<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you, Charles. Just this invitation is stimulating! I love "crisis is instead a call for change, an indication that it is time to rebalance, and a chance to learn something new."<br><br></div><div>CRNMC has accomplished so much, and I am reminded that we still haven't accepted a method of resolving conflict. I look forward to adopting ways to work through the inevitable bumping into each other that happens when folks work together. I have seen that with tools we can come out of these encounters stronger, more effective, and with more love and understanding. I look forward to finding the methods we can use in CRNMC. I can only imagine how unstoppable we will be! See you on Nov. 11th.<br></div><div><br></div>Blessings,<br>Kelly<br><div><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Charles Cresson Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ccwood@ix.netcom.com" target="_blank">ccwood@ix.netcom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">“Decolonization of Mind” Discussion Group<br>
Meeting Notice – 12:30PM, Tuesday, November 11, 2014<br>
(Brown bag lunch; we meet every second Tuesday of the month.)<br>
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Our topic will be Rapid Crisis Resolution, and Charles Cresson Wood will be our discussion leader. He will draw material from his new and soon-to-be-released meditation book, which explores how the consciousness of the involved people holds the key to the rapid resolution of every crisis. We will objectively examine our own personal reactions to tense and stressful situations that have in the past caused us to shutdown emotionally and defensively resist what is happening. We will consider adopting a different viewpoint, where crisis is instead a call for change, an indication that it is time to rebalance, and a chance to learn something new. We will also explore how our personal power to effect change is markedly expanded as we shift our attitude about crisis. Charles is a writer, counselor, and mediator, who has published a number of books, including Opening To Abundance (on Amazon.com). Everyone is welcome at the meeting. Questions about the meeting can be directed to Charles at <a href="tel:707-937-5572" value="+17079375572">707-937-5572</a>.<br>
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The location of this meeting will be Linda’s house in Fort Bragg. Consistent with the nature of our discussions -- which are not approved or endorsed by any government or corporate entities -- there's no official address that you could look up on Google maps, since Linda lives in an alley. To get there, drive east on Oak Street for about a mile from Hwy 1. Wall Street is on the right side and her house is in the alley right after Wall Street (between Wall and Sanderson). There's a fire hydrant at the alley. Make a right into the alley (you can't make a left) and her house is the first (and only) house you come to. The house number is 139-1/2.<br>
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About the decolonization of mind discussion group:<br>
An outgrowth of Mendocino Coast Transition Towns and the Community Rights Network of Mendocino County, the discussion group was a spin-off from a weekend workshop that activist Paul Cienfuegos facilitated a few months ago. That workshop, dealing with community rights, and the powers of people versus those of corporations, included a challenge from Paul that the participants not only understand how our minds have been colonized, but that we escape from that colonization. The decolonization of mind group seeks to go beyond the propaganda from government, the indoctrination of the public school system, the brainwashing from corporate advertising, and also the myths created and perpetuated via movies, TV, newspapers, Facebook, and other modern media. The discussion group seeks to empower people so as to emancipate themselves from all that, and to come back to our own personal power to live the life we feel called to live.<br>
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