Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe -
The Synergy Network
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Books and materials a REVIEW:
Covey, S.R. "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Record (1991), Covey Leadership Center PO BOX 19008,
Provo, UT, 84605-9925 1-800-655-6839 Audio Tapes and
video tape materials
Wallace, Anthony F.C "
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca,"
New York Vintage Books 1972
Bennett, William John "
The De-valuing of America New York
Summit Books 1992
Deming, W. E. (1986). Out of the Crisis. Cambridge, MA:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"Humankind" becoming Human
Handy, Charles
The Age of Unreason - Harvard Business school
Press 1989
MASLOW, National Training Center Higher Reaches of Human
Behavior and Motivation B-values
Fiske, Edward B. Smart Schools, Smart Kids, Why Do Some
Schools Work (Simon & Schuster, New York 1991)
Frankl, Victor "Man's Search for Meaning"
Reich, Robert B.
The Work of Nations: preparing ourselves
for the 21 st Century capitalism (New York, A.A.
Knopf 1991)
The Next American Frontier(New York, Times Books, 1983)
Senge, P.M.
The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of
the Learning Organization (New York, Doubleday
1990)
Sergiovanni, T.J. Moral Leadership, Getting to the Heart of
School Improvement (San Francisco Jossey-Bass 1992)
and Moore, J.H. Schooling for Tomorrow (Boston: Allyn &
Bacon) 1989
First:
The small school - human - caring - flexible -
ungraded - students learn at their own style and pace.
Second: X, Y, and Z - X =
The factory, Y =
The Human
Relations (personality) other-directed IBM type - PR tries
to make people feel they participate and have power (but its
not quite real) - Z is letting go - in class giving up
teacher talk - using free groups and active learning.
Students learn what they want to learn -
Teachers guide and advise students (workers) more than
transmit information.
Students learn to learn and find and organize and use
information. Teaching students not subjects.
Group theory from Mankarenko's Gorki Colony.
(another reading)
The Road to Life -
Quality : involves that Paradigm shift in the values of
caring - sincerity - honest - character - principles -
a Z theory principle not another management system
(MBO) but a shift in power and control. Responsibility
and freedom. I think it involves "body knowledge" a
focus of the mind - being in the world and not of it -
higher awareness - the dancer becomes the dance - the
lost of self-conscience.
The still quiet voice guides
us without criticism. I can visualize the perfect -
- Facts follow vision -
Logos, pathos, ethos - the bringing together of brain
knowledge (ideas in the head - many of which are
illusions ) body knowledge ( feeling safe and secure
enough to explore new worlds) being in touch - and
spirit - that which motivates us beyond ourselves
and give meaning and purpose to all activity.
The global context - Earth values?
INTERNET Gopher Information
gogher.together.UVM.edu
Organizations
go to 2. Bahai International Community/
* go to --> 1. BIC Statements/
Sustainable Development and the Human Spirit
Source: Baha'i International Community
Adapted from the Statement delivered to the Plenary of THE EARTH
SUMMIT (the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(Here are my comments)
This is the list of capabilities:
(TOLERANT)
(THINKING)
(SHARING)
(CARING)
(RESPONSIVE)
(PERSISTENT)
(CREATIVE)
(COMMITMENT)
(OBJECTIVE)
(QUALITY)
(VISION)
and (JOY) - \
THE METHOD IN THE MADNESS!
Someday, someone may understand my style as a guide? First we
deal with the feeling (Pathos) then with what you care
about (Ethos) and then we can discuss ideas. (not
The other way
around) I can't hear what you say because what you are shouts at
me! I have no message but a means - no goals but a process - no
tests or grades or inspections - but
expectations, hopes, desires and concerns I share. Try to
follow with me and I will listen to you if you have
something to say and try to be open in my answers. Answers are
often questions and riddles, and parables - because I
hope you can understand better that way - a simple statement will
not communicate unless you already know it. I can only try to be
a guide - an example - a mirror - not a master.
Now that is a tall order. We are not a community of saints. Is
there a way of being practical about character and having
realistic expectations in schools, works, social exchange
and families. (and INTERNET)
POWERFUL LAWS:
There are a few powerful principles or laws that govern
human behavior - universal and objective.
These same laws
have been rediscovered by many people in many different
societies and times. History can be read as a demonstration of
how there principles (laws) work in human affairs. Now
this is true even if you don't want to believe it.
There is a
true north - AND fixed unchanging laws - the only question is how
do we find them with a high level of certainty.
The first question since there are LAWS governing nature and
humans as part of nature is what are they? I can demonstrate that
the weight of evidence is that regularities and laws
exist?
First from biology and ecology. (General systems) I am
almost certain of the formulation of these laws.
They exist in
this set of documents but have to be pulled out and made more
explicit.
They exist (are stated) in many places and
times. I can identify them when I see them. (also a Hero
with 1000 faces, Rene Dubos, Stephen Covey, MASLOW, some
social scientist, poets, writers, even political leaders,
psychologist (Coles), pick your own - human ecologist: Bill
Moyers has an interesting collection, seek and ye will find,
knock and it will be opened, the truth shall set you free.)
Tolerant - open minded - Wisdom comes as a process - a way - it
can't not be drilled into someone -
The process is
understood - but you can't just become a great cook, or rock
climber or sailor by reading a manual - no matter how good the
cook-book, climbing instructions, or sail boat guide - you have
to go into the kitchen, on the mountain, on the
water - with someone who knows what they are doing. You need a
native guide. Guides are called "TEACHERS" (Zen and the
art of teaching) How can teacher learn from college
instructors that can't teach?
Caring, sharing, responsibility - focus on the task at hand.
People can come to care - it may not be love at first sight. If I
have not love I am as the tinkle of bells, sound and
fury signifying nothing.
The hard part is to love things and
people you don't like, even hate, like me. It is too easy
just to like the things you love. That is the kind of love that
people that love that kind of love - love. I have used a series
of practical synergy exercises that binds people
and lets them see themselves in others, an others in them.
This topic is about Character, virtue and morals:
Real reform is in the heart - real quality is in the soul:
Development is a state of mind!
The method outlined below can be used as a template for the
analysis of most educational, social or personal issues.
The
outcome of the process will help define the problem and issues
thereby promoting more sensible action. How we define and issue
is the major determinate of how we go about doing something about
making it better.
1. Essence - (undefined)
The abstract reality
LOGOS = MEANING 2. Symbolic (
The word or concept used)
the reference
3.
The material Physical thing
objects and patterned behavior
1. Spirit - higher order
used to be called soul
PATHOS = FEELINGS 2. Motivation - desires needs
What we think we feel or need
3. Passion - heart - body
The beast and calmness within
1. Principles and virtue
grounded beliefs and faith
ETHOS = VALUES 2. Morals - social conventions
laws, rules, mores, folkways
3. Power - me and mine Commercial
what works with out doubts
Persistent, creative, objective, reasonable qualities come after
the belief in "greater goods", and a good attitude. We often do
it upside down. First the idea then the belief.
Vision follows facts. What it is "FACTS FOLLOW VISION".
First we must care about something greater than ourselves: then
we will work and keep at it until we get it right.
The is the
outward bound concept - character comes first. I
don't want to be in open water with a person of weak or
self-centered character - no matter how many books they have read
on sailing. I don't what to be at the end of his rope. I don't
want to eat their food.
Now and only now can we talk about Quality - It flows from
inside out - not laid on top like decorations on a Christmas
tree. This is the difference between Taft HS in Chicago and
District #4 in East Harlem - This is why small schools work -
they are honest.
Do you now understand Logos, Pathos and Ethos? It is not
obscure - the whole child - the complete person -
mind (we think we know what that is - it's and organ in the scull
- very complex but with patterns and physical
characteristics) -
body - (for some reason Western Culture has looked down on bodies
for a few thousand years) the body had passions - the true person
was above that - how silly - the body has
knowledge - the mind is body and soul is -
and soul - (seems to make some people uncomfortable - the
idea they have a soul) where did the spirit - ghosts go? Do we
have no spirit - team spirit - national pride - a feeling that
this is not all there is - Does the spirit move us? Oh there is
joy in my heart! Values - love - caring soul -
ethos - pathos - logos; values - feeling and ideas!
I need all of these (mind, body and soul) to make sense and feel
at home in this world. Don't we all?
The profession of teaching
requires an honesty almost as much as good writing. Honest with
yourself and your students. I try to avoid all pretence and show
- I try to listen and respond spontaneously. Do I owe you less.
WYSIWYG is one of my groups this term. DON'T GET MAD, GET WITH IT
- you can't be pushed around - you are too firm and solid in you
sense of being ?
The thorn in the flesh is there to wake you up
and let you have the chance to grow beyond this temporary state
of discomfort.
In the Episcopal Church (COE) the book of common prayer
is the summary before the lesson; one great teacher put it this
way (using text from the old testament):
Matt 22:36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in
the Law?"
Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' All
the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments." (NIV)
God is mind - the first cause, God is body (doubts and
pains, passions and hopes) and God is spirit: (ghosts and
something is out there beyond me)
PAGERS:
(here we resume the text)
Title: Sustainable Development and the Human Spirit
Source: Baha'i International Community
Adapted from the Statement delivered to the Plenary of THE EARTH
SUMMIT (the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
=================================================
Beyond such technical and political questions as what limits
should be placed on greenhouse gases, how can sustainable
development be promoted, and who will pay for it all, the
fundamental question facing the world community is this: Can
humanity, with its entrenched patterns of conflict,
self-interest, and short-sighted behavior, commit itself to
enlightened cooperation and long-range planning on a global
scale?
The Earth Summit process highlighted both the complexity and the
interdependence of the problems facing humanity. None of these
problems - the debilitating inequities of development, the
apocalyptic threats of atmospheric warming and ozone depletion,
the oppression of women, the neglect of children and marginalized
peoples, to name but a few - can be realistically addressed
without considering all the others. None can be fully addressed
without a magnitude of cooperation and coordination at all levels
that far surpasses anything in humanity's collective experience.
The potential for such cooperation is, however, undermined by the
general debasement of human character. Although not commonly
discussed in relation to the challenges of environment and
development, there are current in the world certain trends -
including the widespread lack of moral discipline, the
glorification of greed and material accumulation, the increasing
breakdown of family and community, the rise of lawlessness and
disorder, the ascendancy of racism and bigotry, and the priority
given to national interests over the welfare of humanity - all of
which destroy confidence and trust, the foundations of
collaboration.