Welcome to the Synergy Network the NEWS PAGE ONE E
Whole Systems, and the Dreamtime: A new
conceptual framework or paradigm: Tools, Links and Comments Page E
The first news page, teaching and learning
The Real issues in Government
There are documents in ethos and in /document . Papers include STYLE and Cooperative and my met hods.
They open from almost everywhere. See MSN search (Microsoft Network individualized home page)
There is internet.htm for the information
about The market and applications
There is announce.htm for offers of services and general discussion
Policy.htm is the general stuff on public affairs and the state of the world and nation I think I will put your comments in these files and leave the News pages alone - another effect of the need to remain stable for the search engines to do their job. RE: Stumbling Toward Babylon: I see what Bill Gates means when he talks about the power of "file managers", where the INTERNET is better organized then my own files.The Alta Vista of Digital knows more about my files than I do. I am not good at files. I can't find stuff or know what files contain. A powerful search engine does it for me.
The tower of babble - a vast network of links - you don't need lists, or even bookmarks - just ask and it shall open, knock and it will answer. Ten billion words in ten million documents in ten seconds - This implies something about how I set up the pages - titles and changes and moves..
Subject: Re: CHristian Right --> From: "Peter E. Pflaum386428+7924" <Pflaump@wiredbrain.com> --> Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 09:24:25 EST -->[Next ][Index] [Thread] http://www.quaker.org/quaker-p/QP95.05/msg00036.html http://www.flexlearn.com http://www.umanitoba.ca/academic_support/uts/stlhe/octposts.html SYNERGY-
The whole of the group (team) becomes more than the
sum of
the parts, the individual grows and so does the collective.
People widen
their own horizons and increase their own opportunities, when
they listen
and relate to the sincere viewpoints and visions of others. The
process
of team building thrives in a culture that supports trust and
open communications.
Critical to all successful institutions (schools, business,
family, government,
etc.) are scripts (stories) that promote or destroy trust and
profound
conversations. Information technology has make Synergy our most
important
product. A country that competes, a educational program that
"takes
off", a company that creates the future, a family that
wins/wins;
all have used the endless power of synergy, which like love is
not used
up, there is an endless supply. Abraham H. Maslow in Chapter
14 of " The
Further Reaches of Human Nature", (1971) describes how he
was introduced
to the idea of Cultural Synergy by Ruth Benedict in 1941.
"Ruth Benedict
tried in her last years to overcome and to transcend the doctrine
of cultural
relativity.. her work (Patterns of Culture) was essentially an
essay in
holism." Some cultures are secure, friendly and open, others
insecure,
closed, surly, nasty and anxious. She spoke of low and high moral
tone
in cultures, some based on hate and aggression and others on
spiritual
qualities like the Zuni. The question is why and so what ? The
societies
with high synergy transcend the polarity between self interest
and unselfish
altruism. A society, school, business, family with high
synergy is one
in which virtue pays (Page 194, A.H. Maslow, 1971). In "the
learning
organization" Peter Senge ( The fifth discipline,
1.) personal mastery,
(inputs) 2.) mental models, (outcomes) 3.) shared vision,
(feedback) 4.)
team learning, (interaction in complex open systems) 5.)
systems thinking;
seeing the territory as different and more than the map, and
creating a
higher language of discourse); Peter describes how respect for
guiding
beliefs and social habits promote a wide distribution of power
while increasing
self- discipline. Individual awareness increases with cooperation
and practice
as a team. Factors that promote team building discussed in Maslow
include
siphoning vs. funneling of wealth and power. In the high synergy
society
(business) good and power are distributed so there is a high
level of security,
while in the insecure low energy societies (business or schools)
wealth,
power, knowledge is funneled so the rich use their power to
attract more
information, power and wealth. The poor students fail the good
students
get all the prizes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Another
factor is a comforting vs. a frightening religion. The gods,
spirits and
ghosts are benevolent or they can be ruthless, terrifying and
mean. Victor
Frankl, (Man's Search for Meaning), Eric Fromm, Steven Covey
(Seven Habits
of Effective People), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of
"flow states",
and Maslow all describe various meaning of Transcendence (Maslow,
1971
page 259). 1.) Basic Physiological (food, water, shelter) 2.)
Safety and
Security (order, protection from harm) 3.) Belonging and Love
(affection,
acceptance, friendship) 4.) Esteem ( self and others) and 5.)
Self-actualization
(being there) and 6. Transcendence (self forgetting, absorbed,
fascinated,
concentrated on something outside oneself; time, place, culture,
limits,
habits, having a vision, meditation, religious experience, of the
past,
ego, death, mystical experience, etc.) Transcendence is to except
the natural
world as it is, to let it and you be itself in the Taoistic
fashion. (Maslow
page 261, 1971) Transcendence is synergy in social groups. One
can't not
exist without the other they are mutually dependent. We are
social animals
that learned to learn in troops, clans, packs and villages,
cities and
nations. Our social-biology is programmed to find security and
joy in our
social surrounding. When society fails, we have increased
offensive, aggression
and angry talk not conversations, accusations not communications,
blame
not mutual aid, strikes and school dropouts, crime and teenage
mothers,
et al. In society as Ruth Benedict has said everything effects
everything.
The moral tone sets the Patterns of Culture.
PFLAUMP@freenet.scri.fsu.edu RE: Conversations;
Synergy
in Human Groups Beyond the blame game two: When people get
together and
"really" talk about what is important to them,
something miraculous
transpires.
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Subject:
Here's something for you to see: Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:22:23
-0500
From: John Hazen
RE:
The real deficit - the National debt in
education:
RE:
What do you do in class - really strange stuff
DIRECTORY
Looney
Toons Karaoke
Wayne
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From: Robert.Brem@asu.edu Sent: Monday, January 29, 1996 3:23 AM To: Peter Pflaum Cc: Peter Pflaum Subject: Re: Design With Nature
Your post re: design with nature; taking into account ecology
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From: Karen McComas Sent: Sunday, January 28, 1996 8:49 AM To: Peter Pflaum Subject: Re: MUWAC-L: Pflaump@wiredbrain.com requested to join
Peter,
Received your subscription request for muwac-l.
The list is an internal list for wac business, but I appreciate your interest. Have to tell you how much I enjoy and appreciate your input to some of the lists I'm on (stlhe, cl, I forget which ones). Were you the one who gave the idea about making groups according to the Meyers Briggs personality types? If so, thanks a million. I tried that and my students love it! We made groups on the first day and the first group activity was to list their strengths and weaknesses as students and to make a list of any help they might need to capitalize on their strengths to minimize their weaknesses. Yesterday we did another group activity...guess who finished first? Our procrastinators (self-labelled) group...what a moral victory for them!
From: Alternative Approaches to Learning Discussion List on behalf of Kirk Wesley Hunt Sent: Friday, January 26, 1996 11:52 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ALTLEARN Subject: Re: Getting students ready for cooperative learning
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