This is the timeline, by decades, of the events that will lead to fulfillment of the promise (and that maintains its momentum once it is fulfilled). Present state of the world: This is the condition, with respect to this promise, of people living in the world today and what can be expected if matters continue on their present course. Short Term Timeline: This is the timeline, over the coming decade, of events that lead to fulfillment of the promise (and that maintains its momentum once it is fulfilled). Possibilities to enroll people into: These are the possibilities I stand for that I am committed to communicating to others in a way that touches, moves, and inspires them. Opportunities for people to register into: These are the opportunities that I have invented or discovered to which people can commit their time, conversation, money, etc. as a part of fulfilling this promise. and after which I will not be able to turn back.
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10. Launching Event(s): This is the initial event, or series of events, when my promise will go public, 11. Measures: This is how I will measure my progress towards fulfilling my promise (e.g. the number
of people completing the Landmark Forum / Year NOT 25,500). Some of these measures should be in use in the public domain. These measures will appear elsewhere in this document as milestones, projections, or targets.
12. Strategies: These are the strategies, current and possible, I have for pursuing or fulfilling the
promise.
13. Policies: These are the policies which, when followed, keep the promise moving forward and deal
powerfully with the conditions of the world that would sidetrack, stop, or co-opt the work on the promise. Potential policies can be discovered by reviewing or inquiring into the principles, ideals, visions, and standards I and others have regarding the area of my impossible promise.
14. Enterprises I need to support and empower: These are the enterprises that are at work on the
strategic issues that this promise needs to have resolved.

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15. Enterprises associated with this promise: These are the enterprises that are, or would be, interested
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in this promise being fulfilled because they are about something related.
16. Staff (present & prospective): These are the people who are currently working on fulfilling this
promise and people who are prospective as staff for working on this promise.
17. My participation up until the time of my death: This is how I will be participating from now
through my death, including each of the role shifts I will undergo and at what times these shifts will predictably occur.
18. What happens after Im dead: This is how the promise will continue to be fulfilled after my death. 19. Problems, issues, and potential stops (from the world): These are matters of human nature and of
the physical constraints of the present world that must be taken into account in planning for this promise.
20. Problems, issues, and potential stops (from the me): These are my personal issues, my rackets, my
winning formula, etc, in short, my case -- stuff, which will destroy or stop the promise from being fulfilled if it is not managed.
21. My strengths and weaknesses: This is a realistic assessment of my current strengths and
weaknesses. Using this as a guide I will undertake to grow and develop in such a way that, as a part of a team, enterprise, or network, I will be able to fulfill this promise.
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The possibility of the next episteme embracing the Third Way.

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In addition to these this indexes, other measures might include:

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win:lose attract:repulse give:take abundance:scarcity enlightened:intolerant liberal:conservative

yes:no positive:negative more:less well-being:depravity rapture:apocolpse fundamentalism:progressivism

plus:minus order:disorder profit:loss ascent:descent good:bad embrace:reject

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Internet/Social Media Strategy: TBD and defined by September 2011

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Proposed Organization By Y/E 2012 ii. Guiding principles: