[CRNMC] Decolonization of Mind Event - Announcement

[Charles Cresson Wood]

Decolonization of Mind - Discussion Group - February 2015 Meeting
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Topic: CONFLICT IMPASSE BREAKTHROUGH
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Next meeting – Tuesday, February 10, 2015, at 12:30PM (we go until 2:00PM)

Note - we meet on the second Tuesdays of each month, so please mark your calendars.

DETAILS ABOUT THIS MEETING

Why might our government officials seem so deaf and unresponsive to the will of the people? Why do many our well-meaning groups often end up in painful petty conflicts? Why are we so often personally locked into on-going painful conflict with relatives?

Gandhi believed that decolonization is an internal process that has to take place within the minds of the colonized. Our minds have been conditioned to define democracy as dependence on a government stocked with oligarchs, for sale to the highest bidder. This view will drive our group’s experiments with new methods to address the colonization of our minds. This month's gathering will be primarily experiential rather than informational. We will explore the process of generative dialogue, coming out of the field of system thinking and emergence. Said differently, we will explore how we can overcome these conflict impasse places through a different attitude, an attitude of unity consciousness.

 
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

John Anderson has studied these unfolding methods during an MBA program in green business and a Phd program in system thinking. Charles Cresson Wood is a local organizer for Mendocino Coast Transition Towns, and a law school student. Charles is also the author of a meditation book about adopting a new more empowering attitude, entitled Opening To Abundance (found on Amazon.com). 


ABOUT THE DECOLONIZATION OF MIND LUNCHTIME DISCUSSION GROUP

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.

This meeting will be held at John Anderson's house in Caspar - brown bag DIY (do-it-yourself) lunch. Thanks so much to John for his hospitality hosting the group. John's address is 14951 B Caspar Rd., which is an older redwood building just south of the Caspar Inn, in downtown Caspar. Go around to the back of the building and up the stairs to find the second floor unit, which is unit B. All are welcome.

Questions about the group or the meeting can be directed to Charles Cresson Wood at ccwood at ix.netcom.com.